Lilian Edwards

@lilianedwards.bsky.social

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Director of Pangloss Consulting for all your AI and GDPR needs! Emerita Prof Newcastle Law School: Hon Prof, @CREATe Glasgow Uni. Formerly @ATI, @SCRIPT: Trying not to be a grey skies thinker & use this place more , [email protected] .. more

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Lilian Edwards is a Scottish UK-based academic and frequent speaker on issues of Internet law, intellectual property and artificial intelligence. She is on the Advisory Board of the Open Rights Group and the Foundation for Information Policy Research and is the Professor of Law, Innovation and Society at Newcastle Law School at Newcastle University. .. more

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · Dec 12

Since approximately gazillion people have joined lately, I’ve updated my extremely random starter pack of UK and Europe tech, AI, law & policy folk
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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 5h

Is it just me or has the Book of Dust trilogy had negligible public impact compared to original trilogy? I expected ppl to be reading and talking about it over Xmas but... They ain't. ( And the end of the third is SUCH pants!)

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 5h

Also is the same in any way true of physics? Reminded of Pullman's experimental theology

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 5h

Seems to me we're saying the empirical practice base of alchemy was useful even though the theoretical basis was pants. A bit like Freudian psychotherapy - close talking therapy turns out to get useful even tho penis envy bollocks? ( Sic)

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 5h

Alchemy too surely. And, of course, the priesthood 😝

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 7h

Removing license in favour of general taxation would inevitably lead to death of BBC as we know it by 1000 cuts

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 8h

Even with a VPN?? Anyway I've been told the reason why BBC license is paid as separate fee historically is so that money stays with them rather than what they get being at whims of politicians divvying up general taxation. Treasury hates such hypothecation which is why BBC would never get it again.

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 8h

Interesting discussion Elsewhere on why some fringe social groups ( like some fandoms) have moved off Meta & FB to Discord when they could have gone towards BSky and Masto - decentralised and non algorithmic. Dispiriting that resemblance to Slack seems to have swung the deal

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 8h

Hahahaha sadly the internet is now t covered but it is GLORIOUS

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 8h

I also absolutely love it still tells you how much for a b&w tv!

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 8h

That's actually incredibly interesting. I did not know that!

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 8h

I think in UK we anecdotally do call it road tax and it's the one paid only by car owners?

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 8h

Hahaha vg🤣

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 10h

It is obvious the usual right wing forces of bad want the BBC gone for exactly these reasons - truth, impartiality and independent journalism, even its attentuated state, are their kryptonite.. and for that reason I would always pay my license fee even if i watched absolutely nothing.

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 10h

delivers him poorer value than say Apple. But it isnt. Like Kate said its public service broadcasting, with duties of quality, impartiality and even now some education ( what about CBB as well as the World Service?)

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 10h

Yes exactly. I think it is interesting what Andres says because I know he reads as much US internet as UK & I think he is being possibly influenced by ongoing memes that encourage you to think of the BBC as just another streaming service. And thus to Andres one that perhaps .. 1/

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 10h

Indeed those of us with no children should be getting money back on all these wasted years of tax!

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 11h

What about the news?? It’s a tiny price to support non Trumpian broadcasting. Even though legally you don’t need to I would pay it just for R4. Im depressed w liberals falling behind far right influencing.

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 18h

That was the whole point , sigh. "On the Internet noone knows you're a dog". Ah what sweet summer children we were

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 18h

But you need it for iPlayer now, no?

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 20h

As one of the guests on this podcast who enjoyed the experience a great deal, bravo to Kare but this is deeply sad. Forget expertise and delivery, in the end all women are failed Barbie dolls in the eyes of mass media world.

Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 21h

This is one of the reasons we stopped doing my work podcast: I only had women guests, and I said at the start that I wouldn't do video for exactly this reason. When the marketing team decided they wanted video, I said no again, so we stopped doing it.

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 21h

will also add - yes, this is my personal crusade - that turning podcasts into videos implicitly asks women to once again make more effort than men, as the bar for "camera-ready" for one gender is obviously higher than for the other

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 20h

Bravo

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 21h

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 21h

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22h

‘Painful to hear!’ How podcasts’ rush to video is turning them into dreadful listens

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 2d

I got my mum's not very smart TV to read the WiFi and hence get iPlayer, Netflix etc , does that count?

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 3d

I knew I felt strangely at home in Morocco

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4d

🤣🤣🤣

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4d

Sorry to be so humbug but people still sending video cards to their entire client list which are so long they have "Skip to the End", probably ought to discover that newfangled thing the World Wide Web..

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4d

Effectively that's already the case on most trains...

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4d

Ooh you've reminded me I meant to rewatch that in homage

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4d

It's my perception that getting decent academic jobs has become far more a matter of patronage and connections than when I first became an academic with zero smarts or guile. I suppose this is obv but it's also pretty sad for one of the few genuinely meritocratic profession.

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4d

Hahahaha moan. Try being two different types of writer!

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 4d

whew

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