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Don't filter your email based on AI detection: Pangram’s Gmail integration invites you to treat AI-assisted writing as spam

The Age of Reason Is Safely Behind Us: On Anthropic’s “defenses against distillation”

Journalist Peter Oborne on 25 years of Media Lens.

Accurate AI reporting deemed ‘woke’: The backlash against AP’s style guide, and why it’s wrong. New blog post: blog.keyvan.net/p/accurate-a...

Tim Dillon's advice for Ed Sheeran 😄

I despair at the state of journalism around AI these days. The latest story is about Gemini, Google's AI model, "autonomously" hacking three companies. My latest blog post: blog.keyvan.net/p/ai-models-...

The UK's Labour government is so authoritarian it declared Palestine Action a terrorist organisation (for opposing genocide) a year before Trump did.

AI text watermarking and quality loss

If you need an indication of how divorced the ‘mainstream’ media is from reality, consider this: the possibility of at least 4 billion deaths resulting from 3 degrees Celsius of global warming by 2050 made barely a dent in news headlines. medialens.substack.com/p/4-billion-...

New blog post: AI stigma punishes legitimate use More thoughts on AI writing, detection

Forgot to post this one the other day. I know Bluesky users in general love AI, so I think most of you will enjoy this: daringfireball.net/2026/08/follow…

A lot has been said recently about watermarking plain text, which allow AI labs to act as AI detectors. And there are already non-watermark ways of detecting AI output (e.g. Pangram). I think all of these are a bad idea. blog.keyvan.net/p/ai-detecto...

Inspired by @gruber.foo's recent piece I made a simplified, interactive demo of the text watermarking approach AI labs are adopting. watermarking.mochi.is

It’s unacceptable for a tool to sacrifice an iota of clarity, coherence, meaning, quality, etc. for the purpose of embedding hidden clues within the text to suggest its provenance. daringfireball.net/2026/08/anthro…

"The reality is that a ruthless propaganda war is being waged against the survival of human civilisation in the name of short-term greed." Media Lens on how manufactured confusion has produced a dangerous mix of climate denial and apathy: medialens.substack.com/p/invitation...

How To Create A Custom News Feed Free From Algorithm Manipulation Today the Twitter algorithm served me up a bunch of Zionist tweets from accounts I’ve never followed, right at the top of my “For You” feed. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/how-to-cre...

Media Lens: ‘Starmageddon’ – The Anti-Polanski Smear Campaign That Ate Itself www.medialens.org/2026/starmag...

If you can get to Brussels on June 6th, I can highly recommend this conference - the London and Barcelona events were fantastic! brussels2026.techforpalestine.org

Our new media alert is now available: Media Myopia As We Hurtle Towards Climate Oblivion medialens.substack.com/p/media-myop...

"Just imagine if Palestine had razed the whole of Israel to the ground, killing 100,000s, injuring and traumatising literally millions – and the BBC made the return of 20 Palestinian captives their continuous, highest profile focus." More here from Media Lens: medialens.substack.com/p/reversing-...

Really looking forward to being able to use PHP 8.4's new HTML parser rather than HTML5-PHP! https://blog.keyvan.net/p/parsing-html-with-php-84 #php

Being doing #PHP a long time, so this "Parsing HTML with PHP 8.4" looks cool: "A look at the new HTML5 parser, #CSS selector support, and new DOM classes." blog.keyvan.net/p/parsing-ht...