Great book and very glad to tell everyone that !

Thrilled to see the reviews for my book have now been published. Huge thanks to @eliothiggins.bsky.social @niaolainf.bsky.social @alexakoenig.bsky.social and Prof Marko Milanovic for their very kind endorsements! Check out what’s to come here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/digital-h...

My brain’s logic: I have 120 exams to mark, time to clean the whole house

The latest in a series of very helpful legal briefs produced by Palestinian human rights organisation @alhaq.bsky.social on genocide. Addressing starvation and the denial of humanitarian assistance as acts of genocide. www.alhaq.org/cached_uploa...

2 year research postdoc at UCL @laws.ucl.ac.uk on data and democracy, public law focus — could focus on surveillance and/or AI issues www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

A timeline cleanse from this awful world - please enjoy this image my partner made to celebrate the cat’s birthday (& hbd to the best boy, Kovu!)

' #Trump Derangement Syndrome or the Foolish Fear of #Tyranny' New blogpost @verfassungsblog.de discussing the use of #tyrannophobia - or Trump Degrangement Syndrome - as way to silence the public realm & forestall neccessary constitutional and political action to forestall authoritarian practices

As the investigation into Grok and its exploitation of child sex abuse continues, French prosecutors have now summoned - instead of wanting for questioning - Elon Musk. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

An 86-year-old French woman who moved to the US to marry her 1950s sweetheart is being held in a crowded detention centre in Louisiana after she was arrested by immigration agents and cuffed by her hands and feet.

NEW: Analysis by @wired.com and @indicator.media reveals the first global look at the plague of AI-generated sexual abuse material impacting girls in countries around the world. @mattburgess1.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/deepfa...

Are you also angry with the new OSCOLA update or are you normal

My god. Essential, horrifying reporting here.

Crickets from literally every world leader. What a joke.

Just in time for Trump's scheduled war crimes, Bellingcat has updated our tool for identifying damaged buildings and structures in satellite imagery, ideally for investigating atrocities in Iran. Full details here: www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

“Acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population are prohibited.” Geneva Convention Additional Protocol I and Department of Defense Law of War Manual, § 5.2.2

More than 70 children from various conflict zones whose ages were disputed by the Home Office have been held in detention centres in the UK in preparation for forced removal to France under the government’s “one in, one out” scheme, research shows www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Very disappointing move from Planet Labs www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

The wildest part is not even that the sitting US president would post such a thing, but that absolutely nothing will be done about this

We call this "ISIS-posting"

Two new videos have emerged showing the deadly strikes that hit an IRGC compound, as well as an adjacent girls’ school, in Minab, Iran. By geolocating and verifying the footage, Bellingcat found two waves of attacks, occurring hours apart. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

A jury determined that Meta and Google were negligent and failed to warn users of the dangers associated with using YouTube, Instagram in a landmark social media addiction trial

If this is real (has since been deleted on X if so) - I wish I had a more insightful analysis to offer about memes as military strategy or something, but all I’ve got is that this is wild. Insane timeline. www.reddit.com/r/oil/commen...

California's State Bar just sent out a warning email about AI: its "hallucinations;" court sanctions over ChatGPT legal lies; duty of indep verification of the law; & how "lack of awareness of the risk of 'hallucinated' content does not relieve the attorney of responsibility." Full text below. #RPC

🚨Essex Police has halted its use of facial recognition tech after identifying potential “bias risks”. This should serve as a wake-up call for the Government and police. We need urgent safeguards in place to protect us from the dangers of this tech. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Israel has killed 968 people, including at least 111 children, in Lebanon since 2 March. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Another use of open source investigatory skills = brutally taking down airlines who lie to try and refuse you delay compensation with a full scale report

There's a logic here that's saying 'our business model is now outrage, political pandering to the right and ignoring abuse. That's how it works' BBC News - Meta and TikTok let harmful content rise after evidence outrage drove engagement - whistleblowers - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Rings a bell

The end of term is in sight @ QUB 🙏🏻

X’s Grok is failing to accurately verify video footage from the Iran conflict and is sharing its own AI-generated images about the war. www.wired.com/story/fake-a...

Multiple news outlets are reporting a US attack on an Iranian #desalination plant. If verified, this violates international law protecting #water systems during wars, and it sets a dangerous precedent, given intense dependence of Gulf countries on desalination. timesofoman.com/article/1691...

This is not something we can reform. It has to be abolished and everyone involved needs to be held accountable.

This is the basis on which Starmer was elected Labour leader.

Claude goes to war in Iran: "Within hours of declaring that the federal government will end its use of artificial-intelligence tools made by tech company Anthropic, President Trump launched a major air attack in Iran with the help of those very same tools."

Are we really still expected to work tomorrow as if the world isn’t ending

WSJ reporting that the U.S. used Claude for the air strikes in Iran. Centcom has been using Claude "for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios" www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

A war of aggression by the United States and Israel that is without question a manifest and severe violation of international law. And not in the interest of the people of Iran. If the government falls or is weakened, @msjamshidi.bsky.social rightly warns: "this the start of civil war in Iran"

Upon submission of my book manuscript this Friday, pls don’t mention anything to do with footnotes to me ever again

lol

Are we supposed to be excited that the least believable person on the planet is going to tell us whether aliens exist?

We're still facing 400+ job losses, the loss of a campus, the closure of our foundation year department, and many more departments cut to the bone. Please sign our petition to help stop the cuts, save jobs, and defend our students' education!

*Green card application in process and work permit, married to US citizen *Lived in US for 20 years, no criminal record *In detention for five months with no charge, despite judge approving release *He disputes ICE claim that he signed forms agreeing to deportation

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

Bad Bunny’s closing messages during his Super Bowl performance: “The only thing more powerful than hate is love” “Together, we are America”

Ofcom has just confirmed that xAI (and therefore the standalone Grok app) is not in scope for their investigation of X. They need to urgently rethink this: Grok produces sexualised images of people without their consent that can be easily shared and used for public humiliation.

Happy to see this is finally being done www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A new statement from Epstein survivors: "Once again, survivors are having their names and identifying information exposed, while the men who abused us remain hidden and protected. That is outrageous."

At least one of the newly released Epstein file is already down. This link no longer appears to work (www.justice.gov/epstein/file...) It contained an FBI email chain outlining an allegation against Trump involving sexual activities with a child. This is a screenshot from that email chain.