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Tim Engelhardt

@tengelhr.bsky.social
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Mostly on human rights, digital tech. Work at UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR). Posts personal.

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Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wow. Alabama's new settlement with TikTok has *so* much in common with the Meta settlement. It also tries to extend the rules to other companies, and it's the same list: Meta, TikTok, Snap, YouTube and NEW competitors who come along and get big in the future. www.alabamaag.gov/wp-content/u...
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queer.de @queerde.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Eine neue Ausstellung erschließt anhand des Nachlasses von Anna B. Wein ein bislang kaum erforschtes Kapitel: queeres Leben abseits der Berliner Innenstadt
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Museum Lichtenberg füllt eine Lücke der queeren DDR-Geschichte
(Kunst & Kultur - Ausstellungen) Eine neue Ausstellung erschließt anhand des Nachlasses von Anna B. Wein ein bislang kaum erforschtes Kapitel: queeres Leben abseits der Berliner Innenstadt.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/09/2026
And also: the fact that you can use a statistical lookup table to predict what words someone is going to say doesn't mean you *understand* them, a fact that you will learn the minute that person says something *surprising*, like "I want a divorce."
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TJ McIntyre @tjmcintyre.com · 03/09/2026
I'm hampered by reading a machine translation of the French original, but this could well be a very important opinion as the AG essentially appears to invite the CJEU to reconsider the basis of its data retention caselaw by focusing on storage and access controls. 1/
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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
The Introduction, “What is the Future We Yearn For?,” to my book, *The Future That Was*, is now live and freely available to all on the book’s @princetonupress.bsky.social website press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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The Future That Was
How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present
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Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I assume there is precedent in non-speech cases for settlements that cause one huge industry player to go out and pressure the other ones. If you know of those, can you post examples?
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Neil Steinberg @neilsteinberg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
My column in the Sun-Times today: www.everygoddamnday.com/2026/08/do-l...
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Do legal challenges to hate speech protect Jews or threaten them?
A new book, “Exceptional Hatred,” explores the struggle, mostly set in Chicago, to respect free speech while constraining destructive hatred
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Information, Communication & Society @icsjournal.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
#OutNow in #iCS The authors conduct a scoping review to explore the impact of digital engagement on young people's life outcomes, with a particular focus on the role of socioeconomic resources. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Digital engagement and youth: a scoping review of opportunities, risks, and the role of socioeconomic resources
The rapid expansion of digital technologies has created both opportunities and risks for young people. Previous research shows that their digital engagement is often driven by educational or inform...
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Tim Engelhardt @tengelhr.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
“you can ask ChatGPT what you were working on before your last break” Who are these people who can’t remember what they did 10 minutes ago?!?
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 14/08/2026
They used to call this malware.
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ChatGPT just learned to watch everything you do on your Mac
ChatGPT Computer History tracks your Mac activity to build a searchable timeline, no screenshots involved.
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Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
🎧 Überall Fake News? Wenn übertriebenes Misstrauen in die Irre führt. Der Begriff „Fake News“ wird häufig genutzt – manchmal auch, um unliebsame Informationen pauschal abzuwerten. Eine Studie der Universität Amsterdam zeigt:
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Misstrauen und Fehleinschätzung: Fake News sind nicht so verbreitet, wie viele glauben
Viele sehen Fake News überall, auch wenn das nicht stimmt. Das zeigt eine Studie der Uni Amsterdam. Eine gefährliche gesellschaftliche Entwicklung.
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I recommend this article about AI reasoning, where the author lets us in on his struggles w/ AI cognitive dissonance. Plus some priceless quotes from @rao2z.bsky.social. (My recommendation has *nothing* to do with the fact that I'm quoted in it too 😇) www.quantamagazine.org/is-ai-reason...
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Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons? | Quanta Magazine
The idea that artificial intelligence can “reason” is more intuitive than ever. But intuitions can be wrong, and the science is far from settled.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 21/07/2026
13. Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well.
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Tim Engelhardt @tengelhr.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
‼️DEADLINE TODAY‼️
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The Markup @themarkup.org · 26/07/2026
We’ve updated The Markup’s privacy tool to help you understand how sites are tracking you through TikTok and X pixels.
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Are TikTok and X tracking you across the internet? Our privacy tool can now tell you – The Markup
We’ve updated The Markup’s privacy tool to help you understand how sites are tracking you through TikTok and X pixels.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Riding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public & personal cost difference, the air & noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etc…Via @theconversation.bsky.social
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Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities
Active travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles – even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.
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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Nearly through reading @xiaochang.bsky.social brilliant new book Divination Engines!! This is the best historical study on Natural Language Processing, & imo, the most insightful monograph on AI history! CBI was so fortunate have Xiaochang as a keynote at our 2023 "Automation by Design" symposium!
Cover of Xiaochang Li's Divination Engines sitting on computer desk. Black cover with gray symbolic notations and white and yellow lettering of author's name and title.
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Tim Chambers @timothychambers.net · 24/07/2026
"The Next Information War Is Already Here" - check out this article I co-wrote with @willrobinson1776.bsky.social ... we work to frame very big changes coming to the political digital landscape faster than most think. Up for any thoughts, notes, and appreciate all... substack.com/@willrobinso...
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The Next Information War Is Already Here
AI systems are consuming false, misleading, and manipulated content from across the internet - and increasingly presenting it as authoritative answers to millions of users.
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Tim Engelhardt @tengelhr.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
‼️Reminder: the European Commission is asking for inputs concerning the procedural rules for and a possible draft protocol to the United Nations Convention against #Cybercrime. Deadline 29 July‼️ ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...
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European Commission - Have your say
European Commission - Have your say
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Rafael Grohmann @grohmannrafael.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Mapping worker-led AI governance in the global cultural industries. New article in Media, Culture & Society with an overview of the results of our tracker on worker mobilizations around AI in the sector. doi.org/10.1177/0163...
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Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
📢 NEW ARTICLE JUST OUT! "Governing by dismantling: tech oligarchy and the stifling of public data infrastructure," by @louravn.bsky.social, Bokar N'Diaye, Katie Mackinnon, Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, and @dmuravyov.bsky.social is another addition to our Forum on Tech Oligarchy 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...
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Governing by dismantling: tech oligarchy and the stifling of public data infrastructure
Published in Science as Culture (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Research measuring the effects of AI in education has a major quality control problem that should disqualify most of it from being considered in policy discussions or applied in teaching practice. Quick new post from me codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2026/06/26/t...
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The problem with evidence production on AI in education
Photo by Camille Villanueva on Unsplash The research field of artificial intelligence in education (AIED) has a long history of investigating the effects of AI on learning and other educational out…
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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Just out! My introduction to a new special issue in @sciasculture.bsky.social on "Tech Oligarchy" - go check it out and the papers in the special issue (under "Latest" articles) #techoligarchy #assetization #techbro #bigtech www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Tech oligarchy
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Tim Engelhardt @tengelhr.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Referee Slavko Vinčić has the chance to do the funniest thing ever on Sunday.
Half-time interval
Players are entitled to an interval at half-time, not exceeding 15 minutes;  
a short drinks break (which should not exceed one minute) is permitted at the interval of half-time in extra time. Competition rules must state the duration of the half-time interval and it may be altered only with the referee’s permission.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 12/07/2026
OK the truth is no one knows for sure why AIs love "It's not X—it's Y" but there are some strange and fascinating theories and I think this one is my favorite. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Although chatbots have advanced dramatically in their research and reasoning capacities, they are still fundamentally text-prediction machines. They generate answers one “token”—or chunk of text—at a time, based on what has come before. Each successive word choice factors in both the statistical likelihood of that word coming next in a sequence, based on patterns in the original training data, and the likelihood that it will lead to a highly rated response overall. In other words, the models are always seeking a balance between the clever word choice and the obvious one.

When a chatbot uses negative parallelism, according to this theory, it’s essentially hedging between the two. Once it has started a sentence whose function is to characterize something, the path of least resistance is to say first what the thing isn’t (X), and only then what the thing is (Y). Put another way: For a sentence that begins with “This is,” following it with “not just” is both more likely and safer than the many options for how to directly characterize its subject. And after “This is not just,” the rest of the sentence gets easier too. The next word can be X—the boring, obvious descriptor that gets negated—which in turn sets up the final choice of Y, the somewhat punchier descriptor.
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Privacy International @privacyinternational.org · 21/06/2026
AI can reveal your location from a single photo. Vision‑Language Models can determine where any photo is taken, without any GPS data What does that means for your privacy?
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Nowhere to Hide? Privacy Risks and Policy Implications of AI Geolocation
One of the most surprising — and concerning — capabilities of the newest Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems is their ability to infer geographic location from images. Vision‑Language Models (VLMs)...
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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Speedrun to CJEU badly needed ESPECIALLY given divergence between AG opinion in new CJEU Coyote case and final Court decision.
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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Six years ago I published a book that engaged machine learning in terms of the politics of text, language & the impossibility of definitive authorship. Are any of the men writing now on LLMs, authorship, and text citing my 2020 work?…. No, reader, they are not.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 12/06/2026
Amazing: KPMG wrote a report describing the successful use of AI by businesses. But the case studies turned out to be AI hallucinations. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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KPMG report contained AI hallucinations on benefits of . . . AI
Bogus case studies on UBS and transit systems exaggerated adoption of the technology
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Tim Engelhardt @tengelhr.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Germany establishes its own AI Safety Institute
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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
How did rhubarb, the ancient Chinese drug once worth $100,000 a pound, make its way to kitchen tables in the American Midwest? The story of the pie plant, like that of a Lumbee man who devoted his Iowa backyard to it, must be pieced together, carefully, across time. By Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz
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Rheum rhabarbarum: A Social History of Rhubarb
How did rhubarb, the ancient Chinese drug worth $100,000 a pound, make its way to kitchen tables in the American Midwest?
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
NEW: WIRED analyzed Meta's AI app and found NameTag — a hidden facial recognition system designed to identify people via the wearer's smart glasses — has already shipped to over 50 million phones.
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Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.
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Wolfie Christl @wchr.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
At least one German state-level criminal police department (LKA) purchased location data from digital advertising for surveillance, despite lacking a lawful basis, prompting an investigation by the state's data protection authority. Highly problematic on many levels: netzpolitik.org/2026/daten-s...
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Deutsche Polizei nutzt offenbar rechtswidrig Databroker
In mindestens zwei Bundesländern hat sich die Polizei Daten von Databrokern beschafft, wie Recherchen von netzpolitik.org und BR erstmals zeigen. Mit solchen Daten könnten sich Handys metergenau orten...
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...
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Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked
The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.
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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Young People & Children’s Commissioner Scotland, has carried out a child rights impact assessment (CRIA) & concluded that an ‘Under-16s social media ban would not currently be proportionate’ www.cypcs.org.uk/resources/ou...
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Our response to the UK Government’s 'Growing up in the online world: a national consultation.'
The Commissioner’s office undertook a children’s rights impact assessment (CRIA) which considers how the UK Government’s proposals might affect the rights of children and young people, both positively...
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The technologies are new. The questions--about power, meaning, knowledge, work, who gets counted, and who is at the table--are not. Social science has been asking them all along. The essay is an argument for showing up fully to a reckoning we're already in. www.amacad.org/publication/...
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Field Theory: AI as Social Science Question, Object & Tool
Uses of advanced artificial intelligence are changing how societies organize labor, govern, produce knowledge, and make meaning. In light of these developments, this essay argues that AI models, tools...
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
👇 #HPS #STS
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
A thesis that nobody's read, narrated by someone who isn't there, for an audience that doesn't exist. theneuroscienceofeve... Dean Burnett explores the bizarre experience of having his PhD thesis hijacked by an AI service that nobody asked for or needs. #AIproblems #Thesis #Research #Podcast
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A thesis that nobody's read, narrated by someone who isn't there, for an audience that doesn't exist.
An AI programme has apparently made a podcast out of my PhD thesis, in what seems to be a Guinness World Record attempt for 'most pointless endeavour ever'.
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Konrad Litschko @litschko.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Für die AfD geht es immer weiter aufwärts? Nicht unbedingt. Von 22 Bürgermeister- und Landratswahlen dieses Jahr in Ostdeutschland verlor die AfD: 21. Wir haben uns alle Orte angeschaut, was man daraus lernen kann - und wie die AfD zu schlagen ist taz.de/Niederlagens...
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Niederlagenserie der AfD im Osten: Verloren, verloren, verloren, verloren, verloren, …
Die AfD stellt sich als unbesiegbar dar, besonders im Osten. Doch dieses Jahr verlor sie dort bisher fast alle Kommunalwahlen. Was sich daraus lernen lässt.
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Sebastian Berg @sberg.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Wie herrscht das Valley und was meint das eigentlich? Am 1. Juni ist der grossartige @adriandaub.bsky.social zu Gast bei uns am @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social in Berlin, um diese Frage und sein Buch "Was das Valley herrschen nennt" zu diskutieren! Wir freuen uns riesig auf den Abend. Kommt vorbei!
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Adrian Daub: Was das Valley herrschen nennt
Vortrag und Diskussion zum Buch „Was das Valley herrschen nennt”, das zeigt, wie Tech-Eliten Macht denken, legitimieren und zunehmend politischen Einfluss ausüben.
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Information, Communication & Society @icsjournal.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
#OutNow in #iCS What happens when public internet infrastructure moves to AWS? Using the Dutch domain registry SIDN, Cath develops the concept of “cloud drift” to examine how hyperscale cloud adoption reshapes internet governance. doi.org/10.1080/1369...
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Cloud drift: how hyperscaler cloud computing shapes internet governance
When the Foundation for Internet Domain Registration in the Netherlands (SIDN) announced plans to migrate to Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2024, it sparked intense political debate about critical in...
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Almost done another semester of Intro to IR, which means an updated Definitive (?) IR Playlist. The world order's a mess, but it's got a great soundtrack. New this year: Kendrick, Charli XCX, boygenius, etc. Songs by topic: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/7edrj... Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/5Zr...
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The Definitive (?) International Relations Playlist, Spring 2026
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Melissa Chan @melissakchan.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
On World Press Freedom Day: Free speech and free press issues are usually framed around the rights of the speaker or newsroom. @davidakaye.bsky.social explains it's also about your right to know — and who is reshaping those rights (hint: Big Tech). ⬇️ Clip below ➡️ full video: bit.ly/dw-pressfreedom
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Tim Engelhardt @tengelhr.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Union Berlin make history by appointing Marie-Louise Eta as Bundesliga’s first female head coach tinyurl.com/4xs957pc 🙏💪🤗
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Union Berlin make history by appointing Marie-Louise Eta as Bundesliga’s first female head coach (Gift Article)
German Bundesliga club Union Berlin have made history by appointing Marie-Louise Eta as their head coach, meaning she becomes the first female to be given the top job at a men’s team in one of E...
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Luis Villa @lu.is · 06/04/2026
Which copilot teybannerman.com/strategy/202...
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How many products does Microsoft have named ‘Copilot’? I mapped every one
Update: Since this was published, the lovely internet community has let me know we were missing two Copilots: Gaming Copilot and Microsoft Dragon Copilot (🤦‍♀️). This brings the total to 80. The chart...
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Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD @josephhall.org · 04/04/2026
Need a concise version to submit to a court? Litigants globally use our shorter brief, "Mandated DNS Blocking: Critical Considerations," as evidence to clearly explain these technical limits. www.internetsociety.org/wp-content/u...
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Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD @josephhall.org · 04/04/2026
"Mandated DNS Blocking: A Guide for Legal Professionals" is an in-depth reference detailing the collateral damage of these measures. It outlines how blocking fragments the Internet and forces significant costs on operators. www.internetsociety.org/wp-content/u...
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Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD @josephhall.org · 04/04/2026
Carl Gahnberg has a new post highlighting ISOC's new resources for legal professionals on mandated DNS blocking. If you need to explain the technical realities of the Domain Name System to courts or policymakers, start here: www.internetsociety.org/blog/2026/04...
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Tim Engelhardt @tengelhr.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
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Timmy Thomas - Why Can't We Live Together
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