Ridiculous. Cruel. Lawless.

Today is the day 🎁 The #dsa regime for researchers to get access to platform data to study societal impact and risks starts TODAY. This has been a loooooong time coming. And the proof of the pudding will be in the eating … #dataaccess #commsky digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/new-...

"What is your story? You never even told me about a story." www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

I'd love to see someone try to estimate just how much time and money has gone into research that is either fully undermined by reliance on LLMs or fully pointless --- because obvious if you start from an understanding of what LLMs actually are. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Honoured to be part of the new advisory board of @cdteu.org, and excited to get involved in this and learn from the other members and the CDT Europe team

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

In Israeli prisons, hunger and torture are ever-present

This is a professor at Rutgers who teaches a class on the history of anti-fascism. He also teaches about human rights. He has received multiple death threats and been doxed. He is relocating to Europe for his safety. This is where we are in the US now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

I wrote for the @bostonreview.bsky.social about the extraordinary Andrée Blouin, along with Lumumba, Cesaire, Fanon, and the anticolonial revolution that could have been.

Robby Starbuck is a far-right activist. Meta putting him in the position of being a "bias advisor" for its chat bot is insane.

Very happy to announce brilliant new paper on AI by the wonderful @atoosakz.bsky.social , Phillip Hacker, and er, me, on systemic risk and how it is confusingly differently interpreted through the EU AIA, the DSA and its origin, financial regulation. Paper at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.17878

This is a REALLY GOOD piece on the challenges of today's attention economy. Lefty pundits suffer from the same problems and would do well to read it.

ex-IDF chief confirms Gaza casualties over 200,000 That’s 10% of the entire population of Gaza in 2 years www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Interested in empirically and critically studying how computational infrastructures (clouds+end devices) expand into public organizations? Then please consider applying to this 2 yr postdoc position within the algosoc project and situated at TUD: careers.tudelft.nl/job/Delft-Po...

Here’s my write up on the most racist decision to come out of the Supreme Court in a while. The court approved of Trump’s racial profiling of Latinos with Brett Kavanaugh saying being harassed based on the color of your skin is “common sense.” My latest in @thenation

BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.

Incredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault

at some point international lawyers need to stop pointing out that this is illegal (of course it is) and start asking if the US still considers the UN Charter to be valid law

Disastrous news if true. The European Commission has been talking about a Google adtech breakup since 2023, and could now throw it all away in a pointless effort to appease Trump – at the cost of its credibility, sovereignty and democratic legitimacy. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Just in case it’s not already clear that ICE is a white supremacist thug army, Homeland Security is recruiting with a “defend your culture” slogan.

The manmade famine in #Gaza has been largely shaped by the deliberate attempts to replace the UN coordinated humanitarian system through the politically motivated “GHF”. Full statement by UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini: www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...

It’s worse than “Gaza is being starved and destroyed and no one cares.” It’s that hundreds of millions *do* care and are powerless to stop it. We need a world where that can never happen, where the masses actually have political power.

And when the world finally turns the page—if it ever does—let it not say that Gaza was silent. Let it not imagine we vanished without speaking. arablit.org/2025/07/23/b...

And the program is out ! <beating the tin drum, cuing AI generated beats, drowning them out by our favourite analog claps...🥁🤖👏> www.gikii.org/gikii-2025-a... Thank you to all the applicants and many congratulations to the selected participants, we hope to see you there in Sept.....

In this piece for Tech Policy Press, @dscheykopp.bsky.social , @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social, @claesdevreese.bsky.social and I argue that it's time for regulators, researchers, and platforms to fulfil their roles and standards set by the delegated act on data access.

It’s long been suspected that Rubio and Noem were targeting foreign students based on info supplied by these fanatical, sinister groups. This is the first time the government has acknowledged it in open court. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/u...

The DMA has a provision that allows end-users to consent individually to anticompetitive behaviour, using a GDPR-style popup. It's nonsense. When we brought the problem to @aschwab.bsky.social he said it would be fine because it would be stringently enforced. Where's that enforcement?

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

So... I'm not saying you should sue any platforms under the DSA. But if you *did* want to do that, you'd definitely want to look at this article from @pjleerssen.bsky.social, Iris Toepoel, Anna van Duin, and @jvh.bsky.social It's basically a tactical guide. dsa-observatory.eu/wp-content/u...

Columbia graduate Mahmoud Khalil is released from detention and briefly addresses media before catching a flight back to New York. This occurs after a federal judge concludes that no basis exists for him to be retained and orders his release.

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Powerful words from these Jewish scholars: "Stop erasing Jewish voices that don’t conform to your preferred narrative. Stop treating criticism of genocide as antisemitism. And start treating Jewish people as complex individuals capable of thinking for themselves." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Real world: - Trump team trying to create a Reichstag moment. - Trump telling military audience that LA is hellhole full of "animals" - Officials in Calif trying both to calm things down, and stand up PUNDIT world: - Is it smart politics? - Is Gavin running? - Doesn't Trump look strong!

new article in @europeanlawopen.bsky.social on the concept of systemic risks in the DSA. what does it mean that we think of all kinds of social issues linked to online platforms as 'risks' to be managed? find out this way: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death - @michellegoldberg.bsky.social

📢2025 DMA Enforcement Symposium: Call for Abstracts 📢 The call for abstracts for our 3rd annual Brussels symposium is LIVE. We’re looking for critical assessments of gatekeepers’ compliance with obligations and their impact on users' rights, enforcement structure and procedural issues, and more.

Casual race science in the NYT

Gikii 2025 in lovely Amsterdam has extended its CfP till May 31. Sept 11-12 th at IViR. Get your geek on and set your geek clogs tapping! No i don’t know what i mean either 😂 www.gikii.org/gikii-2025-a...

Just blatant fascism -- engage in our nationalist project or we will punish you.

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

Never mind the policies, the language Starmer uses - about human beings who want to do nothing worse than work, study, live with their families or seek refuge here - is simply appalling

For @lpeblog.bsky.social , I wrote about DOGE, techno-authoritarians, and how all governance is information governance lpeproject.org/blog/the-rig...

It's been 2 months since Israel blocked supplies of food, aid & water. Gazans are slowly starving & dying. The silence & complicity of the international community is nauseating. #Gaza #Israel #CeaseFireNow www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

NEW — Trump’s ICE has just arrested Newark Mayor Ras Baraka. Alongside residents and other officials, Baraka has been protesting outside a detention facility that’s set to help Trump’s mass deportation regime.

Meta is a bunch of separate data extraction schemes in a trench coat pretending to be a company that actually does something.

I hope everyone working on LLMs has reckoned with their role in building a technology that, so far, has offered little to no benefit to humanity — while causing real harm by degrading art, undermining labor in creative industries, and straight up automating political propaganda

Get ready and get creative for the upcoming edition of GiKii "Technology in its villain era?" bringing together law, technology and popular culture from angles you never thought of before. Happening in Amsterdam (hybrid also possible) on 11-12/09/25! www.gikii.org/gikii-2025-a...