Chris🌻
@chris4short.bsky.social
International lawyer • PhDing @CambridgeUni.bsky.social re digital evidence & int’l justice • dog enthusiast • iced coffee drinker • Oxford comma fanatic https://www.polis.cam.ac.uk/staff/christine-carpenter
Paedophile financierJeffrey Epstein shown sporting Zuckerberg's Meta glasses as part of a guerrilla campaign at bus stops across London by the activist group Everyone Hates Elon. www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...
Spoof Epstein ads go up around London in protest against Meta AI glasses
The activist group Everyone Hates Elon targets smart glasses in a guerrilla campaign over privacy risks and non-consensual recording
thetimes.com
"Writers have been using me long before AI. I am the punctuation equivalent of a cardigan—beloved by MFA grads, used by editors when it’s actually cold, and worn year-round by screenwriters. I am not new here. I am not novel. I’m the cigarette you keep saying you’ll quit."
The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations
“Writers have been using me long before the advent of AI. I am the punctuation equivalent of a cardigan—beloved by MFA grads, used by editors when it’s actua...
buff.ly
Protesters marched into ICE enabler Susan Collins' office after agents gunned down an immigrant in Biddeford, Maine. Collins voted in favor of $70 billion to fund the rogue agency. www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/s...
Live updates: Biddeford shooting victim was not ICE’s intended target, officials say
Protests are growing after a man identified as a 26-year-old from Colombia was fatally shot. Immigration advocates say he was authorized to work in the U.S.
pressherald.com
How many years of record-breaking heatwaves do we think it will take before Britain starts constructing buildings w air con in them….?
The top frame is from 2015, when French meteorologists did a “forecast” from a #climate heated August 2050 - a warning on what could possibly happen in 35 years time. Bottom frame: well, it’s happened in barely a decade, only it’s already *much* worse than predicted. It’s a runaway train.
gosh gee whiz no kidding blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
The lack of women at the top of the academic ladder is driven by unequal childcare responsibilities - LSE Impact
Motherhood, and the unequal childcare responsibilities that follow, explain a large share of the observed gender gap in academic employment. Sofie Cairo, Ria Ivandic, Anne Sophie Lassen and Valentina ...
blogs.lse.ac.uk
Not me procrastinating by googling “summer camps for adults”
Nobody here needs me to tell them not to do this but Jesus Christ in a Cadillac do not do this.
Gizmodo@gizmodo.com · 3mo agoChatGPT Can Now Connect to Your Bank Account and See All Your Transactions https://gizmodo.com/chatgpt-can-now-connect-to-your-bank-account-and-see-all-your-transactions-2000759306
Clarence Thomas was born closer to when the Comstock Act he invoked in tonight’s dissent was passed in 1873 than to today.
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe two oldest justices — both over 75 — would have allowed an order blocking mailed mifepristone nationwide to go into effect today.
People wonder why new englanders love listening to Noah Kahan so much but it's like yall he's using PEEPERS FROGS as a backtrack in the opening song of his new album of course we love him 🥹
Y’all are busy calling him “Diaper Don” or “Dementia Don” meanwhile he’s made a 3.4 billion dollars profit off of his presidency so far. www.newyorker.com/news/a-repor...
Trump’s Profiteering Hits $4 Billion
In August, I reported that the President and his family had made $3.4 billion by leveraging his position. After his first year back in office, the number has ballooned.
newyorker.com
Attachment to smart devices and biometric surveillance leaves Americans more vulnerable to police searches than ever. Left unchecked it will only get worse. www.wired.com/story/book-e...
Your Body Is Betraying Your Right to Privacy
Attachment to smart devices and biometric surveillance leaves Americans more vulnerable to police searches than ever. Left unchecked it will only get worse.
wired.com
This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 5mo agoReporter: Did the US bomb an elementary school and kill 175 people? Trump: Based on what I’ve seen, it was done by Iran. Reporter: Is that true Mr. Hegseth? Hegseth: We’re investigating. Trump: They are very inaccurate with their munitions. It was done by Iran.
International lawyers: US-Israel strikes on Iran are illegal European government officials: are the strikes illegal? WhO cAN sAy? Certainly not us. The media: Iran takes illegal escalating action across the Middle East
When you’re in your 30s you just start saying shit like “I love having people over because it gives me an excuse to clean!”
Working on Restoring Justice kept me grounded this past year, so I share it w/ excitement & some nervousness. Written w/ Meredith Elizalde, whose son Nick was killed in a shooting at his high school, we argue for a right to restorative justice. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
The decisions amount to a huge legal rebuke, but the administration has continued jailing people indefinitely.
reuters.com
Wow! Palestine Action win judicial review - Guardian report. This is a *big* legal win. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule
Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws
theguardian.com
Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives. We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.
NEWS: In a heartbreaking video, after ICE shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, a woman who was in the same SUV cries out: “They killed my wife. I don’t know what to do." “We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head,” the distraught woman sobs. www.advocate.com/news/minneso...
Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
“They killed my wife,” the distraught woman says, adding, “They shot her in the head.”
advocate.com
New Article Alert By me @fastcompany.com 🚨 "Digital surveys may have hit the #AI point of no return." Quantitative surveys can now be taken by AI that undetectably mimics humans. This can compromise results that will impact decisions based on these outcomes. A way forward? Qualitative Research!
Digital surveys may have hit the AI point of no return
A new study shows bots can be indistinguishable from humans in survey responses.
fastcompany.com
Aaaaand wow we got here so much faster than I thought we would
Chris🌻@chris4short.bsky.social · 11mo agoGetting ready to explain to my MAGA relatives that Tylenol doesn’t cause autism this holiday season after explaining that no, public school nurses’ offices were not performing sex changes last year…
Absolutely no one: Me, every time I hear the song Lover: FEBRUARY. It should be leave the Christmas lights up till FEBRUARY because everyone leaves their lights up till January and February is the same number of syllabus and ends in the same vowels and then it would make freaking SENSE
📢 On behalf of the ESIL Interest Group on International Law and Technology, I'm delighted to announce that today marks the launch of our new @opiniojuris.bsky.social symposium:📢 *Forensic and Counter-Forensic Approaches to International Law – A Cartography and Anatomy of Genocide*
You can tell a lot about a person based on how they organize their Zotero
Guys I think my nervous system forgot what it felt like to consume good news what a week
