Reposted by Tess RooneyPatrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 04/01/2025If you're having a tough weekend writing syllabi or a rough start to 2025, remember that in 1991 Tim Berners-Lee's paper for the World Wide Web was rejected and he was instead relegated to the poster session. 0195
Tess Rooney @tessjr.bsky.social · 05/12/2024There’s something mildly ironic about writing medneg slides in an A & E because your teen did something utterly foreseeable! 000
Reposted by Tess RooneyDouglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Save the date for the world's best-sized international law conference! The 32nd ANZSIL Annual Conference will be held Wednesday 2 July – Friday 4 July 2025 at the Australian National University. The Conference Theme is: ‘International Law: Silence, Forgetting and Remembrance’. Please re-post! 16643
Tess Rooney @tessjr.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Oh look, research says social media bans don’t solve the problems - who would have thought it www.bmj.com/content/387/...bmj.comTackling digital harms: why simply banning children from social media won’t protect themWe need to redesign social media and other digital platforms so that these spaces are safer and healthier, writes Louise Holly Across the globe, countries are grabbling with how to shield children f... 041
Tess Rooney @tessjr.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Chapter sent, outline for new sub/article discussed (with homework!), slides down for next week, risotto in thermie - look at me, adulting! 010
Reposted by Tess RooneyGreg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 24/11/2024“The evidence base for the underage social media ban is poor – and yet it’s that bill being rushed through parliament, not the partial gambling ad ban, much less the full ban.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...theguardian.comDeal or No Deal: the Albanese government’s pre-Christmas wishlist in the final sitting days of 2024 | The AgendaIf Peter Dutton senses an opportunity in blocking Labor’s agenda in the lead-up to an election, he might just take it 27344105
Tess Rooney @tessjr.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Final referencing for new chapter on social media. If you could all stop deleting your tweets that would be great, thanks: “user account deactivated” can only go in so many footnotes before it really looks like I’m just making stuff up!! 000
Reposted by Tess RooneyZoe Rose @zoerose.bsky.social · 20/11/2024The social media ban for kids exists in a much bigger landscape of both policy and technical infrastructure: your digital identity. Here, have some actual facts. As written by me. tldr in next post. www.themandarin.com.au/281972-digit...themandarin.com.auDigital ID policy fails you, your kids, and the countryRadically secure digital identity infrastructure is up and running in Europe right now. But not here, in Australia. 411464
Tess Rooney @tessjr.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Because it’s not implementable, enforceable, or underpinned by any evidence? Or just cos it’s dumb? 010
Tess Rooney @tessjr.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Memo to me … Starter packs are awesome. Until you start thinking “there are some great people in that one, and they seem to be doing some great work maybe I should hit follow, you never know when a working knowledge of zebrafish might come in handy?” 010
Reposted by Tess RooneyAsher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Instead of banning young people from social media Anthony Albanese needs to listen to them: Jess Travers-Wolf www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comInstead of banning young people from social media Anthony Albanese needs to listen to them | Jess Travers-WolfLabor wants a duty of care bill on tech platforms, yet dismissed young people’s push for a duty of care bill on the climate crisis 611632
Reposted by Tess RooneyJonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Sorry but all the fables and fairy tales I read as a kid led me to believe people would be learning WAY more lessons than they actually do 324222521841
Tess Rooney @tessjr.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Marking. Please send photos of cats. Or birds. Or coffee. 020
Reposted by Tess RooneySuparna Chaudhry @sch-ir.bsky.social · 11/11/2024This potential legal attack on the nonprofit sector in the US fits with the global administrative assault on NGOs and civil society known as closing civic space, where leaders use anti-NGO laws to create barriers to entry, funding, advocacy for organizations. #nonprofitsky #polisky #contentiousky 34930
Reposted by Tess RooneyGabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 11/11/2024Bluesky, Today is my 2nd day on here as an escapee from The Bad Place. I am BEGGING y’all to repost this I have $80,000 in scholarship money to give away to women and girls NATIONWIDE. I worked so hard to raise this money. Applications open THIS week. I’m scared the mass migration will impact this 8529623534
Reposted by Tess RooneyTim Smyth @historycomics.bsky.social · 11/11/2024As an introvert… I feel this! Both as a teacher and as a presenter. 711913
Reposted by Tess RooneyNHMRC CRE on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame @cretobacco.bsky.social · 10/01/2024📣The Global Drug Survey 2024 has officially launched today! Be part of the world's largest survey of drug use, led by CRE researcher Dr Cheneal Puljevic, with two new modules on tobacco endgame policies and trends in illicit tobacco use. redcap.health.uq.edu.au/surveys/?s=C... 001
Reposted by Tess RooneyBellingcat @bellingcat.com · 25/10/2023Our researcher @koltai.bsky.social spoke to Insider News recently about the misinformation circulating online around the current Israel-Hamas war and how our team at Bellingcat works to verify claims. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c9h...youtube.comDecoding Fake News About The Israel-Hamas War In Gaza | Insider NewsExperts say there has been an unprecedented number of fake claims about the Israel-Hamas war circulating online. Bellingcat’s open source investigators showe... 210146
Tess Rooney @tessjr.bsky.social · 25/10/2023Today’s seminar prep: 23 pages of carefully referenced notes, highlighted with key speaking notes. What the students get: TLDR? Data management is not the same as privacy! Techreg law ftw 🤣 000
Reposted by Tess RooneyPatrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 14/10/2023for sale: rules-based international order, never worn 315933
Tess Rooney @tessjr.bsky.social · 13/10/2023“Never again” didn’t seem that complicated a concept! This is genocide happening in real time. 010
Reposted by Tess Rooney#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 11/10/2023*Is this too scary for Bluesky? I don't want to harsh anybody's vibe here "the secret world of inventors, financiers and vendors of fearsome spy weapons like Predator" *Warning: contains actual journalistic investigation www.spiegel.de/internationa...spiegel.deThe Predator Files: European Spyware Consortium Supplied Despots and DictatorsThe Intellexa Alliance is the name of the shady group of European companies that supplies dictators and despots with cyberweapons. The mass spyware attacks have also been lucrative for some in Germany... 22110
Reposted by Tess RooneyD.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 11/10/2023I encourage everybody to be very, very compassionate to people who are hurting right now. Tragedy is brutal. Violent tragedy is worse. Lift people up. 0233
Reposted by Tess RooneyScott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 10/10/2023The stars are not wanted now; put out every one, Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun, Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood; For nothing now can ever come to any good. 1446
Reposted by Tess RooneyBellingcat @bellingcat.com · 06/10/20234chan users are sharing ways to exploit the AI-powered Bing Image Creator to create hateful content. Posts of antisemitic caricatures of Orthodox men carrying migrants across the US border, preparing to eat a baby, and committing the 9/11 attacks have appeared online.bellingcat.comThe Folly of DALL-E: How 4chan is Abusing Bing’s New Image Model - bellingcatRacists on the notorious troll site 4chan are using a powerful new and free AI-powered image generator service offered by Microsoft to create antisemitic propaganda, according to posts reviewed by Bel... 8204131
Reposted by Tess RooneyDavid Bamman @dbamman.bsky.social · 09/10/2023This might be flying under the radar (so please RT!), but the US Copyright Office is soliciting comments for its decisions on training ML/NLP/AI systems on copyrighted material (even *non*-generative AI). They need to hear from researchers, so please comment! Deadline Oct 30. www.copyright.gov/ai/copyright.govCopyright and Artificial Intelligence | U.S. Copyright OfficeCopyright law 2271392
Reposted by Tess Rooneylukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 13/09/2023We, as a society, have given the morning people far too much power 9641491202
Reposted by Tess RooneyMolly White @molly.wiki · 03/10/2023Before Sam Bankman-Fried's fraud trial kicks off with jury selection tomorrow, refresh your memory on what happened, find out who's likely to testify, and get a rough idea of the legal strategies from both sides: newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/a-preview-...newsletter.mollywhite.netA preview of the Sam Bankman-Fried trialKey witnesses and the likely legal strategies about to unfold in the historic case ahead. 711928
Tess Rooney @tessjr.bsky.social · 30/09/2023Writing a paper on comparative US law. “What was your methodology here?” Well, I followed a bunch of US law people on the socials and they talked about stuff. Dress that up in academic fancy 🤣 000
Tess Rooney @tessjr.bsky.social · 28/09/2023So it’s been a week, I’ve found 3 new authors, flowers, cats, an amazing linguist podcast. Imagine what will happen when I know how this all works! 010
Reposted by Tess RooneyJanni Lee Simner @jannileesimner.bsky.social · 27/09/2023Text of Author's Guild lawsuit against OpenAI. Arguments hinge around ChatGPT summarizing & outlining sequels to the plantiffs' works. One can argue one doesn't need access to works to summarize them, but outlining sequels seems more clearly copyright infringement. authorsguild.org/app/uploads/...authorsguild.org 23518
Reposted by Tess RooneyBrandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 26/09/2023Hello #Bluesky #authors #writers. You have been an amazing support of the SAG-AFTRA strike, & against AI misuse. Perhaps you might lend your signature to the letter against Data3, which unlawfully used thousands of books (including mine) to train AI. (Link to open letter in article)latimes.com9,000 authors rebuke AI companies, saying they exploited books as 'food' for chatbotsA letter signed by 9,000 authors calls out AI companies for allegedly using the writers' books to train chatbots without consent, credit or compensation. 121063611