“When his homegrown remote control app started talking to DJI’s servers, it wasn’t just one vacuum cleaner that replied. Roughly 7,000 of them, all around the world, began treating Azdoufal like their boss.”

which which is which ?

🧠 New Volume on Freedom of Thought A long time in the making, "The Law and Ethics of Freedom of Thought, Vol. 2: Cognitive Liberty, Mental Privacy, and International Law" has just been published. 10 chapters at the forefront of the international debate. A thread on each below.

We preliminarily found TikTok in breach of the Digital Services Act for its addictive design. Our investigation suggests that the platform did not properly consider how these addictive features could harm the physical and mental wellbeing of its users, including children and vulnerable adults. ↓

Keynote by the Spanish Prime Minister about "5 measures to turn social media healthy" yesterday: Announcing that Spain will introduce new criminal offences next week, holding exceutives accountable for amplifying or not-taking down illegitimate content. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcX

The 21st century version of William Gibson’s “meat puppet” has arrived: rentahuman.ai

"The cases that should exist" - great take on AI and the law with a Dworkinian twist (and yes, probably LLMs don't work that way).

We are pleased to announce the winner of The Charles Mills Prize "Who Counts in Official Statistics? Ethical-Epistemic Issues in German Migration & the Collection of Racial or Ethnic Data” Daniel James, Morgan Thompson & Tereza Hendl #philsky Read it here 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Im Gedenken an Bernhard Waldenfels (1934-2026) 🖤 Ein (nicht nur persönlicher) Nachruf👇auf meinen wichtigsten Lehrer🙏

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. Here is a moving documentary from 1969 about a survivor, and his experimental psychiatric treatment with LSD in the Netherlands. Now Do You Get It Why I'm Crying? by Louis van Gasteren. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq4R...

Berlin: 28.1. Trip auf Rezept? Zur Zukunft Psychedelika-assistierter Therapie. Öffentliche Veranstaltung unseres Forschungsprojekts PSYCHEDELSI zu allerlei, auch nicht-medizinischen Themen. psychedelsi.org 18 Uhr, Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité. Come along!

I guess this does lead to a shift in the hermeneutical horizon of medical and neuro ethics... www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Berlin: Morgen spricht der israel. Psychiater Roy Salomon über Traumaerfahrungen unter Psychedelika durch das Massaker am 07. Oktober auf dem Nova Festival. Um 16:00 an der Charité Mitte, Nervenklinik,Saal 24 salomonlab.org/video/

An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it. www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

Wie versteck man sich vor #biometrischer und #thermaler erkennenung. Dieses Tanz-Video zeigt sehr kreativ welche Kleidung nötig ist. Weite Kleidung verhindert die Silhouetten Erkennung, weite Kleidung verzerrt bis zu einem gewissen Maß die thermale Erkennung. Große Hüte und "Deko" im Gesicht

Given the ongoing debates about social media regulation, allow me to do as the big guys and briefly steal your attention to point to my new paper on the human right to freedom of thought, operationalized for digital technologies, especially social media. It makes two central points.

UK IVF couples use legal loophole to rank embryos based on potential IQ, height and health www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Zur UNESCO Empfehlung zur Ethik der Neurotechnologie findet gleich eine Veranstaltung der Deutschen UNESCO Kommisison statt, mit Impulsvortrag von mir. Bei Interesse: www.unesco.de/aktuelles/di...

Wenn man kritisch über die AfD schreibt, bekommt man postwendend Todesdrohungen von ihren Anhängern. Gerade wieder passiert. Die AfD ist einfach eine gefährliche Nazi-Partei. Ich lasse mich nicht einschüchtern. netzpolitik.org/2025/verbots...

Ein paar Sätze hier: background.tagesspiegel.de/digitalisier...

Ein Satz zur UNESCO-Empfehlung zu Neurotech Forschung aktuell | Schutz von Gehirndaten: UNESCO-Empfehlung zur Ethik der Neurotechnologie share.deutschlandradio.de/dlf-audiothe...

Bublitz on Experimental Jurisprudence and Doctrinal Reasoning, buff.ly/49fp3Ti - Christoph Bublitz (Universität Hamburg) has posted Experimental Jurisprudence and Doctrinal Reasoning A View from German Criminal Law on SSRN.

Letzten Montag bei der DFG: www.deutschlandfunk.de/neurotechnol...

interesting study calling the effectivess of personalized advertisement in question

💭 New paper on the ethics of changing minds through psychedelics, and some implications for psychedelic psychotherapy. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🧠 New paper: “A Moratorium on Implantable Non-Medical Neurotech” As Neuralink, Synchron, and possibly soon MergeLab funded by OpenAI push the frontier, we ask: are we ready for Brain-Computer Interfaces outside medicine? ➡️Our new paper says: not yet.

Freedom of Thought: The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights has just published a policy report on freedom of thought, AI, and neurotechnology. I am honored to have contributed and like how it describes the right and applies it to social media.../ www.osce.org/odihr/597450

We invite scholars from around the world to submit their neuroethics research for presentation at the Neuroethics 2026 conference next April — with opportunities to present virtually or in-person at locations in the U.S., Italy and South Africa. neuroethicssociety.org/meeting/neur...

"Nur Gott darf Punkte setzen" - László Krasznahorkai www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/nur-gott-dar...

'10 Regeln für die Digitale Welt' sind nun "in der Welt"! 😊 Ich durfte sie in einer spannenden Gruppe mitdefinieren, u.a. mit @jurgenpfeffer.bsky.social und @paulnemitz.bsky.social. Hier eine der vielen News dazu: news.vm.uni-freiburg.de/de/newsarchi... Kommentare sind sehr willkommen! 1/2

Freue mich, später im Deutschen Theater zu sprechen. Wer vorbeikommen möchte... www.deutschestheater.de/programm/pro...

Just received my contributor's copy of the CUP handbook on Experimental Jurisprudence by @kevintobia.bsky.social, which may well beome the prime reference for anyone interested in the field, given the many interesting chapters and leading authors.

📣 Exciting Call Papers for The Journal of Human Rights/Zeitschrift für Menschenrechte: „New Technologies and Human Rights“. Submissions from various disciplines welcome. Read more here: www.humanrights.fau.eu/2025/08/08/c...

Number of judicial opinions that cite "A Theory of Law": 9

Rund 300 Rechtswissenschaftler und Ex-Verfassungsrichter melden sich in einem offenen Brief zu Wort. Sie kritisieren darin den Umgang mit Brosius-Gersdorf, eine "unsachliche Debatte" und "mangelnde Vorbereitung" seitens der Politik.

Honored to give a keynote later at UOC Barcelona on human rights and neurotechnology. Interview with me here: www.uoc.edu/en/news/2025...

In a stunning reversal, the Senate voted 99-1 this morning to strip from Trump's big bill a 10-year moratorium on state-level AI regulations. Gift link to my story on how it happened and who's celebrating: wapo.st/3TOyiaG

New Viewpoint: Countries allowing assisted suicide should offer candidates psychedelics and support to change their minds. If we truly value life, shouldn't we explore every therapeutic option - even controversial ones - before accepting that suffering is untreatable? ja.ma/4l2gdls

1/ UNESCO member states recently concluded negotiations on the first global Recommendation on the Ethics of Neurotechnology, to be adopted in November. Our comment in Nature Mental Health examines it through a disability rights lens. While people with disabilities are primary neurotechnology users..

On the etymology of 𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺: Manly strength (vir) --> inherent powers --> implicit powers --> something not really there, irrealis -> virtual. (from Heim, The Paradox of Virtuality academic.oup.com/edited-volum... )

The EU AI Act & Neurotech: Guidelines by the EU Commission suggest that brain stimulation methods might be considered "subliminal techniques"and hence fall under the prohibited practices of Art. 5 AIA. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

UK gov researching AI homicide prediction tool. Problems are clear and many. However, lets not forget that risk assessment is somewhat unavoidable standard practice in criminal law and forensic psychiatry. Much depends on which data used and for what precisely. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

This is high art

Doramad, 1940

For the first time, researchers have used the #CRISPR gene editor to repair a flawed gene in the human body. scim.ag/3RdMzMT

Berlin: Der Film "Der Code" über den Auschwitz Überlebenden Yehiel De-Nur wird diesen Donnerstag (einmalig) im Babylon gezeigt. Interessant auch deswegen, weil De-Nur zur Verabeitung in den 60ger Jahren LSD-Behandlung in den Niederlanden machte. babylonberlin.eu/film/8138-de...

This one is wild...

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