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Andrew Perlman (Dean Suffolk Law) has built an archive comparing how 128 US law schools handle AI in coursework. Berkeley bans it by default. Chicago teaches 1L courses device-free while building supervised use into legal writing. Texas dropped take-home exams, etc...

Behind the bewildering transformation of British universities, are management consultants being paid millions Really proud to have this vital piece on our unis are being gutted from the inside by @jheathershaw.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale. Do read democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...

Inside Britain's university crisis

As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter

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You can now access many more digital laws, not just the GDPR, at the UCL Massively Crossreferenced Digital Laws page: EU: GDPR, DSA, DMA, AI Act, UCPD, NIS2 UK: OSA, DPA18, ...+ Each article/para/recital, links to what-cites-it in int'l cases/statutes/guidance homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucqnmve/law...

michael veale@michae.lv · 7d ago

Parts of the GDPR are cited and interpreted by thousands of pieces of case law and guidance, but there's no easy and free way to find out what. We've made a tool which makes it super easy, for 13,000 citing documents, all in one place. More regulations to come! homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucqnmve/law...

Parts of the GDPR are cited and interpreted by thousands of pieces of case law and guidance, but there's no easy and free way to find out what. We've made a tool which makes it super easy, for 13,000 citing documents, all in one place. More regulations to come! homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucqnmve/law...

I've confirmed that the UK's new Sovereign AI Fund does no due diligence on whether AI companies use copyrighted work without permission before investing in them. It took me 3 Freedom of Information requests to find this out: 🧵 1/10

This last part says it all.

Grumpy Philosopher@stevecooke.org · 3w ago

I'm sure you'll all be hugely surprised to discover that the only research output since 2018 from the author of that AI piece has been a single encyclopaedia entry in 2022. A man not producing research is telling us we'll all be much better researchers if only we'd follow his advice. No thanks Ian.

Yesterday the Telegraph reported on my comments about air conditioning. The comment section is quite something. I have apparently become a hero of the anti net zero crowd by saying something what I think is sensible about air con. Allow me to point out three ironies in this 🧵

again, shitty island but MY shitty island

Sachin Nakrani@sachinnakrani.bsky.social · 4w ago

God I love my country.

Inevitable has always been the case - see any past research on this or the predecessors in ML. Companies lie, who would have thought.

Nick Harkaway@nickharkaway.com · 4w ago

www.computerworld.com/article/4059... It does not "lack the humility". That's a category error.

As the director of a historical video game preservation institution, and someone who has dedicated his entire adult life to this cause, this is accurate. We have attempted to work with the industry's trade organization to find a legal path forward, but they refuse to offer a meaningful alternative.

Chloe "in ✈️ at home" Adams@addamschloe.bsky.social · last mo.

piracy is the only extant form of media preservation that exists in games right now, you might find it morally reprehensible but there is literally no other institution that will keep games alive in 25, 50 years' time

There are several of us!

Helene von Bismarck@helenebismarck.bsky.social · last mo.

I have a terrible confession to make. I have travelled all over the UK. But. I have never been to Manchester.

The new edition of OSCOLA prohibits "ibid". OMG.

Sarcasm: 'Then, all is lost.'

ALT: Sarcasm: 'Then, all is lost.'

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I'm in the trenches dealing with this, it's amazing. Most people don't even know what they're using AI for. Companies are just pissing money up the wall.

En eller anden dag vil jeg gerne citeres ordentligt af mine kollegaer! Når man har skrevet, og afdækket et emne langt før dem, og så bliver ekskluderet hver gang det bliver nævnt i nyere artikler, bliver man lidt ramt. Siger ikke hvem, hvad, eller hvor, men det er træls.

A reminder of Joshi's Workslop Postulate

I absolutely love reading articles written by Oxbridge-educated elites about whether university education is pointless. I especially love reading roughly the same article by the same guy every six months.

Peter Whitewood@pwhitewood.bsky.social · last mo.

This misses the point. Self-education has become more accessible in the last 20 years than at any point in history, though not through ‘amateur reading’. The problem isn’t access to information but learning how to evaluate it critically - and that brings us back to universities (and Humanities)

Higher education policy under the last few UK governments seems to be shaping up into an experiment in how you sustain a knowledge economy without knowledge

Today was an absolute blood bath at SCOTUS for the less powerful to enforce civil rights in the federal courts. TL;dr - SCOTUS rules 6-3 that only corporations have rights that are enforceable in federal court??

Leah Litman@leahlitman.bsky.social · last mo.

And the final case, 6-3 (usual split) - SCOTUS says immigration officers can deny admission to lawful permanent residents *without having clear & convincing evidence that the LPR committed a crime that renders them inadmissible* www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

🚨🚨Ten years ago I was in #Birmingham for a biannual conference with my wife and newly born son on #EUlaw and policy: I remembered vividly reaching the conference venue in the morning on the 23rd with a deafening and nearly horror-struck audience with UK collegaues close to tears.

The SLM future is looking brighter and brighter..

Chris Stokel-Walker@stokel.bsky.social · last mo.

Is there a third way for software engineers looking to adopt AI that doesn't involve not doing anything due to legal teams' fears, and paying US companies big moolah? My latest for @leaddev.com leaddev.com/ai/engineeri...

Hopefully. This has major security implications too, and will change a lot (I will get something out).

Michiel van Hulten@michielvanhulten.eu · 2mo ago

The second part of this sounds absolutely groundbreaking. Could the era of platform impunity finally be coming to an end?

I have met this character in too many conferences...

We’re encroaching on the whole nation’s privacy and selling your data to big tech to make sure kids do their homework

Heather Burns@heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Starmer just said infinite scroll "stops children doing their homework" ahead of banning all u16s from being able to access YouTube to do their homework.

I am HIRING three phd candidates. www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3617... A reshare would be most appreciated!!

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It is always striking to me when, meeting non-university friends, they ask how work is, and I say some variant of 'OK personally, altho obviously pretty shit in general', and they ask why, and I say some variant of 'sector in meltdown', and they are surprised and had no idea...

George Eaton@georgeeaton.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Why is the universities crisis being ignored? Essential piece by @gsoh31.bsky.social for Arguably on the “grim dribbling away of one of Britain's great triumphs and economic advantages” – and why so few politicians seem to care. www.arguably.uk/p/the-quiet-...