Dan
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Thanks to the Guardian, BBC News and the Telegraph for amending their reports saying research showed screen time damages toddlers’ language skills.
(The study showed a correlation between screen time and smaller vocabulary, but not that one *caused* the other.)
(The study showed a correlation between screen time and smaller vocabulary, but not that one *caused* the other.)
Government research doesn’t prove screen time ‘damages’ toddlers’ speech – Full Fact
A study found a correlation between very high screen time and lower vocabulary in two-year-olds, but it didn’t say that one caused the other.
fullfact.org
January 15, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Thanks to the Guardian, BBC News and the Telegraph for amending their reports saying research showed screen time damages toddlers’ language skills.
(The study showed a correlation between screen time and smaller vocabulary, but not that one *caused* the other.)
(The study showed a correlation between screen time and smaller vocabulary, but not that one *caused* the other.)
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When psychologists mislead us as.ft.com/r/ef98fc45-6...
When psychologists mislead us
[FREE TO READ] From Piltdown Man to the Stanford prison experiment, many famous scientific discoveries have been exposed as hoaxes or distortions
as.ft.com
January 14, 2026 at 7:25 AM
When psychologists mislead us as.ft.com/r/ef98fc45-6...
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Meme going around here that the Grok policy change (around only generating images when @ed by a paid user) was a “hallucination”. It wasn’t, it’s a real policy change; the misreporting is that this does NOT limit free users from generating images using other interfaces for Grok, such as its app.
January 10, 2026 at 9:49 AM
Meme going around here that the Grok policy change (around only generating images when @ed by a paid user) was a “hallucination”. It wasn’t, it’s a real policy change; the misreporting is that this does NOT limit free users from generating images using other interfaces for Grok, such as its app.
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The widely reported statement about restricting the feature to subscribers was a hallucinatory answer by the AI Grok - not a statement by the company itself
In case you've seen the story about “grok now only generates images for paid users”, it's untrue. Apparently everyone just reported it because… it was what grok told them 🤦🏼
www.theverge.com/news/859309/...
www.theverge.com/news/859309/...
No, Grok hasn’t paywalled its deepfake image feature
X’s sexual deepfake machine is still running, despite Grok saying otherwise.
www.theverge.com
January 9, 2026 at 6:15 PM
The widely reported statement about restricting the feature to subscribers was a hallucinatory answer by the AI Grok - not a statement by the company itself
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Just seen Grok putting the body of the victim of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis into a bikini. Digital corpse desecration now available to the public.
January 8, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Just seen Grok putting the body of the victim of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis into a bikini. Digital corpse desecration now available to the public.
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I’m a Quaker and one of my favourite extracts from Quaker Faith and Practice is: “think it possible that you may be mistaken”.
It’s humbling to admit that we were wrong. But better to experience that discomfort instead of forcing damaging ideologies onto the world.
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It’s humbling to admit that we were wrong. But better to experience that discomfort instead of forcing damaging ideologies onto the world.
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January 7, 2026 at 2:35 PM
I’m a Quaker and one of my favourite extracts from Quaker Faith and Practice is: “think it possible that you may be mistaken”.
It’s humbling to admit that we were wrong. But better to experience that discomfort instead of forcing damaging ideologies onto the world.
1/6
It’s humbling to admit that we were wrong. But better to experience that discomfort instead of forcing damaging ideologies onto the world.
1/6
Looks like I picked the right month (the end of November) to quit X (formerly twitter)
January 6, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Looks like I picked the right month (the end of November) to quit X (formerly twitter)
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Lord am I tempted. Especially if, it reaches 100k signatures, they’ll hopefully have to debate it in the commons…
(If you want to support, DM me your e-Mail address.
(If you want to support, DM me your e-Mail address.
January 5, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Lord am I tempted. Especially if, it reaches 100k signatures, they’ll hopefully have to debate it in the commons…
(If you want to support, DM me your e-Mail address.
(If you want to support, DM me your e-Mail address.
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Most confusing genre these days - viral blogposts critical of AI which are themselves clearly written by AI.
January 4, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Most confusing genre these days - viral blogposts critical of AI which are themselves clearly written by AI.
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Keir Starmer’s voice just makes me imagine an episode of Rainbow where there’s a visit from Zippy’s nerdy cousin (same puppet but with glasses)
January 1, 2026 at 11:49 AM
Keir Starmer’s voice just makes me imagine an episode of Rainbow where there’s a visit from Zippy’s nerdy cousin (same puppet but with glasses)
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New YouGov research for ippr finds that civic conceptions of being British are held by most people, with a third prioritising birthplace. Reform voters are outliers, against the general public view, weighting ancestry and ethnicity more highly
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Number of people who say Britons must be born in UK is rising, study shows
Exclusive: Research finds ‘worrying’ surge in support for hard-right narratives on national identity
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 9:41 PM
New YouGov research for ippr finds that civic conceptions of being British are held by most people, with a third prioritising birthplace. Reform voters are outliers, against the general public view, weighting ancestry and ethnicity more highly
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Why yes, there is a reason I'm on here when I'm not usually.
March 10, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Why yes, there is a reason I'm on here when I'm not usually.