iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Go to! I provided commentary at multiple points on the AI Act and people were really grateful. You can read my actual commentary on my blog, and a meta level description of the process on my recent Trier article, see my publications. The EU really is a democracy, and really does take advice.

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People in homes with handguns more likely to be shot dead, major study finds

Yes but in the case of AI it does massively increase the clarity about how simple regulation and enforcement could be. Speaking of handguns, you're twice as likely to be shot dead with one if you live in a household that has one. They don't protect you. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022...

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Researchers find ‘zero evidence of any kind of protective effects’, with women at particular risk

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Chris means "More concerning is that corporations don't prioritise cybersecure logging of both software development & code execution." We do have such records in better-regulated industries eg automotive, tho lately #Tesla started banning car owners from accessing locally-stored records post crash.

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Art is a means we humans use to create social cohesion. The extent to which it has become a corporate domain fractionalises society. Corporate product perspective is not really "non-human" anyway, this is just a stupid argument for commercial cultural dominance. #AIEthics (2/2) #Saatchi #AIArt

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How film producer Edward Saatchi is using AI to recreate the lost ending of an Orson Welles masterpiece

‘Saatchi believes AI shouldn’t remain merely a tool serving human imagination. "What I want my work to do in AI is to create an AI that can make original and interesting works of art from its artistic perspective because being non-human is a legitimate artistic perspective."’ No it's not! (1/2)

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Fascinated by Orson Welles's 'The Magnificent Ambersons,' whose ending was altered by the studio, the British entrepreneur wants to resurrect the lost version using artificial intelligence. It is both...

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Bob Lord @boblord.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Attacker-centric terms like "arbitrary code execution" describe what the attacker achieved. Software-centric alternatives like "improper input neutralization" describe what the manufacturer failed to prevent.

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

TIL - In Brazil, voting is mandatory for those over 18 years old and optional for those over 70 years old. Young people aged 16 and 17 can also vote, but are not required to go to the polls. g1.globo.com/politica/not...

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Eleições 2026: 158 milhões de brasileiros votam neste domingo | G1

A votação das Eleições 2026 define cargos federais e estaduais em todo o país, com início da divulgação dos resultados oficiais a partir das 17h deste domingo.

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Robert Stribley @stribs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“One of the largest Dutch eyewear retail chains said on Friday it had suspended sales of Meta's (META.O), opens new tab Ray-Ban smart glasses in the Netherlands and Belgium amid growing privacy concerns, in one of the first such ‌moves by a retailer.” www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

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Dutch eyewear chain Hans Anders halts sale of Meta glasses, citing privacy concerns

One of the largest Dutch eyewear retail chains said on Friday it had suspended sales of Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses in the Netherlands and Belgium amid growing privacy concerns, in one of the first ...

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Oh that's right it wasn't actually Flash holding the sword as Ming's ship crashed, even though he got credited/blamed by others as having defeated Ming afterwards.

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This one bsky.app/profile/thea... but now I should get up and write three lectures and do two overdue reviews. But I’ve been meaning to subscribe to the Atlantic … if any millionaires want to fund my research I’d love to get a better grip on my time management!

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Here we go bsky.app/profile/thea... but that cybersecurity thing looks even better.

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OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company’s culture is ‘broken’

I absolutely hate that @theguardian.com polluted and confused a story about what sounds like sensible industrial safety concerns from Robinson with the existential BS of others. Shame on the journalists! Guess I’ll have to read Robinson’s @theatlantic.com article.

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David Robinson joins other insiders in urging industry to take more care over rapidly developing technology

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 03/10/2026

"Oh, poor thing, it's costing you *money* to go through the unacceptable mess you have created, unprompted, out of sheer negligence?" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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OpenAI says its review into hacks, including on Australian government sites, is costing $500,000 a day

Company says it is reviewing 50 petabytes of data after its agents accessed websites including Medicare without authorisation

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Disinformation vastly predates social media.

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American's skyrocketing rates of #bankruptcy since the 1970s is a likely cause of US polarisation. cf @warren.senate.gov 's academic career, particularly her 2004 paper, which drove her into public service. I hope she's on Simon's concern. How many people will gamble that #AI can make them rich?

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Hey, Ming. Classic. But we did see them fighting in flashbacks before, right?

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 03/10/2026

Also, popes totally and famously get elected.

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Meta has enabled Muse to build extensive and ever-growing profiles on the orbit of people in a user’s life. Based on user input but also “publicly available information.” Whether that means a web search, Facebook’s own extensive data, or buying data broker info…we don’t know? And we can’t opt out.

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Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family

Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Exactly. I've long said the only sensible "alignment" we need is between the technology and the intentions of its operator, because we can hold operators to account. below is skype 3 from a thread of 6 by Alondra promoting an essay by one of her team from her days in the Biden admin #AIEthics

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Get in losers, we're reinventing Narrow AI

Excerpt reads: "Smaller models fine-tuned for industries such as law and finance - or even individual companies - could make AI cheaper to run. Trained on specialist or proprietary data, they may require less computing power while outperforming general-purpose frontier models on narrow tasks."

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So @conjugateprior.org was like "why hasn't SAB folded into biology yet?" which reminded me – a bunch of us figured out we like diplomats had to learn the language and practices of the sciences we were interested in. So I started publishing & attending in biology and now political economy instead.

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What! Why did someone delete their excellent Skype along the lines of “anyone can start a podcast but <draws sword > I’m here to end one.”

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YouTube video by JohnnyCashVEVO

I still haven't decided whether to go to what was my very favourite conference throughout my (10 year!) PhD, or to stay home and work on policy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AHC...

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Johnny Cash - Hurt

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Russia's new AI law borrows the vocabulary of contemporary AI regulation but uses it to combine industrial policy with technological control, write Dmitry Kuteynikov and Lyubov Popovets.

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Russia’s AI Law Puts Control Ahead of Capability

Dmitry Kuteynikov and Lyubov Popovets examine Russia’s first comprehensive AI law, its rushed passage, and what it means for AI development.

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I'm tempted to make a joke about energy from burning all the NDAs GAFAM make us sign, but I'd be showing my age. I just signed one for Meta and then asked for a copy or at least to have it emailed and the people at the desk were dumbfounded. Nowadays you just sign a tablet & forget I guess.

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The power of big business in the economy of the Third Reich remains one of the most important issues of that era. Drawing upon research, much of it in German corporate and government archives, Peter H...

Oops deleted the link to the book books.google.de/books?id=xxl... I'm utterly confused when @support.bsky.team does and does not keep the link after you delete it from the skype (to save characters), I guess the photo interfered with that.

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Industry and Ideology

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