Syrian Response
Syrian Response (English) is now on X, as highlighted by the New Arab’s article (below). No sign of it on BlueSky. I haven’t checked elsewhere yet. The New Arab,...
UAE AI Design Guide
AI is increasingly integrated into administration in the UAE, which presumably incorporates further religious elements and issues within certain organisations … “Mohammed Rashid bin Talia, assistant minister of cabinet...
‘AI Ghosts’
“Who you gonna call?” This looks like a case for Ghostbusters… In all seriousness, this is a major issue for all of us engaged in ‘academic‘ publishing, which is...
Eman el-Shazly detention
There is a YouTube/social media element to this case, hence its inclusion here:
AI “bias”
Eglė Krištopaitytė, Cybernews, “I’m alone with a Catholic:” experiment reveals inherent AI biases, 26 Aug 2026 “Sune Selsbæk-Reitz, a tech philosopher and author of Promptism, has joined a trend of...
Taliban and Smartphones
There’s a comment on smartphones in this: “Tapping on an old-style mobile with a tiny screen, he [governor of Jawzjan province, Abdullah Sarhadi] says a recent ban on smartphones...