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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 5h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 2h

Emily Tucker's latest piece for Tech Policy Press argues that the AI regulation debate largely misses the point: the real threat to democracy is unchecked data extraction and accumulation that is fueling corporate power.

To Have Democracy, We Must Contest Data | TechPolicy.Press

Emily Tucker makes the case for redlines for data, not AI—real limits on corporate data collection to protect democracy and political self-determination.

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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 2h

We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 6h

"Big tech know that they're stoking a bubble that will end in a crash. They are not concerned. The crash will wipe out smaller rivals and weaken the governments that they want to control." — @moonalice.com

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Marielza @marielza.bsky.social · 10h

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It is. FOS disregards key aspects of freedom of expression, as codified in the Covenant of Civil and Political Rights.

Marielza @marielza.bsky.social · Jul 18

While there's much to like in this article, it suffers from the same flaw I see frequently in human rights discussions: equating Freedom of Speech (FOS) and Freedom of Expression (FOE).

These freedoms are not the same. FOS is just a small subset of FOE.

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · Jul 18

When it comes to online freedom of expression, policymakers who consider the realities in their countries, develop reasonable regulations, and also invest in sustainable solutions can chart a path forward without compromising the democratic foundations they aim to protect, writes Dr. Fernanda Buril.

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 1d

"When governments can no longer provide the public with essential services without ongoing access to digital products that are the intellectual property of megacorporations, that’s a degree of leverage sufficient to turn any redline into a punchline," writes Emily Tucker.

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To Have Democracy, We Must Contest Data | TechPolicy.Press

Emily Tucker makes the case for redlines for data, not AI—real limits on corporate data collection to protect democracy and political self-determination.

www.techpolicy.press

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 22h

i don't have the words to emphasise how seriously bad things are gonna get

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Marielza @marielza.bsky.social · 11h

"Inherently unreliable technologies known to exacerbate injustice."

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Leanne Veronica @leanneveronica.bsky.social · 14h

I also recommend reading the work of @abeba.bsky.social - for example:

The False Promise of “AI for Social Good”

Abeba Birhane refutes industry claims about the technology's potential to solve complex social problems.

www.project-syndicate.org

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 1d

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!

Ewa Luger @ewaluger.bsky.social · 2d

New research job alert! Come and join the amazing @braiduk.bsky.social team, working with me and @shannonvallor.bsky.social. The post is exploring the social return of AI investments. Feel free to reach out, and apply here - www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPA010/r...

Research Associate at The University of Edinburgh

An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Associate is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Sleeping Giants Brasil @sleepinggiantsbr.bsky.social · 2d

📢 Justiça dos EUA ordena que o Google abra sua loja de apps para plataformas rivais.

Esse é mais um passo na desmonopolização da empresa, que enfrenta diversos processos antitruste no país.

A Play Store detém praticamente todo o controle dos dispositivos Android no mundo.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Marielza @marielza.bsky.social · 3d

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 3d

“More than half of the work done by women in the period between the 16th and 18th centuries took place outside of the home, and around half of all housework and three-quarters of care work was conducted professionally for other households” [England]

phys.org/news/2025-10...

A woman's place was not in the home: Challenging the assumptions about women's work in early modern history

New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England's national economy before 1700.

phys.org

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Karen Masters @karenlmasters.bsky.social · 3d

Jess Wade is amazing, and it's my absolute honour to be one of the more than 2000 women in STEM whose wikipedia page she started: mymodernmet.com/jessica-wade... 🧪🔭👩‍🔬

Meet the Physicist Who Wrote Over 2,000 Wikipedia Biographies for Women in STEM

After noticing a lack of entries on Wikipedia for incredible women throughout history, this incredible woman decided to take matters into her own hands.

mymodernmet.com

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Andressa Michelotti @andressamichelotti.bsky.social · 3d

Esse mês O ChatGPT alcançou 800 milhões de usuários ativos por semana, ficando muito à frente dos concorrentes. Mesmo somando a média de usuários das cinco principais plataformas rivais, o ChatGPT ainda tem aproximadamente o dobro de usuários.

#ChatGPT #IA

Andressa Michelotti (@andressamichelotti)

Esse mês O ChatGPT alcançou 800 milhões de usuários ativos por semana, ficando muito à frente dos concorrentes. Mesmo somando a média de usuários das cinco principais plataformas rivais, o ChatGPT ain...

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 3d

Fukuyama debunks the AI abundance myth: we can't feed or clothe all not due to a lack of smarts, but priorities and resources.

The world simply can't sustain the abundant lifestyle AI proponents promise, lacking even the electricity to run the very AI they favor.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 3d

"Sceptics are privately - and some now publicly - asking whether the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be, at least in part, the result of what they call 'financial engineering'. In other words - there are fears these companies are overvalued."

A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley

Some are worried that the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be a bubble waiting to burst.

www.bbc.com

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Deborah Parkin @deborahparkin.bsky.social · 4d

Cyanotype print of a jackdaw on a hawthorn tree. From my Jackdaw series 💙

A cyanotype print of a jackdaw on a hawthorn tree. The image is blue but the branches are black as is the jackdaw in the centre of the image. The tree has white blossom on it.

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 3d

The policy discourse around information integrity has a disconnect between democratic rhetoric and action, writes Research ICT Africa’s Scott Timcke. The dirty work of democracy online requires bringing ideological critique to bear on information integrity, he says.

Fighting Disinformation Demands Confronting Social and Economic Drivers | TechPolicy.Press

The dirty work of democracy online requires bringing ideological critique to bear on information integrity, writes Scott Timcke.

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Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social · 3d

Very nice to see my TEDx Porto talk is out! How #privacy can save your life. For more on privacy, get the #book - Privacy Is Power. #AIEthics

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSPR...

How privacy can save your life | Carissa Véliz | TEDxPorto

YouTube video by TEDx Talks

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Marielza @marielza.bsky.social · 3d

Exodus 8:4

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 5d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Marielza @marielza.bsky.social · 4d

It does NOT work, on anyone.

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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

No words

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Claire Phillips @clairephillips.bsky.social · 4d

N+1 is looking for a managing editor. Who's got the time? The talent? Healthcare is a definite plus!!

www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

n+1 Seeks Managing Editor

n+1 is seeking a full-time Managing Editor to work in our Brooklyn office. Compensation will range from $58,000 to $64,000 and includes health and dental insurance. n+1 is a print magazine of literatu...

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Marielza @marielza.bsky.social · 4d

There are no safeguards against pseudoscience. AI is not capable of detecting emotions, therefore this BS should just be banned.

Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 4d

The increasing use of AI to surveil people’s emotions endangers not only privacy but also personal autonomy—the bedrock of democracy, writes Oznur Uguz. Newly emerging AI laws fail to provide adequate safeguards, she says.

How AI-Powered Emotional Surveillance Can Threaten Personal Autonomy and Democracy | TechPolicy.Press

If we do not regulate emotional AI surveillance now, we might soon have to fake how we feel to protect our privacy, writes Oznur Uguz.

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