Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸

This man is a Conservative MP and former No.10 adviser.

WhoFi quietly turns Wi-Fi into a surveillance tool that sees through walls and remembers your movements The tech uses existing Wi‑Fi networks to sense human presence and movement

Researchers at La Sapienza University in Rome have created WhoFi, a system which claims to be able to identify individuals by analyzing Wi‑Fi signals. #surveillance www.techradar.com/pro/wi-fi-si...

It's not impossible, you just grow some backbone.

ChatGPT dissidents, the students who refuse to use AI: ‘I couldn’t remember the last time I had written something by myself’ Some college students are beginning to limit their use of artificial intelligence, so as not to hinder their own creativity, discipline and critical thinking

Weird. This doesn’t match what I’ve been told—that students are going to use it no matter what.

When public media disappears, so do the stories that bring us together.

With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection.

If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq

The writer’s page is just this kind of shit — where he tries to say images from Gaza are fake / also using the “preexisting condition” line that the NYT legitimized, and then when he has to admit that he’s wrong, he just calls the photographers terrorists.

UKRI award rate halves in seven years as grant applications double - Research Professional News Trends across research councils prompt warning that system is “overstretched or broken”

UKRI award rate halves in seven years as grant applications double. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

Wow this is cool

So many of those along the border...

NEW: U.S. Border Patrol says it needs "advanced AI" to "identify and track suspicious activity in urban environment[s]" and "dense residential areas," according to a presentation document I obtained theintercept.com/2025/07/23/c...

this is an absolute twenty alarm fire and I just cannot bring myself to believe capital, in one way or another, isn’t going to reel him in on this.

we can’t have a real economy without the goddamn labor numbers. it just doesn’t work.

YouTube video by NBC News Family of Virginia Giuffre urges Trump not to pardon Ghislaine Maxwell

🚨 Virginia Giuffre's family speaks out, & is "urging President Trump not to pardon Ghislaine Maxwell, calling her a “monster.” In an emotional interview, they said granting leniency would silence survivors & undo the work their sister & others fought for."
#ReleaseTheFiles
📺 youtu.be/AeoDyGrz6jw?...

In addition, Lynch himself was dealing with a hernia "during the entire shoot"; he had injured himself while laughing too hard at something funny that Angelo Badalamenti did.

This tidbit from the Wikipedia entry on Fire Walk with Me

CNBC Lora Kolodny article: Tesla must pay portion of $329 million in damages after fatal Autopilot crash, jury says Key Points A jury in Florida determined that Tesla should be held partly liable for a fatal 2019 Autopilot crash. The company must pay a portion of $329 million in damages to victims and a survivor, including compensatory and punitive damages. Tesla had argued that the driver’s behavior was to blame for the fatal crash, while plaintiffs claimed Tesla’s Autopilot technology was flawed and deceptively marketed.

Elon tweet: "Teslas can drive themselves!"

Two days ago: Tesla has to pay hundreds of millions of dollars for deceptively marketing Autopilot in a way that falsely made people think it could drive the car by itself.

Today: Elon Musk "Teslas can drive themselves!"

British 999 caller's voice cloned by Russian network using AI A BBC Verify investigation has revealed that the identities of British public sector workers have been cloned using AI by a Russian-linked disinformation campaign.

British 999 call handler's voice cloned by Russian network using AI to spread propaganda.

Troubling how effective this cloning was.... if they can do it to him they can do it to anyone. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

I wish I knew what he was saying.

No need for health care (or economic) policy when you have magical math.

You ever just think about how much it sucks that Musk bought Twitter and absolutely destroyed it? Like man, that used to be where I'd meet new people, make real life friends, etc. Now, whenever I glance over there to check something, it's just unrecognizable.

So the White House leaked this maybe misinformation to pressure other universities? And it maybe worked on Cornell and Brown? Cool system of mafia government we've got going here.

Ooooh I had one of these

- The COVID pandemic began with a myth – that children are spared its ill effects. In contrast, many children were sick with COVID, and we now have a new chronic illness emerging,

Trump paves over White House Rose Garden with concrete

Metaphor.

Look at what happens to male teacher salaries (blue line) v.s. female teacher salaries (red line) after collective bargaining laws expire.

Hi everyone! Welcome if you just joined my feed 👋 I thought I'd just introduce myself. I am Dr. Emma L. Briant, a leading academic expert on information warfare and propaganda in a surveillance age. My work was central in exposing #CambridgeAnalytica and I hope to be your guide through this crazy...

Complete brainrot, indeed.
Still, I’d say Hologram-2Pac in 2012 was *slightly* worse.
Definitely more expensive.
(Only a matter of time before AI-generated Hologram-Beatles are filling stadiums.)

Reuters found that major US law firms, fearing political backlash, have pulled back or hidden pro-bono and civil-rights work that could conflict with the Trump administration reut.rs/4l8V7kE

Pushing Trump's buttons is not hard, and pointing out his hypocrisy is an especially easy one, particularly when it relates to him protecting child rapists. Democrat leaders should be talking about this all day, every day.

I read this and had a "these are all bad, but one is vastly worse than the others" reaction - then I saw the MAGA hat...

Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an Authoritarian Playbook

This is a very good (but also very disturbing) survey from @peterbakernyt.bsky.social of the Trump admin policies that are intended to deprive the public of accurate info about government. I might have also included the expulsions from the White House press pool.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...

‘Posterity Is Vulgar’ | Chloë Clifton-Wright Encounters with a forgotten genius.

Chloë Clifton-Wright (c/o Richard Ayoade) on the forgotten playwright, screenwriter, and maligned genius Harauld Hughes