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 · 6d 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...

New: Police are being told to hide the fact that they're using Flock to pull people over and arrest them in both encounters with citizens but ALSO in their official police reports: www.404media.co/do-not-menti...

‘DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE’: How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock

“DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE TO THE OCCUPANTS OF THE VEHICLE. DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE IN YOUR REPORT OR COMPLAINT."

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Are you a new researcher in #NLG? An MSc or PhD student or a postdoc new to natural language generation? Do you want to find advice and community? Check out the #YNLG workshop happening at #INLG2026! (One week left to submit) ynlg-workshop.github.io

cursed age

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · last wk.

TikTok has incredible moderation team. Our InfoWars video about Multiple Horse Theory — the idea that there are many horses in the world and not just one — has been fully deemed misinformation and lost the formal appeals process. Confirmed by Larry Ellison: There is only one horse on Earth.

Ok, I have been MIA on this platform because life has been busy, but I want to remind you Digital Humanities Quarterly invites abstracts for a special issue on the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) in relation to digital humanities pedagogy due August 1 dhq.digitalhumanities.org/submissions/...

Interesting that the "trans women are predators" crowd are all predators

All the perverts following women around with Meta glasses saying 'JK Rowling told me to do it.'

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv)@theserfstv.bsky.social · last wk.

They're coming for your children www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/06/jk-r...

Fascist account posing as antifascist: 👀

But all jokes aside, this is deeply cynical and manipulative. As with "AI in education", Musk and his fellow billionaires are pushing this line of thinking so they can secure funding, but also to build consensus for a 2-tier system: humans for them, robots for the rest of us.

Taylor Noakes@taylornoakes.com · last wk.

Words cannot describe how much I despise this person’s contempt for how hard real scientists work It’s the kind of attitude you can only get from inheriting a fortune from an Apartheid era emerald mine finance.yahoo.com/sectors/heal...

“Barring a dramatic overhaul, it’s going to be hard for Meta and Big Tech at large to change the current narrative [about smart glasses].” Worth a read.

With smart glasses, Meta holds all the cards but fails to play them well

It’s Meta’s move.

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The workshop accepts ARR-reviewed papers, so if you've got one, then do submit by the 3rd of August!

Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms@woahworkshop.bsky.social · last wk.

📢 Have an ARR-reviewed paper? WOAH 2026 @ #EMNLP2026 is accepting commitments of ARR-reviewed papers! 📅 Deadline: 3 August 2026 (AoE) 🔗 Commit your paper: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #WOAH2026 #EMNLP2026 #NLP #AI #OnlineSafety

Academic organizations hadde bettir actuallye be brave and protecte each othir or else the last one ther will have no taske besydes turninge out the lightes and leavinge the key yn the envelope for big businesse.

💯 all of this

Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE)@shengokai.blacksky.app · 2w ago

So, while right wing critiques might be a start for this engagement, I would say that we need to look at the conservative impulse in academia to treat fields that have an interest in improving conditions for marginalized groups as activism.

There’s massive fallacy at the very start and heart of this story - no amount of new oil and gas from the North Sea can bring down the cost of living - global markets set the price, even when we make it here - not us. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

this comparison leaves out a key point: the Edsel sold roughly twice the Cybertruck's volume at a time when the overall car market was just 6m units/year instead of the current 16m units/year that makes the Cybertruck the much, much bigger flop, hands down

Anne Cronin@annecronin.bsky.social · 2w ago

FREE LINK > Tesla Cybertruck sales have been so weak that it's challenging Ford's Edsel to become the biggest automotive flop of all time. Great tale by Bethany Benjamin > www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

the pervert glasses company is not beating the allegations

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2w ago

Mark Zuckerberg's assistant at Meta, Josh Felker, who was responsible for Meta's "digital experiences for kids," was arrested after admitting he tried to sext a 13-year-old during an undercover sting. nypost.com/2026/07/20/u...

Wes Streeting has been made Defence Secretary. In his released correspondence with Peter Mandelson, he said: “Israel is committing war crimes before our eyes.” Journalists should ask him: 1) Does he stand by that? 2) What legal obligations does the UK therefore have?

ICE executes the nonwhite while the White House and State Department look to declare the U.S. left a Foreign Terrorist Organization. We've been heading here since 9/11 @attackerman.bsky.social

FOREVER WARS@forever-wars.com · 3w ago

"Absurdity, as many people have already learned over 25 years of the War on Terror, does not stop an asset freeze or an FBI raid," writes @attackerman.bsky.social.

A twelve thousand percent increase in articles about "the trans probem" in a decade. Manufacturing "the trans problem" out of thin air and bile.

elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 2w ago

Worth adding some numbers to this. The British press decided to make trans rights into an issue. It just wasn’t an issue before. This was a top-down decision. shado-mag.com/articles/opi...

Reupping this because ACM is still considering a dumbass decision and of you haven't communicated to them that there are, in fact, good decisions to be made, like not selling your authors out for hot air and promises (i think we were suppressed to be at Mars by now right), it's still a good time!

Association for Computing Machinery@acm.org · 3w ago

If you would like to share your thoughts, please use this link (buff.ly/fnANR1x). ACM leadership will take your feedback into account while we develop and implement our AI content strategy over the coming months.

MUST WATCH FILM ALERT - For those of you in and around Edinburgh on 22 Aug, come along to the @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social to watch the fantastic Ghost in the Machine documentary. In partnership with @our-ai-collective.bsky.social Find out what AI is really about! youtu.be/i9DAv0D7tnY?...

GHOST IN THE MACHINE (2026) OFFICIAL TRAILER

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People may honestly labor under the belief that ChatGPT is a search engine comparable to the Google of yesteryear. They're mistaken. That's not a difference of opinion. Calling it a search engine, shows you don't understand how LLMs work. ChatGPT is deeply flawed, often in ways invisible to users.

Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 3w ago

“Used ChatGPT as my search engine” 👀 🫠 Editor-in-Chief of Science

i used to subscribe vaguely to a sense of doing work for orgs like a big collective project; we were all putting our work into orgs like ACM in little bits and pieces: a submission here, a review there, chairing a conference, citing papers. the ACM is an estimable org, plainly, because of all of us.

either way, whether the project was never what i (or we) assumed it to be, or whether the project WAS and is now something else, the bank might as well be insolvent, because we're never gonna get to cash out what we've been putting in. we should start to spend our energy differently.

this is stoking a thought i want to write about, but basically i agree wholeheartedly with zee here; i think we should all get much more serious, dare i say "merciless", about determining whether institutions, organizations, etc... deserve to continue to live off the fruits of our collective labor.

Zeerak Talat زیرک طلعت (they/them)@zeerak.bsky.social · 3w ago

Y'all absolutely the fuck not. In fact, I think this is makes a STRONG case for why conferences like CHI and FAccT should pull out of the ACM. I highly recommend that you tell ACM what you think about your work being co-opted into planet-killing misinformation machines.

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

I urge the @acm.org to look at its values (e.g. as encoded in the Code of Conduct) and ask: how do we stand for those values in the faces of pressure from wealthy interests?