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Joris van Hoboken
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(he/him) antifascist, law prof in Amsterdam (IViR); platform regulation, law and digital infrastructure, quantum technology, fundamental rights.
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cdteu.org
📢 New week, new highlight of a member of our Advisory Council!

@jvh.bsky.social is Professor of Information Law at @ivir-uva.bsky.social

He works on law and digital infrastructure, including the intersection of fundamental rights protection & platform governance.

🌟 Excited to have him on board!
November 13, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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francescabria.bsky.social
The Authoritarian Stack: how tech billionaires are building a post-democratic America and why Europe is next.

My new project is an interactive investigation and open data platform to expose tech authoritarianism and mobilize collective power for democratic alternatives.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 8, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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hormiga.bsky.social
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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tribelaw.bsky.social
Ridiculous. Cruel. Lawless.
stevevladeck.bsky.social Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 9d
#BREAKING: #SCOTUS grants yet another stay to the Trump administration, putting back into place a new State Department policy requiring passports to display their bearers' biological sex at birth.

Justice Jackson (joined by Justices Sotomayor and Kagan) once again dissents.
November 7, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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claesdevreese.bsky.social
Today is the day 🎁

The #dsa regime for researchers to get access to platform data to study societal impact and risks starts TODAY.

This has been a loooooong time coming. And the proof of the pudding will be in the eating …

#dataaccess #commsky

digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/new-...
New measures unlock access to data from largest online platforms to support research
As of today, new rules under the Digital Services Act (DSA) will allow researchers to gain unprecedented access to very large online platforms' data to study the societal impact stemming from the plat...
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
October 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
jvh.bsky.social
"What is your story? You never even told me about a story."

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here.”
My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.
www.lawfaremedia.org
October 21, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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emilymbender.bsky.social
I'd love to see someone try to estimate just how much time and money has gone into research that is either fully undermined by reliance on LLMs or fully pointless --- because obvious if you start from an understanding of what LLMs actually are.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Screen cap from linked article, with heading Significance and then text: Large Language Models (LLMs) are used in evaluative tasks across domains. Yet, what appears as alignment with human or expert judgments may conceal a deeper shift in how “judgment” itself is operationalized. Using news outlets as a controlled benchmark, we compare six LLMs to expert ratings and human evaluations under an identical, structured framework. While models often match expert outputs, our results suggest that they may rely on lexical associations and statistical priors rather than contextual reasoning or normative criteria. We term this divergence epistemia: the illusion of knowledge emerging when surface plausibility replaces verification. Our findings suggest not only performance asymmetries but also a shift in the heuristics underlying evaluative processes, raising fundamental questions about delegating judgment to LLMs. Sentence starting with "While models often" is highlighted in blue.
October 18, 2025 at 10:11 AM
jvh.bsky.social
Honoured to be part of the new advisory board of @cdteu.org, and excited to get involved in this and learn from the other members and the CDT Europe team
cdteu.org CDT Europe @cdteu.org · Oct 16
📢 Today, CDT Europe is proud to announce the creation of its new Advisory Council, an exciting milestone for our organisation as we strengthen our work at the intersection of #technology, policy, and democracy in Europe.

👇🏻 Read more on our website: cdt.org/insights/cdt...
CDT Europe Announces Inaugural Advisory Council
The Advisory Council Membersto announce the creation of its new Advisory Council, an exciting milestone for our organisation as we strengthen our work at the intersection of technology, policy, and de...
cdt.org
October 17, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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junoryleejournalism.com
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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english.lemonde.fr
In Israeli prisons, hunger and torture are ever-present
In Israeli prisons, hunger and torture are ever-present
Le Monde has collected the accounts of three civilians from the West Bank who were detained for months without trial or judgment and subjected to food deprivation and regular beatings. Two years after the beginning of the war against Gaza, more than 11,000 Palestinians remain incarcerated in Israel.
www.lemonde.fr
October 10, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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smachlis.bsky.social
This is a professor at Rutgers who teaches a class on the history of anti-fascism. He also teaches about human rights. He has received multiple death threats and been doxed. He is relocating to Europe for his safety. This is where we are in the US now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
October 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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meredithmeredith.bsky.social
📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
signal.org Signal @signal.org · Oct 3
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
signal.org
October 6, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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sandipto.bsky.social
I wrote for the @bostonreview.bsky.social about the extraordinary Andrée Blouin, along with Lumumba, Cesaire, Fanon, and the anticolonial revolution that could have been.
The Inventor of the Future - Boston Review
The autobiography of anticolonial luminary Andrée Blouin captures her era’s euphoric highs as well as its tragic denouement.
www.bostonreview.net
October 2, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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parkermolloy.com
Robby Starbuck is a far-right activist. Meta putting him in the position of being a "bias advisor" for its chat bot is insane.
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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lilianedwards.bsky.social
Very happy to announce brilliant new paper on AI by the wonderful @atoosakz.bsky.social , Phillip Hacker, and er, me, on systemic risk and how it is confusingly differently interpreted through the EU AIA, the DSA and its origin, financial regulation.

Paper at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.17878
September 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
This is a REALLY GOOD piece on the challenges of today's attention economy.

Lefty pundits suffer from the same problems and would do well to read it.
September 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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ayoub.bsky.social
ex-IDF chief confirms Gaza casualties over 200,000

That’s 10% of the entire population of Gaza in 2 years

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
‘We took the gloves off’: ex-IDF chief confirms Gaza casualties over 200,000
Retired general Herzi Halevi says ‘not once’ had legal advice constrained Israel’s military decisions in the strip
www.theguardian.com
September 12, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Interested in empirically and critically studying how computational infrastructures (clouds+end devices) expand into public organizations?

Then please consider applying to this 2 yr postdoc position within the algosoc project and situated at TUD:
careers.tudelft.nl/job/Delft-Po...
Postdoc Impact of Computational Infrastructures on Public Institutions and Administration of Justice
Postdoc Impact of Computational Infrastructures on Public Institutions and Administration of Justice
careers.tudelft.nl
September 9, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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elienyc.bsky.social
Here’s my write up on the most racist decision to come out of the Supreme Court in a while. The court approved of Trump’s racial profiling of Latinos with Brett Kavanaugh saying being harassed based on the color of your skin is “common sense.”
My latest in @thenation
The Supreme Court Just Gave the OK to Racial Profiling
The court’s ruling allowing ICE to resume its indiscriminate round-ups of LA’s Latino residents can only be described as one thing.
www.thenation.com
September 8, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.
‘I escaped a Russian prison — only to end up in an American jail’
Dozens of Russian dissidents have been expelled from the US and forcibly returned to Russia with the co-operation of immigration authorities
www.thetimes.com
September 6, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
Incredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault
September 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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ntinatzouvala.bsky.social
at some point international lawyers need to stop pointing out that this is illegal (of course it is) and start asking if the US still considers the UN Charter to be valid law
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 5
Hegseth: "Maximum lethality -- not tepid legality. Violent effect, not politically correct. We're gonna raise up warriors. Not just defenders."
September 5, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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maxvonthun.bsky.social
Disastrous news if true. The European Commission has been talking about a Google adtech breakup since 2023, and could now throw it all away in a pointless effort to appease Trump – at the cost of its credibility, sovereignty and democratic legitimacy.

www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
Exclusive: Google set to face modest EU antitrust fine in adtech investigation, sources say
Alphabet's Google is set to face a modest EU antitrust fine in the coming weeks for allegedly anti-competitive practices in its adtech business, three people with direct knowledge of the matter said.
www.reuters.com
August 29, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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akalhan.bsky.social
timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine...
(NYT Oct 23 1935) CENTER OF STAGE FOR HITLER — Opening of Games Arranged to Give Him Leading Role — BERLIN, Oct. 22. — Chancellor Adolf Hitler will play the leading role at the opening of next year's Olympics in Berlin. When athletes from all over the world have been assembled in the polo field, just outside the main stadium, the president of the International Olympic Committee and the president of the organizing committee for the Eleventh Olympics will enter the Hall of Honor. In the hall they will present to Hitler the chairmen of the various national Olympic committees. Hitler, surrounded by the chairmen, will then be conducted to his box in the Olympic Stadium. When he arrives the games will be declared officially open. Much Olympic literature issued by the German organizing committee points out that the games will occur under Hitler's patronage. The whole Olympic scene is dominated by the 249-foot Fuehrer Tower.
August 6, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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markjacob.bsky.social
Just in case it’s not already clear that ICE is a white supremacist thug army, Homeland Security is recruiting with a “defend your culture” slogan.
Serve your country! Defend your culture!
August 6, 2025 at 8:07 PM