Jennifer Cobbe

This mendacious drivel should be a resigning issue, for both the author and anyone who thought it was right to publish it

I'm old enough to remember when the American right said that carrying a gun was an inviolable right and the last defence against tyranny. Now they argue it's cause for the government's shock troops to execute civilians in the street in broad daylight

Appears this is also true for fascism.

Please stop centering discussions for people re: data and privacy around consent. It does not work

Ignoring for now the many deep flaws with the rest of this paragraph, it's remarkable how little impact there has been from two+ decades of data protection and privacy scholarship showing the failure of consent as a paradigm in this kind of context

(Also - at risk of outing myself as a Titanic nerd - the Titanic was not particularly slow to turn by big boat standards, but I suppose that's beside the point)

Famously, despite being slow to turn, things worked out fine for the Titanic and everyone on her

peak UK to spend 5 years debating the Online Safety Act, 3 years enacting it, 1 month rendering it largely irrelevant before it's taken effect by banning the problem it was supposed to solve

The tenor of the Westminster debate over the legacy of the NI conflict is utterly dehumanising and othering. The only people who matter are "our veterans" - not people **in the UK** who were harmed through what, in multiple cases, has been established to be unlawful action by the armed forces.

The UK has repealed Article 22 of the GDPR. What replaces it?

For Oxford Business Law Blog, I argue the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 creates 3 structural gaps that leave consumers vulnerable to automated decisions.

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Funnily enough, a 'weird internal drive to self police' that actually comes from external factors is exactly the kind of disciplinary power that Foucault used the panopticon as a metaphor for in Discipline and Punish

I know it's a minor point in the grand scheme of things, but she has misunderstood the panopticon - it is that the 'eyes of the state' can be on you at *any* time, so do not need to be on you at *all* times

"When I was in justice, my ultimate vision for that part of the criminal justice system was to achieve, by means of AI and technology, what Jeremy Bentham tried to do with his Panopticon. That is that the eyes of the state can be on you at all times"

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The people who came to Brianna's vigil were the many friends, as an isolated trans girl, she had made on social media. The people who were convicted of her murder knew her in real life, and used transphobic slurs to discuss her.

Oh are we doing that whole bit again where we pretend Brianna Ghey died because of social media rather than because of the people who stabbed her 28 times.

once again this just reads like a horror story

From the same paper. These people talk a big game about nationalism and patriotism, but they are actually a fascist international, a movement quite unconcerned with sovereignty as a principle, entirely concerned to promote viscous authoritarian imperialism.

In her first week in the job, the new chair of the EHRC got in touch with an anti-trans hate group to discuss ways to work together

Tweet exchange in which a photo of Anne Hathaway is posted by @TheRoyalSerf, to which user @VvSchweetz24 replies "@grok...do your thing. @Grok replies: Anne Hathaway isn't Jewish; she was raised Catholic but left the church. She married Adam Shulman (who is Jewish) in 2012 and celebrates Jewish holidays with their kids. SHe's played Jewish roles, like in "Armageddon Time."

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

Terrific content

This story is currently nowhere to be seen on the BBC News main page! Madness

That 15 years of stagnation? Interacts poorly with this quasi-tax structure. Wouldn't have done that.

This ought to be a huge national news story. But the quiet dismantling of a key sector barely registers outside HE. Maybe someone will care when the local economies that Unis sustain start to go bust too. Important story from @patrickjack.bsky.social & @timeshighered.bsky.social

Department of Homeland Security post on X affirming immunity for ICE agents under all circumstances

When the interior ministry declares its militia to be above the law in terms that equate dissent with treason there really isn’t any question of whether or not we are looking at an authoritarian regime.

Again. Would the Prime Minister merely express concern if you, or I spent three weeks generating hundreds of thousands of non-consensual nudes and child sexual abuse images, while bragging about, and profiting from, so doing? And would he praise us simply for promising that we'd stop doing so soon?

You used AI to do something and it inevitably backfired? That's on you!

Incredible article which points out that it often collectively costs more to apply for scarce research funding than the funds awarded to the successful proposals.

What an absurd system we've built in the service of efficiency and competition.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Russell Group v-c salaries rise as 7,000 job losses confirmed Leaders of research-intensive universities see pay top £350,000 despite financial strife faced by institutions

'In total, the 20 universities spent £8.3 million on remuneration for their vice-chancellors. The accounts also reveal they collectively let go almost 7,000 staff in the same year – costing £124.6 million in compensation for loss of office.'

Civil society groups condemn ‘dangerous’ plans for more anti-protest powers Dozens including TUC join force to oppose ‘wide-ranging’ move to increase police powers in England and Wales More than 40 civil society groups including the TUC, Greenpeace and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign have joined forces to oppose “dangerous” plans to increase police powers to ban protests in England and Wales. They said an amendment in the crime and policing bill, which would require police to consider the “cumulative impact” of repeated protests in the same area when imposing conditions on demonstrations, represented a “draconian crackdown on our rights to freedom of expression and assembly”. Continue reading...

Civil society groups condemn ‘dangerous’ plans for more anti-protest powers