If you're having a tough weekend writing syllabi or a rough start to 2025, remember that in 1991 Tim Berners-Lee's paper for the World Wide Web was rejected and he was instead relegated to the poster session.
Tess Rooney
@tessjr.bsky.social
Law and culture academic, health law PhD candidate, so tired of the bathroom wars, didn’t we sort this shite already 🤦♀️
There’s something mildly ironic about writing medneg slides in an A & E because your teen did something utterly foreseeable!
Save the date for the world's best-sized international law conference! The 32nd ANZSIL Annual Conference will be held Wednesday 2 July – Friday 4 July 2025 at the Australian National University. The Conference Theme is: ‘International Law: Silence, Forgetting and Remembrance’. Please re-post!
Oh look, research says social media bans don’t solve the problems - who would have thought it www.bmj.com/content/387/...
Tackling digital harms: why simply banning children from social media won’t protect them
We need to redesign social media and other digital platforms so that these spaces are safer and healthier, writes Louise Holly Across the globe, countries are grabbling with how to shield children f...
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Chapter sent, outline for new sub/article discussed (with homework!), slides down for next week, risotto in thermie - look at me, adulting!
“The evidence base for the underage social media ban is poor – and yet it’s that bill being rushed through parliament, not the partial gambling ad ban, much less the full ban.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Deal or No Deal: the Albanese government’s pre-Christmas wishlist in the final sitting days of 2024 | The Agenda
If Peter Dutton senses an opportunity in blocking Labor’s agenda in the lead-up to an election, he might just take it
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Final referencing for new chapter on social media. If you could all stop deleting your tweets that would be great, thanks: “user account deactivated” can only go in so many footnotes before it really looks like I’m just making stuff up!!
The social media ban for kids exists in a much bigger landscape of both policy and technical infrastructure: your digital identity. Here, have some actual facts. As written by me. tldr in next post. www.themandarin.com.au/281972-digit...
Digital ID policy fails you, your kids, and the country
Radically secure digital identity infrastructure is up and running in Europe right now. But not here, in Australia.
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Because it’s not implementable, enforceable, or underpinned by any evidence? Or just cos it’s dumb?
Josh Taylor@joshtaylor.bsky.social · 2y agoDespite all the noise the parliamentary inquiry on social media did not make a recommendation to ban under 16s from social media. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Memo to me … Starter packs are awesome. Until you start thinking “there are some great people in that one, and they seem to be doing some great work maybe I should hit follow, you never know when a working knowledge of zebrafish might come in handy?”
Impact scores? What impact scores.
MwahahahahahadScientist@mads100tist.bsky.social · 2y agoThe Onion should buy Elsevier next
Instead of banning young people from social media Anthony Albanese needs to listen to them: Jess Travers-Wolf www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Instead of banning young people from social media Anthony Albanese needs to listen to them | Jess Travers-Wolf
Labor wants a duty of care bill on tech platforms, yet dismissed young people’s push for a duty of care bill on the climate crisis
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Sorry but all the fables and fairy tales I read as a kid led me to believe people would be learning WAY more lessons than they actually do
This potential legal attack on the nonprofit sector in the US fits with the global administrative assault on NGOs and civil society known as closing civic space, where leaders use anti-NGO laws to create barriers to entry, funding, advocacy for organizations. #nonprofitsky #polisky #contentiousky
The Intercept@theintercept.com · 2y agoThe House is set to vote Tuesday on a bill that would let the administration destroy nonprofits it claims support terrorism.
Bluesky, Today is my 2nd day on here as an escapee from The Bad Place. I am BEGGING y’all to repost this I have $80,000 in scholarship money to give away to women and girls NATIONWIDE. I worked so hard to raise this money. Applications open THIS week. I’m scared the mass migration will impact this
As an introvert… I feel this! Both as a teacher and as a presenter.
📣The Global Drug Survey 2024 has officially launched today! Be part of the world's largest survey of drug use, led by CRE researcher Dr Cheneal Puljevic, with two new modules on tobacco endgame policies and trends in illicit tobacco use. redcap.health.uq.edu.au/surveys/?s=C...
Our researcher @koltai.bsky.social spoke to Insider News recently about the misinformation circulating online around the current Israel-Hamas war and how our team at Bellingcat works to verify claims. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c9h...
Decoding Fake News About The Israel-Hamas War In Gaza | Insider News
Experts say there has been an unprecedented number of fake claims about the Israel-Hamas war circulating online. Bellingcat’s open source investigators showe...
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Today’s seminar prep: 23 pages of carefully referenced notes, highlighted with key speaking notes. What the students get: TLDR? Data management is not the same as privacy! Techreg law ftw 🤣
for sale: rules-based international order, never worn
“Never again” didn’t seem that complicated a concept! This is genocide happening in real time.
*Is this too scary for Bluesky? I don't want to harsh anybody's vibe here "the secret world of inventors, financiers and vendors of fearsome spy weapons like Predator" *Warning: contains actual journalistic investigation www.spiegel.de/internationa...
The Predator Files: European Spyware Consortium Supplied Despots and Dictators
The Intellexa Alliance is the name of the shady group of European companies that supplies dictators and despots with cyberweapons. The mass spyware attacks have also been lucrative for some in Germany...
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I encourage everybody to be very, very compassionate to people who are hurting right now. Tragedy is brutal. Violent tragedy is worse. Lift people up.
The stars are not wanted now; put out every one, Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun, Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood; For nothing now can ever come to any good.
4chan users are sharing ways to exploit the AI-powered Bing Image Creator to create hateful content. Posts of antisemitic caricatures of Orthodox men carrying migrants across the US border, preparing to eat a baby, and committing the 9/11 attacks have appeared online.
The Folly of DALL-E: How 4chan is Abusing Bing’s New Image Model - bellingcat
Racists on the notorious troll site 4chan are using a powerful new and free AI-powered image generator service offered by Microsoft to create antisemitic propaganda, according to posts reviewed by Bel...
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