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Alcohol harm group urges restricted hours and blocks on rapid booze deliveries Alcohol Change UK is warning of the dangers of 'round-the-clock access' to drink offered by on-demand delivery

"Rapid alcohol deliveries are causing harm across our society" - Dr Richard Piper, Alcohol Change UK.

The charity is calling for the government to introduce a delay between order and delivery of alcohol, and restricting the time of delivery.

www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/alcohol...

"The AI Grad Student": A Harvard professor describes working with Claude.

Early on, he describes misconduct that would cause any student to be terminated: "It faked results, hoping I wouldn't notice."

But he ends the essay with "Now I'm doing 100% of my research with LLMs".

Am I losing my mind?

A graphic reads “92% of participating ProPublica Guild members voted YES to authorize our bargaining committee to call for a strike.” The “92%” is very large. A ProPublica Guild logo is under the text.

1/ Today, we overwhelmingly voted to authorize a STRIKE as we fight for a fair contract with @propublica.org.

Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet

Imagine a newspaper publisher refusing to let libraries keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s starting online, as big publishers block the Internet Archive from preserving news sites. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Fisher Information Flow in Artificial Neural Networks A new algorithm tracks Fisher information through a neural network, revealing how information flows and transforms and offering guidance for designing more efficient networks.

"We show that optimal estimation performance corresponds to the maximal transmission of Fisher information ... This provides a model-free stopping criterion for network training—eliminating the need for a separate validation dataset."

journals.aps.org/prx/abstract...

Florida Passes Bill That Lets DeSantis Remove Local Elected Officials From Office For "Promoting" Pride The bill could heavily impact LGBTQ+ activities throughout the state, and is the latest exercise in the erosion of democracy there.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/florida-pa...

"If signed, the bill takes effect January 1, 2027, at which point any existing local ordinances, resolutions, programs, or policies deemed to relate to LGBTQ+ people and other “DEI” activities would be immediately void."

Plot of net CO2 emissions for four mitigation scenarios (4 curves, 4 colors); from the year 2000 to 2600 on the x axis and from -5 to 10 CtC/year on the y axis.

"Figure 1. Comparison of four idealized mitigation scenarios and their implications for long-term net-negative CO2 emissions ... Panel a shows the mean annual net CO2 emission pathways for each scenario. "

Centuries of net-negative emissions are required to secure a safe climate future, two studies suggest Two new studies conclude that stabilizing long-term climate risks will require sustained net-negative carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions for centuries. Approaching the problem from distinct perspectives—l...

phys.org/news/2026-03...

The Laid-off Scientists and Lawyers Training AI to Steal Their Careers Experienced white-collar workers are now part of a miserable gig economy.

this is a horror story nymag.com/intelligence...

For the first time, we now know how many Black-owned bookstores exist in the U.S. The National Association of Black Bookstores has released the “first comprehensive national report” on the state of America’s Black-owned bookstores.

There has never been an official, comprehensive record of Black-owned bookstores across the United States — until now

Colorado borders Kansas. Here is a Colorado non-profit that helps trans people relocate, Trans Continental Pipeline.

Please share.

tcpipeline.org

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period." ERIN REED FEB 25, 2026 88 5 21 Share Kansas Sate Capitol // farzinvousoughian

1. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses.

Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked.

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So is programming. Which is why "vibe coding" is bunk. You have to think through exactly what you want the program to do, and only writing the code will force you to actually think it through properly.

Writing is thinking.

It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.

I wrote my PhD dissertation on the algorithmic risk profiling system Ryogens which was launched in several councils in England in 2003 (!) Goal of system was to alert schools, health, police and housing services of at-risk-children & improve communication www.researchgate.net/publication/...

They want to scare people out of posting ICE-critical content, because they know these posts are turning even their supporters against them. But the better option is to take a page out of their playbook and flood the zone.

sigh

Toddler hospitalized with respiratory failure was returned to ICE detention and denied prescribed medication, lawsuit says The 18-month-old was sent back to a South Texas facility after days in intensive care with severe respiratory distress, according to a federal lawsuit.

“Amalia had been healthy before immigration officers arrested her family… Amalia’s health quickly deteriorated [in Dilley]. On Jan. 18, she was rushed to a children’s hospital where doctors treated her for pneumonia, Covid-19, RSV and severe respiratory distress.”

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The Montana secretary of state is a fascist handmaiden

Comic community responds to ICE detention with art for Liam Comic artists across the U.S. and beyond have launched the #Comics4Liam campaign, creating artwork inspired by 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos’s Spider-Man backpack to protest his detention by ICE and hi...

Thanks so much to @mprnews.org for covering #Comics4Liam. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Sylvester and Clifford on Curved Space Einstein realized that gravity is due to the curvature of spacetime, but let’s go back earlier: On the 18th of August 1869, the eminent mathematician Sylvester gave a speech arguing that geom…

Which idea doesn't have a long history?

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Our initial analysis is up.

The video footage appears to show that the gun was taken away from the man before he was shot.

He was UNARMED before any of the shots were fired.

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!

ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

US appeals court pauses lower court order restraining immigration agents' use of force against Minnesota protesters The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals paused a lower court's order on Wednesday that had restrained federal immigration agents' use of force against peaceful protesters.

8th circuit gives ICE go ahead to use force against peaceful demonstrators, a decision which will immediately lead to injury.

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95 ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

Figure 1: The important dimensions of CAILs across research and education; clockwise from 12 o’clock: Con- ceptual Clarity is the idea that terms should refer. Critical Thinking is deep engagement with the relationships between statements about the world. Decoloniality is the process of de-centring and addressing dominant harmful views and practices. Respecting Expertise is the epistemic compact between professionals and society. Slow Science is a disposition towards preferring psychologically, techno-socially, and epistemically healthy practices. The lines between dimensions represent how they are interwoven both directly and indirectly.

New preprint! @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I have been working on what CAIL means to showcase & propagate the idea of thinking very differently to tech industry norms on "artificial intelligence"

Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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This gets me back to one of my main critiques of academia, which is that most people go where the funding is, particularly in science, and it leads to so much harm when a particular field or methodology or style of investigation is overfunded.