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Congrats, will read with interest!

DCPC a.k.a. the digital #commons policy council is finally on #Bluesky
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Meet our Fellow @nidhalaigh.bsky.social, who is recognised as an international leader in the regulation & governance of data & digital technologies – including AI, the internet & 3D printing. Find out more about Angela and her work➡️ acss.org.uk/professor-an...

Sure, let’s collate every member of the public’s personal and private information into one giant database right before handing whole swathes of the state over to multinational corporations using an emergent technology with numerous security issues

Dialogue between two persons. One person claims to do interdisciplinary comparative law but the other one requires them to be honest. Finally they admit that they actually only add random social science stuff in footnotes.

Doing interdisciplinary comparative law

Johnson and Cummings’ secret meeting with Palantir founder revealed Non-disclosure of apparent meeting a year before firm won NHS role raises serious questions over transparency

No surprise that a hidden meeting (i.e. not on official record) between Thiel and Johnson/Cummings in 2019, just before Palantir captured NHS data, is to me the most interesting find in Boris files so far. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

New Fellow @nidhalaigh.bsky.social is Professor of Law & Technology at @dundee.ac.uk! Angela’s research explores the interaction between legal frameworks and new digital technologies, in areas such as evidence, sector specific regulation and human rights. ➡️ acss.org.uk/news/the-aca...

Solidarity to you all ✊

Very honoured to be among them.

Photo of two books: on the left, Post-Communist Grounds: In Search if the Commons, edited by Neda Genova with a purple and green collage cover; and on the right, .expub: Exploring Expanded Publishing, edited by Tommaso Campagna, Marta Ceccarelli & Carolina Valente Pinto, black text on an orange background cover.

So nice to get some more Institute of Network Culture goodies today, book aesthetics always on point.

Visit our website, and read about our strong opposition to the recently rejected University Recovery Plan: a plan created by the short-term team in charge at University of Dundee.

sites.dundee.ac.uk/ducu/

#SaveHE #SaveDundeeUni

Beyond techno-optimism: four critical limitations in the UK’s AI policy for health care In 2015, the UK Government published Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities and Implications for the Future of Decision Making ,1 initiating a pattern of biennial artificial intelligence (AI) reports ...

In our new paper, we identify the limits of the UK's AI health policy:

1️⃣ Disproportionate focus on growth

2️⃣ Sidelining of regulation, ethics & public trust

3️⃣ Underestimationg true scale & cost of NHS digital transformation

4️⃣ Scant consideration of environmental impact

bjgp.org/content/75/7...

Gross and genius!

“Although Microsoft is used up and down the UK by police and law enforcement bodies, so far only SPA – and now Police Scotland – have asked the important questions: Where does our data go? Do you have a map or data flow model? What assurances can you give us around our regulatory DPA Part 3 needs?"

Photo of large black and white clock sculpture outside new Glasgow Uni Advanced Research Centre building, with text on it 'organize now', 'organize right', 'time to organize'.

In @uofglasgow.bsky.social today and fitting that I come across Ruth Ewan's Silent Agitator IWW sculpture.

Police Scotland urged to 'immediately abandon' live facial recognition plans

Police Scotland have been urged to 'immediately abandon' plans to introduce facial recognition software for public surveillance by Amnesty International and 13 other advocacy groups

Police Scotland using live facial recognition 'not justifiable', SNP members say POLICE Scotland's consideration to use live facial recognition technology is “not justifiable” and would be a “radical departure” from the…

Agree 100% with this motion to @snp.org national conference calling for Police Scotland not to invest in live facial recognition and its use should not be allowed in Scotland without new primary legislation which is compatible with human rights law & EU AI Act.

www.thenational.scot/news/2541206...

Carnival vibes for those of us elsewhere with Barrington Levy on KEXP - more dancing, less intrusive and racist facial recognition cameras!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfgZ...

YouTube video by STV News Scottish Government announces £40m bailout for university

You said there would be no redundancies on national television.

Then confirmed on 1st July to 1000 staff and @thecourier.co.uk there is no Plan ‘B’ for redundancies.

Then six weeks later it’s revealed your failed “recovery plan” wanted 190 compulsory redundancies.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=X3hF...

Universities must be reimagined for the AI age Australia’s competitiveness depends on how quickly we can align education, technology and workforce development.

How about we replace Chancellors, VCs and senior managers with chatbots? (They've already replaced themselves with AI but continue to collect the salary and make awful decisions) share.google/xLXvRgJsFPIz...

‘Too hungry to think, too weak to sit upright. Concentration slips away’: the struggle to stay focussed as an academic in Gaza It is hard to keep the mind sharp when the body is thin and dehydrated, but solidarity is teaching starving students their thoughts still matter

‘Too hungry to think, too weak to sit upright. Concentration slips away’: the struggle to stay focussed as an academic in Gaza

Dounreay In Extremis DOUNREAY IN EXTREMIS: From The Province of the Cat by George Gunn. It is a relatively recent phenomenon – the metamorphosis of politicians from inspirational, sincere, wide-eyed dreamers, whose pri…

'This was the way the North coast of Caithness was militarised and not one single political voice was raised in opposition. No democratically elected representative of the people voiced concern. They still don’t.'
George Gunn, via @bellacaledonia.bsky.social

I am loving this very posh protest!

The University of Dundee has announced it will defer the 1.4% national pay rise for staff in higher education.

With inflation above 3% this means hard working staff at the University will be getting at least a 3% real terms pay cut this year.

Huge solidarity from Scotland to Dr Allen and you all fighting for your university against unaccountable out-of-control university 'leadership'.

Plus plenty of flags of proscribed terrorist paramilitary groups flying freely there.

“We have had the police knocking on every door,” said a dog walker and resident of Dean, as a helicopter buzzed overhead. “They wanted the names of everybody living there and details of their social media. I know several people refused. We asked them if they were protecting us, or Vance. At least they were honest and said it is for him and that it will all be passed on to the American security people.”

Buried in The Observer yesterday was this: UK police knocking on doors demanding details of social media accounts of people, to pass to a foreign government, simply because they happen to live near where a US politician wanted to have a holiday observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations – Wikimedia Foundation UPDATE: On Monday, 11 August, the High Court of Justice dismissed the Wikimedia Foundation’s challenge to the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) Categorisation Regulations. While the decision does not provi...

Breaking: the court ruling in Wikipedia's legal challenge to the Online Safety Act categorisation regime has just been handed down. The court dismissed Wikipedia's challenge. This is bad. This is very bad. wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/08...