Dr. Elinor Carmi

Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protestor A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

Must thread by Ed about AI & copyright.

We already had a landmark court case in September 2025 where Anthropic has to pay more than a billion to authors.

After last year's #MakeItFair campaign it should be clear this is the way forward for fair & ethical use of works.
www.npr.org/2025/09/05/g...

No, BBC, end-to-end encryption isn’t ’controversial privacy tech’, it’s industry standard protection

Having literally surveyed the workers in these industries on this very question…. Wow, no.

If you want to understand how web-cookies and real-time-bidding have been standardised through lobbying you should check out my book Media Distortions (open access) www.peterlang.com/document/106...

Governments have been reluctant to regulate this market, and this is an example of why they want it.

Absolutely. You should write a paper on your experience in AM panels!

Yep we havw a project we conducted with students and very few know what it is....

The government's own data shows that people think AI is more likely to have a negative impact on discrimination/equality in society.

But not to worry, as it seems growth is all that matters.

www.gov.uk/government/p...

No mention of the notorious AI Skills Hub 😉 but if you want to understand how problematic it is for UK's democracy then check out our @techpolicypress.bsky.social piece with @taniaduarte.bsky.social, @markwong.bsky.social, @suoman.bsky.social & @timdavies.org.uk
www.techpolicy.press/the-real-cos...

Parliamentlive.tv Science and Technology Committee

Now listening to the Science & Technology committee. Listening to Liz Kendall saying that growth is the main thing driving her department (no surprise).

Also apparently ppl should not worry about AI because the workers in these industries know how good they are.

parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...

It would mean the lobbying by big US tech firms had succeeded, and the protests of the UK's creatives had been ignored.

People's work is not the government's to give away.

If you're in the UK and you care about creatives and the creative industries, please write to your MP!

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🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.

This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.

Please spread the word.

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Why I said we need anti-surveillance laws not privacy laws... this isn't ok just because they 'anonymised' the data.

"We don’t have to set the bar this low. We have to remind each other that this isn’t normal for the world, and doesn’t have to be normal for tech".

Important post by Anil Dash.

Both Netflix and Paramount are bad for the film industry. But Larry Ellison is bad on another level as he wants to take over CNN, CBS, Tiktok and Warner Brothers all before the USA mid-term elections.

Both in tech and media we are seeing more monopolies and all are rooting for right wing politics.

UK MPs launch new inquiry examining technology’s role in education.

Just briefly looked at what they intend to look at and it doesn't seem that the involvement of big-tech in education is a concern here but mainly how teachers and students use AI.... 🙄

committees.parliament.uk/committee/20...

Actually, the left is winning the AI debate But it does need to get organized.

The left is not "missing out" on AI. It's winning the argument. Americans worry about AI and dislike tech CEOs. They're mobilizing against data centers. They support regulation, even refusal.

Calls for the left to embrace AI are an effort to change the terms of the debate in Silicon Valley's favor.

excited to hear tech companies will now be allowed to build their own power plants for their data centers. i am sure the makers of "the app that tells kids to kill themselves" will responsibly operate coal plants

Just as a reminder OpenAI recently removed the word "safely" from its mission...

theconversation.com/openai-has-d...

Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge In an abrupt shift, the company may release future AI models without ironclad safety guarantees

"We didn't really feel, with the rapid advance of AI, that it made sense for us to make unilateral commitments … if competitors are blazing ahead"

So basically a race to the bottom.

time.com/7380854/excl...

Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

UNBELIEVABLE! DOJ withheld Epstein files naming Trump in abuse allegations of a minor

This is why we sued

@democracydefendersfund.org has been fighting in court to get these records & we won’t stop👇
www.democracydefendersfund.org/prs/02.06.26...

Bit we never catch each other!!!

Do tell! I am just tired of seeing so much inequality in how grants are distributed.

Is this what "the Left" should be engaging with, according to some thinkpiece?

Data centers for AI V. food+school for humans, same difference?

World enters era of ‘global water bankruptcy’ The world has moved beyond a water crisis and into a state of global water bankruptcy, says a new flagship report released on Tuesday by UN researchers.

Altman - "Water is totally fake. It used to be true. We used to do evaporative cooling in datacenters, but now … we don’t do that.”

The UN has declared ‘global water bankruptcy’, but AI is somehow more important.

news.un.org/en/story/202...

Sam Altman defends AI’s energy toll by saying it also takes a lot to ‘train a human’ OpenAI CEO also downplayed concerns about how much water datacenters require at AI summit in India

Altman - "People talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model – but it also takes a lot of energy to train a human”.

The world is poorer while you & other tech CEOs become richer. Many ppl struggle to feed themselves & yet your AI is more important?
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

UK academics - I am seeing a lot of UKRI grants which are invites only, and hearing from friends in Russell Group universities they get invited to these, which seems to be unethical considering it's public money.

Has it always been like this or did it increase recently?🤔

Palantir sues magazine that revealed Switzerland rejected its approaches Peter Thiel-chaired data intelligence group alleges that Republik did not give it sufficient right to reply

"The company objects to Republik’s presentation of the public documents and believes its right to reply has been wrongfully denied"

Looks like when newspapers don't parrot the usual hype then AI companies get stressed. Which is why we need reporting beyond the hype.

www.ft.com/content/434b...

Newcastle pubs ban AI art from breweries to protect local creatives As two pubs in Newcastle ban AI art, artists discuss the impact it can have on creatives.

"no longer be accepting AI art, including on bottles and pump clips, in order to try to protect local artists from losing out on work."

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...