Debbie Keatley
@debkeatley.bsky.social
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warning: reading this piece will leave you outraged
"Code of Practice is failing to protect human rights. This draft relies on faulty logic that dramatically limits the ways in which AI developers would need to mitigate human rights risks from their AI models"
www.techpolicy.press/human-rights...
"Code of Practice is failing to protect human rights. This draft relies on faulty logic that dramatically limits the ways in which AI developers would need to mitigate human rights risks from their AI models"
www.techpolicy.press/human-rights...
Human Rights are Universal, Not Optional: Don’t Undermine the EU AI Act with a Faulty Code of Practice | TechPolicy.Press
The Code of Practice draft takes a step backward due to its weak approach to human rights protections, write Laura Caroli, Laura Cabrera, and David Harris.
www.techpolicy.press
December 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
warning: reading this piece will leave you outraged
"Code of Practice is failing to protect human rights. This draft relies on faulty logic that dramatically limits the ways in which AI developers would need to mitigate human rights risks from their AI models"
www.techpolicy.press/human-rights...
"Code of Practice is failing to protect human rights. This draft relies on faulty logic that dramatically limits the ways in which AI developers would need to mitigate human rights risks from their AI models"
www.techpolicy.press/human-rights...
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This is indeed for people in the Netherlands (of which, I'm one) to sign *however* I encourage everyone to study and adapt the points made to and for your location. There's lots of hand wringing and analysis but as a hard materialist I always elevate clear eyed response. This is that.
If you're based in NL please consider reading & signing our open letter on reclaiming so-called AI from the AI Delta Plan & co:
"Thoughtfully Shaping Our Digital Future" openletter.earth/zorgvuldig-a...
Big thanks to @lekkerresistance.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @marentierra.bsky.social
"Thoughtfully Shaping Our Digital Future" openletter.earth/zorgvuldig-a...
Big thanks to @lekkerresistance.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @marentierra.bsky.social
December 13, 2025 at 11:26 AM
This is indeed for people in the Netherlands (of which, I'm one) to sign *however* I encourage everyone to study and adapt the points made to and for your location. There's lots of hand wringing and analysis but as a hard materialist I always elevate clear eyed response. This is that.
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In case you ever needed proof that the Heritage Foundation is not a conservative organization, here we have them cheering on the Federal Government threatening to strip all funding from a state that does not make political decisions the President likes. Any true conservative would be howling.
December 11, 2025 at 8:21 PM
In case you ever needed proof that the Heritage Foundation is not a conservative organization, here we have them cheering on the Federal Government threatening to strip all funding from a state that does not make political decisions the President likes. Any true conservative would be howling.
Oh.
Super interesting reporting on Palantir‘s efforts to be used in Swiss governmental services and the military. They decided against it, because they worried Palantir was giving information to CIA and NSA and feared a loss of national sovereignty.
www.republik.ch/2025/12/08/w...
www.republik.ch/2025/12/08/w...
December 11, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Oh.
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The reality of the EHCR. Since 2017 the Court received 660 requests for interim measures in UK cases,15 were granted 15, i.e. 2% of requests, average of 2 per year. In 2023, the Court issued only 1 Rule 39 order against the UK, for a person's expulsion to the USA
ukandeu.ac.uk/explainers/t...
ukandeu.ac.uk/explainers/t...
The UK’s ECHR record: how common are Rule 39 orders and how often is the UK found to have violated rights? - UK in a changing Europe
Using the latest figures, Joelle Grogan and Alice Donald examine the UK's ECHR record and how common ‘Rule 39 orders’ are.
ukandeu.ac.uk
December 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The reality of the EHCR. Since 2017 the Court received 660 requests for interim measures in UK cases,15 were granted 15, i.e. 2% of requests, average of 2 per year. In 2023, the Court issued only 1 Rule 39 order against the UK, for a person's expulsion to the USA
ukandeu.ac.uk/explainers/t...
ukandeu.ac.uk/explainers/t...
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The failure to confront these realities has ongoing consequences in NI that are "entirely contrary to democratic accountability". This is a serving Chief Constable fundamentally at odds with UK ministers, and it should receive intense scrutiny in UK media outlets. But it inevitably won't.
December 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The failure to confront these realities has ongoing consequences in NI that are "entirely contrary to democratic accountability". This is a serving Chief Constable fundamentally at odds with UK ministers, and it should receive intense scrutiny in UK media outlets. But it inevitably won't.
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I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:53 AM
I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
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Indeed, one of the most subsidized and profitable industries bullying governments for more incentives and more profits is grotesque. Higher drug prices is bad for our health, and does not deliver more innovation www.bmj.com/content/391/...
December 9, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Indeed, one of the most subsidized and profitable industries bullying governments for more incentives and more profits is grotesque. Higher drug prices is bad for our health, and does not deliver more innovation www.bmj.com/content/391/...
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Shamina Begum must be held accountable for her actions when she was 15. Whereas I should not, because I was a mere child.
December 7, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Shamina Begum must be held accountable for her actions when she was 15. Whereas I should not, because I was a mere child.
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🌀'Room ventilation is a key determinant of airborne disease transmission. Despite this, ventilation guidelines in hospitals are not founded on robust scientific evidence related to the prevention of airborne transmission.' Knibbs, Morawska, Bell, and Grzybowski.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21658810/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21658810/
Room ventilation and the risk of airborne infection transmission in 3 health care settings within a large teaching hospital - PubMed
Given the absence of definitive ventilation guidelines for hospitals, air-exchange measurements combined with modeling afford a useful means of assessing, on a case-by-case basis, the suitability of room ventilation for preventing airborne disease transmission.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
December 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
🌀'Room ventilation is a key determinant of airborne disease transmission. Despite this, ventilation guidelines in hospitals are not founded on robust scientific evidence related to the prevention of airborne transmission.' Knibbs, Morawska, Bell, and Grzybowski.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21658810/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21658810/
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My hotel in Hong Kong, where people understand airborne transmission of respiratory viruses, has HEPA filters everywhere
November 27, 2025 at 11:30 PM
My hotel in Hong Kong, where people understand airborne transmission of respiratory viruses, has HEPA filters everywhere
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What's the future for Undergraduate Medical Education in England?
@martinmckee.bsky.social and I look at what's in the 10 Year Plan and the implications.
We think there is significant risk of the proposals devaluing degrees and the Profession.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
@martinmckee.bsky.social and I look at what's in the 10 Year Plan and the implications.
We think there is significant risk of the proposals devaluing degrees and the Profession.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Medical education at the crossroads. Part I: undergraduate education and the erosion of professional identity - Louella Vaughan, Martin McKee, 2025
journals.sagepub.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:21 AM
What's the future for Undergraduate Medical Education in England?
@martinmckee.bsky.social and I look at what's in the 10 Year Plan and the implications.
We think there is significant risk of the proposals devaluing degrees and the Profession.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
@martinmckee.bsky.social and I look at what's in the 10 Year Plan and the implications.
We think there is significant risk of the proposals devaluing degrees and the Profession.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Cryptology firm cancels elections after losing encryption key
Cryptology firm cancels elections after losing encryption key
The International Association for Cryptologic Research - created to study secure communication - said it was an "honest human mistake."
www.bbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Cryptology firm cancels elections after losing encryption key
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Today I learned that stalking a 17 year old girl, writing up a 400 page 'dossier' about her, falsely reporting her to the police and smashing her phone does not constitute 'harassment'.
One wonders what *would*.
One wonders what *would*.
Graham Linehan cleared of harassment but guilty of criminal damage to trans activist's phone
Graham Linehan cleared of harassment but guilty of criminal damage to trans activist's phone
Father Ted creator Graham Linehan has been found guilty of criminal damage to the phone of a trans activist but not guilty of harassment.
news.sky.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Today I learned that stalking a 17 year old girl, writing up a 400 page 'dossier' about her, falsely reporting her to the police and smashing her phone does not constitute 'harassment'.
One wonders what *would*.
One wonders what *would*.
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"Parliament has given the ICO considerable powers not to politely hope for the best, but to enforce compliance with legally binding orders." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Civil liberties groups call for inquiry into UK data protection watchdog
Campaigners including Good Law Project describe ICO ‘collapse in enforcement activity’ after Afghan data breach
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:22 AM
"Parliament has given the ICO considerable powers not to politely hope for the best, but to enforce compliance with legally binding orders." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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NEW 🚨: Two of the biggest climate villains of our time have teamed up to pull off what could be a £1.3 billion tax dodge.
Shell and Equinor are forming a new joint venture, Adura, which will be the new owner of the Rosebank oil field 👇
actionnetwork.org/letters/disr...
Shell and Equinor are forming a new joint venture, Adura, which will be the new owner of the Rosebank oil field 👇
actionnetwork.org/letters/disr...
Disrupt the deal: Shell and Equinor's £1.3 billion tax grab
Two of the biggest climate villains of our time have teamed up to pull off what could be a £1.3 billion tax dodge. Demand Rachel Reeves intervene, investigate this deal, and plug this massive hole in ...
actionnetwork.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
NEW 🚨: Two of the biggest climate villains of our time have teamed up to pull off what could be a £1.3 billion tax dodge.
Shell and Equinor are forming a new joint venture, Adura, which will be the new owner of the Rosebank oil field 👇
actionnetwork.org/letters/disr...
Shell and Equinor are forming a new joint venture, Adura, which will be the new owner of the Rosebank oil field 👇
actionnetwork.org/letters/disr...
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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
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Costs of #LongCovid "are estimated at an average annual burden of $1 trillion globally"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Costs of #LongCovid "are estimated at an average annual burden of $1 trillion globally"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Epstein survivors call to action. "It's time to shine a light into the darkness." #opdeatheaters
November 17, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Epstein survivors call to action. "It's time to shine a light into the darkness." #opdeatheaters
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I mean, this is basically how public health manages 'respiratory season'. And COVID season, which runs from Jan to Dec every year, oddly enough.
During the height of the pandemic, Tyson used Palantir to predict Covid-19 infections among meatpacking workers down to a nearly exactly figure. But rather than using this data to increase worker protections, Tyson used it plan for labor shortages + plant closures
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:38 AM
I mean, this is basically how public health manages 'respiratory season'. And COVID season, which runs from Jan to Dec every year, oddly enough.
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Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement.
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
Scientists call on the President of the European Commission to retract AI hype statement
Experts in AI call on the President of the European Commission to retract unscientific AI hype statement she made in the budget speech.
www.iccl.ie
November 10, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement.
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
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Important to remember!!!
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November 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Important to remember!!!
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Nobody could have predicted this. Of course the Thieves’ Guild wasn’t happy with laws requiring them not to steal stuff.
apparently the unprecedented wealth and inflcuence big tech is amassing at the cost of the most marginalised is not enough. big tech ceos are not that different from drug cartels
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
EU set to water down landmark AI Act after pressure from big tech
European Commission proposes pauses to provisions in digital rule book amid concerns over implications for EU competitiveness
www.irishtimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Nobody could have predicted this. Of course the Thieves’ Guild wasn’t happy with laws requiring them not to steal stuff.