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Marielza @marielza.bsky.social · 36m

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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 · 15h

"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 · 12h

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

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Marielza @marielza.bsky.social · 1h

"Inherently unreliable technologies known to exacerbate injustice."

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Leanne Veronica @leanneveronica.bsky.social · 4h

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 · 2d

193 "yes", 1 veto

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 2d

“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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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...

www.nplusonemag.com

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Marielza @marielza.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 3d

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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The Hand Magazine @thehandmagazine.bsky.social · 4d

The Hand Magazine Issue 50 contributing artist, Bienyl Huelgas, "Nymphs of Ennui", Cyanotype print on Fujifilm 200 film box, 6.3" x 5.1"

Visit Bienyl's website: www.bienylhuelgas.com

Visit The Hand Magazine: www.thehandmagazine.space

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Jo Howell Maverick Art @maverickartjo.bsky.social · 4d

Fragments, toned cyanotype collage on brown recycled paper #cyanotype

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So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · 4d

DO NOT MISS The Word for World: The Maps of @ursulakleguin.com, Architectural Association, Bedford Sq, London. It's truly beautiful. (I've never been involved w a project that's had massive banners before, it's v exciting).

Spend time with the maps, inc my niche fave, The City Ansul from VOICES 💙

The Architectural Association, a Georgian house of dark brick on Bedford Square, with two-storey high banners outside reading The Word for World and Ursula K Le Guin.

A cyanotype white-on-blue banner with fern prints at the top and a map below hangs in a gallery. Other similar banners featuring different maps are glimpsed behind it.

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Kathleen Clark @kathleenclark.bsky.social · 4d

A master class from MIT in responding to authoritarian overreach:

Your “premise … is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
… America’s leadership in science & innovation depends on independent thinking & open competition for excellence.

Dear Madam Secretary,
I write in response to your letter of October 1, inviting MIT to review a "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." I acknowledge the vital importance of these matters.
I appreciated the chance to meet with you earlier this year to discuss the priorities we share for American higher education.
As we discussed, the Institute's mission of service to the nation directs us to advance knowledge, educate students and bring knowledge to bear on the world's great challenges.
We do that in line with a clear set of values, with excellence above all. Some practical examples:
• MIT prides itself on rewarding merit. Students, faculty and staff succeed here based on the strength of their talent, ideas and hard work. For instance, the Institute was the first to reinstate the SAT/ACT requirement after the pandemic. And MIT has never had legacy preferences in admissions.
• MIT opens its doors to the most talented students regardless of their family's finances. Admissions are need-blind. Incoming undergraduates whose families earn less than $200,000 a year pay no tuition. Nearly 88% of our last graduating class left MIT with no debt for their education. We make a wealth of free courses and low-cost certificates available to any American with an internet connection. Of the undergraduate degrees we award, 94% are in STEM fields. And in service to the nation, we cap enrollment of international undergraduates at roughly 10%.

source:
https://orgchart.mit.edu/letters/regarding-compact

• We value free expression, as clearly described in the MIT Statement on Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom. We must hear facts and opinions we don't like - and engage respectfully with those with whom we disagree.
These values and other MIT practices meet or exceed many standards outlined in the document you sent. We freely choose these values because they're right, and we live by them because they support our mission - work of immense value to the prosperity, competitiveness, health and security of the United States. And of course, MIT abides by the law.
The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
In our view, America's leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence. In that free marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences. Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education.
As you know, MIT's record of service to the nation is long and enduring. Eight decades ago, MIT leaders helped invent a scientific partnership between America's research universities and the U.S. government that has delivered extraordinary benefits for the American people. We continue to believe in the power of this partnership to serve the nation.
Sincerely,
Sally Kornbluth

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