Finally: the United States sanctions Israeli officials for their ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.

And by that I mean the United States sanctions the United Nations Human Rights Council special rapporteur Francesca Albanese for criticising and calling for an end to Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.

“Are we the baddies?”

What a silly question. When did you stop?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70rllxr0kyo

#israel #unitedStates #USA #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank

New paper accepted at #FAccT2025, led by Jake Stein @jmlstein and me, "Not Even Nice Work If You Can Get It; A Longitudinal Study of Uber's Algorithmic Pay and Pricing" arxiv.org/abs/2506.15278

Over the last 3 years, we've been working with Worker Info Exchange to audit Uber's algorithms.

We analysed 1.5m trips, before/after dynamic pricing intro'd in 2023, and found:

- customer fares per hour are up £32.82 to £43.50
- driver pay per hour fell from £22.20 to £19.06 ...

The best LLM for education? Widely advertised "open" solutions like Llama are open in weights only, providing no access to training code or to the all-important instruction-tuning data. What to use instead?

https://osai-index.eu/guides/open-llms-education