Dr Liam Mcloughlin ☕

Which of these robot dogs is your sprit animal today?

📣 Join us 𝒕𝒐𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒘 📣 (2 Dec) to discuss "The Politics of Platform Regulation" 📖 with Robert Gorwa @gorwa.ca 3:00-4:15pm GMT!

Looking forward to a thought-provoking discussion on how govs shape content moderation & strategies to combat harmful content

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ONLINE EVENT: Content Moderation Book, 2nd December 3:00-4:15pm GMT with @gorwa.ca

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📬 Our Nov newsletter is out 📬

- Roundup on this month's tech & policy news
- TIP top story on how to 'opt-out' from apps' training AI clauses in their T&Cs, and why it matters
- Jobs & opportunities!

Link: technologypolicy.substack.com/p/the-tip-ne...

The TIP Newsletter: Content Moderation Book Talk, Opting-out of AI training, and more! Hello TIPers,

Another newsletter dropped by @techpolicy.bsky.social 📰 👇 .

Amongst all the normal amazing content, @sarahledoux.bsky.social goes into into ten platforms that are using your data to train their LLMs, and how to opt out!

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Trying out Meta's new SAM model, which turns 2D Photos into 3D objects.

'Look how they massacred my boy'

It's our Open Day at Edge Hill, which is a great time to display all my historical political oddities!

💥Upcoming event! 💥"The Politics of Platform Regulation"
🕒 2 Dec @ 3-4:15pm GMT

Join us in our discussion w Robert Gorwa @gorwa.ca to talk about his recent book on "how governments shape online content moderation" + strategies to combat harmful content

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Repairing the DJI Spark Drone Battery with DJI Battery Killer, CP2112, & 9V battery - Leelum Spark DJI Battery not charging/bricked? This guide is how I undertook a simple fix that might work for you in repairing your DJI Spark Battery.

In 2023, I figured out a repair workflow for DJI drone batteries, and wrote a small blog about it.

In the last 12-months, it's gotten 11.6k views, and 78 confirmed battery repairs, probably many more. That's at least £6k out of DJI's pocket.

That's a nice feeling.

leelum.com/projects/rep...

Happy Halloween 👻🎃!

Upped their game from last year, that's for sure.

The @houseofcommons.parliament.uk Christmas jumper is my version of hearing Mariah Carey on the radio for the first time in the year.

Christmas is returning.

Politico: "MPs should consider deleting X, according to a committee led by Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle...

"On social media, the report said MPs should feel “empowered to step away from platforms that pose more harm than benefit.”

Absolutely. Please get on with it.

Don’t use AI to tell you how to vote in election, says Dutch watchdog Data protection authority says chatbots are ‘clearly biased’, as Netherlands prepares for national poll

AI chatbots offer vote advice ahead of elections. Unreliable, non-transparent. And are these applications high risk AI?

Dutch data protection authority warns voters not to rely on chatbots ahead of October 29 elections.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

MPs profiles now have a 'Committees / APPGs' section with more information about their current committees and APPG memberships.

It turns out Prince Andrew, the still Duke of York but has pinky promised not to use the title, is in fact, a gamer.

Internet, you have two jobs:

1) Predict what games he is playing
2) Find his Steam profile
3) Get the 'deets on what mods he's using.

www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-fam...

Something something stones in glass houses, something something?

Babe, Handforth Parish Council 2 just dropped.

Much like other sequels, same formula, missed some of the original’s magic, but still worth a watch.

Robert Jenrik holding an N64 controller with text "This is a video games controller"

Robert Jenrick holding a bottle of Diet Coke, with text saying "And Diet Coke"

Robert Jenrick holding packets of Haribo and Twirl's with text "And these are some snacks."

Robert Jenrick sounds like he's planning a fun night in.

Seriously tho' he's talking about Xbox's here and using a 30 year old N64 controller as a prop. Not quite sure what angle he's going for here.

Universities: please don't print in-class materials.

Me:

For one of my intro to politics classes, I've designed a game where students have to use these policy coins to understand the different concepts of the state. Hopefully it goes down well!

We love a good borrowed German word for very specific scenarios: Schadenfreude, wanderlust, Zeitgeist etc

Internet, is there a German word which perfectly describes trying to use a handdryer which then spits out a weak breath of tepid air so you give up and wipe your hands on your trousers instead?

Feels weird going to work on a Sunday. But I've discovered an amazing walk that's part of the campus property and goes off into a quarry.

Best of all, it's called RUFF WOODS. Damn right had to take the dogs.

a close up of a man in a military uniform looking at the camera with a serious look on his face . ALT: a close up of a man in a military uniform looking at the camera with a serious look on his face .

So I discussing Brexit in the lecture yesterday with students. Thanks to that I'm now having an absolute crisis.

Me: So how old were you during Brexit?
Students: "9-10?"
Me:........ <insert mental breakdown>

This was oddly pleasing. Didn't even realise I got a nice repeating 133,333 until I parked up.

Meta ends (at least for now) political ads in the EU today. Per their ad library data, they've run nearly 11,000,000 different political, social and issue ads in the EU since 2018 and made around €800m from them.

Time for an explainer on how to get funding for a PhD in the UK (1/n)

Deleting because of Musk is certainly an improvement on the Darren Grimes approach. Stir up a bit of controversy as a masquerade to deleting all the embarrassing tweets people kept digging up...

a tire sits on the side of a road in the woods ALT: a tire sits on the side of a road in the woods

GO AMY GO

(Note: TIP generally supports safe and responsible driving)

Deadline is Friday 26 Sept! So stop what you're doing and get that abstract in.

🚨Navigating Digital Democracy Conf– 8-9 Jan, Bournemouth.

The MPG x TIP conference is going to be ace 😍 & I strongly recommend submitting an abstract.

Topics relating to the core areas of @psampg.bsky.social & @techpolicy.bsky.social are welcome.

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