AI-driven inflation is 2026's most overlooked risk, investors say For 2026, waves of government stimulus as well as the AI boom are expected to refuel global growth.

Except, hang on, we're also being told the complete opposite.

Beyond the hype: Feminists Tackle AI panel
Speakers challenge assumptions about Artificial Intelligence

By Emily Torrance - April 19, 2026

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And no they do not tell us anything about human language acquisition, processing, or production. Go away psycholinguists who say this (I am a psycholinguist). Some neural network models are informative. LLMs are not because they were never designed to be.

Why are we aiming for the homogenisation of creativity? Especially in universities. Using an LLM for any aspect of my research takes the creativity out of it (yes it's possible to be creative and objective at the same time) and would be hugely disrespectful to my participants. And unethical.

'I vigorously dispute that I asked the so-called Equality and Human Rights Commission not to totally do trans people over' is quite the message from a Labour Party that has completely lost the plot.

Tradwife movement ‘attracts men who are hostile to women’ The strongest predictor of support for women staying at home and deferring to their husband is not, as researchers expected, chivalry but ‘hostile sexism’

"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women"

Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds?
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And there is the wider question here of using a “tool” (which is not what it is) built on theft, which neither of you really address in the article. Whether he got the LLM to write the review from scratch or not really isn’t the point here.

These were my same thoughts, Andrew. And I’m not sure that writers who live hand to mouth would appreciate the implication that someone who writes solely for pleasure is somehow more personally invested. The planing away of wider structural issues here is what baffles me.

Oh neat now it's undeniable that I criticize art more thoughtfully than people paid by the times to do so and yet somehow that feels like anything but a positive development in any sense

This looks so great!

I’ve been saying this for the last year or so — they are working from the same playbooks and it’s frightening.

i was talking with someone in their 60s who will not be voting labour for the first time ever in may

they seemed not just upset but shaken by their own decision - leadership is destroying very old, very deep bonds here

I’ll be sharing more information about the exhibition as it takes shape and as we finalise the list of artists involved; in the meantime, enjoy some washing machines and garbage.

(And of course, these are dedicated to La Mamma, w/out whom none of my work would be possible). 5/

There comes a point when words fail, particularly when you have been studying a subject for so long it haunts your dreams,&when its political legacies have become too much to bear.

This, I guess, is what happens at that point. 4/

These 2 works, “See No Damage,”& “(particulars gladly given on request),” juxtapose materials from my archive w/those from my mother (waste artist &domestic space studies scholar Chiara Briganti)’s collection of images of the waste & refugee crises. They’re inspired by her waste art practice. 3/

The exhibition seeks to highlight the iconography of domestic hygiene’s own role in amplifying the gendered, white supremacist, classist, and imperialist values undergirding the environmental crisis, refugee crisis, widening class inequality, resurgence of white nationalism, and so on. 2/

These are my first two archive-based collages for the Cleaning Through Crisis exhibition— the culmination of a British Academy/Leverhulme-funded project on the influence of socio-political upheaval on British and U.S. domestic hygiene ads. 1/

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This thread.

God, it’s never-ending.

New NHS England Review Excluded 97% Of All Trans Studies To Say Care Doesn't Work | Erin Reed A new NHS England Review excluded 97% of all trans care studies to conclude that trans youth care doesn't work. It explicitly violates several guidelines around reviewing literature, and appears to b...

Policy-based evidence-making again.

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It’s one of the relatively quiet tragedies of our social form that we have somehow created a system that dangles the possibility for an impassioned meaningful life on the other side of a random number generator job lottery meat-grinder

Man, one of the most depressing aspects of modern scholarship is finding a great article and then looking up the scholar to see what else they’ve done and just catching a glimpse of an abbreviated career hopping between visiting positions and publishing great pieces before disappearing from academia

When WeWork lost 1.9 billion in 2018, I said “Give the humanities a chance to lose two billion dollars. See what we could do.”

200 billion? Just imagine.

Well, and what did you have to say for yourself? Enquiring minds want to know!

Dozens of ‘New York Times’ Journalists Hit Staff Union for Its Defense of Trans Coverage Criticism Some of the paper’s top reporters signed a letter objecting to the Guild’s response to newsroom leaders. “We ask that our union work to advance, not erode, our journalistic independence,” they wrote.

Peters (who has previously written that Elon Musk's politics are hard to figure out and that Virginia soccer moms who want to ban Toni Morrison are not racist), organized the NYT letter slamming its union for saying NYT's trans coverage is bigoted
www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/02...

Took me a while to get this 🤣🤣.

We've screamed on behalf of our neighbors.

The people in Iran might not live next door, but they're just as human as we are. We must scream and show up for them too, in whatever ways we are able.

They have been given the same bottled lightning we all have access to and pointed at the most dehumanizing use cases to ever be invented. None of them are coding a Sistine Chapel, they are building a thinner edge for the wedge we keep pressing on the social contract.

I’m not going to be hyped because the same urge that keeps me up late working on an arrangement or a song’s mix has been deformed into the practices of spreadsheet keepers with automated interns