iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

This to me not only seems like an abuse of market dominance (under classic competition law) but also the FRAND access provisions under Article 6(12) DMA. Publishers should file a complaint with the European Commission ASAP. This turd of a company extorts them to get access to their product for free.

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 5h

Anthropic floats a sample bill. It would allow the gov’t to block a model that has a “foreseeable, imminent risk of more than $1 billion in damages, or of killing or seriously injuring more than 50 people” www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

politico.com

Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers

The draft proposal would limit the circumstances in which the government could block the release of an advanced model and preempt some state AI safety laws.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Merriam Webster out here fighting for its life

Merriam-Webster & @Merriam..•18h
'Goodbye' is an alteration of "God be with you."

Sean Kress• @SKress7514 • 16h
Do you have evidence to back this up? If so can you explain what "good night" , "good
morning" and "good evening" are alterations of?

Merriam-Webster & @Merriam..•15h
what

Sean Kress & @SKress7514 • 14h
I was genuinely asking the question because the only thing I find on the internet is that it is basically a slur from the original.... I assumed there was a better explanation for it than that as it seems a little unlikely given the good night, good morning etc haven't been slurred into something else too. Sorry if you saw that as offensive.

Merriam-Webster @ @Merriam...•14h S
It is not related to 'good night/ day/morning.'
The 'good' in those do not come from 'God.'

Sean Kress @ @SKress7514 • 14h
So the internet suggestion this it is just a slur is what you are basing that on too then?

Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Merriam-Webster's etymology follows established linguistic scholarship, not unverified internet suggestions of a "slur."
"Goodbye" is an alteration of "God be with you"; "good" in greetings like "good morning" has separate origins unrelated to "God."
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michael veale @michae.lv · 13/10/2026

'Are EU Kidding Me?', my critique of the EU KIDS Act, the EC's chaotic social media ban, is now forthcoming in the excellent Georgetown Law Technology Review. It's updated w/ some extra bits here files.michae.lv/papers/veale... (You can also respond to the consultation: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...)

Are EU Kidding Me? Notes from a Poorly Drafted Social
Media Ban
Michael Veale
Faculty of Laws, UCL and IViR, University of Amsterdam
Cite as: 11 Geo. L. Tech. Rev. _ (2026)
[2026] 11 Georgetown Law Technology Review _
doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/fwjpq_v1
files.michae.lv/papers/veale_areEUkiddingme.pdf
October 12, 2026
ABSTRACT
In September 2026, the European Commission published a proposed EU KIDS Act, responding to the
demand for restrictions and further design obligations applying to digital services accessible to children,
including social media. This Article argues that regardless of what one believes about the merits of this
policy direction, the EU KIDS Act is not the legislative text we need. The scope and drafting are little
short of chaotic, full of holes, enormous ambiguities, and unintended consequences. Recitals contradict
articles. The use of scope borrowed from other pieces of legislation not designed for this purpose brings
services into scope that should not be subject to the relevant provisions, like book-recommendation
websites, music services, or exercise trackers. The infrastructural requirement for assurance of age and
parental responsibility attestation simply omits enormous issues of complex families and childhoods.
Complex design obligations are written in ways that can be plausibly interpreted as implicitly prohibiting
entire swathes of products, such as voice assistants. This Article outlines these issues, and many more.
The Commission should withdraw this proposal and reissue a workable and realistic tex

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I will not only be relieved but truly *ecstatic* to be wrong, if more and better studies soon start showing that AI actually improves learning and cognitive motivation. But so far they all show the opposite, and that is consistent with the evidence that I and other educators are seeing on the ground

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EUI Department of Law @eui-law.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

🎉 50 years of the @eui-eu.bsky.social Law Department! Three generations of the Law community have come together to celebrate the people, ideas and research that have shaped the Department since 1976. 🎓 50 years young!

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

YouTube straight up does not decide on spam (AI-generated content) reports for months, in blatant violation of the DSA. I have two spam reports from May and July which are still live and pending a decision. So many easy targets for enforcement but the Commission is focused on all the wrong things.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

3 wks ago we 🎉 the launch of our Cross-Reference books @ the Ctr for Bklyn History! @beccaquon.bsky.social chronicled the event! We're inviting ppl to request 🌟free🌟 copies of both pubs; METRO members + collecting institutions get priority :) crc.metro.org?p=1720&previ... crc.metro.org/projects/

Stacks of our misfit books; cover features black background, yellow and pink lettering in Banco typeface

Search and discovery Zen set, featuring three brightly colored, clipped jeans and a yellow introductory broadsheet

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Ben Green @benzevgreen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Algorithmic Realism: Data Science Practices to Promote Social Justice comes out today! I wrote this book with the mission to transform data science and AI into fields that genuinely work in service of the public interest. I hope that you’ll join me! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205570...

A photo of the cover of the book Algorithmic Realism by Ben Green.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.

nytimes.com

National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)

The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Bad content drives out good. www.garbageday.email/p/ai-growth-...

In the past week, several content creators have stumbled across accounts feeding their videos to AI programs that replace all the humans in the videos with artificial versions that mimic their movements and words exactly. Essentially, they recreate the video in all other details, but the fake people replacing the original creators is enough to avoid getting flagged as a repost.
This “AI flipping” has been a successful strategy on short-form video apps for months. These videos seem to be most popular on Instagram Reels, where they’re the bread and butter for at least one of the site’s fastest-growing accounts. Recent moves by Instagram seem to be aimed at cutting down on the practice, but we’re still seeing AI flips that are more popular than the original. Let’s walk through everything we know.
Part of why this growth hack works is that the platform doesn’t have any tools to find the original human video from the AI recreation — you need to see them both and remember one when you see the other. That means we’re not certain when or where this began. But the most successful AI flipper we’ve found is called Mr. Stretchy, an Arabic-language Instagram account that takes popular videos from all over the world and replaces the humans in them with this uncanny Wallace & Gromit reject.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

APStylebook @APStylebook
X.com
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Nice hat, Cassandra" "I mirror that, Penthesileia"

Cassandra turned to the right, holding a book and Penthesileia in armour with her sword raised. Both figures wear wild hats or helmets. Source:https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1889-0527-82

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 10/08/2026

v1.130 is live! Want to follow someone for their posts but not their reposts? Now you can — turn on "Hide reposts in feeds" for any account you follow.

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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

How is this news? billionaire oil person says uk needs to drill more and tax less, though, of course, he‘s actually in Monaco. And he would do more in the uk if the state subsidised him more. Dear BBC, that‘s like me saying the uk‘s problem is underpaid law profs. www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.com

Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK

Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.

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Michael Ekstrand @md.ekstrandom.net · 21/07/2026

“Algorithmic Realism” by @benzevgreen.bsky.social and @salome.bsky.social is on my short list of papers most foundational to my research. Super excited that Ben has turned it into a book, and it's available for pre-order! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205570...

mitpress.mit.edu

Algorithmic Realism

The field of data science faces a moral crisis. Despite the desires of data scientists to develop algorithms for good, algorithms regularly produce injustice...

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Apple announced two always-listening features for Apple Watch: - Siri Recap summarizes conversations you had throughout the day. - Live Rewind shows a transcript of the previous 15 seconds of conversation. Quite a shift for a company that has made privacy a core part of its brand.

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 10/09/2026

"We're good, our CSAM ads aren't running in your jurisdiction" is certainly a revealing position. But then again X is operating with impunity, including in the EU, as a commercial CSAM provider, so why wouldn't Meta get in on the money too?

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

One of the things that makes constitutional-theoretical conversations difficult is that almost every concept in circulation is essentially contested balkin.blogspot.com/2026/09/disc...

Discontent with Constitutionalism and Its Discontents

Guest Blogger

For the Balkinization symposium on Mark Tushnet and Bojan Bugaric, Constitutionalism and Its Discontents (University of Chicago Press, 2026).

Martin Loughlin

My thoughts on Constitutionalism and Its Discontents, the latest publication from Professors Tushnet and Bugaric, must be situated in the context of their earlier book, Power to the People. That book, I argued in Balkinization, had failed to give a cogent answer to the basic question it sought to address, namely, whether populism is inconsistent with constitutionalism. And the reason was that the authors had not provided a clear statement of what those two key terms mean. With respect to constitutionalism, they sought to avoid controversy by presenting what they called a ‘thin’ account which could operate as ‘a least common denominator’. But this account, I suggested, was not only as contentious as so-called ‘thick’ accounts; it was also skewed in such a way that it would not be accepted by constitutionalism’s most fervent advocates. Their thin account could not differentiate between those who adhere to constitutionalism, those who reject constitutionalism but uphold constitutional democracy, and those who merely acknowledge the value of constitutional government.

In their response, the authors failed to engage with this issue other than indicating that my understanding of constitutionalism was not suitable for their purpose. Since the point I was making preceded the publication of my book, Against Constitutionalism, that seemed fair enough, because only in that book was I able to make out the case that throughout the modern era constitutionalism has carried a clear and widely understood meaning. It is, I argued, a liberal theory advocating the need for the written constitution to include a particular set of institutional arrangements that could restrain the power of majorities and set in place a scheme of limited government so that indivi…

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South America Archives @southparkwiki.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

South Park is making a big change. Creators Trey Parker & Matt Stone announce: “Inspired by the bravery and patriotism of Apple and Google, we are changing the name of South Park to SOUTH AMERICA. We especially want to thank our parent company Paramount -- a Skydance Capitulation.”

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Anthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be · 08/09/2026

Nobody could have predicted this would be a massive failure.

When he launched the first of three bids for the CDU leadership in 2018, returning to politics after a decade in business, Merz vowed to halve" support for Alternative for Germany (AfD). His answer was to steer the CDU to the right, pairing a tougher line on immigration with pro-growth economic reforms.

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Society for the History of the Philosophy of Technology (HPT) @hptsociety.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Critical Philosophies of Technology at the University of Florence (September 28-29, 2026) The program is out! Check out all the panels and talks: fasos-research.nl/history-of-p... With Keynote speeches by Dr. Teresa Numerico and Dr. François-Xavier Guchet.

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Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 08/09/2026

First class of the semester is completed. Running iteration 9 of my seminar, How to Pay Attention. Doing it fully on paper this year, but the web copy of the syllabus is here: classes.nickseaver.net/HTPA/

classes.nickseaver.net

How to Pay Attention

Undergraduate seminar critically examining attention: how it is measured, valued, and managed in social, cultural, and technical contexts, from driver monitoring to AI.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A microcosm of my frustration with 🇺🇸 political media for years now. The AfD in 🇩🇪 is, if anything, <less> far right & authoritarian than the GOP, but neither @nytimes.com nor any other major media outlet regularly calls them a far right party. But as soon as it’s 🇩🇪, right in the headline. Every time.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 05/09/2026

“Harvard faculty in the humanities and social sciences expressed broad concern over an email Harvard College Dean David J. Deming sent students Wednesday suggesting that artificial intelligence be integrated into ‘writing-intensive’ courses.”

thecrimson.com

Harvard Humanities Faculty Push Back on Deming’s Call for AI Use in Writing Courses | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard faculty in the humanities and social sciences expressed broad concern over an email Harvard College Dean David J. Deming sent students Wednesday suggesting that artificial intelligence be inte...

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Jan Blockx @janblockx.eurosky.social · 02/09/2026

First panels at the #ELU-S conference today are very promising: #bigtech and #eulaw, and rethinking #competitionlaw. Next: plenary on #sovereignty.

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Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Meta has never once age-restricted content on Instagram, according to the EU's database. Which is weird because it says it has been doing that since 2024. about.fb.com/news/2024/01...

Search results for Platform:Meta and Visibility Restriction:Age restricted content showing zero results, from https://transparency.dsa.ec.europa.eu/statement?s=&platform_id%5B%5D=33&platform_id-33=on&decision_visibility%5B%5D=DECISION_VISIBILITY_CONTENT_AGE_RESTRICTED&decision_visibility-DECISION_VISIBILITY_CONTENT_AGE_RESTRICTED=on&created_at_start=&created_at_end=

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The Acemoglu Wars are all about AI www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-acemog...

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The Acemoglu Wars Are All About AI

Regarding that Economist article ...

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Good piece from @himself.bsky.social on Acemoglu, developing the idea that I had been speculating about - that the weird Economist piece attacking him was all about his criticisms of AI. www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-acemog...

programmablemutter.com

The Acemoglu Wars Are All About AI

Regarding that Economist article ...

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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

📢 Job vacancy - Chair in Intellectual History We welcome applications from scholars working across a broad range of fields, including: 💠 History of political theory, political economy 💠 Knowledge systems and IT 💠 Postcolonial and intersectional thought 💠 Humanist, post-human, and planetary history

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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

🇪🇺 30 years ago, Émile Noël passed away Secretary-General of the European Commission and also President of the @eui-eu.bsky.social. He was a quiet architect who helped steer the EU project from its early decades and whose legacy speaks for him. Explore his archives in loom.ly/mVJWkas

Portrait of the President of the European University Institute, Emile Noël, during his speech in the XII Jean Monnet Conference, 1989. HAEU, EUI-694-I.9

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Historical Archives of the European Union @eui-euarchives.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A new academic year begins at the European University Institute—a warm welcome to all new and returning members of the EUI community! As the Institute marked its 50th anniversary this year, we invite you to explore an online exhibit of the EUI's visual history 🔗 loom.ly/MgP5mYE #EUI50

View of the Badia Fiesolana in the early 1970s. Photo: Unknown author / HAEU.

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

my—just updated—political philosophy starter pack bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 19/08/2026

i don’t want “accelerated”, “increased-speed” or “fast-paced” research. in fact, am not interested in any shortcuts to mindful, intentional, and slow science

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michael veale @michae.lv · 03/08/2026

You can now access many more digital laws, not just the GDPR, at the UCL Massively Crossreferenced Digital Laws page: EU: GDPR, DSA, DMA, AI Act, UCPD, NIS2 UK: OSA, DPA18, ...+ Each article/para/recital, links to what-cites-it in int'l cases/statutes/guidance homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucqnmve/law...

UCL Massively Crossreferenced Digital Laws

Varying digital legal instruments across jurisdictions, each able to be clicked on a section/article/paragraph basis to find the hard and soft law instruments that cite and interpret each specific part (or substantively very similar parts of previous/neighbouring laws.) Snippets provided for each citing source along with original links to that source. Typically thousands of citations for each. Citing documents can be ordered by date, citation numbers, or 'authority/influence' (PageRank algorithm).

Database of citing documents maintained and updated daily/weekly; the below documents intended to be updated weekly. Last update 3 August 2026.

Document coverage and national grammar for document detection is strongest and best tested for UK, Ireland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, EU and ECHR, but the database contains and attempts to link administrative decisions and guidance from other jurisdictions. Unlike Westlaw or other providers, this is not only free, with links to the originals, and incorporates a large amount of guidance and secondary material.

Documents generated from a dataset held and maintained by Michael Veale, Professor of Technology Law and Policy, Faculty of Laws, University College London. If you wish to study these instruments and the tech and practices that interact with them, consider learning about it at UCL Laws: on our LLM in Law and Technology, or our week-long executive education on AI for Lawyers: Technological Understanding for Compliance and Litigation.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 18/08/2026

On Sunday, parents across the five boroughs got a night to themselves while NY's Cutest enjoyed free activities with NYC Parks staff at select recreation centers. Free & accessible child care doesn’t just make our city more affordable — it gives parents time to rest, recharge, or enjoy a night out.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A perfect conceit for the 20s: the world's biggest bookstore has become a destroyer of books

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I‘m far from an AI doomer, but it is amazing how many serious voices — on LinkedIn, no less! — are sharing stories about how AI slop is quickly becoming one of the top problems they see in academic writing and research “AI will 10x our research!” doesn’t seem to be surviving encounters with reality

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Bad content drives out good, also uncomfortably close to home.

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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

404media.co

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

That’s bad. And happening not only at your friendly Am*zon’s around the corner. But it all depends on what we label as “rare”.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 17/08/2026

1. Recently I’ve received lots of emails from people I don’t know personally, asking for my feedback on their books or papers. They explain the connection between my work and theirs and ask me to take a look. The catch, of course, is that the emails are transparently, obviously, written by AI.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

“The city’s transition away from the car, tho fantastically chaotic, has become a global role model. Under mayor Anne Hidalgo, Paris was ‘the most influential city in the world’ says Canadian urbanist Brent Toderian. Hidalgo, stepping down after 12 yrs, exulted: ‘The bike beat the car.’”

ft.com

How Paris beat the car

Though chaotic, the city’s transition has become a global role model

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Jukka Tapio Mähönen @mahonen.wsocial.eu · 04/08/2026

Are there any colleagues or universities here? I am dean of Law Faculty at the University of Helsinki and Professor of Cooperative Law. I work besides uni adm, with sustainability law, corporate and cooperative law, accounting, auditing, finance, EU law, comparative law, all that stuff.

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