Dr Fiona Harvey

Teach the connections between AI infrastructure and environmental racism.

DHS Ordered OpenAI To Share User Data In First Known Warrant For ChatGPT Prompts Filed by child exploitation investigators with the DHS, the warrant reveals the government can ask OpenAI to provide information on anyone who enters specific prompts.

A DHS warrant seeking ChatGPT user prompts “means it’s more important than ever for OpenAI and other AI companies to think about how to limit the amount of data they collect on their users,” EFF’s @jenlynch.bsky.social told @Forbes.com.
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Why is Apple, Microsoft, Lockheed Martin, Blackstone, Google, OpenAI, Amazon and others financing the destruction of the WH and desecration of the grounds, something that is infuriating to huge chunk of the American population? Do you hate your customers that much?

Please share this with anyone who may be interested in a post-doc in Germany:

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This is quite an exciting opportunity to push the boundaries of what is known regarding the molecular basis of the formation and demise of photosymbiotic relationships in marine habitats.

'Labour needs to make digital ID boring if it's to be a successful policy - here's how' - LabourList Labour must learn to build policy communications around public feeling, not just policy intention.

‘Labour needs to make digital ID boring if it’s to be a successful policy – here’s how’ labourlist.org/2025/10/make... – via LabourList

The Cost of Brexit Change Minds → Change Politics

⚠️ Higher prices, fewer opportunities, greater barriers, and an economy paying the price. A price that is ultimately paid by you.

Find out more about the Cost of Brexit using our tracker. All the facts. All the figures. All in one place...

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Urgent Action: Stop Disastrous Decision to Extend Drax’s Subsidies The Government has just made the disastrous decision to hand billions more in subsidies to tree burners Drax and Lynemouth. This is a decision to push up emissions, energy bills and profits for Drax’s...

Yet another reason not to allow free reign for AI companies - burning trees seems scandalous I’ve just written a letter to my MP, asking them to stop Drax's subsidy extension by signing the Stop Burning Trees MP Pledge.

Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...

We’re Suing ICE for Its $2 Million Spyware Contract 404 Media has filed a lawsuit against ICE for access to its contract with Paragon, a company that sells powerful spyware for breaking into phones and accessing encrypted messaging apps.

NEW: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding the agency release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read messages from encrypted chat apps www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

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Getting close to 50k views and I'm wondering is it just everybody is scared to say this and pleased I did? Because if there's so many of us who agree, trust me I'd know if 1k people disagreed with me let alone 50k, why are we letting AI ruin our universities?

Together we can turn back the tide.

i would rather read your imperfectly written, typo riddled idiosyncratic ideas that show you have read my papers and are familiar with my lab’s work than a grammatically perfect and generic genAI written application/email … every damn time

Speaking of @neilselwyn.bsky.social, check out today's blog post with Adriana Szili sharing "New resources for teachers and student teachers: AI Dilemmas": www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/2dp8ng2...

Materials include posters, handouts, & slides to help reflect on real-world dilemmas of AI in edu.

Labour cosies up to US tech firms with little thought of downsides | Heather Stewart Economic benefits of generative AI, which may take time to show, put ahead of impact of datacentres on energy and water

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Union Warns Professors About Posting In the ‘Current Climate’ Academic workers are re-thinking how they live and work online after some have been fired for criticizing Charlie Kirk following his death.

A union that represents university professors published a guide tailored to help its members navigate social media during the “current climate.”

The advice? Lock down your social media accounts, expect anything you post will be screenshotted.

🔗 www.404media.co/union-warns-...

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The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration It’s not hard to see how so many came to worry about the issue. But the data isn’t there

'We should, like Humboldt, pay a bit more attention to the data.'

But also recognise that the data alone won't sway most minds. Stories too matter, and are richly available: eastangliabylines.co.uk/immigration/...

When your own words betray you.

Indeed, as I wrote on Tuesday. It might sound alarmist, but it's pretty clear we're following down a similar track:

national.thelead.uk/p/america-tr...

CDC advisers vote to recommend against combined measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox vaccine for young children | CNN Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted Thursday to recommended against using the combined measles, mumps, rubella and varicella vaccine for young children.

Measles cases hit record highs with RFK Jr. in charge.

Now, his hand-picked vaccine panel just voted to make it harder for little babies to get vaccinated for measles and other diseases.

How does that keep our kids safe?

A post on the importance of sending letters

A post with Disney's address

Do this to voice your outrage at Disney's unjust cancellation of Kimmel and other people's shows for simply practicing their free speech, ASAP.

The Battle for Attention How do we hold on to what matters in a distracted age?

Technology hounds us. Modern life drives concentration away. How can we reclaim our attention?

On June 24, I began my Election Night speech by quoting Mandela: “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” That's the spirit of this campaign, and our city.

This is "Until It’s Done,” a new series about New Yorkers who refused to accept that a worthy goal was impossible.

Charlie Kirk was killed by a meme Making sense of our dark new era of extremely online political violence

The best explainer. www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-ki...

“When it comes to the AI technology industry, we refuse their frames, reject their addictive and brittle technology, and demand that the sanctity of the university both as an institution and a set of values be restored.” — zenodo.org/records/1706...

🔊 QAA has published new Advice & Guidance for the 2024 UK Quality Code, covering quality management, student engagement & partnerships.

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Everything was fine until you get to the “smarter tools” bit. Spoiler alert, AI is not the answer. Handing over mental health support to unaccountable, biased and inaccurate “good enough” tools is not the answer.

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

There are a lot more people than one might think who refuse this tech but are shamed by users. Once the space for their opinions and voices opens up, the scene will change. These stats, 18k views, are not a coincidence for example on this preprint. People want to not, yup.
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Anthropic Agrees to Pay Authors at Least $1.5 Billion in AI Copyright Settlement Anthropic will pay at least $3,000 for each copyrighted work that it pirated. The company downloaded unauthorized copies of books in early efforts to gather training data for its AI tools.

Having admitted that it used pirated works to build its LLM, in "the first class action settlement centered on AI and copyright in the United States", #Anthropic have now agreed to pay compensation to authors. It is unlikely to be the last.

www.wired.com/story/anthro...

Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia A new paper calls on academia to repel rampant AI in university departments and classrooms.

Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/cognitive-...