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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤
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I write and teach critical intellectual property, theories, law & humanities & history of science in the UK university titanic. Mostly unserious here. Private account.
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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · Aug 20
Happy this is happening, hope to see many of you IP and IP related nerds online!
ishtip.bsky.social Int Society for the History & Theory of Intellectual Property @ishtip.bsky.social · Aug 20
We are very pleased to announce the 2025/6 ISHTIP Online Seminar Series, which brings together scholars from around the world who explore intellectual property issues from theoretical and historical angles.

Please find below the programme, dates for your diary, registration links ⬇️
hyoyoonkang.bsky.social
Cherry picking into autarchy or banana republic (international oligarchy trading out of London, presumably wouldn’t fall under “remittance”)
sundersays.bsky.social Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 20m
Trevor Phillips proposes banning "remittances" (ie: imposing currency/exchange controls on international cash transfers by foreign nationals from Britain). He says this would disincentivise immigration, in a Times piece saying the Home Secretary needs to go [much] further

archive.ph/RlXPj
November 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
hyoyoonkang.bsky.social
the denial is reassuring then
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3h
In the memo, “Nvidia also responds to claims that the ‘current situation is analogous to historical accounting frauds (Enron, WorldCom, Lucent) that featured vendor financing and SPVs [special purpose vehicles.)’”

@barrons.com $NVDA
@firstadopter.bsky.social
www.barrons.com/articles/nvi...
November 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM
hyoyoonkang.bsky.social
It does pain me for the first time in a big way that work doesn’t stop for my kiddo’s important birthday.
November 23, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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alyssaharad.bsky.social
Excuse me, I need you to look at the color of these perfect apples.
Four glowing red apples with a blush of yellow peeking out from under the red.
November 23, 2025 at 9:27 PM
hyoyoonkang.bsky.social
Susan Sontag’s essay vs Susan Sontag’s fictions
jacobwren.bsky.social Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 1d
“I’m not a serious thinker. I’m a writer: that’s very different. I think a writer’s intelligence has to be alive, has to be incomplete. It has to carry contradiction. It has to be sort of haphazard and amateur.”
- Benjamín Labatut
November 23, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
You think LLM-based chatbots can help students learn? Think again.

Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.

#Critical_AI_Literacy

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
www.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
hyoyoonkang.bsky.social
Covent Garden at night pre-Advent
Nocturnal view of Covent Garden with London Eye in the background and garish lit up Xmas tree on the right
November 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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rezekjoe.bsky.social
You know what I’m glad we have studies to prove obvious things because our society is literally whored out to data.
us.theconversation.com The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 3d
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
hyoyoonkang.bsky.social
new profile photo bec someone told me the other one looks unprofessional (but this is not a professional account, but okay)
November 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
hyoyoonkang.bsky.social
maybe my impression is wrong but it seems there are hundreds of algorithm and critical AI scholars in different fields, replicating works and not reading each others’ stuff
November 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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annaalexandrova.bsky.social
Fascinating to think about the longterm consequences of this for social science. Might it lead to a reversal of the 'empirical turn' in economics and return to theory? A growth in popularity of in person qualitative research? Prioritisation of objective indicators in quant work?
joshmccrain.bsky.social Josh McCrain @joshmccrain.bsky.social · 6d
new paper by Sean Westwood:

With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
November 20, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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kylereed.bsky.social
And that's setting aside the whole "designing education around a few workplace-defined skills is actually a shitty way to teach" thing...
November 21, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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oliverhouse.bsky.social
On the 80th anniversary of the opening of the Nuremberg Trials Harvard Law School Library releases the first set of digitised records.

hls.harvard.edu/today/harvar...
Harvard Law School Library releases first complete set of digitized Nuremberg Trials records - Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School's Nuremberg Trials Project has finalized the first complete, keyword searchable online collection of more than 750,000 pages of Nazi war tribunal documents.
hls.harvard.edu
November 21, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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ncecire.bsky.social
the pivot to BLAIR 💀
daniloc.xyz Dr. Platano 🇵🇷 @daniloc.xyz · 3d
Larry Summers’s co-teacher at Harvard:

“We will miss his insights and his wisdom”

Student:

“NO WE WON’T”

dude pretends he doesn’t hear, then intros Tony Blair lmao
November 21, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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unsocialtheory.bsky.social
This part from the #Covid19 inquiry speaks directly to something myself and Linsey McGoey wrote about in 2020 (published as journal article in 2024 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....): the construction of *impossibility to act* as the key feature of post-liberalism (a thread 🧵👇)
November 21, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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lrb.co.uk
‘Possession of the same genetic variant may contribute to an increase in intelligence in one person, decrease it in another and do nothing in a third.’

Jonathan Flint and Iain Mathieson on the flawed logic of selective gene editing.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jonathan Flint and Iain Mathieson · What’s in the junk? Genetic Effects
We still only partly understand the relationship between genes and cognitive abilities. Over the last fifty years or so...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 AM
hyoyoonkang.bsky.social
London ❤️
EPITAPH ON A TYRANT W. H. Auden Poems on the Underground Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after, And the poetry he invented was easy to understand; He knew human folly like the back of his hand, And was greatly interested in armies and fleets; When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And when he cried the little children died in the streets. January 1939 tfl.gov.uk/poems poemsontheunderground.org
November 21, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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davidnaimon.bsky.social
Congratulations to Omar El Akkad for winning the 2025 National Book Award in Nonfiction! ICYMI: Omar's appearance on the show was one of the great all-time conversations so far.
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...
Omar El Akkad : One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Tin House
In late October 2023, weeks into Israel’s bombing of northern Gaza, the novelist Omar El Akkad retweeted a video taken by a Gazan man. This video showed a lifeless moonscape with endless empty streets...
tinhouse.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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kimdorman.bsky.social
a poem before sleep

(translated by Kenneth Rexroth)
November 20, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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ishtip.bsky.social
Please join us for the next online ISHTIP seminar:

Gerardo Con Diaz (STS, UC Davis) will be speaking

'On Judgment: A Critical Grammar for Computing and Law'.

Monday, 8 December 6am LA (PST)

More info and registration link:

ishtip.org/on-judgement...

Everyone welcome.
On Judgment: A Critical Grammar for Computing and Law – ISHTIP
ishtip.org
November 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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ishtip.bsky.social
SAVE THE DATE 📣

International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property (ISHTIP)

17th Annual Workshop

Intellectual Property and Democracy

25 & 26 June 2026

hosted by the Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo, Brazil.

Call for papers will be circulated soon.
Save the Date for the 2026 Annual Workshop – ISHTIP
ishtip.org
November 20, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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wordkunst.bsky.social
Friederike Mayröcker (tr. wordkunst) / Tobias Pils (*1971)
Tobias Raphael Pils. "Pencil, Ink on Paper, 180 x 110 cm, 1995" or a Raphael-Necessity [for description = next image] text by Friederike Mayröcker there she is now in front of the stacked chairs, and I can see her tugging the threads, syruplike, doubling her dark figure (rear view) wearing 1 covering upon her narrow skull, a very black covering with two little Chinese pigtails like antennae, Dalí moustache, straining, stretching her long arms or garment sleeves to the floor and sanding, and in the look of her eyes I had no idea where to *hell with it* all, namely, those camels and Alhambras hiding themselves in 1 flood of light, and first had to look up the meanings of the word, after the fact, and maybe this figure here on the paper is saying something I can't understand, but the echo of the words has been calling back from the walls of my room for a long time, I mean, it was 1 MINDTHICKET, I think the uncapped felt-tip had gotten caught up in the underblanket, FIZZLED-OUT, so that everything was full of black lines and envelopes and spidery cantilevers : striped, spotted, scorched, a spit of color, ink and charcoal, studded they were with dark my blanket and sheet, unadorned by clumps of soot; foot binding
November 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less." She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards. They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it. This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil. The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option. "We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents. "We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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mattseybold.bsky.social
Authoritarianism is the bailout.
White House drafts order directing Justice Department to sue states that pass AI regulations
The draft order comes after Republicans in Congress failed to pass a federal ban on state AI regulation, as more lawmakers raise concerns about the technology.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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davidwearing.bsky.social
I would put it like this. Minority communities and the majority of the majority community have integrated v.well. However, a significant minority of the majority community and a significant majority of the political class are stubbornly refusing to integrate, and that is where the real problem lies.
tpgroberts.bsky.social Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 5d
Fundamentally, the UK is a massive success story on integration and most of the anxiety around it from the right should be treated as in insincere concern trolling it actually is.
anooshc.bsky.social Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 6d
Remember integration? That thing voters "really, really" care about? Where's that in the latest plans?

My column:
November 20, 2025 at 9:23 AM