when your main qualification for the job is the provocative message it sends to democracies around the world

Google marks all Gemini-created text with its SynthID text watermarking system. They have released public detectors for media. They have not for text, and they have not publicly said why they haven't. Regulators and legislators should ask them.

it's everything you loved about 1918, with added stupidity

It will be the law of the jungle.

Market analysts are already predicting that rich countries will outbid poor countries for scarce oil and gas supplies. This means energy famine for the Global South.

Link: www.ft.com/content/6ca1...

Our new piece, collectively authored by the Editorial Board of @econsocjournal.bsky.social, reflecting on the state today.

@campolis.bsky.social

Link to the full piece below:

What Live Facial Recognition Does Not See: Human Rights, Discipline and Governmentality | LSE Law Review

Very pleased to see a former student has published his Llm dissertation - and won a prize for it too. Congratulations Adalberto!
lawreview.lse.ac.uk/articles/10....

A senior figure who worked a lot with the CPS during Starmer's tenure told me he was a good DPP on the law and strategic direction, but that the actual *management* of the organisation was almost entirely outsourced to a deputy. That was a more significant observation than I realised at the time.

Cisco’s Real Stakes: Digitally Aiding and Abetting Mass Atrocities The Supreme Court should dismiss cert in Cisco to avoid immunizing U.S. corporations who actively aid and abet atrocities.

Simply put. A must-read piece on the Supreme Court's upcoming oral arguments on global human rights litigation in U.S. courts.

by the legendary Harold Hongju Koh, former State Department Legal Adviser, former Dean Yale Law School

Cisco’s Real Stakes: Digitally Aiding and Abetting Mass Atrocities

Surprising and sad trajectory for our beloved species.

Evolution thinks red hair is desirable — but we don’t know why Scientists say human beings are still evolving and that red hair, susceptibility to coeliac disease and narrow waists have become more common

Apparently being a narrow waisted coeliac ginger has mysterious advantages

www.thetimes.com/article/b522...

Amid quarrel with pope, Trump strips Miami charity of funding to house migrant kids The move comes amid rising tensions between the administration and American Catholics.

INBOX: Amid rising tendons between Trump and Pope Leo, the administration has abruptly canceled an $11 million contract with Catholic Charities to shelter and care for migrant children who enter the U.S. alone, ending a relationship dating back to the first arrivals of Cuban exiles in South Florida.

mainstream conservative views on the US president now split two ways: 'chosen by Christ' or 'antichrist'

Our evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview’s cyber capabilities | AISI Work We conducted cyber evaluations of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview and found continued improvement in capture-the-flag (CTF) challenges and significant improvement on multi-step cyber-attack simulati...

This paper represents a small but deeply impressive and genuinely important achievement by the much maligned British state in what is probably the most important global issue of our era.

Hear me out ( 🧵) 1/

www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-eva...

Really interesting piece of work - and conclusions broadly the same as our new exploratory study on adoption of models in the cybercrime underground (don’t panic - yet) arxiv.org/pdf/2603.29545

Can someone out there please count up all the CPAC speakers who ranted about George Soros funding left wing causes?

Be sure to take breaks and stretch every hour or two.

what an idiot

I feel sorry for her - hope she can just get on with the writing - but the irony is incredible

Live by the posting, die by the posting.

‘My life has become a rollercoaster’: Francesca Albanese on death threats, danger and dread after accusing Israel of genocide When the UN special rapporteur published her report Anatomy of a Genocide in March 2024, she was lionised by some and demonised by the Trump government. She describes what happened next

When the UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese published her report Anatomy of a Genocide in March 2024, she was lionised by some and demonised by the Trump government. She describes what happened next www.theguardian.com/law/2026/apr...

The human condition

"Dress your age not your shoe size" - baffling statement for Europeans

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Iran’s Fars News Agency says all tankers passing through Hormuz have been stopped after Israel’s ‘ceasefire breach’.

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They will not remove him. They are not the self-sacrificing kind.

hot take: i think the move in the direction of a more explicitly extortion based international order is bad actually. I also do not especially relish the idea of re-boning up on mercantilism

Interested in researching AI and judicial decision making? @brianbarryirl.bsky.social at Trinity College Dublin has two funded PhD vacancies (one in law, one in social sciences).

Earth and Moon from DSCOVR NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured this unique view of the Moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth last month. This view shows the fully illuminated “dark side” of the moon that is never visible from Earth. Ian Regan processed this version of the image to account for the Moon's motion. NASA / NOAA / Ian Regan

I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable.

Earth and Moon in one NASA photo.

ht @astrokatie.com