Daniel Westman
@danielwestman.bsky.social
Lawyer specialising in information technology and media law. Independent adviser and researcher. Stockholm, Sweden.
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Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy
September 27, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy
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In memoriam: Cryptome co-founder John L. Young, who died March 28 at age 89 in New York City, was one of the early, under-recognized heroes of the digital age.
In Memoriam: John L. Young, Cryptome Co-Founder
John L. Young, who died March 28 at age 89 in New York City, was among the first people to see the need for an online library of official secrets, a place where the public could find out things that g...
www.eff.org
May 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
In memoriam: Cryptome co-founder John L. Young, who died March 28 at age 89 in New York City, was one of the early, under-recognized heroes of the digital age.
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There is evidence that when asked to explain how they reach a decision, models will sometimes provide plausible explanations that don't match the steps they took.
There is evidence that when asked to explain how they reach a decision, models will sometimes provide plausible explanations that don't match the steps they took.
What Anthropic Researchers Found After Reading Claude's ‘Mind’ Surprised Them
As AI's power grows, charting its inner world is more crucial. Anthropic researchers recently pulled the veil back a little further.
singularityhub.com
May 17, 2025 at 3:11 AM
singularityhub.com/2025/03/28/w...
There is evidence that when asked to explain how they reach a decision, models will sometimes provide plausible explanations that don't match the steps they took.
There is evidence that when asked to explain how they reach a decision, models will sometimes provide plausible explanations that don't match the steps they took.
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Russia is waging small-scale assaults across the entire front, but the situation on the battlefield is nowhere near bad enough for Ukraine to be forced into an unfavorable peace deal, military analysts and soldiers told the Kyiv Independent.
Ukraine to continue fighting with or without Trump, experts say
Russia is waging small-scale assaults across the entire front, but the situation on the battlefield is nowhere near bad enough for Ukraine to be forced into an unfavorable peace deal, military analyst...
kyivindependent.com
April 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Russia is waging small-scale assaults across the entire front, but the situation on the battlefield is nowhere near bad enough for Ukraine to be forced into an unfavorable peace deal, military analysts and soldiers told the Kyiv Independent.
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Some news on @euractiv.com out of New Caledonia, where TikTok is free to return after a defeat for the French government
www.euractiv.com/section/tech...
www.euractiv.com/section/tech...
April 1, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Some news on @euractiv.com out of New Caledonia, where TikTok is free to return after a defeat for the French government
www.euractiv.com/section/tech...
www.euractiv.com/section/tech...
Högsta domstolen: EU:s dataskyddsförordning kan få betydelse för om det råder sekretess för personuppgifter i brottmålsdomar även på det grundlagsskyddade området www.domstol.se/hogsta-domst...
EU:s dataskyddsförordning kan få betydelse för om det råder sekretess för personuppgifter i brottmålsdomar även på det grundlagsskyddade området
Med hänsyn till EU:s dataskyddsförordning har Högsta domstolen ansett att det föreligger sekretess när en nyhetsbyrå har begärt att få ut ett större antal domar och andra handlingar i brottmål. Handli...
www.domstol.se
February 25, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Högsta domstolen: EU:s dataskyddsförordning kan få betydelse för om det råder sekretess för personuppgifter i brottmålsdomar även på det grundlagsskyddade området www.domstol.se/hogsta-domst...
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Last summer, @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social and I produced a short podcast series, Autocracy in America. We talked about the changed that preceded an assault on democracy in other countries, and we found them here. Perhaps useful background for the current moment.
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/aut...
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/aut...
Autocracy in America
There are authoritarian tactics already at work in the United States. To root them out, you have to know where to look.
www.theatlantic.com
January 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Last summer, @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social and I produced a short podcast series, Autocracy in America. We talked about the changed that preceded an assault on democracy in other countries, and we found them here. Perhaps useful background for the current moment.
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/aut...
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/aut...
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I've been saying for years now that the GOP considers any attempt to correct their lies as "censorship" and eventually it would lead to this.
More speech is now called censorship.
More speech is now called censorship.
January 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I've been saying for years now that the GOP considers any attempt to correct their lies as "censorship" and eventually it would lead to this.
More speech is now called censorship.
More speech is now called censorship.
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Jack Smith's report on the election case against Trump has been released. The 174-page .pdf can be downloaded here: static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...
January 14, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Jack Smith's report on the election case against Trump has been released. The 174-page .pdf can be downloaded here: static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...
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Romania's Constitutional Court has annulled the country's presidential elections, including the first round and the upcoming runoff initially scheduled for Sunday (8 December) between far-right candidate Georgescu and Elena Lasconi.
✍️ Charles Szumski
🔗 eurac.tv/9XBf
✍️ Charles Szumski
🔗 eurac.tv/9XBf
December 6, 2024 at 2:01 PM
Romania's Constitutional Court has annulled the country's presidential elections, including the first round and the upcoming runoff initially scheduled for Sunday (8 December) between far-right candidate Georgescu and Elena Lasconi.
✍️ Charles Szumski
🔗 eurac.tv/9XBf
✍️ Charles Szumski
🔗 eurac.tv/9XBf
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Medically adapted foundation models (think Med-*) turn out to be more hot air than hot stuff. Correcting for fatal flaws in evaluation, the current crop are no better on balance than generic foundation models, even on the very tasks for which benefits are claimed.
arxiv.org/abs/2411.04118
arxiv.org/abs/2411.04118
Medical Adaptation of Large Language and Vision-Language Models: Are We Making Progress?
Several recent works seek to develop foundation models specifically for medical applications, adapting general-purpose large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs) via continued pret...
arxiv.org
November 26, 2024 at 6:12 PM
Medically adapted foundation models (think Med-*) turn out to be more hot air than hot stuff. Correcting for fatal flaws in evaluation, the current crop are no better on balance than generic foundation models, even on the very tasks for which benefits are claimed.
arxiv.org/abs/2411.04118
arxiv.org/abs/2411.04118
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People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change
November 27, 2024 at 6:22 AM
People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change