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benfarrand.bsky.social
Prof in Law & Emerging Technologies. Interactions between law, geopolitics and technology governance. Currently writing about EU Digital Sovereignty. Probably just here to post synthwave and talk about microchips.
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Maybe I should start using this thing. Got a lot to say about digital sovereignty, and I guess this is as good a place as any to talk about it.

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Delighted to find out that not everyone is tired of reading about European strategic autonomy in security & defence: Monika Sus and I wrote about this (open access) in @europeansecurity.bsky.social and it's become the most-read article over the past year www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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I present the full delegations for the UK-EU PPA PDF version: bit.ly/UshGraphic135 Some comments in order 1/

submitted 78 days ago • 4 comments

🚨🚨 A new report by @thecitp.bsky.social shows that #Brexit deals £3bn blow to UK food exports as British food sales to the EU have fallen by almost a fifth since the end of the Brexit transition period. Grim #brexitdisaster 🧵 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

submitted 87 days ago • 17 comments

Random thought of the day: does an interest in cyberpunk engender an interest in cybersecurity, or does an interest in cybersecurity engender an interest in cyberpunk?

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Law and technology scholar: cups may appear neutral but their contents are anything but, so we must regulate the structure of these cups according to our preferred liquids

submitted 95 days ago • 2 comments

Can someone please do a starter pack of 🇪🇺 watchers and include me on it? ☺️😃🤷🏾🙈. I'll do it if I have to 😝

submitted 108 days ago • 2 comments

🚨🚨 "In today's let the never-ending misery continue", Jack Simpson and Angela Giuffrida has a depressing #brexitreality report on how EU plant exporters are turning backs on UK over post-Brexit border checks due to delays and trading costs.🧵 www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 156 days ago • 2 comments

🚨Heavy but very powerful read by extremely brave Dr Dániel András Karsai claiming the right to end his life "like the trees" standing and with "dignity instead of enduring meaningless suffering".

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🚨It's been a long journey, but all the more happy to finally see this out in Theory, Culture & Society: 'The Solutionist Ethic and the Spirit of Digital Capitalism' (with @onachtwey.bsky.social) 🔗Article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 🔗 German press release: www.unibas.ch/de/Aktuell/N...

submitted 486 days ago • 1 comment

🌐 Conflictsky Intsec Still time to register for our next online seminar of the ECPR Network Statehood Sovereignty and Conflict (t.co/gpAbkR8Hir): 8 Nov 'The EU’s responses to authoritarian transnational repression' by S Furstenberg w/ A Dukalskis as discussant. t.co/y5QOChy2Ey

submitted 491 days ago • 0 comments

@himself.bsky.social could I get an add to UndergroundSky? :)

submitted 495 days ago • 1 comment

Cocteau Singleton

submitted 498 days ago • 0 comments

@helenebismarck.bsky.social , @danielrembrandt.bsky.social and @stevepeers.bsky.social have being doing an incredible job in introducing and welcoming people here!

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@profmusgrave.bsky.social could I please get an add to the Polisky list? :)

submitted 507 days ago • 0 comments

The rule of law and the rule of law are two very different things when you think about it

submitted 510 days ago • 0 comments

1) the current linkage of sovereignty, economy, and security as strategic objectives in EU lawmaking can be understood in terms of ‘regulatory mercantilism’ 2) Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi is under-studied in a lot of EU law and politics work on the ideas shaping the EU in English language text

submitted 511 days ago • 2 comments

BUT STILL KICKEN ASS - dashare.zone ADMIN

submitted 519 days ago • 4 comments