Salomé Viljoen
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Salomé Viljoen
@salome.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at Michigan Law || I think about how the law thinks about data || pro science and technology, anti scams
Not exactly on point, but Ben Green has a few pieces on DOGE as coming from a hubristic engineering mindset (and the end of the piece suggests the promise of humbler, more socially embedded engineering): www.techpolicy.press/doge-plan-to...
DOGE Plan to Push AI Across the US Federal Government is Wildly Dangerous | TechPolicy.Press
There are already many instances of AI-driven governance gone wrong, writes Ben Green. DOGE may offer a new case study.
www.techpolicy.press
November 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Reposted by Salomé Viljoen
Seriously, the Democrats have not led “on the economy” in living memory (sans for 8 months in 2007-08), and it all shifted in the time between Liberation Day and now

Btw I think the synthesis of “phones causing brainrot” and “it’s the economy” may be that phones are making ppl hate the economy
November 20, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Reposted by Salomé Viljoen
3/ Since 1950, the world has created 6.3 trillion kgs of plastic waste —91% has never been recycled even once, according to a landmark 2017 study in the journal Science Advances

Read @vbivar.bsky.social on Fossil Fuel industry decades of lies about Recycling www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
November 16, 2025 at 3:09 AM