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🚨New Article (Open Access)🚨… in which Graham Denyer Willis and I argue that, far from biometric and personal data affixed to individual bodies, Digital ID must be understood as a means of corporate-governmental conjecture in service of capital.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

AI helpers could coach people into careers and help them move home AI agents could soon take on boring life admin by dealing with public services on your behalf – from filling in forms to completing applications and booking appointments, as the UK Government plans tr...

"[Government-provided] AI helpers could coach people into careers and help them move home"

www.gov.uk/government/n...

Israeli unit tasked with smearing Gaza journalists as Hamas fighters – report Israeli-Palestinian magazine says IDF ‘legitimisation cell’ set up to blunt global outrage over killing of media staff A special unit in Israel’s military was tasked with identifying reporters it could smear as undercover Hamas fighters, to target them and to blunt international outrage over the killing of media workers, the Israeli-Palestinian outlet +972 Magazine reports. The “legitimisation cell” was set up after the 7 October 2023 Hamas attack to gather information that could bolster Israel’s image and shore up diplomatic and military support from key allies, the report said, citing three intelligence sources. Continue reading...

Israeli unit tasked with smearing Gaza journalists as Hamas fighters – report

Report: Home building to halt in West London, due to data center power demands All the electricity capacity is already used up, GLA tells developers

Posting this again. Not enough electricity left to build affordable homes in 3 west London boroughs, because all capacity has been used by a data centre.

#affordablehousingUK

www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/repo...

‘Lifeless wasteland’: Israel pounds northern Gaza as 100 killed in 24 hours Large swaths of northern Gaza have been turned into ‘lifeless wastelands’ due to Israel’s intensifying assault.

Large swaths of northern Gaza have been turned into ‘lifeless wastelands’ due to Israel’s intensifying assault.

Is it just me or is the fact that the global economy is propped up by memecoins and chatbots a bit concerning?

HOW TO SAVE WATER AT HOME Install a rain butt to collect rainwater to use in the garden. Fix a leaking toilet – leaky loos can waste 200-400 litres a day. Use water from the kitchen to water your plants. Avoid watering your lawn – brown grass will grow back healthy. Turn off the taps when brushing teeth or shaving. Take shorter showers. Delete old emails and pictures as data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems.

In a new digital twist to environmental individualisation of responsibility, the UK government is now advising people to “[d]elete old emails and pictures” in data centres to help with the current drought. www.gov.uk/government/n...

EHRC confirms AI in use for consultation about segregating Trans+ people from UK bathrooms An EHRC spokesperson confirmed that "supervised use of AI" has been implemented to contend with the 50,000+ responses to its draft consultation that could make it statutory to segregate Trans+ people from single sex public bathrooms and changing facilities.

EHRC confirms AI in use for consultation about segregating Trans+ people from UK bathrooms 👇

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/ehrc-confirms-ai-in-use-for-consultation-about-segregating-trans-people-from-uk-bathrooms/

Staff at UK’s top AI institute complain to watchdog about its internal culture Whistleblowing complaint warns Alan Turing Institute is in danger of collapse due to government threats over funds Staff at the UK’s leading artificial intelligence institute have raised concerns about the organisation’s governance and internal culture in a whistleblowing complaint to the charity watchdog. The Alan Turing Institute (ATI), a registered charity with substantial state funding, is under government pressure to overhaul its strategic focus and leadership after an intervention last month from the technology secretary, Peter Kyle. Continue reading...

Staff at UK’s top AI institute complain to watchdog about its internal culture

TikTok to replace trust and safety team in Germany with AI and outsourced labor TikTok workers in Berlin are striking over mass layoffs amid company’s global push to replace moderators with AI TikTok workers in Germany are holding strikes over mass layoffs of the company’s trust and safety team. The social media behemoth said it is planning to dismantle its entire Berlin moderation team, which removes harmful content from the platform, and outsource the work to artificial intelligence and contract workers. This means the dismissal of 150 employees. The trade union that represents the TikTok workers, ver.di, has been pushing to negotiate with TikTok over the past few weeks. Kalle Kunkel, a ver.di spokesperson for the Berlin-Brandenburg region, said the union sent a list of demands to TikTok regarding severance for the affected employees and an extension of the layoff notice period to one year. So far, he said, TikTok has refused to come to the table. Continue reading...

TikTok to replace trust and safety team in Germany with AI and outsourced labor

BBC among media misreportimg/exaggerating scale of asylum protests

Median protest is a few dozen, below 100.

"Usually Several hundred at a time" is false.
- should say *occasionally*
< 1/10 protests have 200 people

"Sometimes thousands"
I dont think a single 2025 protest had > 2000 people yet

Tweet by Bristol post reporter

400 counter protestors vs 15 fascists in Bristol

And yet it is the latter who are painted as expressing the "legitimate grievances" of "the people" by the mainstream media and politicians

This leads to emboldening and mainstreaming and it is a top down effect

The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now) Plus how American professors are fighting back against the AI onslaught, a backlash over AI models in Vogue, and more.

Analysts show that capital expenditures on AI were so big over the last 6 months they added more to the GDP than *all consumer spending*. That growth is offsetting pain from the tariffs and slow job growth.

So the AI bubble may be propping up the whole US economy. What happens if and when it pops?

Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...

An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Yesterday the Pew Research Center released a report based on the internet browsing activity of 900 U.S. adults which found that Google users who encounter an Al summary are less likely to click on links to other websites than use 's who don't encounter an Al summary. To be precise, only [my emphasis] 1 percent of users who encountered an Al summary clicked the link to the page Google is summarizing.

Hey is it bad if google AI search results stop people from leaving google dot com 99% of the time? All our news and information creators can survive just fine with one percent of their previous search traffic right? I’m sure it’s fine. www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...

“AI” is not simply creating a cognitive crisis in learners; it’s also failing to deliver on its own terms (pedagogical “efficiency”) bc it demands that those still committed to educational quality devise nonsensical workarounds, turning our classrooms into bizarre Rube Goldberg learning machines.

The UK’s new definition of extremism is a dangerous anti-democratic move The new definition will impact women and minority groups the hardest, and sets a dangerous precedent for democracy.

Revisiting an @odi.global piece I wrote last year, in light of the recent arrests in the UK of those expressing peaceful support for Palestine Action.

odi.org/en/insights/...

Alignment folk fine-tuning US government models to generate claims of white genocide in 3, 2, 1...

How long before we discover LLMs are a bunch of guys in Bangalore and Manila googling stuff.

TikTok content moderators strike in Berlin: “We trained your AI – now pay us!” Workers at TikTok’s Berlin headquarters strike to protest the company’s refusal to negotiate conditions of the mass firing of 150 content moderators.

🔥 "WE TRAINED YOUR AI—NOW PAY US!"

TikTok moderators in Berlin are on strike, facing mass layoffs after training the AI that could replace them. They're demanding dignity, transition support & fair pay.

Stand with them!
@verdi-medien.bsky.social
uniglobalunion.org/news/tiktok-...

Al Jazeera Media Network urgently calls upon the journalistic community, press freedom organisations, and relevant legal bodies to take decisive action to halt the forced starvation and crimes against journalists and media professionals in Gaza.

Labour’s plan for ‘digital dashboard’ mission tracker falls flat Seven months after the suggested launch date of a public platform to track the government’s progress, no work has apparently been completed on the project

Longtime followers will know that I am borderline obsessed with pointless dashboards and measuring progress and this article is fascinating for two reasons.

www.thetimes.com/article/2f71...

Why We Quit Spotify Enough is enough

Just when you think there couldn’t possibly be any more reasons to quit Spotify, the brutal news keeps coming

a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes'

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NO. AI. FOR. WAR. CRIMES!!!

✨Ask Gemini✨: What is the best way to decimate public sector capacities and introduce platform dependencies with monopolistic business models to capture any public value in data?

Good Guys Google stepping up once again to save "failing public services" and uphold "digital sovereignty" with absolutely no agendas or self-interest!🫡

Each time the Labour government takes its tech policy from the Tony Blair Institute (every time Labour talks about tech "innovation")

we need to remind them their "tech experts" are employed by the "Let's blockchain the genocide" organisation.

This is how shiny, banal evil looks, sounds, and is.

Tony Blair’s staff took part in ‘Gaza Riviera’ project with BCG Former UK prime minister’s institute participated in meetings on plan to turn shattered enclave into trading hub

NEW: Tony Blair's staff took part in a BCG project for the redevelopment of Gaza along the lines of the 'Trump Riviera' plan www.ft.com/content/0b1b...

Wall Street Imperialism