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Cris van Eijk

@crisveijk.bsky.social

International law, the (space) commons, and how they're made. PhD @newcastleuni.bsky.social | 🇺🇸🇳🇱🏳️‍🌈 | 🔊: krɪs van aɪk | he/him https://www.ncl.ac.uk/law/study/research/students/current-pgr-students/cristian-van-eijk/

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Cris van Eijk@crisveijk.bsky.social · 3d ago

The claim of "it was unfair & wrong for the govt to enact lockdowns on us for being *potential* threats to others" comes directly from those forcing innocent people into administrative detention -with exponentially worse conditions than we faced - solely because of their purported risk to others.

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 3d ago

Please stop saying “lockdowns.” There were never true lockdowns in the US, and it fuels far right narratives to repeat this inaccurate statement. You can say closures, you can say restrictions, or better, you can say public health measures which saved many lives.

Cris van Eijk@crisveijk.bsky.social · 3d ago

The "covid restrictions went too far" discourse and "cancel culture went too far" rhyme. For all they talk of govt 'overreach' of individual rights (& ignore the contextual need to balance them w/ rights of others), what they're actually angry about are misfired private interventions in response.

Cris van Eijk@crisveijk.bsky.social · 5d ago

Unfortunately, this marks the umpteenth instance of a US critical national security infrastructure which *also* limits the wider world's reliable access to earth imagery. opiniojuris.org/2023/02/08/s...

Symposium on Fairness, Equality, and Diversity in Open Source Investigations: Earth Imagery’s Colonial Legacy

[Cris van Eijk is an international lawyer researching what it means to make space ‘common’, and how international law works to effect that. He holds a BA and LLM in International Law fr…

opiniojuris.org

Laurie Voss@seldo.com · 5d ago

I think one question one should ask oneself before launching a feature like "generate fake satellite imagery" is "does this have any legitimate use-cases?" Everybody who approved this stupid feature should be fired. www.npr.org/2026/07/31/n...

Cris van Eijk@crisveijk.bsky.social · last wk.

@clairq.bsky.social lmao, so, just non sequitur, but on the subject of Tuvix and discourses... here, have a screenshot of a 1 Oct 1962 review of Silent Spring. I've been thinking about it a lot this week. You've just invited me to a needed 5min break from thesis writing to find the image, tyvm 🫡

1 of 2 pages of a review of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, by Prof William Darby of Vanderbilt, writing in Chemical & Engineering News. Full text at: https://shipseducation.net/pesticides/library/darby1962.htm
vsamsondc.bsky.social@vsamsondc.bsky.social · last wk.

"A 2024 study found that after one launch every single monitored shorebird nest near the launch site suffered egg damage or loss." biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

Emergency Injunction Sought to Protect Texas Wildlife Refuge From SpaceX

Center for Biological Diversity: BROWNSVILLE, Texas— Conservation and Tribal groups today asked a federal judge to halt a deal that would privatize and hand over 727 acres of public land in the Lower ...

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Cris van Eijk@crisveijk.bsky.social · last wk.

Anyway, time to reread Wrath Goddess Sing - where the foreigners are cultured, and fury is complex, and the women have agency (and also weapons). Maybe Songs of Penelope after….?

Amal El-Mohtar@amalelmohtar.com · last wk.

I really loved Wilson's essay! It reminded me of things about The Odyssey that I'd forgotten & which enriched my experience of the film! I disagree with some of its points & find that *exciting*, because it's helping me sharpen my own thinking about it through the lens of her expertise!

Amal El-Mohtar@amalelmohtar.com · last wk.

I can't help but wonder if the "she should be grateful" responses to Wilson's review come from a(n understandable) scarcity mindset wrt criticism? We have so few outlets for it that every review must justify its existence with reference to a net good & only dole out praise or punishment accordingly?

Cris van Eijk@crisveijk.bsky.social · last wk.

I’m sure Nolan did magical things with IMAX cameras & film angles that Wilson doesn’t even compliment. Instead, she focuses on the choices involved in who gets to be a person, whose violence is wrong, whose suffering is abhorrent, who gets to matter, & which worlds that builds. … Read the room.

Jessica Ellis@baddestmamajama.bsky.social · last wk.

Oh did a female academic with an extensive history of study and practice in a particular area of literature make a reasoned critique of a male filmmaker’s movie? I’m sure this will be handled with maximum normality.

Amal El-Mohtar@amalelmohtar.com · last wk.

I think it's absolutely good & fine for people to disagree with the essay's points but it is baffling to see complaints like "Wilson doesn't get that an adaptation makes changes" or "Wilson doesn't get cinema" or "Wilson should be more polite & gracious," like come on friends what are we doing here!

Amal El-Mohtar@amalelmohtar.com · last wk.

I actually earnestly love that everyone's talking about The Odyssey & translations & adaptations & cinema, & talking about the ways in which we discuss those things; I love seeing thoughtful people thinking together in public, building on each other's knowledge & perspectives! however,

Sergey Vasiliev@sevslv.bsky.social · last wk.

Chad's reference to the ICC's 'focus on Africa' is contrived and conceals the real reason for announcing its withdrawal: enforcing the Empire's demand, secured through coercion, that the ICC be confined to situations in Africa and that impunity of US & its allies endures. #Israel

Cris van Eijk@crisveijk.bsky.social · last wk.

This isn’t a ‘roast’, a ‘hatchet job’, or ‘unfair’. Emily Wilson has spent 16yrs dedicated to the specific challenge of adapting Homer. She is among the most qualified people alive for the task of evaluating the *choices* made in this one. The movie will make $1b this week; it’ll be just fine.

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · last wk.

‘Nolan has read at least the first line of my translation of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘺 into iambic pentameter. In one interview, he cited my version of it: “Tell me about a complicated man.” But I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script.’ New, by Emily Wilson www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Dr Anke Marsh@ankemarsh.bsky.social · 3w ago

Maybe don’t read through this thread just before going to bed like me. But do read it. Informative and horrifying in equal parts I’m now going to look at capybara and kitten photos

Stephen Schwartz@atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 3w ago

This morning in 1945—at 5:29 AM (Mountain War Time)—about 35 miles southeast of Socorro, New Mexico, the nuclear age began with a big bang. Contrary to later widespread assumptions, the area surrounding the remote TRINITY test site was not uninhabited, and the fallout did not drift away harmlessly.

A black and white, high-speed photograph of the Trinity explosion at 0.025 seconds, showing what looks like a very large, slightly irregular bubble with a curtain of dust all around its bottom edge against a pitch dark sky. A scale indicating “100 meters” shows that the fireball was already approximately three times that size.
Chris Simms@chrisnsimms.bsky.social · 3w ago

A mathematical formula inscribed on a wall at the Maya site of Xultun in Guatemala has revealed the name of an important Maya mathematician-astronomer for the first time. And the person was called Sak Tahn Waax, or ‘White-Chested Fox’. 🧪 🏺 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Mathematics formula found on Maya wall rivals insights of ancient masters

Mathematical texts from a Maya site in Guatemala identify an astronomer called Sak Tahn Waax.

nature.com

Cris van Eijk@crisveijk.bsky.social · 3w ago

The cool thought this just sparked in my head is that if you swap ‘techno-‘ with ‘legal-’ (aka if you parse law as a form of technology) this still applies beautifully.

Mallory Moore@sexabolition.blog · 3w ago

Not to rehabilitate horseshoe theory, but the thing uniting technopessimism with techno-optimism is, more or less, technomysticism. To have beliefs that tech can somehow, unmoored from human agents who make it, be a force for either good or evil requires a view of technology bordering on magic.

Rose Norah@bubblegumpunk.bsky.social · 4w ago

But if we want to talk about the politics of it all, it should be noted that the ahistoricity of the argument is the same ahistoricity we see in conservative discourses everywhere. Think for example of the idea that transness is a new-fangled thing (and thus must be dis- bsky.app/profile/cris...

Cris van Eijk@crisveijk.bsky.social · 4w ago

A Policy Exchange report claims the ICJ is "transforming UNCLOS into something which it was never intended to be", as GHG emissions "seem very different from the kinds of pollution States Parties had in mind in 1982". This is an unsourced, ahistorical claim refuted by even US records. Embarrassing.

A quote from a recent report by Policy Exchange, a Conservative thinktank purporting to analyse international law. https://policyexchange.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Litigating-Climate-Change.pdf "Renegotiate UNCLOS This is perhaps the most ambitious of our proposals. UNCLOS resulted from a decades-long effort by the international community to codify the law of the sea. On the whole it has been a success for participating States. However, the ICJ through the Climate Change Advisory Opinion has implicitly invited claimant States to invoke UNCLOS in suits for alleged injuries arising from climate change, a development that risks transforming UNCLOS into something which it was never intended to be and delegitimizing the Convention in the eyes of many States party. Therefore, we recommend that, in concert with peer States, the United Kingdom launch an effort to clarify the ambit of UNCLOS in climate matters and to prevent the compulsory dispute settlement mechanisms in UNCLOS from being used to adjudicate matters which exceed the Convention’s scope. Otherwise, the ICJ’s implicit invitation to litigants to avail themselves of UNCLOS and the litigation opportunities afforded by Part XV, section 2, of the Convention will be taken up with great enthusiasm, with unfortunate results."
Cris van Eijk@crisveijk.bsky.social · 4w ago

I’ve spent 6 years researching another version of this claim - that the concept of environment was either unthinkable or intentionally excluded by the Outer Space Treaty in *1967*. It’s not a legal claim, but a historical one, never evidenced. This attempts to extend that to *1982*.

Cris van Eijk@crisveijk.bsky.social · 4w ago

A Policy Exchange report claims the ICJ is "transforming UNCLOS into something which it was never intended to be", as GHG emissions "seem very different from the kinds of pollution States Parties had in mind in 1982". This is an unsourced, ahistorical claim refuted by even US records. Embarrassing.

A quote from a recent report by Policy Exchange, a Conservative thinktank purporting to analyse international law. https://policyexchange.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Litigating-Climate-Change.pdf "Renegotiate UNCLOS This is perhaps the most ambitious of our proposals. UNCLOS resulted from a decades-long effort by the international community to codify the law of the sea. On the whole it has been a success for participating States. However, the ICJ through the Climate Change Advisory Opinion has implicitly invited claimant States to invoke UNCLOS in suits for alleged injuries arising from climate change, a development that risks transforming UNCLOS into something which it was never intended to be and delegitimizing the Convention in the eyes of many States party. Therefore, we recommend that, in concert with peer States, the United Kingdom launch an effort to clarify the ambit of UNCLOS in climate matters and to prevent the compulsory dispute settlement mechanisms in UNCLOS from being used to adjudicate matters which exceed the Convention’s scope. Otherwise, the ICJ’s implicit invitation to litigants to avail themselves of UNCLOS and the litigation opportunities afforded by Part XV, section 2, of the Convention will be taken up with great enthusiasm, with unfortunate results."
Paolo Sandro@paolosandro.bsky.social · 4w ago

This is the quality of the 'report' written by the three self-avowed 'leading legal academics' bsky.app/profile/cris...

Cris van Eijk@crisveijk.bsky.social · 4w ago

A Policy Exchange report claims the ICJ is "transforming UNCLOS into something which it was never intended to be", as GHG emissions "seem very different from the kinds of pollution States Parties had in mind in 1982". This is an unsourced, ahistorical claim refuted by even US records. Embarrassing.

A quote from a recent report by Policy Exchange, a Conservative thinktank purporting to analyse international law. https://policyexchange.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Litigating-Climate-Change.pdf "Renegotiate UNCLOS This is perhaps the most ambitious of our proposals. UNCLOS resulted from a decades-long effort by the international community to codify the law of the sea. On the whole it has been a success for participating States. However, the ICJ through the Climate Change Advisory Opinion has implicitly invited claimant States to invoke UNCLOS in suits for alleged injuries arising from climate change, a development that risks transforming UNCLOS into something which it was never intended to be and delegitimizing the Convention in the eyes of many States party. Therefore, we recommend that, in concert with peer States, the United Kingdom launch an effort to clarify the ambit of UNCLOS in climate matters and to prevent the compulsory dispute settlement mechanisms in UNCLOS from being used to adjudicate matters which exceed the Convention’s scope. Otherwise, the ICJ’s implicit invitation to litigants to avail themselves of UNCLOS and the litigation opportunities afforded by Part XV, section 2, of the Convention will be taken up with great enthusiasm, with unfortunate results."
Cris van Eijk@crisveijk.bsky.social · 4w ago

The UNCLOS drafters were quite aware of climate change, the harms of pollution, & the interconnectedness of the oceans & atmosphere. They'd lived through nuclear testing; they knew pollution to the atmosphere like strontium-90 affected the marine environment, because they had it in their *bones*.