Tim Engelhardt
@tengelhr.bsky.social
Mostly on human rights, digital tech. Work at UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR). Posts personal.
🎧 Überall Fake News? Wenn übertriebenes Misstrauen in die Irre führt. Der Begriff „Fake News“ wird häufig genutzt – manchmal auch, um unliebsame Informationen pauschal abzuwerten. Eine Studie der Universität Amsterdam zeigt:
Misstrauen und Fehleinschätzung: Fake News sind nicht so verbreitet, wie viele glauben
Viele sehen Fake News überall, auch wenn das nicht stimmt. Das zeigt eine Studie der Uni Amsterdam. Eine gefährliche gesellschaftliche Entwicklung.
deutschlandfunkkultur.de
I recommend this article about AI reasoning, where the author lets us in on his struggles w/ AI cognitive dissonance. Plus some priceless quotes from @rao2z.bsky.social. (My recommendation has *nothing* to do with the fact that I'm quoted in it too 😇) www.quantamagazine.org/is-ai-reason...
Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons? | Quanta Magazine
The idea that artificial intelligence can “reason” is more intuitive than ever. But intuitions can be wrong, and the science is far from settled.
quantamagazine.org
13. Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well.
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Are TikTok and X tracking you across the internet? Our privacy tool can now tell you – The Markup
We’ve updated The Markup’s privacy tool to help you understand how sites are tracking you through TikTok and X pixels.
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Riding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public & personal cost difference, the air & noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etc…Via @theconversation.bsky.social
Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities
Active travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles – even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.
theconversation.com
Nearly through reading @xiaochang.bsky.social brilliant new book Divination Engines!! This is the best historical study on Natural Language Processing, & imo, the most insightful monograph on AI history! CBI was so fortunate have Xiaochang as a keynote at our 2023 "Automation by Design" symposium!
"The Next Information War Is Already Here" - check out this article I co-wrote with @willrobinson1776.bsky.social ... we work to frame very big changes coming to the political digital landscape faster than most think. Up for any thoughts, notes, and appreciate all... substack.com/@willrobinso...
The Next Information War Is Already Here
AI systems are consuming false, misleading, and manipulated content from across the internet - and increasingly presenting it as authoritative answers to millions of users.
substack.com
‼️Reminder: the European Commission is asking for inputs concerning the procedural rules for and a possible draft protocol to the United Nations Convention against #Cybercrime. Deadline 29 July‼️ ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...
European Commission - Have your say
European Commission - Have your say
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Mapping worker-led AI governance in the global cultural industries. New article in Media, Culture & Society with an overview of the results of our tracker on worker mobilizations around AI in the sector. doi.org/10.1177/0163...
📢 NEW ARTICLE JUST OUT! "Governing by dismantling: tech oligarchy and the stifling of public data infrastructure," by @louravn.bsky.social, Bokar N'Diaye, Katie Mackinnon, Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, and @dmuravyov.bsky.social is another addition to our Forum on Tech Oligarchy 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...
Governing by dismantling: tech oligarchy and the stifling of public data infrastructure
Published in Science as Culture (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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Research measuring the effects of AI in education has a major quality control problem that should disqualify most of it from being considered in policy discussions or applied in teaching practice. Quick new post from me codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2026/06/26/t...
The problem with evidence production on AI in education
Photo by Camille Villanueva on Unsplash The research field of artificial intelligence in education (AIED) has a long history of investigating the effects of AI on learning and other educational out…
codeactsineducation.wordpress.com
Just out! My introduction to a new special issue in @sciasculture.bsky.social on "Tech Oligarchy" - go check it out and the papers in the special issue (under "Latest" articles) #techoligarchy #assetization #techbro #bigtech www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Tech oligarchy
Published in Science as Culture (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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Referee Slavko Vinčić has the chance to do the funniest thing ever on Sunday.
OK the truth is no one knows for sure why AIs love "It's not X—it's Y" but there are some strange and fascinating theories and I think this one is my favorite. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
AI can reveal your location from a single photo. Vision‑Language Models can determine where any photo is taken, without any GPS data What does that means for your privacy?
Nowhere to Hide? Privacy Risks and Policy Implications of AI Geolocation
One of the most surprising — and concerning — capabilities of the newest Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems is their ability to infer geographic location from images. Vision‑Language Models (VLMs)...
privacyinternational.org
Speedrun to CJEU badly needed ESPECIALLY given divergence between AG opinion in new CJEU Coyote case and final Court decision.
Claes Holtzmann@claeshs.bsky.social · 2mo agoSetback. "Munich treats Google's AI summaries as independent claims. Berlin sees them as just a new way to display search results. The contradiction shows that the core question of liability in generative search is still wide open."
Six years ago I published a book that engaged machine learning in terms of the politics of text, language & the impossibility of definitive authorship. Are any of the men writing now on LLMs, authorship, and text citing my 2020 work?…. No, reader, they are not.
Amazing: KPMG wrote a report describing the successful use of AI by businesses. But the case studies turned out to be AI hallucinations. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
KPMG report contained AI hallucinations on benefits of . . . AI
Bogus case studies on UBS and transit systems exaggerated adoption of the technology
giftarticle.ft.com
Germany establishes its own AI Safety Institute
Florian Flade@florianflade.bsky.social · 2mo agoBundesregierung gründet Sicherheitsinstitut für KI: Der Nationale Sicherheitsrat der Bundesregierung hat die Einrichtung eines Sicherheitsinstituts für Künstliche Intelligenz beschlossen. www.deutschlandfunk.de/bundesregier...
How did rhubarb, the ancient Chinese drug once worth $100,000 a pound, make its way to kitchen tables in the American Midwest? The story of the pie plant, like that of a Lumbee man who devoted his Iowa backyard to it, must be pieced together, carefully, across time. By Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz
Rheum rhabarbarum: A Social History of Rhubarb
How did rhubarb, the ancient Chinese drug worth $100,000 a pound, make its way to kitchen tables in the American Midwest?
placesjournal.org
NEW: WIRED analyzed Meta's AI app and found NameTag — a hidden facial recognition system designed to identify people via the wearer's smart glasses — has already shipped to over 50 million phones.
Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.
wired.com
At least one German state-level criminal police department (LKA) purchased location data from digital advertising for surveillance, despite lacking a lawful basis, prompting an investigation by the state's data protection authority. Highly problematic on many levels: netzpolitik.org/2026/daten-s...
Deutsche Polizei nutzt offenbar rechtswidrig Databroker
In mindestens zwei Bundesländern hat sich die Polizei Daten von Databrokern beschafft, wie Recherchen von netzpolitik.org und BR erstmals zeigen. Mit solchen Daten könnten sich Handys metergenau orten...
netzpolitik.org
This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...
Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked
The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.
404media.co
Young People & Children’s Commissioner Scotland, has carried out a child rights impact assessment (CRIA) & concluded that an ‘Under-16s social media ban would not currently be proportionate’ www.cypcs.org.uk/resources/ou...
Our response to the UK Government’s 'Growing up in the online world: a national consultation.'
The Commissioner’s office undertook a children’s rights impact assessment (CRIA) which considers how the UK Government’s proposals might affect the rights of children and young people, both positively...
cypcs.org.uk
The technologies are new. The questions--about power, meaning, knowledge, work, who gets counted, and who is at the table--are not. Social science has been asking them all along. The essay is an argument for showing up fully to a reckoning we're already in. www.amacad.org/publication/...
Field Theory: AI as Social Science Question, Object & Tool
Uses of advanced artificial intelligence are changing how societies organize labor, govern, produce knowledge, and make meaning. In light of these developments, this essay argues that AI models, tools...
amacad.org
Alondra Nelson@alondra.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe technologies are new. The questions--about power, meaning, knowledge, work, who gets counted, and who is at the table--are not. Social science has been asking them all along. The essay is an argument for showing up fully to a reckoning we're already in. www.amacad.org/publication/...
A thesis that nobody's read, narrated by someone who isn't there, for an audience that doesn't exist. theneuroscienceofeve... Dean Burnett explores the bizarre experience of having his PhD thesis hijacked by an AI service that nobody asked for or needs. #AIproblems #Thesis #Research #Podcast
A thesis that nobody's read, narrated by someone who isn't there, for an audience that doesn't exist.
An AI programme has apparently made a podcast out of my PhD thesis, in what seems to be a Guinness World Record attempt for 'most pointless endeavour ever'.
theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.substack.com
Für die AfD geht es immer weiter aufwärts? Nicht unbedingt. Von 22 Bürgermeister- und Landratswahlen dieses Jahr in Ostdeutschland verlor die AfD: 21. Wir haben uns alle Orte angeschaut, was man daraus lernen kann - und wie die AfD zu schlagen ist taz.de/Niederlagens...
Niederlagenserie der AfD im Osten: Verloren, verloren, verloren, verloren, verloren, …
Die AfD stellt sich als unbesiegbar dar, besonders im Osten. Doch dieses Jahr verlor sie dort bisher fast alle Kommunalwahlen. Was sich daraus lernen lässt.
taz.de
Wie herrscht das Valley und was meint das eigentlich? Am 1. Juni ist der grossartige @adriandaub.bsky.social zu Gast bei uns am @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social in Berlin, um diese Frage und sein Buch "Was das Valley herrschen nennt" zu diskutieren! Wir freuen uns riesig auf den Abend. Kommt vorbei!
Adrian Daub: Was das Valley herrschen nennt
Vortrag und Diskussion zum Buch „Was das Valley herrschen nennt”, das zeigt, wie Tech-Eliten Macht denken, legitimieren und zunehmend politischen Einfluss ausüben.
weizenbaum-institut.de