This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

Good news! 🎉 While we’ve yet to see detail on finance & numbers, this is a major win for common sense & for the thousands who’ll now be able to access vocational training, work placements & higher education - congrats to all who campaigned for it #Erasmus @europeanmovement.co.uk @bestforbritain.org

Relevant to law enforcement use of AI-based systems in countries everywhere.

'The University of Dundee has been told it cannot make any compulsory redundancies until it has a three-year recovery strategy in place as part of conditions placed on its bailout from the Scottish government.' 1/3

Of much interest! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/as...

Because people *still* don’t understand that overseas students subsidise home students. This is punishing everyone involved.

EU Member States agree on negotiation position on CSA material online - will now negotiate with the European Parliament www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...

OMG OMG OMG. I handed in my upcoming book on the census - "Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census." Now, the fine folks at the University of Chicago Press will begin the march towards production (September 2026). OMG OMG OMG.

Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry

attending this today, 10 years since we organised the very first one! congratulations to @nniloideain.bsky.social and all for a rich programme of research & policy work in the years since. Looking forward to the day

Does he even own a suit?

New post The legal and constitutional implications of the asylum white paper: Some initial thoughts publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/11/17/t...

So well said - @paulbernal.bsky.social

The news headlines are often a bitter pill these days so delighted to see Ireland celebrating a great football victory in such style! www.rte.ie/news/dublin/...

Whether you’re in favour of stricter immigration rules or not, literally stealing from asylum seekers is a deeply inhuman policy. "Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

What the Labour Party used to understand was that it wasn’t that immigration was tearing the country apart, but that immigration was what was holding the country together. Immigration kept our NHS going, our transport system going, our education and much more. It’s still true. They must know it.

“on article 8 of the ECHR in particular the right to family life ..we want to constrain in legislation the way that that is applied in immigration cases” Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood tells Sky’s Trevor Philips Who would have imagined we would ever hear this from a Labour government

🇬🇷Greece’s National Intelligence Service (EYP) informed the country’s top court that it could not locate its own internal documents from 2020 ordering the surveillance of @nasoskoukakis.bsky.social. www.dnews.gr/eidhseis/new...

Labour’s latest attack on asylum seekers is cruel & counterproductive. How does it help community cohesion to hold threat of deportation over vulnerable people? We don’t need an arms race with the hard right over asylum, we need safe routes & European cooperation #bbclaurak

True story. Via @xkcd.com

The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative. The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.

Latest ECtHR judgment relating to Poland's rule of law crisis: ECtHR found interference not to be in accordance with the rule of law (a rare finding) on account of fact the relevant "judgement" was issued by the fake (constitutional) court as bench included fake judges = not a judgment therefore

EU tech law - EU Commission starts investigation of Google under Digital Markets Act, for downgrading publishers in search results - ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

One to watch. It's almost 10 years old but remains as relevant as ever to the UK human rights debate - What has the ECHR ever done for us? - the right to a fair trial - the right to privacy - Freedom from discrimination - the Good Friday Agreement, and so on www.theguardian.com/culture/vide...

Happy Birthday to the European Convention on Human Rights, which has helped to protect #OurRightsAndFreedoms for 75 years. Here are more than 200 examples, from across the continent👇 🔗 www.coe.int/ECHR There are thousands more. #ECHR #ECHR75 @coe.int @echr.coe.int

Just to be clear, it IS about removing rights. Specifically it’s about removing Article 8 rights - private and family life - to make it easier to deport people. You won’t find advocates able to mention any other rights here.

One to watch. How far will the scope of the ICO investigation apply? More than one public body is involved. The Home Office shared the inaccurate dataset with the HMRC. Was the private sector also involved? Eg, the airlines sharing travel data or passenger name data, or another third party?

Not a huge surprise - HMRC may have breached privacy laws with their child benefit suspension mess. Can we do the same investigation for DWP fraud detection now please?

New from Free Movement: Two more immigration lawyers facing potential disciplinary proceedings for misuse of AI | Sonia Lenegan freemovement.org.uk/two-more-imm...

📣 Join us 9-12 June in Lille, France for the 11th @survstudiesnet.bsky.social / Surveillance & Society Biennial Conference 2026 & submit your abstract before 10 January 2026! Theme is Planetary #surveillance Check out the call for abstracts here: surveillance-studies.net/conference/

Huge mess up by HMRC here but you also have to wonder which other organisations Home Office are sharing this error-ridden border data about individuals with?, how its being shared (copies? Held internally but queried?), whether limitations/errors are clear &c&c? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

NEW: The number of phones being searched at the US border just hit another high - 16,000 devices were searched in the last three months—a record high for a quarter - 55,000 in the fiscal year 2025 (Oct-Sept)—a yearly record high Story with @dell.bsky.social here: www.wired.com/story/cbp-se...

A reminder that the UK’s ban on LGBT people serving in the armed forces was only lifted after a judgment from the European Court of Human Rights. 🔗 www.bbc.com/news/article... via www.bbcnews.com #ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms #Article8 #PrivateLife #MeddlingForeignCourt #CreditWhereItsDue

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

Another shocking example of an AI system being misused (in the US). In addition to the completely unjustified violation of the teenager’s privacy and due process rights, there has been a chilling effect on going outside in case of further right violations. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results: - AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2% - ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1% - ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%

The biggest source for any DSA investigation into addictive design features might not be platforms' risk assessments, but the more than 6 million documents that are part of the pretrial discovery process in the US www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Some politicians and commentators continue to talk our great city down. The facts show a very different picture.

"The chances of #AGI’s arrival by 2027 now seem remote. The government has let #AI companies lead a charmed life, with almost zero #regulation. It now ought to enact legislation that addresses costs and harms unfairly offloaded onto the public." ~ @garymarcus.bsky.social

Turing Award laureate Rich Sutton now critiques pure LLMs—echoing @garymarcus.bsky.social . Time to move beyond science fiction and refocus on scientific rigour. #AI #LLM #Neurosymbolic #RichSutton #GaryMarcus garymarcus.substack.com/p/game-over-...

Is AI really on an exponential curve, or is that hype? @garymarcus.bsky.social argues GPT-5 proves the curve has flattened. Scaling isn’t delivering exponential gains anymore and the field is shifting to smaller or hybrid models. Are we past exponential AI, or just in a slowdown? #academisky #ai

The war zone in Portland is out of control.

BREAKING: Immigration officers in the Chicago area will be required to wear body cameras after the use of tear gas and other actions against protesters, a judge rules.

I’m so tired of people just believing generative AI systems “will get better.” We have no reason to believe that. And we now have an OpenAI paper showing they can’t. The problem with LLMs is LLMs. www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Ahead of the 20 Oct deadline for responding to Ofcom’s proactive technology consultation, a reminder of how the government has translated ‘safety by design’ into upload filtering. #OnlineSafetyAct www.cyberleagle.com/2024/12/safe...

The European Convention on Human Rights is being misrepresented in the UK, says former Supreme Court President Lady Hale👇 🔗 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... via @the-independent.com “It seems so short-sighted. I’m sorry, I’m really, really worried about it.” #ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms

Huge privacy intrusions of vulnerable patients supposed to receive one-to-one care. But an inquest heard the Oxevision surveillance system was muted by staff in one case where the patient was left alone for 28 minutes. Surveillance also lacked patients’ consent. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

‘Michael O’Flaherty, the Council of Europe commissioner for human rights, said that the current legal framework allows UK authorities to “impose excessive limits on freedom of assembly and expression, and risk overpolicing” in a letter sent to the home secretary.’

Is AI actually a sound social investment? Or a net drain of value? Come to Edinburgh and help us @braiduk.bsky.social develop a more holistic and rigorous methodology for measuring AI’s real worth!

“Good Hang with Amy Poehler” is perhaps the comedian’s biggest platform since “Parks and Recreation,” and the mega-popular podcast still leans into Leslie Knope’s vibes: sunniness, earnestness, a focus on female friendship and uncomplicated feminist values.