Meta will begin keystroke logging US employees at work -- complete with mouse movements and periodic screenshots -- to train better AI agents.
This comes after Boz posted about a future in which AI will "primarily do the work" at meta.
It's a new era for tech labor. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Secretary of War Pete Hegs... • © • 39m The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately.
General George Washington required Continental Army soldiers be inoculated for smallpox. We would not have won independence if he hadn’t.
You dumb chucklefuck.
This is why Vought didn't want to tell Congress how much the war is costing us last week. We're going bomb broke.
NEW STUDY: Media coverage of violence against women has reached an all-time low — at only 1.3% of total coverage.
This, at the height of the Epstein scandal.
www.akas.london/globalmisogy...
Trials for a pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine: “Nearly 90% of people whose immune systems responded to the vaccine were still alive up to six years after receiving the last treatment. The five-year survival rate for pancreatic cancer is around 13%…” [mskcc.org]
Research funding for historians: the Society currently invites applications for 5 grant programmes: to support individual and project-based research by historians across a range of career stages bit.ly/4vzzNeB.
Closing dates for eligible applicants fall between 8 May and 5 June 2026 #Skystorians
You know who else famously used paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups?
The Justice Department.
'The researchers said...“hyper-competitive research culture in universities is likely to increase costs, partly driven by low success rates”, and “without fundamental reform, academics will continue to apply for research grants in pursuit of reward and recognition”.' (Well, also to do research) 1/2
I have heard from another trans person (also involved in politics) that they too have been misgendered in SNP election leaflets.
Remember that the electoral role does not contain your title.
@snp.org please explain this.
Great wish fulfilment opportunity!
Gift link:
Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...
I’d like to see the ongoing Quatermass series prosed that ended up as the basis of several Pertwee season 1 Dr Who stories. Not sure I could write for it though.
We are looking at a painting of St Liphardus - a 6th-century lawyer, hermit and abbot in Meung-sur-Loire near Orléans, France. He is wearing bishops clothing including a surplus and mitre and is holding a crook. On a lead is a small knee high green and blue dragon.
We’re very sorry sir but you cannot bring your emotional support dragon in here.
This reporting suggests Bridget Phillipson's legislation will muzzle those of us who want to protest against Far Right speakers who say our Black family are intellectually inferior and our Trans family are all potential sex offenders and are mentally ill.
What an unbelievably terrible Government.
Faculty, your job is to be annoyed at the administration and back the students 100%!
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/21/b...
First: hilarious.
Second: A core belief of Trump-brand conservativsm is there are and never have been difficult problems, only dumb leaders without the strength to be cruel enough to solve them.
It's why they always look so baffled when pushing the "more cruelty" button doesn't seem to work.
Tweet by Martina Navratilova. "Predator. That is how he should register. A sexual predator…" quote-tweeting a tweet by "Biology Rules OK" about Dr. Beth Upton, a trans woman
This tweet is highly defamatory and Martina Navratilova should be fired from BBC Sport for it.
It demonstrates an horrendous level of hatred for a trans woman (who was cleared of all wrongdoing in a recent tribunal) because she is a trans woman.
Aluminium used to build cars can now be reused to build cars. A new alloy called RidgeAlloy turns contaminated scrap into strong structural vehicle parts. This solves the problem where recycled aluminium from mixed or dirty auto scrap was too weak for structural use buff.ly/tmDSuWf
#ShareGoodNewsToo
BREAKING: The so called 'SAVE' Act has FAILED in the Senate and will not become law.
I wrote this piece on how in reality, this is the Voter Restriction Act to prevent women from voting. It is fascism and would have installed Trump as a permanent dictator. www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-save-a...
Interior magazine artwork (from Omni, December 1982) for Ian Watson's 'Returning Home'
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1985. ‘White Socks’ by Ian Watson
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January 1987. ‘Salvage Rights’ by Ian Watson
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1988. ‘The Mole Field’ by Ian Watson
Ian Watson sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/watson... who sadly died a week ago, was born on this day; here's magazine artwork for some of his stories 1982-88: 'Returning Home' ‘White Socks’ ‘Salvage Rights' & ‘The Mole Field’ (Artist: Jean-Marie Poumeyrol, RJ Krupowicz, David A Hardy & Stephen Gervais):
We filed suit against the Trump administration (again) today to block the implementation of an unlawful executive order that seeks to undermine inclusion & equal opportunity, threatens government contractors w/ criminal prosecution, & chills protected speech.
These are not normal times.
"Reform's manifesto for the Senedd election says the party will tell museums how to display history if it wins, saying they will present events in chronological order and "in context"."
So, History Reclaimed but in government.
History without rigour, compassion, or reflection.
#skystorians
Amanda is severely immunosuppressed. Vaccines don’t protect her.
The antibodies that could? - Never funded
So while the world “moved on,” she’s still living in isolation.
This is what “Living with Covid” still means in 2026.
Note for the uninformed: Kathleen Stock is an outspoken, fanatical transphobe.
A better headline might have been "bully calls on bullying victim to put past bullying behind them (and bend over)".
Mosaic of gravitational lense images, found in early data of the Euclid mission.
Space Warps is back! Do you want to join forces with #Euclid Consortium scientists and discover gravitational lenses that no human has ever seen before?
#astronomy #science #GravitationalLenses #ESA #space #CitizenScience #ESAEuclid #Zooniverse
Today the Euclid space telescope team are launching a new search for Space Warps! Come and be the first to find warps in space and time in Euclid's unseen Data Release 1, before the DR1 publication in October @ec-euclid.bsky.social 🧪🔭 www.zooniverse.org/projects/apr...
I'm making one last push to let people know about this online talk -- sponsored by the British Library in conjunction with their current exhibition on fairy tales. The live stream starts at 7:30 tonight, but if you buy a ticket *before* the event you can watch it any time over the next 7 days.
The cyberattack on The British Library in October 2023 knocked out ebooks and almost ever other computer thing there for years.
Ebooks just came back. They were knocked out everywhere using the BL’s license (legal deposit libraries I think? More libraries?)
Distributed physical copies matter.
Strikes at Cambridge University over pay
Vice Chancellor is the most highly paid in UK, the 'Golden Fifty' have seen seen huge increases in pay
Everyone else had real term pay cuts
No excuse as Cambridge Uni has more resources than many countries 😉
www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambrid...
