I called my senator's office and the person on the phone said, I don't know if you know what's happening behind the scenes. Like, wtf, as if I've got the inside track on closed door meetings. I said, y'all need to do something publicly.
It's all good. Not at all distracted by nuclear doomsday threats as I work on this grant application.
We really are in the 1930s again.
My London commute is always full of finance bros but today I shared my commute with the actor who plays the penultimate finance bro on 'Industry' and I was not prepared for these levels of meta.
February Vibes: listening to the same four Bikini Kill songs on a loop; dancing to them on my commute.
When one apocalypse supersedes another bsky.app/profile/hann...
An updated 'may you live in interesting times' might read 'may your livelihood require you to keep reading the timeline at all times in interesting times'
Love Ursula K. Le Guin, hate patriotism.
It‘s kind of fascinating to watch old-school realists grapple with complete mad king incoherence.
Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.
The Holiday season can be tough on people but one undeniable good is how the international political trash fire tends to slow down for just a week or two because the Bad Guys also want to drink their eggnog? how long ago that feels now.
At CES 2026, where I find myself asking "Oh what fresh hell is this?" every five minutes
A bit of hope for this morning, from Steven J. Jackson's 'Ordinary Hope':
War is carbon intensive and carbon is war intensive.
Covid & Cancer September 26, 2025 Ben Clark Cancer, Covid-19, News There is now compelling medical evidence that Covid-19 infections can reactivate dormant cancer cells, and trigger the growth of secondary cancers (metastatic progression). In studies, cancer survivors who contracted Covid had a statistically significant higher risk of cancer-related deaths compared to uninfected cancer survivors. This is such an important issue that BuDS has decided to run an awareness campaign over the autumn and winter. The aim of the campaign will be to warn cancer survivors of the very real additional danger that Covid poses to them.
There is now compelling medical evidence that Covid-19 infections can reactivate dormant cancer cells, and trigger the growth of secondary cancers. In studies, cancer survivors who contracted Covid had a statistically significant higher risk of cancer-related deaths
buds.org.uk/covid-and-ca...
With Japan facing a worker shortage as its population ages, convenience store shelves are being stocked by robots overseen by remote workers in the Philippines
restofworld.org/2025/philippines-offshor...
This also indicates the essential dishonesty of saying “it’s just a tool.” A hammer is a tool. Nobody writes about the “inevitability” of hammers. Nobody has ever studied the harmful effects of hammers on learning and concluded that teachers must all hit their students with hammers “responsibly.”
Since 2004, a prominent US family has made millions through the sale of carbon credits in the DRC. Meanwhile, the community who lives there has been left in poverty.
If/when possible, it’s nice to leave this timeline behind for just a bit.
Y'all. This meme is from the 'My boyfriend is AI' Reddit, where the culture is to share a cute meme of your coupledom with an AI, and everyone is heartbroken over the personalities of their true loves being 'reset' after the release of GPT-5.
What a cursed sentence (gift link)
“The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
Still remember one study where they had "AI" look at photos to diagnose cancer and it had like a 98% or 99% accuracy...
...except all the photos of actual tumors had a ruler next to them for scale. And the algorithm just got really good at spotting rulers in a photograph.
"I am the lawyer for a multinational group active in the energy sector that intends to displace a small Amazonian indigenous community from their territories in order to build a dam and a hydroelectric plant … How can we get the lowest possible price in negotiations with these indigenous people?"
Hello London! I'm in you, searching for a place to rest my head for the next two years. Work update to follow.
Hey thanks! Correct link to report here www.theengineroom.org/library/new-.... I keep meaning to write a little reflection on this (and certainly hope to do more such research in the future).
new article in @europeanlawopen.bsky.social on the concept of systemic risks in the DSA. what does it mean that we think of all kinds of social issues linked to online platforms as 'risks' to be managed? find out this way: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Today the neighbors are blasting ‘Halcyon’ by Orbital, of ‘Hackers’ fame, across the courtyard. I will miss my Berlin soundtrack 😢
