Last spring, I was asked to give carreer advice to grad students. And the one thing I told them was: our best skill is our ability to learn difficult things -- it's also the first skill you will lose unless you intentionally don't let yourselves go.

2026 me is continuously surprised by how many things 2025 me apparently agreed to do...

X basically industrialized the creation of fake porn of women who don't consent. Others did it first, but Grok made it normalized and centralized: publicly visible, instantly creatable by anyone, regardless of who's being targeted and dehumanized. Only question now is will X suffer any consequences

There is nothing "appropriate" about using a CSAM platform to 'reach the public' How many government employees have - knowing that X is producing indecent images of children - used it anyway, seen those images, and in doing so committed a criminal offence?

happy ‘i will reply to your email on my return’ day to all who celebrate

Jeg har manglet ordet "åndsbolle" i mit liv. Godt at se at det er tilbage.

If you're looking for more context on Venezuela, @globalvoices.org has a special coverage on the election and aftermath last year, with info on the opposition, the ways Maduro's regime used digital tools for oppression, and much more, directly from Venezuelan and other regional perspectives.

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When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Claude creating countries which are also mammatus clouds. Sheesh.

Post-doc positions: "Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..." uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...

My preprint of the book chapter "Large Language Models as a (Bad) Security Norm in the Context of Regulation and Compliance is out! arxiv.org/abs/2512.16419 Presented at ILPC (Information Law and Policy Centre) 2024 conference, which is in University of London's Institute of Advanced Studies.

* 'the natural state of hardware is broken, the natural state of software is buggy' - me, after 35 years in tech

If you're an early career researcher (incl. PhD student) working on AI regulation you can't miss this!

Reposting for "digital chastity belt":

The amount of money Meta made from Chinese scam ads last year is more than double Reddit's entire business. Have fun on Instagram today!

New issue of Surveillance & Society out now! Featuring a special section on digital confinement, a roundtable on criminalization of environmental activism, and a dialogue section on 25 years since the “surveillant assemblage”... #surveillance #privacy #data ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

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Excellent job opportunity: Full professorship in Digital Society and Democracy @ddc-sdu.bsky.social and @d-ias.bsky.social. Top conditions, environment & colleagues. Candidates welcome across places and disciplines. 🗓️ DL: March 15, 2026 fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

The Danish government is using the upcoming Christmas break to slip through a public consultation for a draft law that would make it an OFFENCE to use a #VPN to access content that would otherwise not be available in Denmark, or to circumvent the blocking of […] [Original post on eupolicy.social]

In case I have gotten important DMs, please write to me elsewhere - I do not intend to use age verification tools anywhere online - not here either.

i mean, we have learned (Gödel, Church, Turing, et al) that we cannot—hard *cannot*—automate the process of proving *mathematical* truths. general knowledge? forget it

The one year anniversary of Yoon's failed martial law takeover just passed and lots of untold stories came out proving that THE ONLY REASON KOREA IS STILL A FREE COUNTRY IS BECAUSE PEOPLE DISOBEYED ILLEGAL ORDERS. The coup was over in hours because people said no.

It increasingly seems like the deregulatory push in the EU is entirely driven by the dumbest losers in German high society who have access to von der Leyen, who in turn has the Commission locked down. The Digital Omnibus is just as dumb as this.

"EU Law is like dancing - it takes two to tango." @ec.europa.eu #eulaw #eu #lawsky #law #teaching

Please join us for a timely discussion on intellectual property and democracy (and other IP theory and history matters) in June in Brazil! Details on CfP:

Citizen archivists are preserving South Asia’s oral traditions — folk songs, riddles, and histories — by recording, uploading, and transcribing them on Wikimedia platforms, challenging text-centric knowledge systems and reviving marginalized voices.

Europe has plenty of problems that need solving. But it’s surprising how the brain-virus of ‘Europe only produces regulations’ has taken root. In reality, EU exports are higher than the US and comparable to China’s. Or in supercomputing, Europe ranks 2nd in the world.

Erik Paaske er officielt på. Julen er på vej!! Tror endda jeg udvider den til Yuletide, så den først slutter engang i Januar. Sådan er det når man får bagt lidt på forhånd, så indfinder stemningen sig. 🥰

You know what I’m glad we have studies to prove obvious things because our society is literally whored out to data.

“You are next in line to be department chair, but we do not grant you the title of Full Professor.”

@durham.ac.uk We may need proper organized college (we can pay homage with our own St. Johns) and campus cats. Costs per year are quite low. Also cute!

cloud share is down. post cats

Restaurant advocates have warned that if every supplier insisted on being paid for ingredients, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry

Alt kan angribes. Selv dit "værktøj". Jo mindre kontrol, jo værre cybersikkerhed!

Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...

In any case TESTING AI MODELS GIVES NO GUARANTEES. Creating the impression that it does is technologically illiterate and deceptive.

Once again, I am asking the powers that be to have a basic grasp of how the Internet and actual online safety works. It isn't VPNs which are putting people at risk... Signed, a journalist who has been covering cybersecurity for well over a decade.

Tit skriver Søren Ryge fantastiske klummer for Kristlig Dagblad. Men hans fra 8/11/25, "Da 300 studerende sang med og lyttede til en klassisk skæbnefortælling om en gammel mand på Djursland", kombinerer så mange ting jeg elsker og selv arbejder med, at det rører meget. Virkelig dejligt!! #dkmedier

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The Cybersecurity Act revision and the Digital Networks Act have been postponed to Jan. 20, following negative opinions by the Regulatory Scrutiny Board.

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We are always part of something bigger... In this case, academics not having enough time to do what we think should be done for the students. At least we are not blessing the king for it (currently).

Whatever strategy you’re about to suggest, we’ve thought about it. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

who is your halloween familiar this year?

i made a template you can use to think about what "frame/negation/kirby" looks like for other issues. For example: Frame: DOGE is a govt efficiency project to save $ Negation: Actually it made things less efficient and cost $ Kirby: DOGE was a project to break and privatize federal bureaucracy

worth applying to politics as well. when you're criticizing an action people take "taking the better action next time" is only one of the alternatives people will consider, and worth remembering that "not bothering at all" is another.