Candida Leone
@candidaleone.bsky.social
Associate Prof of Private Law at Amsterdam Law School. Teaches EU consumer law, worries about climate catastrophe, sometimes writes at the intersection of these two - but also gets distracted more often than not.
I modeled the potential economic and environmental impacts of BAAJA, the permitting bill the Senate will soon vote on. Under assumptions that I consider plausible, BAAJA likely increases domestic greenhouse gas emissions and domestic mortality attributable to air pollution. kevinjkircher.com/baaja/
❌ Italian MEPs Herbert Dorfmann (EPP) and Michele Picaro (Fratelli, ECR) let pesticide lobbyists co-write their report. 😱 They want to ease EU-wide derogations for pesticides already banned - at the request of Bayer and Croplife EU. Read our report here: corporateeurope.org/en/2026/10/f...
Food & Feed Omnibus, co-written by the pesticide lobby | Corporate Europe Observatory
The pesticide lobby’s dirty fingers are all over the EU's Food & Feed Omnibus. Omnibus X is paving the way for the dismantling of EU pesticide regulations by allowing harmful pesticides to remain in u...
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Gemini was quietly incorporated in the google classroom environment of elementary schools in The Netherlands as well, directly in the sheets in which they had to write their (graded) take-home assignments. Want to know more about Genghis Khan, child? Why bother with impossible sources...
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · yesterdayaged poorly
Parents of young kids: Anyone else notice that this year's Amazon toy catalog is suspiciously devoid of prices? I'm curious to know whether this is an algorithmic pricing trick, a price uncertainty hedge, or a just-don't-think-about-how-high-the-prices-have-gotten thing.
In principle this should soon be covered by the #digitalfairnessact. What will come out of the commission’s soon to be released proposal, however, also depends on MS threatening to take bold(er) steps, so this is a development definitely worth keeping an eye on!
People Vs Big Tech@peoplevsbigtech.eurosky.social · 2d agoToday Dutch MP Barbara Kathmann is tabling a new bill to ban addictive social media design in the Netherlands. Big Tech’s business models rely on infinite scroll and autoplay to keep us hooked for profit, and the harm doesn’t stop at 18.
Digital degrowth also claims we need fewer laptops, but ti save resources, not to make more space for billionaires’ man-toddlers and their fossil-imbibed vanity projects!
Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 4d agoGive us your RAM, give us your data, you selfish hoarders. bsky.app/profile/sonj...
What billionaires are doing in California to fight prop 40 is a lot wilder than the Alaska multiple Dan Sullivan thing, which at least had the virtue of being funny.
Lois Beckett@loisbeckett.bsky.social · 5d ago"If there’s an impediment, just buy it.” Opponents of California's billionaire tax tried to kill the ballot measure by PURCHASING THE FIRM THE UNION USED TO COLLECT SIGNATURES, so they would *own the signatures* @darakerr.bsky.social reports. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
You’re totally right, my mistake. Wax is actually the perfect material for fashioning wings because of its high melting point. It’s also relatively elastic and certainly won’t break apart. Would you like to know which feathers to use or can I show you workout videos for flapping your arms?
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 6d agoyou know the myth of Icarus hits different when you realize there had to be people in the story who were like "get it, Icarus!!" "don't let them hold you back!!"
Rekenkamer: het gaat slecht met het veen, terwijl dat Nederland wapent tegen klimaatverandering en biodiversiteit bevordert
Rekenkamer: het gaat slecht met het veen, terwijl dat Nederland wapent tegen klimaatverandering en biodiversiteit bevordert
Het natuurveen in Nederland verkeert in een deplorabele staat, zo rapporteert de Algemene Rekenkamer: slechts in 18 van de 173 onderzochte gebieden gaat het wel goed. Terwijl: „Veen voorkomt CO2-uitstoot en draagt bij aan waterberging, verkoeling én klimaatadaptatie.”
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Fox News’ pro-data centre claims jumped 420% after a GOP memo warned that opposition could cost Republicans at the midterms according to research from @mmfa.bsky.social buff.ly/He0DjPA
Fox News’ pro-data center coverage increased by 420% following sobering GOP memo about data centers and midterms
The volume of pro-data center claims made by Fox News personalities and guests increased 420% after August 18, when the National Republican Senatorial Committee warned in a memo to tech companies…
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Today’s big news is of course Brazil putting off a potential catastrophe, but in terms of sheer hopefulness what the student movement has pulled off in Serbia is just incredible.
Marietje Schaake@marietjeschaake.bsky.social · last wk.Goodmorning! ↘️
Big Oil is literally sponsoring Whitehouse's "climate solution" bill #BAAJA nodirtydatacenterdeal.com
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse@whitehouse.senate.gov · last wk.Big Oil used to pretend climate change wasn’t real – then they pretended they were part of the solution. 🧵
This is true of moot courts as well - with a world on fire, we do not need legal training to reward sophistry and amoral argument over openness and academic rigour.
Jacquelyn Gill@jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 2w agoI used to have an Oxford-style debate assignment in one of my grad classes. As I became increasingly uncomfortable with how “debate” was being used and abused in modern discourse, I replaced it with another assignment. Debate doesn’t usually improve understanding; it rewards semantic chicanery.
This is collective punishment, which is expressly prohibited under Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
Netanyahu: Hebron neighborhood of gunmen in checkpoint attack to be ‘destroyed’
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great piece by @doctorvive.bsky.social "What allies the authoritarian right and the center-left is their commitment to protecting capital above all." www.currentaffairs.org/news/liberal...
Liberals Can't Address the Climate Crisis Because It Means Confronting Capitalism
We have no choice but to take on the fossil fuel industry. Those who won't acknowledge this are peddling fake solutions to climate change.
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it costs $50k to reserve the opportunity to buy the basic model of the jumping car, should it ever be produced. $250k for the premium "thrust" model
🔴 BREAKING - Israeli settlers beat French mayor, attack European diplomatic cars in West Bank
Israeli settlers attack European delegation convoy in West Bank, beat French mayor
Israeli settlers have attacked a convoy carrying a European delegation in the occupied West Bank and beat up a French mayor, witnesses said Saturday.
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Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian olive harvesters in Turmus Ayya, near Ramallah, injuring several people, including American journalist Heidi Levine, and setting fire to cars and olive trees. Israeli army on the scene shot one Palestinian in the leg. Oren Ziv reports @mekomit.bsky.social
The Palestinians routinely victimized by settlers should be no less important but it’s hard to miss here that the photojournalist a bunch of them savagely beat is named Heidi Levine — almost certainly an American Jew. The story says she’s a 64 years old woman Staggering levels of impunity
Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · 3w agoIsraeli settlers attacked Palestinians harvesting olives and severely beat Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine.
By the very medieval standards that seem to be in vogue in the US right now, should Christa Pike not be de iure up for release now?
Hier is te weinig verontwaardiging over dus ik gooi hem er nog een keer in. De vuurwerkbranche wordt gecompenseerd (!) met 80 miljoen die voor spooronderhoud was bedoeld en 20 miljoen uit de klimaatpot. WTF. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.
The Verge@theverge.com · 4w agoOver the past year, Anthropic has repeatedly flirted with the idea that its AI models could be conscious in some way. In February, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said on a podcast, “We don’t know if the models are conscious.”
It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.
Elon, whose genAI is the world's largest distributor of CSAM, has essentially infinite money to throw at evading any kind of consequences for producing and distributing more CSAM than any human in history.
Reuters Legal@legal.reuters.com · last mo.Elon Musk's xAI on Friday persuaded a US federal appeals court to halt Minnesota's first-in-the-nation ban on AI-generated fake nude images as the technology and social media company pursues a lawsuit alleging that the law is unconstitutional.
Firmato da lontano, cruciale anche dal punto di vista della libertà accademica come già visto in US e altrove!
Mario Ricciardi@marioricciardi.bsky.social · last mo.Segnalo questa petizione, cui aderisco, contro l'adozione di una legge sull'antisemitismo che accoglie la definizione IHRA: www.change.org/p/antisemiti...
