In dumb news of the day, Google has filed suit against SerpAPI: blog.google/technology/s... I've said this before: Google is not the right plaintiff for these cases. There's some important issues to work out about robots.txt and proxy uses and scraping facts. But Google looks real bad here.

Join me and @noupside.bsky.social *IN FIVE MINUTES* to talk about what the European Commission's decision means for X's pocket book, Europe's ongoing access to X, JD Vance's tweets, and whether this decision really is about censoring American tech companies.

Tomorrow 10am AEST (midnight Brussels) is our #digitallaw25 symposium, 2nd of its kin. Packed programme, exceptional abstracts & slides! With @mariaosullivan.bsky.social @nicsuzor.bsky.social hosted at the Law Chambers @monashuniversity.bsky.social with Deakin Law. Any Oz tech law profs can follow

BREAKING @knightcolumbia.org just won their case against Trump admin’s policy arresting/deporting noncitizen stud. & fac. participating in pro-Palestinian activism This is a threat mailed to chambers of the 84yo Reagan appointed judge. He started the opinion with it and this is how he ended. 1/2

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

A year ago at #TrustCon, I ran around like a maniac showing people something on my laptop. We'd just gotten CoPE - our policy interpretation model - working. It felt like a huge achievement, validating our ideas about LLM-powered labeling. 🧵 1/7

Great panel yesterday on 'Governing automated decision-making for positive social services' with @kimweatherall.bsky.social , Samantha Floreani, Jake Goldenfein, and Kath Albury, organised and chaired by Christine Parker at @admscentre.org.au . The highlights of the conversation (in thread):

The PlatGov Conference is back! What a joy! I have learned so much from this research community. Join us this year 👇 @robyncaplan.bsky.social @gorwa.ca @ameliehldt.bsky.social @naomiappelman.bsky.social @deeliu97.bsky.social

I am getting excited! 3 weeks to go until our AoIR Symposium 2025 in Bremen will kick-off! The line-up of plenary speakers is wonderful, and the program so promising. If you are able to join in early June, don't miss to register for the few remaining seats. platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo...

why did nobody tell me python 3.10 introduced a match/case syntax? WHAT ELSE HAVE I BEEN MISSING?

Very happy to see this work come out from the amazing @klonick.bsky.social and team — measuring relationship between outrage and the spread of false information

From the most excellent Tegan Cohen: www.uottawa.ca/en/news-all/...

I feel so proud to announce that my first book - The Kids Are Online: Confronting the Myths and Realities of Young Digital Life - will be published in March 2025, by @ucpress.bsky.social 🫶🏼

🚨 #DiscoveryProjects #DP25 announcement: ❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Discovery Projects 2025❗️ See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/D... /bot

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