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Tales Tomaz

@talestomaz.bsky.social
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Apenas um rapaz latino-americano | Ass. Prof of Media Policy & Economics at the Universiy of Salzburg | Manager of the Euromedia Ownership Monitor (media-ownership.eu) | Parenting | Global South

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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:
I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves.
Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone.
That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins.
If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after.
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KoWi Salzburg @kowisalzburg.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
🗞️ Asst. Prof. @talestomaz.bsky.social presented the Euromedia Ownership Monitor at a global symposium on beneficial ownership transparency in Brighton — connecting ownership debates to media pluralism and democratic accountability. #MediaOwnership #BOT
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Tales Tomaz präsentiert EurOMo auf globalem Transparenz-Symposium
Euromedia Ownership Monitor auf globalem Symposium zur Transparenz wirtschaftlicher Eigentümerschaft vorgestellt
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Mediamorphis @mediamorphis.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Paramount's take over of Warner Bros. Discovery is bad news for several reasons. It runs roughshod over the DOJ/FTC Merger Guidelines with respect to streaming, film and pay tv markets. 1/ www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Netflix drops Warner Bros bid, clearing way for Paramount takeover
Netflix's decision to back down from the bidding war clears the path for Paramount to win the takeover battle.
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Euromedia Ownership Monitor @mediaownership.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
📣 Public webinar: What’s new in EurOMo Full database now available for registered users (incl. beneficial owner info). Join a 30-min live demo + Q&A: 🗓️ Fri 20 Mar 2026 — 11:00 CET 🗓️ Mon 23 Mar 2026 — 15:00 CET Register: media-ownership.eu/registration... #MediaOwnership #Transparency
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Registration for webinar - Euromedia Ownership Monitor
EurOMo is offering a webinar on the main resources available since the launch of its most recent version. There are two sessions to choose from: Friday, 20 March 2026, 11:00 CET Monday, 23 March 2026,...
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Ben Tarnoff @bentarnoff.com · 09/12/2025
I have a piece out today that explores what socialist mayors like Zohran and Katie Wilson can do to fight the tech oligarchy and build a technological alternative at the municipal level. I call it the “digital sewer socialist stack” jacobin.com/2025/12/digi...
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Digital Sewer Socialism
With the rise of AI slop and overall “enshittification,” it is increasingly the case that the internet is failing to address the public’s needs. What we need is sewer socialism for the digital realm —...
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Tales Tomaz @talestomaz.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
One of the most traditional weeklies in Brazil publishes a ChatGPT-generated story. Last paragraph proves it (typical ChatGPT next step question). Not the best way to complain about platforms and regain 'trust in media', this panacea that will solve all of our problems...
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Tales Tomaz @talestomaz.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
I'm very proud to be part of this effort and looking forward to seeing this 2025 edition alive! If you are in Brussels on 6 November, come to discuss media ownership transparency with us 👇🏽
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Rodney Benson @rodneybenson.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Glad to see our findings in How Media Ownership Matters confirmed and extended - will read this closely ! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 05/09/2025
The takeaway: 👉 Accommodating the radical right on immigration doesn’t win back voters. 👉 It alienates the progressive base. 👉 And it raises the salience of the very issue the radical right owns. In short: it’s electoral self-harm.
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Tales Tomaz @talestomaz.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
How should we measure media power and concentration in hybrid media systems? Mariia Aleksevych and I just published a new open-access article in Media and Communication @cogitatiomac.bsky.social with a methodological proposal: www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...
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Journalism in the Hybrid Media System
Thematic Issue, Vol 13 (2025)
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KoWi Salzburg @kowisalzburg.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
In einem Sammelwerk (im Nomos Verlag) zum Thema "Medienregulierung" haben Mitarbeiter (J. Trappel, St. Gadringer, Th. Steinmaurer, T. Tomaz) des FB KoWi einen Buchbeitrag geschrieben: bit.ly/buchbeitrag_... @nomosverlag.bsky.social @jotbox.bsky.social @talestomaz.bsky.social
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Leonhard Dobusch @leonido.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Noch nie habe ich das von Piketty beschriebene Problem r > g anschaulicher erklärt gesehen als in diesem Video von Gary Stevenson:
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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
A reminder that the only reason Iran is a theocratic authoritarian regime is that in 1953, the US and UK (via the CIA and MI-6) decided to do a “regime change.”
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euobserver — EU news that matters @euobserver.com · 17/06/2025
Jim O’Neill — the coiner of BRIC
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Jim O’Neill — the coiner of BRIC
Jim O’Neill was right about China and, to some extent India, challenging the hegemony of the West, particularly the United States and Europe. However, beyond being a forum, it is still not clear what the BRICS is for.
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Resilient Media EU @remedeu.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Prof. @talestomaz.bsky.social of the University of Salzburg unpacks how digital habits, tech shifts, and economic pressures are reshaping media across Europe. Read more from his ReMeD project insights 👇
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Tales Tomaz: “More important than business models is the newsroom’s commitment to producing good journalism”
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
It’s worth reminding ourselves that a lot of the AI hype about how “everyone is using it now” is just manufacturing consent. A lot of people aren’t using AI. A lot of people started using it because they feel cultural pressure, but they would happily walk away from it.
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Internet Policy Review @policyr.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
[New paper] Mastodon's rapid growth has exposed the decentralised, algorithm-free network to significant challenges. Charlotte Spencer-Smith & @talestomaz.bsky.social suggest paths for the platform to evolve, ensuring it remains true to its founding principles. Read: doi.org/10.14763/2025.1.1831
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Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Read this @techpolicypress.bsky.social piece by the great @christopherali.bsky.social. What's happening to US broadband right now is criminal. The degree of Musk-driven corruption and hypocrisy in broad daylight is staggering: www.techpolicy.press/when-you-wis...
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When You Wish Upon a Star(link) | TechPolicy.Press
Satellite and fiber broadband are not equal, and any policy that treats them as such will widen the very divide we're trying to bridge, writes Christopher Ali.
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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 23/04/2025
If the money spent on AI edtech could go toward schools instead, it would make education more accessible to all children, critics argue. “But it’s not sexy to say, ‘We need more teachers.’ It’s not sexy to say, ‘Hey, we need better buildings.’ What is sexy and exciting are these ‘amazing’ tools”
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Kenya’s solution to teacher shortage: Embrace AI
Kenyan teachers and edtech companies say AI tools help save time, but without widespread internet connectivity, the impact is uneven.
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Sebastiano Toffaletti @sebastianobxl.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
These fines signal the EC is willing to enforce EU laws despite US pressure. But are they enough? They fall far short of the 10% annual turnover mark & come over a year after the law took effect. For BigTech, this is just a small cost of doing highly profitable business in the EU shorturl.at/mg58S
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EU fines Apple €500M and Meta €200M for breaking Europe’s digital rules
The highly anticipated penalties are the first to be issued under the bloc’s Digital Markets Act.
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KoWi Salzburg @kowisalzburg.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
🌍 Application deadline extended! Apply by April 30, 2025 for the DCLead Salzburg School: “Digital Communication and Sustainable Societies” (September 29 - October 2, Puchberg, Austria). 🎓 It is conducted in English and grants 5 ECTS credits. Find more information and apply here 🔗 dclead.eu
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative. A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.
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Anders S. Løvlie @anderslovlie.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
US censorship affecting research in Europe.
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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · 19/04/2025
The Holocaust was organized on IBM punch cards. Hitler gave the head of IBM, Watson, a medal for his services. Later, they named their AI tech after him. Anyway, in unrelated news: #Democracy www.wired.com/story/doge-c...
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DOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track Immigrants
DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, and IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.
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tante @tante.cc · 15/04/2025
The response to the predicted crash of the AI sector often is that "every crash leaves something useful behind" and that this time it will be models. I don't think that is the case. AI models age like milk and the infrastructures left behind won't be ones that are helpful for democratic societies.
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These are not the same
After sharing Ed Zitron’s latest piece called “OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry” I got a few responses arguing in a similar way: People agree that “AI” and especially “generative AI” is a massive bubble that does not really make much sense – if you imply rational decision making. Training the models, […]
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Alonso Gurmendi @alonso-gd.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
What white America is now fighting for is not due process, it is fighting so that the racialised borders of unconstitutionality and state abuse stay where they are. Until it realises this, it may defeat Trump in 4 years, but it wont defeat Trumpism
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Alexander Fanta @alexfanta.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
The Israeli entrepreneur Shalev Hulio gained notoriety for designing Pegasus, the spyware used by governments to hack journalists and dissidents. Today, he is selling a new AI cyber security tool to European states and corporations. His secret asset? Austria’s former leader Sebastian Kurz. [Thread]
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Letícia Cesarino @letcesar.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Nessa conversa sobre o livro do @bcmerchant.bsky.social sobre a real história dos luditas no início da revolução industrial eles falam algo q 🤯: foram a última geração a se relacionar com a tecnologia no tempo presente. Pois desde então estamos contaminados com a premissa+ pscrb.fm/rss/p/www.bu...
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derStandard.at/Etat @etatat.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
"Kratky würde jeder Sender das Doppelte zahlen", sagt Österreichs internationalster TV-Manager Gerhard Zeiler zu #ORF -Spitzengehältern Gehälter des mittleren ORF-Managements unverständlich: "Würde ich ändern" Warner Bros. Discovery-Manager im STANDARD-Gespräch: www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
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"Kratky würde jeder Sender das Doppelte zahlen", sagt Medienmanager Zeiler
Für Österreichs internationalsten TV-Manager sind die Gehälter des mittleren ORF-Managements aber unverständlich: "Das würde ich ändern"
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Internet Policy Review @policyr.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
[New special issue] #Contentmoderation on digital platforms: beyond states and firms! As content regulation becomes increasingly politicised, this issue edited by Anne Bellon & Romain Badouard explores the growing role of #civilsociety in #platformgovernance. ⅕ Read: doi.org/10.14763/2025.1.2005
Cover image for a special issue on content moderation on digital platforms, featuring a coastal landscape and the title: ‘Content moderation on digital platforms: beyond states and firms’Quote from A. Bellon & R. Badouard in a special issue on content moderation: ‘Content moderation encompasses a great diversity of actors. Users, NGOs, activists, journalists, advertisers, experts, designers and researchers are becoming more and more involved in moderation-related activities, apart from, in partnership with, or against public authorities and firms.’ The image features a coastal landscape background
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Alonso Gurmendi @alonso-gd.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
I think liberals in the West need to understand that they have not stumbled across any kind of contradiction or hypocrisy in the Global far right. When they said “people have a right to free speech” they simply never saw racialised people as people to begin with 🧵
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 05/03/2025
Google keeps doing everything it can to keep people using its second-rate search engine — including ignoring the law. It's time for EVPs @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu and @hennavirkkunen.bsky.social to act.
Open Letter to the European Commission on Google’s Non-Compliance with the DMA
Teresa Ribera Rodríguez, Executive Vice-President for Clean, Just and Competitive Transition
Henna Virkkunen, Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy

Dear Executive Vice-President Teresa Ribera Rodríguez,
Dear Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen,
We, a group of challengers in the search engine and browser markets, civil society organisations and consumer bodies are writing to express our concerns regarding Alphabet’s (“Google”) non-compliance with the Digital Markets Act (DMA).
Google, the sole search engine gatekeeper designated under the DMA, must comply with:
- Article 6(11) by providing fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) access to search ranking, query, click, and view data.
- Articles 6(3) and 6(4), requiring the introduction of choice screens and mandating easy switching, including by enabling in-app prompts to change default settings.
These provisions are vital to restore fair competition, make the search and browser markets more contestable, and to ensure consumer choice.
Google both evades effective compliance and circumvents its obligations, continuously handicapping challengers’ ability to compete. In particular, Google:
1. Fails to provide fair terms for the sharing of click and query data, including by abusing the anonymization safeguard built into Article 6(11) DMA, resulting in up to 99% of search queries being removed from the dataset.
2. Fails to ensure that all Android devices in scope of the DMA and in circulation prior to March 2024 were shown search and browser choice screens, significantly muting the impact of the choice screen on Android.
3. Maintains barriers to switching search defaults on Android, like locking certain search access points to Google and not allowing users to switch defaults via a single, easily accessible setting.
4. Blocks search apps from prompting users to change their search defaults on Android5. Shows unnecessary “scare screens” to users trying to switch search default via an extension on Chrome, and blocks competing search engines from directing users to the search default setting.
The European Commission must apply the DMA fully. Not doing so undermines the integrity of the Regulation and leaves both EU businesses and end users exposed to Google’s harms. In addition to the necessity to apply the DMA, the recent verdict in US v Google and the CMA's decision to prioritise the designation of Google for its Search services under the new DMCC regime demonstrate a global willingness and momentum for tackling Google’s unfair practices.
In the face of persistent obstruction, we request the Commission to urgently open non-compliance investigations into Google under Articles 6(11), 6(4) and 6(3). Only by taking these steps can the DMA achieve its full potential for search and browser competition for the
benefits of businesses and end users alike.
Yours sincerely,

AI Forensics
Article 19
BEUC
Data Rights
DuckDuckGo
Open Markets
People vs Big Tech
Rebalance now
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Independent experts: Robin Berjon & Ian Brown
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Great news for money launderers!
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 26/02/2025
Yes, I’m sure people are underserved by arguments for free markets and personal liberty in the United States.
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BEUC - The Consumer Voice @beuc.eu · 24/02/2025
It is extremely worrying to see the US threatening retaliation in response to lobbying by Big Tech. Let’s be clear - the rules on how companies, regardless of their nationality, should behave towards 450m European consumers must be decided in Europe. www.beuc.eu/press-releas...
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European laws must be enforced and not subjected to US interference
The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) regrets the announcements made by the US Administration on February 21 to investigate and threaten trade retaliation for European legislation that safeguards ...
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Tales Tomaz @talestomaz.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
📣 Event alert / call for abstracts Come to Brussels on 18-19 Sept to present your work on Communication Law & Policy. This ECREA section has an open call running until 15 March. Don't miss the deadline! (And please help spread the word 😍) smit.research.vub.be/en/ecrea-com...
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ECREA “Communication Law and Policy” Conference at VUB Brussels on
Media Freedom and Pluralism in the Age of AI and Platforms: A New Era for Media Policy/Regulation?The “Communication Law and Policy” Section of the European Communications Research and Education
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Thu Nguyen @onethuthree.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Die Linke stärkste Partei in Berlin
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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
The young vote in Germany, by gender. 😳
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Thu Nguyen @onethuthree.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
The comeback of the Left in Germany is sensational. Almost written off ahead of elections, they won 6 districts and almost 9% of votes + are biggest party in Berlin and among young voters. Also only party to not campaign on anti-immigration but to focus on affordable rent and cost of living
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 22/02/2025
Any countries building Starlink into their telecom systems should be thinking twice right now.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Oh, look what normal countries do when a former president leads a far right coup attempt.
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Jair Bolsonaro charged over alleged far-right coup plot to seize power in Brazil
Former president is charged by attorney general following police report that accused him of organising a conspiracy to stop Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva taking power.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 09/02/2025
Funny to see Western AI executives say the hype around DeepSeek is exaggerated when their entire industry is built on exaggeration of the capabilities and possible returns of Western generative AI.
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Deepseek’s AI model is ‘the best work’ out of China but the hype is 'exaggerated,' Google Deepmind CEO says
Deepseek's AI model "is probably the best work" out of China, Demis Hassabis said on Sunday, but added it was not a scientific advancement.
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
This is fantastic: a 68 country data set with perceptions of science, science communication and climate attitudes. Featured in @nature.com Led by the formidable @nielsmede.bsky.social What a resource! Now we ‘just’ need a 2025/26 update given how it’s all changing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries – the TISP dataset - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries – the TISP dataset
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 01/02/2025
we have written extensively on this very topic firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph... dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Debunking robot rights metaphysically, ethically, and legally | First Monday
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Florian Klenk 👨🏻‍💻 @klenkflorian.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Ein paar Worte zur Lage der Medien.
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Universität Salzburg / University of Salzburg @unisalzburg.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Hallo Bluesky! 👋 Die Universität Salzburg🎓 freut sich auf einen respektvollen Austausch auf dieser Plattform. #universitätsalzburg #unisalzburg
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