big night for online safety

Start of term is their breeding season

ChatGPT, announcing the new contract between OpenAI and the UK government via its avatars Peter Kyle and Sam Altman

The cat is their mother in disguise

In retrospect, it is very easy to regret drawing the world's attention to the sex trafficking ring you were part of. But at the time,

Glasto

Parliament did it. I'm just amazed it took spiked this long to make an attempt at performative misunderstanding

Dworkin was right about positivism

My first book is out on 27 May with @mitpress.bsky.social. It offers a media history of the power to intercept communications in Britain from the foundation of the Post Office to the (near) present, and the changing relationship between law, sovereignty, and media.

Bring back common sense

Current state of the e-bike economy: uninsurable unless locked up securely indoors because they get stolen so frequently; banned from indoor lock ups because they explode so frequently

One thing I've recently learned is that when you see authors posting "Proofs done!" (with a photo of the proofs) it's because the publisher's marketing department suggested they do it. Proofs done!

Žižek appears to have been churning them out so quickly that he's overtaken the Georgian calendar