William Card

Might try an experiment in criminal law this year where for my public order offences lecture I just read through all the current and proposed protest offences and the students can place bets over whether I can cover them all in 2 hours or if I run out of time.

The Guardian are really leaning into the headline format of two weirdly unrelated statements.

“I Started An Erotic Bookclub. Yet It’s Impossible To Find A Dentist“

“I Ate A Pint Of Ant Yoghurt. Why Are My Towels Always Damp?”

“My Partner Bought Me A Lathe. Starmer’s Silence Speaks Volumes”

Etc

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime' Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
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What an unsurprising decision by corporations that desperately need to make money with AI. If every other company with a chatbot isn't already doing this, then expect them to be following Meta's lead soon. The chatbot is not your friend; it's a corporate listening device. www.ft.com/content/22f7...

britain leads the world in middlemen. you want to buy electricity at the price it costs? no. there's a man who'll sell it to you. he doesn't make the electricity, he buys it off the guy who does, but you're not allowed to talk to that guy. what do you want to talk to a bloke for?

Labour considering charging workers for employment tribunal claims, sources say Exclusive: Reintroducing tribunal fees would be ‘a gift for bad bosses’, says TUC chief Paul Nowak

Too toxic for the Tories? Don't worry, Labour will do it. www.theguardian.com/money/2025/o...

Pharmacists who recommend homeopathy should be willing to accept as payment envelopes that once contained money.

- @davidjuurlink.bsky.social

If you want to email Keir Starmer telling him, politely, what you think of his plan for digital ID cards we've made it super easy for you:

goodlawproject.org/campaign/kei...

Apologies for the spam of this, but I'm hella proud of it! Written in a day, and on software I've never used before, in a medium I've never even previously considered!

My first game! It's good!

Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

One of the unexpected things I've learned from my advocacy for trans people is how malignant parts of the State can be, how it can misuse data for positively evil purposes. It's taught me people can't be safe with a digital ID card and so I've signed this. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Starmer’s ID plan has caused upset, but in the EU the debate has long been settled ID cards have become an essential part of life for many across the bloc, with digital versions already launched in many member states

The Guardian, as usual is missing crucial differences between the EU’s ID cards and Starmer’s proposed Brit card, why?
Because they are shockingly ill-informed.
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Half a million. Net migration poster.

Controls on immigration mug.

Go home van from Theresa may.

Pm says Britain has been squeamish about illegal immigration.

Starmer says past governments have been "squeamish" talking about immigration. Bullshit.

Starmer isn't bravely breaking a taboo. He's blaming vulnerable people & deflecting attention from the super rich who hoard power & wealth.

Want something better? join.greenparty.org.uk

Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

This is gonna hit a million within the next half hour

Not that they'll care, but still, lol

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

This government with a big majority could do electoral system reform, redistribute wealth and assets, green policy and investment, public transport, renationalisation, be against apartheid and genocide… and instead… we get fucking ID cards. Which is still a shit idea.

America 2025. Please Don’t Offend The White Supremacists

Gen AI has been trained and developed in ways that no university research ethics committee would approve. And yet as academics we supposedly need training in how to use it ‘ethically’…

Anyway well done to the BBC for laundering the leader of a movement which in no substantial way differs from the 1970s-style National Front into our living rooms

Very good day. A mini conference where i presented "Fascist Bullshit: How “Generative AI” Enacts & Enables Disinformation, Misinformation, & Authoritarianism (And What to Try to Do About It)," saw great talks on ACT UP, public-facing climate research comms, & more; then we all hung out & ate outside

i’ll amplify that shit

charlie kirk was a racist transphobic neonazi creep

Thinking today of Scottish feminist & comedian Janey Godley (1961-2024)

Being ‘far right’ is not an acceptable political viewpoint

the "tax the billionaires" political refrain is Good Actually in part because it is a call for the people at the top to actually be constrained by rules informed by the public interest, a virtue that fingerwagging correctives about how much revenue such taxes would *really* generate doesn't address

Why is AI so shit? Its shoddy outputs reflect the brittleness of an epistemology that relies fully on abstraction & reduction and actively eliminates relationality and adaptivity. As such, it doesn’t replace human activity but acts as its violent suppression.

Screencap of Mostaque's site, with button reading "start reading", followed by two rows of buttons labeled "download pdf", "download epub", "kindle", "notebookLM", "gpt-5", "Claude", "Grok", and "Github" Followed by three five-star blurbs attributed to Claude Opus 4.1, GPT-5 Pro, and Gemini 2.5 Pro

This is freaking hilarious. Mostaque wrote a book (I guess?) or made a website for one anyway with blurbs from LLMs.

Is it supposed to look terrifying?

Black square (“and so on to infinity…” inscribed in Latin around its edges) representing the nothingness that was prior to the universe, as pictured by the great occult philosopher Robert Fludd, who himself passed into infinity #onthisday in 1637. publicdomainreview.org/essay/b... #OTD

The Labour government: We're different to the Tories

Also the Labour government: Hires Thames Water’s reputation manager and a member of the board of the anti-trans charity Sex Matters.