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Lawyer•Teaching at De La Salle University Law School•Former Law Dean•London School of Economics alum•Academic interests in Constl Law, Intl Law & Natl Security Law•Likes pizza,plant-based burgers,gelato & churros con chocolate #LawSky #LawProfs #LSESky 🦋
Tech Policy Press fellow Jake Laperruque opens a three-part series on AI in policing by asking an under-examined question: if AI systems are trained to tell users what they want to hear, what happens when those users are cops and prosecutors?
Will AI Sycophancy Contaminate Law Enforcement?
AI sycophancy in high risk domains like law enforcement are under-analyzed, argues Tech Policy Press fellow Jake Laperruque.
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With Paul Weiss’s settlement back in the news, re-upping @knightcolumbia.org's podcast, “Lawyering Without Law,” exploring the role and responsibility of lawyers in an era of authoritarianism. It’s *really* good. Please listen & share it with your lawyer friends. knightcolumbia.org/content/lawy...
Lawyering Without Law
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The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty made an enormous difference. It entered into force in 1970. President John F. Kennedy thought we might have 25-30 nuclear weapons states by the 1980s. We now have 9.
i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys
Myanmar’s junta allowed Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the detained, 81-year-old former leader of the country, to meet with a humanitarian organization on Monday, offering a rare public glimpse of her amid growing concerns about her health.
Myanmar Junta Allows Aung San Suu Kyi Rare Contact With an Outsider
The ousted civilian leader, now 81, met with a representative of the Red Cross. Her long absence from public view had raised concerns about her health.
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Read Max Holleran's review of "Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York" by Dylan Gottlieb. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Review of Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York. By Dylan Gottlieb. Harvard University Press, 2026
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I know we can’t agree on much as a country but “we don’t want our food to make us super sick & potentially kill us” just seems like it should be one of the few things www.newsweek.com/cyclospora-i...
Cyclospora outbreak is just the warning—experts fear what's coming next
Cyclospora has sickened thousands. But experts warn other foodborne illnesses could strike next—and hit harder.
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FIFA president Gianni Infantino is turning to the Trump administration to save his job after his plan to sell off part of the World Cup's commercial rights collapsed, the New York Post reported Monday, citing sources.
'Isolated' FIFA boss runs to Trump to save his job — who won't take his calls: report
FIFA president Gianni Infantino is turning to the Trump administration to save his job after his plan to sell off part of the World Cup's commercial rights collapsed, the New York Post reported Monday, citing sources.According to the Post, Infantino scheduled a private call with Secretary of State M...
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Yeah I mean, I've suspected for a while that they're dragging it out on purpose, on sort of a "no no, I'm not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with me" basis
Remarkable the degree to which the IRGC is just not going to let Trump walk away with anything he can call a win. I scoffed a little bit when some security experts said that basically 'humiliation of enemies' was an Iranian regime pattern in terms of aims, but that doesn't seem far off.
Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 2d agoIran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) carried out an attack on a US base in Kuwait using three drones, according to a source familiar with the matter.-i24 News
Every court victory matters, but some are sweeter than others. Congrats to the Elias Law Group team and our client Senate Majority PAC for this well earned victory for free speech and the 1st Amendment.
Eight Pulitzer Prize awardees — 5 winners and 3 finalists — acknowledged using AI in their reporting process this year. www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/a-re...
A record-breaking eight Pulitzer awardees disclosed AI use this year
Five winners and three finalists detailed their AI adoption to the judging committee.
niemanlab.org
Phil Collins shares health update after seven months in intensive care: ‘People came to say goodbye’
Phil Collins shares health update after intensive care stint: ‘People said goodbye’
‘My organs were just seizing up,’ Genesis frontman, 75, said
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More than 100 leading scientists from 56 countries working on the #IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and #Cities are in Bhopal, India, for their final working meeting before the report’s release next March. Details ➡️ https://bit.ly/4hbYmJU #IPCCReport #Cities
excellent post on the ICC's predicament - "as each brick protecting the ICC is dismantled, a brick is added to the wall of protection around Netanyahu and Israel’s genocidal war machine." jonathancook.substack.com/p/with-karim...
With Karim Khan's dismissal, the elimination of the war crimes court is near-complete
Millions of people around the world will now find themselves even more exposed to the criminal actions of predatory states. Unlike Khan's accuser, they are unlikely to ever get their day in court
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Congratulations to Serbia🇷🇸 for ratifying the BBNJ Agreement! 👏 Now is the moment to build toward universal ratification! We encourage all countries to take this crucial step and help turn global ambition into action. #60toGlobal #BBNJ #HighSeasTreaty
The discovery of what appears to be Vietnam’s biggest-ever diamond smuggling network has rippled through the nation's jewelry industry. Investigators allege more than 30,000 stones worth over $57 million were brought into the country over the past two years. bloom.bg/4fJDVmF 📷️: Vietnam News Agency
By scrapping DSIT and redistributing responsibilities across Whitehall, new UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has significantly reshaped the UK government’s technology policy even in his first week in office—in ways that have divided initial expert reaction, writes Tech Policy Press fellow James Ball.
Burnham's First Week Redraws the Map of UK Tech Governance
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has scattered responsibility for technology policy across government, writes Tech Policy Press fellow James Ball.
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Foreign policy expert Trita Parsi issued a bleak warning Saturday over what he called a major "strategic mistake" of the Trump administration that could very well "bring the [Iran] war to the U.S.," and soon.
Policy expert flags Trump’s major ‘strategic mistake’ that could ‘bring the war to the US’
Foreign policy expert Trita Parsi issued a bleak warning Saturday over what he called a major “strategic mistake” of the Trump administration that could very well “bring the [Iran] war to the U.S.,” and soon.Earlier on Saturday, CBS News reported that the United States and Israel were actively plann...
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Corallus Meeks, editor-in-chief of The Tattler, recently wrote an op-ed in support of New Voices legislation. “Democracy does not begin when someone turns eighteen and walks into a voting booth. It begins when children learn their voice wields power,” Meeks wrote.
Guest Opinion: Democracy Begins in Student Newsrooms
Journalism serves as an outlet for my passion for social justice. It has fundamentally shaped the way I understand democracy, social justice, and my own responsibility within both. It has
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This article by @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social looks so good. 1st paragraph of abstract:
Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor@rbarretttaylor.bsky.social · 9mo agoI finally have a peer-reviewed publication to my name! I'd appreciate it if you all would be kind enough to read and share. I'm trying to comment on the reductive nature of the 'apex' form of techno-process driven war that seems to be the limit of martial imagination. doi.org/10.1057/s429...
Starbucks upgraded its full-year outlook, but the coffee chain needs to improve margins to keep investors on board
Starbucks Serves Up a Tasty Upgrade to Its Earnings Outlook
Starbucks Corp. is hot again.
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Toyota's first-half global output, sales fall for first time in two years on China weakness reut.rs/4wqNEE9
Toyota's first-half global output, sales fall for first time in two years on China weakness
Toyota Motor said on Thursday its global first-half production and sales fell for the first time in two years, as weaker demand in China and a model changeover for its popular RAV4 sport utility vehicle weighed on results.
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The only taxidermied blue whale in the world, 1865 CE, now housed at the Natural History Museum in Sweden. The public was allowed to enter the whale up until a couple was found having sex inside it. Now the whale’s jaws are opened only for special occasions, such as Swedish election days.
