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baerarnold.bsky.social
Tech Law academic (privacy, genomics, consumer protection, AI, identity). Assoc Prof managing the LLB Program at Canberra Law School. Several books out 2025. RTs not always endorsement. Fox in bear clothing, not a hedgehog.
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another sad tale of Good Bears Gone Bad - www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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The Commission is reviewing an NGO-led study that accuses Meta of actively partnering with RT, Sputnik and other sanctioned entities through its partner-publisher programme under the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA). www.euractiv.com/section/tech...

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More questions to answer as the wheels fall off #ANU leadership. Neither media relations *or* government relations have gone well, so how does the former Interim CMCO manage to land himself a lucrative 'Special Advisor' gig while other staff get cut?

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#Beaufortia macrostemon, commonly called the Darling Range Beaufortia. Found mostly in the Northern Jarrah Forest. It’s an unusual species being one of a few with a lignotuber, and has these incredibly eye catching flower heads! Each flower is comprised of 5 stamens fused into groups of 3!

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"Trump has spent the last five months vowing that the Ukraine-Russia war would never have happened if he was president, vowing that the Israel-Gaza war would never have happened if he was president. And yet the reality is that not only has he not avoided war, but he’s plunged us into a new one."

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You'd think Elon would be familiar with the phrase "Garbage In, Garbage Out". Having a LLM decide what the correct version of the entirety of human knowledge is, deciding what's "wrong" and deleting "errors", in a recursive fashion, is a profoundly stupid idea, even for Elon.

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graemeturner.org/2025/05/28/d...

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This is it. How actual scholarship (often) works.

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What could go wrong

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@baerarnold.bsky.social

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#JustPublished! Rapid Risk Assessment: Multi-country outbreak of #hepatitisA in the EU/EEA. The spike in cases has been reported across Austria, Czechia, Hungary & Slovakia Read full report here: bit.ly/3HOlL4E and our press release here: bit.ly/4kNULAQ #IDsky #EpiSky #MedSky

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Scrapping the national census raises data sovereignty and surveillance fears for Māori theconversation.com/scrapping-th... via @ConversationEDU cc #Lowitja2025

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Hello #FernFriday

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Flowers from our garden's fence 10 years ago on this day #PurpleFriday

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The Lesson's Motmots have been busy feeding their kids over the last month, but finally I found one of the youngsters spying on me near the kitchen today. The young birds have a bill that's a bit stubbier and they haven't developed their pendant tails, yet. So shy! #birds #nature #costarica

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Plans to replace 2031 census in England and Wales set to be abandoned after backlash www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Five-yearly census to be scrapped in New Zealand, replaced with administrative and sample survey data www.1news.co.nz/2025/06/18/f...

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You can see his neck line. #birds #birding #birdphotography #photography #nikon #nature #naturephotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #chicagobirder #heron #blackcrownednightheron

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BREAKING: U.S. regulators have approved the world's only twice-a-year shot to prevent HIV.

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The Superb Lyrebird of Australia's SE forests is the world's largest songbird and best mimic. To attract females to mate, males clear display mounds and dance while mimicking the calls of other birds and even trail bikes and chainsaws. The mating season has just started! #WildOz #birds

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Squirrel on gold, Brunetto Latini, Li Livres dou Trésor, Rouen c.1450-1480.

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Oystercatcher school 🏫🎓 Lesson 1: digging for worms 🪱 How's little Ollie doing? Seems focused, that's for sure 🧐 #birds #nature #photography #baby #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #birding #birdwatching #seabirds #shorebirds #waders

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Beautiful light ! A #foxoftheday in silhouette , taken by Andrea Shaw ( @shaws-light.bsky.social‬ on BlueSky ) , thank you Andrea !

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www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

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#Abla

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Oh good, including people taking prep. That detail was left out of a lot of the news stories.. www.lifeblood.com.au/news-and-sto...

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To walk on water... Reddish Egret #photography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #thelittlethings

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There's plenty of time To catch more fish. For now we'll just Ponder.

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Genie: ok what do you want for your birthday Trump: a military parade, oh, and also millions of people on the street chanting my name Genie: okie dokie

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The tongue . Thank you to Stephanie Graham for this morning's #foxoftheday ( @logicaphotography.bsky.social‬ )

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My ABC colleague Richard Willingham reporting Victoria’s Attorney-General has told caucus this morning the State Government will introduce retrospective vicarious liability laws by end of 2025 in a bid to overcome the High Court “Bird” decision that’s crushed many church abuse victims. #law #auspol

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Q: What do you call a skink that lives among boulders in the cool mountainous parts of #Tasmania? A: The boulder cool-skink! 🦎 #fieldwork #herping #lizards #OzHerps #reptiles

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Former sports presenter and CURRENT Port Adelaide board member Warren Tredrea has cited pseudolaw/sovereign citizen ideas when telling a court he's already paid Nine costs for a failed appeal for being sacked for refusing to get vaccinated www.adelaidenow.com....

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What a cute wren on a branch of spring flower on a winter's day

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Just a winter's morning in Canberra

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My book is now available in paperback! www.routledge.com/Moral-Rights...

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Sea stars this morning at Nelscott Beach, Lincoln City, #OregonCoast.

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Spring in Vienna. -- Sow-thistle in the Volksgarten. #Vienna #photography

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🧵1/7 Proud to be one of the organisers (with @stipeo.bsky.social Ivana Bozicevic & Rieke van der Graaf), of an urgent open letter @thelancet.com signed by 479 health leaders from @who.int Collaborating Centres warning that cuts to WHO's funding are putting millions of lives at risk.

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Christ's sake, Chicago, I'm just trying to go for a walk.

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God please grant me the confidence of a man that has no idea what he's talking about amen

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Whether this AI guidance will be good for schools is debatable - what is not is that points 5 - 9 are massive asks of schools: teach AI literacy, address bias and hallucinations, ensure transparency, protect IP, privacy and safety, and train teachers on emerging risks. That'll fill the time saved.

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