I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

Just a reminder that for all the talk of how LLMs are creating new legal challenges, everything old is new again: law.justia.com/cases/federa...

Winter v. G.P. Putnam's Sons, 938 F.2d 1033 (9th Cir. 1991)

Misrepresentations in a book may give rise to liability for the author but not for the publisher. Strict liability is not an appropriate theory in this situation.

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Downtown Josh Brown@downtownjoshbrown.bsky.social · 2mo ago

L'arrêt Russmedia redéfinit la responsabilité des plateformes en plaçant le RGPD au-dessus des régimes spéciaux de la liberté d'expression. Les tribunaux (comme les législatures) se font des noeuds au cerveau avec le numérique (un sujet objectivement compliqué)

Daphne Keller@daphnek.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I wrote up my concerns about the CJEU's Russmedia ruling. This is the first of two posts, it's about the bad results of relying on the GDPR (and displacing laws like the DSA) to define platforms' liability for content. Post two will review arguments that the case is more limited. 1/

This is interesting. AI will break the academic publication system. Exponentially more submissions, less reviewers, devaluation of published articles. We are drowning in slop.

"In our formative years, the main political issue was economic growth and how to improve it, and ideas that were considered “bad for the economy” were usually rejected, often with derision. Today, by contrast, voters and their representatives seem to actually want a weaker economy."

Chris Dillow@chrisdillow.bsky.social · 8mo ago

New substack: why so many people are content with economic stagnation: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/wallowing-...

2025 Spotify stats: 448 hours 3696 tracks 177 albums Top album was Chick Corea's Children's Songs 1297 artists, top artists were Chick Corea, BadBadNotGood and El Michels Affair.

Since this article and its perspectives are generating a bit of buzz, I'd like to dig into what I find distasteful and, frankly, disingenous about it, particularly the ethical values it proclaims. 1/8 www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...

I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.

"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."

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Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.

Saw this last week but didn't see much commentary, there should be more, because it's an example of how industry concerns about the workability of regulation are often shot down, but ultimately prove true. Solid reporting by @egreechee.bsky.social

C'est la fin de l'été, période où, ayant un peu plus de temps, j'essaie toujours de lire au moins un livre de théorie politique. Ces derniers temps, je prends un par un les livres de Judith Shklar. Cette année, Shklar sur la théorie sociale de Rousseau. www.nicolasmorin.com/blog/shklar-...

Hear, hear!

Amazingly well written take down of Ocean Vuong.

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · last yr.

‘This language is not poetic, but ridiculous, sententious, blinded by self-love and pirouetting over a chasm.’ Tom Crewe reads Ocean Vuong’s second novel, ‘The Emperor of Gladness’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Après des mois et des mois, enfin trouvé un peu de temps pour une note de lecture - Evelyn Aswad & @davidkaye.bsky.social, Convergence & Conflict: Reflections on Global and Regional Human Rights Standards on Hate Speech. www.nicolasmorin.com/blog/aswad-k...

Can relate.

Samuel Pepys@samuelpepys.bsky.social · last yr.

I made up my accounts, and find myself ‘de claro’ worth about 530l., and no more, so little have I increased it since my last reckoning; but I confess I have laid out much money in clothes.

Out of 1,127 artists I listened to in 2024 (for exactly 365 hours), these were the ones on top. open.spotify.com/wrapped/shar...

My top artists of 2024 - Get yours

2024 Wrapped

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Great podcast episode: MIT's Emil Verner on Banking Crises, Credit Booms, and the Rise of Populism. The bit abt Hungary at the end really ties the episode together. Bank runs don't come out of nowhere, neither do political turmoils. www.mercatus.org/macro-musing...

Emil Verner on Banking Crises, Credit Booms, and the Rise of Populism

Emil Verner is an associate professor of finance at MIT Sloan and is a research fellow at the National Bureau of Ec

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Rome. Unfathomable that it ever collapsed. How?

The Onion should buy Elsevier next

Word of the Year Award goes to: Kakistocracy.

Very interesting discussion between Om Malik and Denis Crawley. "this new project arrives at a moment when certain technologies have become commonplace while others are just becoming possible", e.g. headphones and AI. crazystupidtech.com/archive/with...

With AI, the Future of Augmented Reality is in Your Ears

By Om Malik Dennis Crowley has built his career at the intersection of emerging technologies and human behavior. Twenty years ago, as a 25-year-old inspired...

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this Sagan quote has haunted me for almost a decade now.

This is America Don't catch you slippin' now Look what I'm whippin' now

Fiction has to be plausible. History just has to happen.

darth™️@darthbluesky.bsky.social · 2y ago

what is your blue sky law that u should be known for it can be more of a guideline than a law tbh

Copyright law is designed to protect individual works, which is legit. They have value. But there's now a bigger thing with value — the intellectual *space* implied by human cultural productions collectively. If training is fair use, that space belongs to all of us. If not, it can be enclosed. +

I use technology in order to hate it more properly. –Nam June Paik

Quiévrain: With French Parliament split into equal thirds, a crack team of Belgians is heading south to offer urgent government negotiation assistance.

Schindler house, LA, 1922.

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Candice Odgers reviews Jonathan Haidt’s new book on social media and youth mental health. A very polite but very complete takedown. Required reading. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?

The evidence is equivocal on whether screen time is to blame for rising levels of teen depression and anxiety — and rising hysteria could distract us from tackling the real causes. The evidence is equ...

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