Joanna Bryson, blathering
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I'm an academic, proud to work in a policy school, but still sometimes longing to return to natural science and/or programming again. Or maybe art? This Mastodon […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.social/@j2bryson, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Pretend I quoted my previous retoot; quote text: "In case anyone following this & not my other account knows about #antitrust, I'm looking for help, I'm not a lawyer." (I HATE that I can no longer quote my bsky acct. Why, @bsky.brid.gy ?) Anyway, Google scholar shows just 4 cites of […]
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German court rules comparing Israel to Nazi Germany constitutes 'protected speech' https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/german-court-rules-comparing-israel-nazi-germany-protected-speech
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Will Lowe@conjugateprior.org · yesterday"For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to install. Every operating system is terrible. But you could at least recognize this one" Brew 'Dunno Elegies'
“The most deserved boos I have ever experienced, for what is quite simply the worst production of anything I have ever seen" https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/periods-genres/opera/wagner-ai-backdrop-bayreuth-festival/ via @20percentberlin #AIEthics
Wagner opera’s AI backdrop meets loud boos at Bayreuth Festival
The audience voiced disapproval after Wagner gets the AI treatment.
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This is now officially the hottest day in Eastern Austria 🇦🇹 . Since measurements began. The last record was from 2014. This one probably won't last a year... #ClimateEmergency #GlobalHeating #GreatSimplification
Come be part of the solution to digital market concentration and corporate power! #DMA https://www.article19.org/digital-markets-act-from-solo-act-to-orchestra/ If you research this area, please submit an abstract by 21 September! #digitalGovernance #antitrust #competitionLaw
Lions can only take dry heat :-( Died of 40C with Japanese humidity. Three lions die of heatstroke at Tokyo zoo The zoo said that 10 of its 16 lions have been ill. Japan has been experiencing an extreme heat wave since late July […]
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Germany news: Calls intensify to consider Meta Glasses ban Both rights groups and regulators say the new AI tech is dangerous to consumers. At the same time, debate is heating up over pension reforms. https://www.dw.com/en/germany-news-calls-intensify-to-consider-meta-glasses-ban/live-78212257
yay team US: 25 states sue over Trump's new tariffs The coalition of largely Democratic-led states is challenging the Trump administration's argument that tariffs will address imports produced by alleged "forced labor" abroad. The White House insists the move is legal […]
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This article gives evidence in passing without mentioning that dismantling the #ICC is a(nother) joint Putin/Trump project […]
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The Swiss #Blackboard Mystery! We are still looking for someone in or near #Zurich who can lend us a portable big blackboard, for use in the 36th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony on September 3. Maybe you (or your institution) have one hiding in your basement, quietly yearning for stardom? […]
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My wish came true, I am still in my job, and the guy who wrote this is dead. 😎
It says a lot about a politician when 20% of people would rather vote for a bin.
«“The way I’d put it,” the auto journalist Martin Padgett told me recently, “is that we pulled a U-turn while the rest of the world was pushing forward.”» While this is ostensibly about EVs in the US, this is equally applicable to literally every public policy of the Republican Party. They are […]
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I thoroughly enjoyed "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" by @pluralistic, and in that context found this article by The Economist a somewhat hilarious read […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]
Ce meme parfait envoyé par un lecteur en réaction au #offpunkmanifesto https://ploum.net/2026-08-03-offpunk_manifesto.html
RE: https://mstdn.social/@ThomHartmann/117027240762817724 “The RAND Corporation calculated that between 1975 and 2018, fully $50 trillion was transferred from the bottom 90 percent of Americans to the top 1 percent, every penny stolen from working families and transferred to the oligarchs […]
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Exclusive: We obtained a leaked playbook that Flock gives to cops to coach them on "how to speak to city council" to avoid getting their contracts canceled. Includes strategies like "own the narrative" by talking to mayor "before public comment periods" www.404media.co/own-the-narr...
‘Own the Narrative’: Leaked Flock Guide Shows How It Teaches Cops to Promote Its Tech
"This document shows a coordinated effort from Flock Safety to compel law enforcement agencies to convince our elected leaders to represent their interests as a company rather than the interests of co...
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New study: "#Preprints are increasingly treated as legitimate, autonomous objects of #citation independent of their later publication status." https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.25220v1 PS: I'm fine with this, and so are the authors of this study. I'm from the humanities, where it's common to cite […]
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Scientists detect a sharp acceleration in #GlobalWarming - Global warming has sped up since around 2015, according to a new analysis from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). After removing the effects of natural temperature swings, researchers found the first statistically […]
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AnarchoTerran@anarchoterran.bsky.social · 2d agoWe investigated Russia’s military indoctrination of Ukrainian children in occupied territories – what we found was more shocking than we could have imagined theconversation.com/we-investiga...
"I am excited to share that I have launched a new Call for Papers on Behavioural Modelling for Complex Systems: AI-Driven Evidence Generation" <identical email received to same address at least five times> #DasSingularityIstForbei
Fact check: Russian disinformation targets German elections Ahead of four elections in Germany this fall, dozens of fake posts are circulating online aimed at discrediting candidates and portraying Germany as divided. Analysts warn that Russia is now targeting local candidates […]
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