@asls.org.uk @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social #writing #literature @gsfwc.bsky.social @sfwa.bsky.social @sffworld.com

Greg Michaelson@gjmichaelson.bsky.social · 12h ago

The nights are fair drawing in... Ward off the darkness with Equinox by myself and @ruthaylett.bsky.social from @stairwellbooks.bsky.social www.stairwellbooks.co.uk/product/equi...

The nights are fair drawing in... Ward off the darkness with Equinox by myself and @ruthaylett.bsky.social from @stairwellbooks.bsky.social www.stairwellbooks.co.uk/product/equi...

Equinox – Stairwell Books

Helen and Malcolm independently stumble upon interlocking pieces of a multi-faceted conspiracy, concerning the Fundamental Forces (F2) plant on the Moor. It’s soon clear that deeper, perhaps darker, powers are at play. Helen and Malcolm have twelve days to learn to cooperate, to piece the mystery together, save many worlds.

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@nature.com the anthropomorpizing language of this article as well as the equating of agentic loops with actual employees/scientists without any evidence of that conjecture is deeply insulting to scientists and scientific rigor, respectively. 🧪🧬🖥️

Nature@nature.com · yesterday

"We want to see how far these agent teams of AI scientists can help us to really accelerate drug discovery and development” go.nature.com/3VmT0CF

New research reveals two clades of SARS-CoV-2-related coronaviruses in Thai horseshoe bats. One clade binds human ACE2, raising concerns for potential zoonotic spillover. PMID:42097139, Cell 2026, @Cell https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S009286742600454X #Medsky #Pharmsky #RNA #ASHG #ESHG 🧪

This is why I think it's so important to push back against the personification of LLMs. If a person shoots someone while wearing a hand puppet, they can't claim the hand puppet did the murder.

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · 2d ago

Referring to the harm as being caused by LLMs, when it is caused by people, actually serves to exonerate the people as if they did not make explicit decisions.

Please share this with anyone who's been convinced to blame the wrong people ❤️

The Biggest Lie You've Been Told

YouTube video by Owen Jones

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If you don’t know Owen Jones you ought to … check out this short documentary that really frames this time of monsters in a way we all need to understand . Amazing work! youtu.be/_Hdpak9lHo0?...

The Biggest Lie You've Been Told

YouTube video by Owen Jones

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Well said, Owen Jones! I know which book I want to buy next. Historical context matters. It serves to show us where we have been, which road we are on, and where we are destined to land. The west, you will see, is on the road to ruin and collapse. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Hdp...

The Biggest Lie You've Been Told

YouTube video by Owen Jones

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Hallucinating AI "almost started a war" by FALSELY claiming China was smuggling nuclear materials. "The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel... Military planes were in the air"

Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

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We need your support. 👉 owenjones.news/support We reach millions each month with content opposing injustice, war and genocide. Now we want to take it to another level.

He fucked it up so badly they had to explain it with crayons.

What on earth is happening?

Nicola Kelly@nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 4d ago

I have spent weeks shadowing the RNLI and I can tell you, they do it out of nothing more than compassion. Wrote about the heroes I've met over the years in this free-to-read post. nicolakelly.substack.com/p/the-rnli-a...

Another story of mine that just went online for @newscientist.com. The first completely new species of cat to be named in a century - the tilcayo, a type of tiger cat from Bolivia. Isn't it lovely? #cats 🧪 🐈🦊 🐅 www.newscientist.com/article/2589...

Beautiful new cat species is first to be named in a century | New Scientist

The enigmatic tiger cats of South America now encompass a new species – the tilcayo – bringing the number of known tiger cat species to five

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@asls.org.uk @pscupdates.bsky.social @poetrysociety.org.uk My poem on Culture Matters called No Joke: a tribute to Jon Farley, arrested at a silent Palestine protest in Leeds, July 2025, for holding up a placard of a joke from the latest edition of Private Eye. www.culturematters.org.uk/no-joke/

Great to see that the Byline Times is still writing about Arday.

Hardeep Matharu@hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 4d ago

The story of Jason Arday is the story of James Orr. Of the ideology which has found a foothold in Cambridge University, fostering the sorts of ideas that formed the undercurrents – sometimes explicit; sometimes unconscious – against Arday. I returned to my alma mater for an in-depth exploration 👇

At least five Reform councillors joined Patriot Platform Facebook group, campaigners reveal

At least five Reform councillors joined Patriot Platform Facebook group, campaigners reveal

Politicians from Solihull, Gateshead and Kent were in online group linked to balaclava-clad immigration protesters At least five Reform UK councillors have been members of a Facebook group linked to the far-right group involved in the blockades of Dover and Portsmouth by masked men, according to anti-fascist campaigners. It comes as Nigel Farage’s party has been wrestling with internal divisions over its position on the Patriot Platform group, whose activities have been condemned by the Reform UK leader and across the political spectrum. Continue reading...

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Good straightforward reporting from the Wall Street Journal on Musk's promotion of Restore/Rupert Low/civil war in the UK. Lots of detail, no polemics. The BBC could and should do this. Why doesn't it? archive.ph/eTOS5

Bravery.

Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social · 6d ago

Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers.

Rep. @aoc.bsky.social : “To see what Patriots owner Robert Kraft did to line up all the stadiums to censor speech in that one specific way… this isn’t just about one artist.”

The fact that interest on illegal donations doesn't need to be returned creates a perverse incentive to receive impermissible donations in the first place. Why wouldn't you, if you can pocket quite significant interest, and there's no sanction if you return it within the legal time frame?

Reform UK Could Pocket Nearly £500,000 in Interest if They Are Forced to Return £72 Million Crypto Billionaire Donations

EXCLUSIVE: Electoral Commission confirms interest earned on impermissible gifts can be kept, prompting calls for Nigel Farage to hand any proceeds to charity

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New imagery reveals US underplaying extent of damage from Iranian attacks - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/new-imagery-reveals-us-underplaying-extent-damage-iranian-attacks

New imagery reveals US underplaying extent of damage from Iranian attacks

Active service members say 'major damage' to US assets is being downplayed

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‘This should be condemned by any thinking human’: film industry rallies behind NAZA directors

‘This should be condemned by any thinking human’: film industry rallies behind NAZA directors

Backing comes after Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor were threatened with having their citizenship revoked and accused of treason Film industry heavyweights across the globe have expressed solidarity with Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, the Oscar-winning Israeli directors of documentary NAZA, who have been threatened with having their citizenship revoked by Israel’s culture minister, who accused them of “treason against the state”. NAZA, which was produced by the Guardian, is named for an acronym euphemistically used by Israel’s intelligence service to indicate how many civilians it expects to die in an airstrike on Gaza. It includes interviews with 24 Israeli military or intelligence soldiers and officers who outlined the AI-powered targeting systems used to bombard Gaza, resulting in the mass killing of Palestinian civilians. Continue reading...

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Appending the actual TUC motion congress.tuc.org.uk/c04-migrant-...

I’m looking forward to hearing Taj discuss his book in Glasgow next week, hosted by Glasgow Trades Council. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

BOOK LAUNCH: Come What May We're Here to Stay w/ Author Taj Ali

Come What May, We're Here to Stay: The Story of South Asian Resistance in Britain- Book Launch with Author Taj Ali

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At some point the Parties that put in all their effort to destroy socialism and destroy any hope of a more fair society need to look in the mirror and see their role in the rise of Fascism.

really stressful day at roget’s. you know how they’ve got me in the thesaurus department? this morning my supervisor almost added too many words to the big list of words and nearly hit the sentience threshold that turns our simple book into a fully-thinking (evil) human brain

p.s. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that all of this acceleration in the hype is a reaction to the succesful and broadening opposition to their wasteful, polluting, noisy data centers.

So how about this for a "pause AI" proposal: "pause credulous AI reporting". No more media about "breakthroughs" or "rogue agent swarms" or ... UNLESS and UNTIL that media demands the actual empirical evidence and/or focuses on the motivations of & harms by these companies.

So then ordinary people, who all have plenty to worry about now tyvm, pick up some generalized anxiety about "AI" and meanwhile policymakers are introducing nonsense bills regulating unicorns (I mean "AGI"). >>