Eman El-Sherbiny

Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The levers of political persuasion with conversational artificial intelligence There are widespread fears that conversational artificial intelligence (AI) could soon exert unprecedented influence over human beliefs. In this work, in three large-scale experiments (N = 76,977 part...

Here's the study, for anyone curious: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

AI chatbots used inaccurate information to change people’s political opinions, study finds A paper published in the journal Science found that chatbots become more persuasive when they share large amounts of information.

NEW: AI chatbots used inaccurate information to change people’s political opinions, study finds www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

It seems to be written broadly enough to capture a huge number of people.

The US government is now targeting anyone applying for a H-1b visa that have worked on "activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others."

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Elon Musk's Grok AI Is Doxxing Home Addresses of Everyday People Elon Musk's Grox chatbot will happily cough up real, current residential addresses of everyday Americans, with little to no prompting.

🚨 PSA: Grok might be giving out your private info.

Out of 33 names of non-public figures we fed to Grok, a total of ten queries immediately returned accurate home addresses for the name provided. It often gave us a whole lot more.

Read our new reporting here: futurism.com/artificial-i...

The cable, sent to all U.S. missions on December 2, orders U.S. consular officers to review resumes or LinkedIn profiles of H-1B applicants - and family members who would be traveling with them - to see if they have worked in areas that include activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others.

Holy shit.

Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

That's one efficient way to throw one's credibility into the gutter

and prior to 2013

a truck in a red box next to trenches

A Syrian citizen had reported seeing trucks and burials over the years.
Source: www.aljazeera.net/news/2024/12...
A truck can be seen here in red.

trenches adjacent to a motorway

a correspondent with a miccrtophone speaking in front of a trench with strees and structures in the background

In Dec, 2024, the Syrian MOI spoke publicly abt this mass grave in Aleppo estimating 100s of bodies have been retrieved from it and moved to a nearby cemetery. The video doesn't reveal the scale but the satellite image does
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV1M...
📍https://maps.app.goo.gl/wjk3PZ8gBKhJdmEr5

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

and prior to 2013

a truck in a red box next to trenches

A Syrian citizen had reported seeing trucks and burials over the years.
Source: www.aljazeera.net/news/2024/12...
A truck can be seen here in red.

it likely started being used as early as 2012

trenches adjacent to a motorway

a correspondent with a miccrtophone speaking in front of a trench with strees and structures in the background

In Dec, 2024, the Syrian MOI spoke publicly abt this mass grave in Aleppo estimating 100s of bodies have been retrieved from it and moved to a nearby cemetery. The video doesn't reveal the scale but the satellite image does
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV1M...
📍https://maps.app.goo.gl/wjk3PZ8gBKhJdmEr5

I almost always find these gems in Aleppo

in appreciation of Syrian sense of humour. It appears a high-schooler likely added a school name as it's written below which transliterates to "school of the fucked"

UK immigration status fears prompt carer to cancel benefits she is entitled to Woman cancels all benefits including disability living allowance for daughter after policy change announcement

Extremely grim consequence of Home Sec announcement of penalising claiming benefits claims in routes to settlement: a low-paid carer cancelling housing benefit, universal credit, and disability allowance for her autistic daughter’s personal care and mobility www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

For context: Jack served as head of the Office of Legal Counsel during the Bush administration. He’s widely regarded—especially in conservative legal circles—as a leading authority on executive power. The fact that he’s expressing this view in such stark terms is significant.

Aisling Bea once likened NI to a squashed up banana that the UK forgot about at the bottom of its purse

NI is heading for Lebanon-style decay if Stormont doesn't urgently reform, expert warns MLAs A few weeks ago, a senior academic sat before MLAs and delivered two stark messages which went unnoticed. Michael Kerr, Professor of Conflict Studies at the Department of War Studies in King's Colle...

Minus the drone hum and impending escalation..

www.e-pages.dk/belfastteleg...

It is unfathomable that the USG lawyers would sign off on a no-survivors boat strike (no get of jail free card).

There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well.

The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial

www.usni.org/magazines/na...

Beyond depraved: "Hours after her detainment, court documents obtained by ABC News show that a federal judge ordered the government not to remove the 19-year-old from the U.S. and not to transfer her outside of Massachusetts. But Lopez Belloza was deported to Honduras the next day."

Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says The NGO’s chief says last month’s ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal’

The diplomatic "achievement" of the ceasefire was to recalibrate the tempo of the genocide sufficiently to get it off the front pages and the news bulletins, thus alleviating the political pressure on Israel's western accomplices.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

An infinity pool between palm trees with mountains and a sea on the horizon just after sunset

The world's best sunset by the Dead Sea

Germany is offering asylum to donkeys from Gaza. Gaza’s children? Not allowed. Germany is now taking in animals from Gaza while refusing entry to injured and sick Palestinians. The message is clear: in Germany’s hierarchy of “valuable” life, Palestinians are valued less than…

Germany is now taking in animals from Gaza while refusing entry to injured and sick Palestinians. The message is clear: in Germany’s hierarchy of “valuable” life, Palestinians are valued less than animals. mondoweiss.net/2025/11/germ...

GPS jamming is high mostly across South Lebanon and North Israel but also over part of Syria

... especially in a foreign country

Jordanian climbing gyms are great at climbing and quite shit at bouldering capabilities