@lucydarling.bsky.social
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AI Astroturfing is here
October 27, 2025 at 2:58 AM
AI Astroturfing is here
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I've been working with Demos to turn the Verification, Deliberation, and Accountability (VDA) Framework into a report that lays out how it can be used to diagnose the state of democracy and build solutions around building the capacity for those functions in institutional and public spaces.
🧵 Across the world, democracy isn’t just under pressure, it’s facing epistemic collapse: a breakdown in the shared ability to know what’s true, to reason together and to hold power to account.
A new guest paper by @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @drnataliemartin.bsky.social explores how to fix it.
A new guest paper by @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @drnataliemartin.bsky.social explores how to fix it.
Verification, Deliberation, Accountability: A new framework for tackling epistemic collapse and renewing democracy
Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank. We produce original research, publish innovative thinkers and host thought-provoking events.
demos.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I've been working with Demos to turn the Verification, Deliberation, and Accountability (VDA) Framework into a report that lays out how it can be used to diagnose the state of democracy and build solutions around building the capacity for those functions in institutional and public spaces.
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⁉️ How are polluting industries using digital tools to block climate action?
I had a stab at an answer in Tactical Tech's latest publication "The RePlaybook"
– a toolkit to decode disinfo challenge tech's divisive hold over climate comms, with contributions from 30+ authors in this space
I had a stab at an answer in Tactical Tech's latest publication "The RePlaybook"
– a toolkit to decode disinfo challenge tech's divisive hold over climate comms, with contributions from 30+ authors in this space
The RePlaybook: A Field Guide to the Climate and Information Crisis
The Replaybook is the first-of-its-kind practical toolkit designed to equip communicators, campaigners, journalists, and researchers with fresh tools for navigating complexity and strengthening climat...
tacticaltech.org
September 23, 2025 at 7:41 AM
⁉️ How are polluting industries using digital tools to block climate action?
I had a stab at an answer in Tactical Tech's latest publication "The RePlaybook"
– a toolkit to decode disinfo challenge tech's divisive hold over climate comms, with contributions from 30+ authors in this space
I had a stab at an answer in Tactical Tech's latest publication "The RePlaybook"
– a toolkit to decode disinfo challenge tech's divisive hold over climate comms, with contributions from 30+ authors in this space
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And literally four days later from this story Open AI admits what we all know to he true.
That when a model generates bullshit, that’s no flaw, that’s just how it works.
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
That when a model generates bullshit, that’s no flaw, that’s just how it works.
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
September 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
And literally four days later from this story Open AI admits what we all know to he true.
That when a model generates bullshit, that’s no flaw, that’s just how it works.
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
That when a model generates bullshit, that’s no flaw, that’s just how it works.
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
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President Johnson, in a November 9, 1968 letter to the Smothers Brothers:
“It is part of the price of leadership of this great and free nation to be the target of clever satirists . . . May we never grow so somber or self-important that we fail to appreciate the humor in our lives.”
“It is part of the price of leadership of this great and free nation to be the target of clever satirists . . . May we never grow so somber or self-important that we fail to appreciate the humor in our lives.”
September 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
President Johnson, in a November 9, 1968 letter to the Smothers Brothers:
“It is part of the price of leadership of this great and free nation to be the target of clever satirists . . . May we never grow so somber or self-important that we fail to appreciate the humor in our lives.”
“It is part of the price of leadership of this great and free nation to be the target of clever satirists . . . May we never grow so somber or self-important that we fail to appreciate the humor in our lives.”
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@bellingcat.com CEO @eliothiggins.bsky.social discusses his thoughts on how democracy needs verification, deliberation, and accountability and how social media algorithms disrupt those elements.
From the Democracy for Sale podcast.
youtu.be/7si0HCTyr1Y
From the Democracy for Sale podcast.
youtu.be/7si0HCTyr1Y
Bellingcat CEO Eliot Higgins on how democracy needs verification, deliberation, & accountability
YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit
youtu.be
September 19, 2025 at 3:52 PM
@bellingcat.com CEO @eliothiggins.bsky.social discusses his thoughts on how democracy needs verification, deliberation, and accountability and how social media algorithms disrupt those elements.
From the Democracy for Sale podcast.
youtu.be/7si0HCTyr1Y
From the Democracy for Sale podcast.
youtu.be/7si0HCTyr1Y
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Amphetamine psychosis is probably a good comparison: a lot of people are susceptible, but most will never have a chance to find out. Except in our world suddenly meth is on shelves at 7-11, the media is flooded with hype for how productive it'll make you, and every new TV comes with a box.
September 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Amphetamine psychosis is probably a good comparison: a lot of people are susceptible, but most will never have a chance to find out. Except in our world suddenly meth is on shelves at 7-11, the media is flooded with hype for how productive it'll make you, and every new TV comes with a box.
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"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream
The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.
www.insidehighered.com
September 19, 2025 at 10:24 AM
"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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This seems like a big deal - free help to deal with harassment for journalists and researchers! From @righttobe.bsky.social, the awesome folks who do those bystander intervention trainings. Check it out!
Incredibly timely news, journalist/researcher friends:
@righttobe.bsky.social just launched Expert Voices Together - a FREE service that helps journalists and researchers who are being intimidated/harassed!
Check it out at expertvoicestogether.org !
@righttobe.bsky.social just launched Expert Voices Together - a FREE service that helps journalists and researchers who are being intimidated/harassed!
Check it out at expertvoicestogether.org !
September 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
This seems like a big deal - free help to deal with harassment for journalists and researchers! From @righttobe.bsky.social, the awesome folks who do those bystander intervention trainings. Check it out!
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When Musk denies that he did a big ol Nazi salute during the inauguration, remember this, from Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944.
January 20, 2025 at 8:22 PM
When Musk denies that he did a big ol Nazi salute during the inauguration, remember this, from Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944.
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Anybody keen to buy 25 footy fields above Sydney's Northern Beaches for a lazy $2m? Too late, you missed out! It's gone to a mystery buyer.
#whatsthescam #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/big-sydney-b...
#whatsthescam #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/big-sydney-b...
Sydney beaches property expensive? Pfft, dirt cheap! - Michael West
Anybody keen to buy 25 footy fields of land overlooking Sydney's Northern Beaches for a lazy $2m? Too late, you missed out! It's gone to a mystery buyer.
michaelwest.com.au
January 13, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Anybody keen to buy 25 footy fields above Sydney's Northern Beaches for a lazy $2m? Too late, you missed out! It's gone to a mystery buyer.
#whatsthescam #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/big-sydney-b...
#whatsthescam #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/big-sydney-b...
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Remember, companies don’t make things anymore. They used to make things and money. Now they have so successfully excised the expensive part where they have to actually do something that they’re left with no way to Create Shareholder Value except rent-seeking. This+. That Premium.
January 13, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Remember, companies don’t make things anymore. They used to make things and money. Now they have so successfully excised the expensive part where they have to actually do something that they’re left with no way to Create Shareholder Value except rent-seeking. This+. That Premium.
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look if we were killing the biosphere to animate more pictures of Wario with a dump truck butt i would consider that worthwhile. the problem is that AI has little utility outside of fat Wario ass pics
January 12, 2025 at 3:19 AM
look if we were killing the biosphere to animate more pictures of Wario with a dump truck butt i would consider that worthwhile. the problem is that AI has little utility outside of fat Wario ass pics
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I don't know how to get across to people that you cannot stop these fires once they get going with 80+ mph winds behind them. it can't be done. this is not solvable.
On the other hand “how can the city be so ill-prepared for a fire like this” BECAUSE IT IS A NEW KIND OF FIRE. CLIMATE CHANGE IS MAKING THINGS WORSE FASTER THAN WE CAN PREPARE. “Where is city leadership” then one second later “LAFD and amber alerts told us to evacuate” … that is city leadership babe
January 11, 2025 at 7:56 AM
I don't know how to get across to people that you cannot stop these fires once they get going with 80+ mph winds behind them. it can't be done. this is not solvable.
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after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"
January 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"
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As we witness these heartbreaking scenes from the fires in LA, an important reminder that incarcerated people make up over 30% of California’s forest firefighters.
30 percent of California's forest firefighters are prisoners
About 4,000 inmates battle blazes in the Golden State's woodlands.
www.motherjones.com
January 8, 2025 at 6:41 AM
As we witness these heartbreaking scenes from the fires in LA, an important reminder that incarcerated people make up over 30% of California’s forest firefighters.
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Detailed in series of replies below: bsky.app/profile/anti...
1. My team first exposed Matryoshka on X/Twitter in Jan 2024 (as reported with AFP, EFE, SVT and others). Our findings were later corroborated by VIGINUM, CheckFirst / ResetTech and other researchers.
January 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Detailed in series of replies below: bsky.app/profile/anti...
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I wrote about incarcerated firefighters for Bitch Magazine a decade ago, and while some of the facts have changed (including California's increased criminalization and 'enhanced sentencing'), a lot of this piece holds up.
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January 8, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I wrote about incarcerated firefighters for Bitch Magazine a decade ago, and while some of the facts have changed (including California's increased criminalization and 'enhanced sentencing'), a lot of this piece holds up.
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This is the largest smart yard display I've seen in several years of CES's. Given the news today all I could think about was the batteries in these little drones detonating like baby IEDs as fire swept over the grass.
January 9, 2025 at 1:31 AM
This is the largest smart yard display I've seen in several years of CES's. Given the news today all I could think about was the batteries in these little drones detonating like baby IEDs as fire swept over the grass.
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I think it’s time to bring my most viral tweet over from the bad place.
January 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I think it’s time to bring my most viral tweet over from the bad place.