The person who brought in the Upskirting law is specifically accusing Rowling of breaking it.

@emer.bsky.social wrote a beautiful, brilliant book & I'm so excited for you all to read it!

emer@emer.bsky.social · 3w ago

beyond honoured and delighted to receive this blurb for IRISH SHAKESPEARES from @norajw.bsky.social 💚

Remember, the transphobic EHRC code is being implemented by this government by CHOICE, not because it HAS to. Labour is CHOOSING to implement transphobic segregation.

Trans advocates and MPs urge government to scrap 'segregation' code'

The EHRC Code of Practice is set to pass Parliament today at the end of the 40-day scrutiny period, despite 166 MPs signing a 'prayer' motion to stop it — including more than 90 Labour backbenchers

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Especially important to complete this if, like me, you conscientiously object to the use of genAI on environmental, ethical, and intellectual property grounds.

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 4w ago

UK researchers, DSIT's survey on AI in research is now live. 'The survey is designed to capture insights across the full research life cycle, encompassing all disciplines and career stages, as well as covering multiple categories of AI.' Deadline for completion is 4 September 2026.

‼️ The deadline to apply for the @srsrensoc.bsky.social Society for Renaissance Studies Scholars of Colour MA Scholarship is fast approaching. Applications must be submitted by 15 July 2026.   Full details and the application portal can be found on our website: rensoc.org.uk/apply/schola...

'Tis I! Scroll down the thread for archival recordings of performances and access to scripts from A Two Woman Hamlet 💀💐👑

Shakespeare Bulletin@shaxbull.bsky.social · last mo.

Today’s Extra Credit focuses on Nora Williams’s “Four Women on A Two Woman Hamlet: An Interview with Marina Cusí, Deanna Strasse, and Sharmila Peake”. Check out these open-access resources to go along with this open-access article! 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/992519

Fascinating to me that when I'm really, really tired, my brain just refuses to understand Celsius. I have mostly lived outside the US since 2007, but that childhood programming dies hard I guess 🤣😭

What a disgrace?

404 Media@404media.co · 3mo ago

ASU Atomic, a new tool in beta at Arizona State University, takes faculty lectures and chops them into extremely short clips, that AI then attempts to turn into learning materials.

Thanks for the photo @saaupdates.bsky.social ! Btw, you can preorder the Canonical Misogyny paperback for 30% off with code PAPER30 😉

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content

“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

404media.co

Professors & university staff were targeted & fired for less than this just a few months ago.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo ago

Trump: “Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people! President DONALD J. TRUMP”

The HPV vaccine is durably AMAZING.A massive Swedish registry study w 18 years of follow-up found no waning protection against invasive cervical cancer. If vaccinated before age 17, cancer risk is cut by ~80%. Even those vaccinated later still had substantial protection. www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Extended follow-up of invasive cervical cancer risk after quadrivalent HPV vaccination: nationwide, register based study

Objectives To evaluate the long term risk of invasive cervical cancer after receiving the quadrivalent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, how risk varies by time since vaccination, and to assess the ...

bmj.com

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” James Baldwin

Unflinching refusal to use or allow the use of A.I. in reading & writing should be the uncontroversial, default position of teachers from K-12 to colleges & universities. If our administrators tell us we "have to" we tell them to eff off. We will not kill the planet's water for systemic plagiarism.

Remember back in the day when Congress used to be in charge of appropriations?

"iS tHeRe a tEcHnoLoGY tHe leFt Is eXcItEd aBoUt" yeah, renewable energy, mRNA vaccines. Lots of cool stuff like that! Probably not the one whose main promise was cutting payrolls

What’s so weird about men in power is how when they face scandal and should step down the world acts like no one else can do their jobs. Bottstein, Wasserman, these aren’t irreplaceable men! Stop with this delusion.

This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

As the feds distribute photos of victims while veiling their abusers, "These photographs are both emotionally overwhelming and politically shallow. It looks like the system is exposing everything when really it is exposing the harm and hiding the hand." www.instagram.com/reel/DUV9_tP...

BREAKING: The Senate just blocked a bill that would have renewed ICE's budget without real, enforceable changes. This is a direct result of hundreds of thousands of people across the nation demanding that our Senators vote no.

‘They are no longer strategizing for voluntary adoption by those who come to recognize the technology’s utility by electively applying it to the problems they face. They are planning how to cross the chasm by forced adoption.’ By @mattseybold.bsky.social

"You have to use it. You have to trust it.": Forced Adoption of AI is The Subtext of Davos

Authoritarianism is the AI Bailout; But If AI Doesn't Need a Bailout, Does it Need Authoritarianism?

theamericanvandal.substack.com

*This*. It cannot be said often enough that Trump's 5th column in the UK is planning precisely the same fascist makeover. In broad daylight, and with "democratic" politicians being silent onlookers. And I wonder if Brits will have the courage of Minnesotans when it comes down to it.

Liam Thorp@liamthorp.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power

My first Nerdy Book Club post is up! I'm starting with Kate Manne's now-classic work Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny. Whether it's your first time or a re-read, come think with me for one chapter per week #booksky nerdy-book-club.ghost.io/preface-kate...

Preface: Kate Manne, Down Girl

Kate Manne, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny. Published by Penguin Books, 2018. Preface: Going Wrong, pp. xi-xxiv Chapter Summary Manne's Preface opens with the question that drives the rest of t...

nerdy-book-club.ghost.io

It needs to be said that it is extremely telling of what role ICE is ultimately playing in society that schools respond to it as though its a horde of potential mass shooters.

ellie lockhart (she/they)@eleanor.lockhart.contact · 7mo ago

two seattle schools had to shelter in place due to ICE today. they’re coming.

It's like a substack, but it's not substack lithub.com/the-case-aga...

The case against Substack. (ICYMI)

A recent Vulture piece considered the appeal of Substack. “Part promotional platform, part social-media site, part venue for rambling journal entries, Substack is attracting an increasing num…

lithub.com

Nora J. Williams@norajw.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Doing a thing 🫣 Subscribe for weekly-ish reflections on smart books by smart people, placed at ~1 chapter a week. No AI, no rush, no homework. Just turn up as you are & think with me. nerdy-book-club.ghost.io

Doing a thing 🫣 Subscribe for weekly-ish reflections on smart books by smart people, placed at ~1 chapter a week. No AI, no rush, no homework. Just turn up as you are & think with me. nerdy-book-club.ghost.io

Nerdy Book Club

Thoughts, stories and ideas.

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beestung is now open for new work by two-spirit, genderqueer, and non-binary writers! beestungmag.com/about/

Directed against the United States. I spent 35 years as a US diplomat abroad and at the Department of State, often working closely with our NATO and European allies. We prepared for all sorts of contingencies. Except this one. I have no words.

Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 7mo ago

Denmark confirms an expanded, more permanent Danish and NATO military presence in and around Greenland, beginning today. Deployments span land, sea, and air, including protection of critical infrastructure, fighter jets, and naval operations. Sweden has committed forces; other NATO allies may follow