more laws now available here, including all of those homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucqnmve/law... - improved interface for mentions too. will post about it after the weekend.
UCL Massively Crossreferenced Digital Laws
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Thomas Streinz
@streinz.bsky.social
Prof of Law & Regulatory Theory @eui-law.bsky.social @eui-schuman.bsky.social @eui-eu.bsky.social 📚 Researching European/global data/tech law & governance
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...
Weniger Bürokratie oder mehr Spielraum für Big Tech? Unsere Policy Fellow @luisequaritsch.eurosky.social diskutiert im @europapodcast.bsky.social den #DigitalOmnibus, die irische EU-Ratspräsidentschaft und die Zukunft der europäischen #Digitalpolitik. 🎧 www.europapodcast.de/unmute-europ...
Unmute Europe LIVE: Irlands EU-Ratspräsidentschaft im Blick
Seit Juli hat Irland für sechs Monate den Vorsitz im Rat der Europäischen Union übernommen. Die Ratspräsidentschaft organisiert die Arbeit der Mitgliedstaaten, moderiert Verhandlungen und versucht…
europapodcast.de
(Two) weeks in review: Madison Condon and Luke Herrine on the economics that Law & Economics ignores, Jeremy Bearer-Friend and Sarah Polcz on taxing AI equity, Matt Bodie on the persistence of shareholder primacy, and Diana Reddy on theorizing discrimination for the bad jobs economy.
Weekly Roundup: July 24
Madison Condon and Luke Herrine on the economics that Law & Economics ignores, Jeremy Bearer-Friend and Sarah Polcz on why we should tax AI equity, Matt Bodie on the persistence of shareholder primacy...
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Was ist der wahre Grund für den Angriff auf das #IFG? Auf diese Weise solle @fragdenstaat.de ausgeschaltet werden, schreibt der renommierte Verwaltungsrechtler und IFG-Kommentator Prof. Friedrich Schoch in der FAZ. Das Portal sei Vielen "ein Dorn im Auge" und "lästig" 🧵
There are many examples of useless bike racks, but here’s one I like. It’s made of material that’s hard to cut, shaped in a way where you can get a U-lock through the rack, wheel, and frame, bolted to the ground with security screws, spaced wide apart, located away from a wall, and attractive. 😍
The only team not to lose to Spain at the World Cup? Cape Verde.
Activists damage the building foundations of data centre 🫡 > The group said that they threw water balloons filled with a mixture of hydrogen peroxide, acetic acid, salt, and acrylic paint at the under-construction facility.
Amsterdam activists throw acid at Microsoft datacenter project
Extinction Rebellion claims responsibility for chemical-filled balloon attack targeting concrete and steel
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Kings Cross is increasingly awash with AI firms & London's taking a leading role in AI safety. But a caveat: it's mainly the kind of safety that cares about models from being used in cyberattacks or going rogue, not societal impacts like inequality or AI psychosis www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A global capital for AI safety is emerging — and it's not in Silicon Valley
The United Kingdom is gaining influence through its growing AI-safety ecosystem.
nature.com
Just read this paper and thought it was excellent! Would recommend to anyone interested in the feminist foundation of open science practices.
Dr Madeleine Pownall@maddipow.bsky.social · 3w agoNew paper! Values such as openness, transparency, collaboration, clarity about conflict of interests have been promoted by women for *decades*, and now we have reframed this around the branding of 'open science' that we start to take them seriously. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
🇪🇺 Today marks the anniversary of Simone Veil's inaugural speech as President of the European Parliament. Following the first direct European elections in June 1979, she became the first woman elected to its presidency. 📜 Read the full speech at @eui-euarchives.bsky.social loom.ly/B_6-Fxs
Come and work with us @eui-history.bsky.social ! A wonderful opportunity for a chair in intellectual history. We're looking for a broad range of specialisations, details here: www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
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Enormous congrats to @thecoalition.bsky.social @knightcolumbia.org @protectdemocracy.org for prevailing in their lawsuit against the Trump administration's immigration policy that targeted fact-checkers & disinformation researchers. More like this please. knightcolumbia.org/content/fede...
Federal Court Suspends Trump Immigration Policy Targeting Technology Researchers
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🔴 For the past year @lucasamin.bsky.social and I have been investigating Palantir in the UK What we found was a company with unrivalled political access, selling a product many data experts in the NHS don’t use, and don’t rate Please read and share democracyforsale.substack.com/p/its-just-a...
"It's just a waste of time": inside Palantir's £330m NHS failure
Our new investigation reveals the problems with Palantir’s NHS tech - and the unrivalled political access that fuelled the firm’s march into the British state
democracyforsale.substack.com
We are hiring an assistant professor in Metascience! Join our lovely department of Human-Technology Interaction, with a very active Metascience group, at Eindhoven University of Technology. Apply here before August 14, or share the vacancy in your network! www.tue.nl/en/working-a...
Assistant Professor in Metascience
Personal type: Scientific staff
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New York becomes the first US state to impose a moratorium on new data centers. www.semafor.com/article/07/1...
New York imposes first moratorium on data centers
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a centrist Democrat, is signing an executive order pausing permitting for hyperscaler data centers for a year.
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Every confusing city website and dead-end government portal makes New Yorkers trust their leaders less and less. It's time for City government to enter the 21st century.
I hate that I'm defending Christopher Nolan who I can't stand for other reasons but too many people are being wrong about this: the ancient Greeks did not think of their gods as being essentially Greek and having a true appearance that looked like Greek humans.
Hi! I'm Danna. I love my job, my university, & my students. For 20 years, I've been teaching young leaders in politics & communication at UD. Our university has a celebrated *leadership* program, entire units dedicated to civic engagement, & freedom of expression. Which is why this is so upsetting:
🚨Finally published: How does the US Military enlist AI researchers in war? @siree.sh, Lucy Suchman and I examine 7k US Military grant solicitations for AI research, and show how even "Basic Research" enlists researchers in a warfighting agenda. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Basic research, lethal effects: Military artificial intelligence research funding as enlistment - David Gray Widder, Sireesh Gururaja, Lucy Suchman, 2026
In the context of unprecedented U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) budgets, this paper examines the recent history of DoD funding for academic research in algorit...
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In fairness the reason people think hallucinations are still the core problem of AI is hallucinations are absolutely still a problem in the *free* models. This one about Soderbergh's noir The Underneath is wild.
as genai proliferates, it has become difficult to avoid it. at @aial.ie, we're compiling a list of genai-free tools, libraries & websites to support research across tasks;grammar/spell check, coding/code review, data analysis (esp large scale text classification) & graphing/data visualisation recs?
Freemedou: We'd Love To Hear It
ALT: Freemedou: We'd Love To Hear It
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Good morning, friends. I'm starting a new deep dive and would appreciate and interdisciplinary assist. Can you recommend any academic books (or articles) about: 1) The history & development of typography (not current practice) 2) The history and development of printing technology
"Independence may be the theme of the day, but even a simple backyard barbecue relies at almost every turn on international law." Another eye-opening essay by @corrarino.bsky.social. A wonderful and necessary read. www.justsecurity.org/145416/as-am... 1/🧵
As American as International Law
A Fourth of July barbecue demonstrates how international law shapes daily life, and where that architecture is under strain.
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2/ Infographic from Corrarino's @justsecurity.org essay.⤵️ As American as International Law www.justsecurity.org/145416/as-am...
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
Essential reading from @sylviademars.me and Eleni Frantziou on just how divorced from the reality of EU law the UKSC's approach to direct effect in Dillon actually is: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2026/07/doub...
NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...
