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The end of the student essay? Reasoning AIs are starting to cross into pass territory One of the most challenging aspects of generative AI for legal education has been its potential use in assessment. There have been some polls conducted, and large numbers of students admit to using AI in their…

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🔖 "Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare." – Audre Lorde

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Also - government is not a business. It is ultimately a collective that provides services to citizens. It does not need to be run like a for profit entity.

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📰 Identical front page on every UK paper today, with homepage takeovers too. Only 2nd time this has happened. As editors and reporters, we fear for the future of quality journalism - with unlawful scraping of content (theft) by AI firms. #MakeItFair inews.co.uk/opinion/made...

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The cheek, the nerve, the gall, the audacity and the gumption. @theguardian.com care to explain?

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Wow.

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This is a proper nightmare now.

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I'm in Taipei for #rightscon2025. If you're working on issues around platforms + their impact on society, tech authoritarianism, Elon Musk's increasing global reach, surveillance, or human rights, or you/your organization has been impacted by the USAID cuts, please reach out Signal: vittoria89.82.

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My desire for tech ethics is not to be the convenient idiots. Trotted out to play the foil for the tech bros, applauded and snapped by the public, only to be shelved until the next appropriate moment where the veneer of accountability is required.

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Incredibly proud to see my amazing friend Paola Galvez Callirgos share her perspectives along such wonderful women. Women in the Global Majority fighting for a fair AI. Our voices are needed 🫡

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Ffs.

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Why is London so empty right now

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✨🔍 NEW 🔍✨ We’ve just added 6000+ new meetings to our Open Access database of Westminster and (now) Holyrood meetings with external organisations. Check out the new data here ⤵️ openaccess.transparency.org.uk

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The song of the decade (so far). 🫠🎶

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So so many substacks. So little time.

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The #Digital South Research Lab webpage is live ahead of tomorrow’s kickoff at Tilburg University. Please take a look to learn more about our #team members, ongoing #research projects, and #calls for papers and abstracts. www.tilburguniversity.edu/research/hum... #AcademicSky #TechSky

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‘2073’ by @asifkapadia.bsky.social with a Q&A featuring @carolecadwalla.bsky.social. A tour de force. Protect investigative journalism and speculative science fiction at all cost. Protect human though and creativity from big tech and AI. We need it desperately.

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This is going to be 🔥

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Tomorrow! Looking forward to hearing from @chinasa.bsky.social´s new initiative.

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Last week the UK government took a backwards step in tech governance by rejecting the declaration presented at the #AISummit in Paris. ❗In response, Demos is calling for a citizen-led UK Declaration of Digital Rights & Principles. ✉️ Read our Open Letter ⬇️

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punk is not dead. 🤘

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The "Free Speech Union" is very worried that the call for Musk's ejection from the Royal Society is denying the free speech of the "world's richest man" who is running the US and shutting down dissent on the social media platform he owns. freespeechunion.org/elon-musk-an...

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“A future in which AI works for the benefit of all will not be the product of any one country determining its course, no more than it will be the product of a handful of big tech corporations doing so. AI awaits its urgently-needed global regulatory moment.” www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-02...

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🪷 So, digital right community! How are we keeping ourselves healthy and sane in these most-precedented and nerve-wrecking times? 🪷

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=/

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They need our money but they don’t need us 🥲

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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

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As more tech CEOs seem willing to put their companies’ culture and technology at the behest of the US government, it’s good to remember which platforms have access to what data.

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Here goes another. "The embarrassing failure of the Paris AI Summit" @shakeelhashim.com

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“It was a farce.” @billyperrigo.bsky.social 👏👏

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Loved this discussion with @abeba.bsky.social on the complexities behind researching AI (for real) and the dark and useless hole that comes from datafying the human condition and making it a problem to solve (among many other fascinating things). open.spotify.com/episode/2Scs...

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🚨 Are you worried about Techno-Authoritarianism? Are you looking for answers? There are still a few tickets left for the London screening of "2073", followed by a Q&A with Director Asif Kapadia, Carole Cadwalladr and Byline Time's Peter Jukes! www.eventbrite.com/e/2073-scree...

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Dr @abeba.bsky.social is one of the few persons that gives me hope in the current context, and from I have learned so much 🙏Thanks Dr @abenanav.bsky.social for speaking truthto power, and for raising your voice also for the many who can't be there, and are excluded from such Summits

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Imagine you're just some 30-something guy who converts to one of the world's major religions and in less than a decade its spiritual leader is rebuking you in front of the entire world That's how big a loser JD Vance is apnews.com/article/pope...

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