Joanna Bryson, blathering

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I'm an academic, proud to work in a policy school, but still sometimes longing to return to natural science and/or programming again. Or maybe art? This Mastodon account is more personal than professional; my more professional one is bridged here https://mastodon.social/@j2bryson.bsky[email protected] Blogpost on my social media policy, linking yet more accounts: https://joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2024/10/guidance-to-my-social-media.html Increasingly reading physical books again too.
PositionProfessor of Ethics and Technology, Centre for Digital Governance, Hertie School, Berlin
ExpertiseArtificial & natural intelligence, culture, cooperation, evolution (behavioural ecology),
Expertise (cont.)technology policy, competition/antitrust, and (digital) governance
Websitehttps://www.joannajbryson.org/
I had expected to spend today at the head of the Donau, and yesterday here in Ulm. But then, I’d expected to spend 4 hours writing, 4 hours touring, and 2 hours travelling each day. Instead I’ve mostly rearranged travel and read my book on average 7 hours a day travel.
Trump’s Board of Peace plans to grant itself sweeping immunity, documents show

Draft resolution seeks to shield board members and security forces from potential prosecution for work in Gaza

The Guardian

Disinformation is not new 2

“Another few weeks, and the
name and person of Franz Ferdinand would have disappeared
from history for ever.
However, about a week later a good deal of verbal sniping
suddenly began to appear in the papers, all of it reaching a
crescendo too simultaneously to be entirely a matter of chance.”
…it was insinuated that Austria could not let
the murder of its allegedly beloved heir to the throne pass
without any repercussions.“

#zweig

Disinformation is not new #zweig.
Ha, I wonder if this is what the Russians have over certain presidents as well #zweig
Pigeons drinking from spouts into a fountain
Reminds me of the Scott Monument

US, Iran trade strikes putting truce at risk

The United States and Iran each launched strikes in the worst escalation since they signed their interim peace deal. Follow DW for more.
https://www.dw.com/en/us-iran-trade-strikes-as-truce-faces-threat/live-77729995

US, Iran trade strikes putting truce at risk

The United States and Iran each launched strikes in the worst escalation since they signed their interim peace deal. Follow DW for more.

Deutsche Welle
It turns out that beef tartare is like haggis in that the spices that make it yummy work even better when they don’t have to hide dead animal. #plantbased
“Every state suddenly felt that it was strong, and forgot
that other states felt exactly the same; all states wanted even
more, and wanted some of what the others already had. The
worst of it was that the very thing we loved most, our common
optimism, betrayed us, for everyone thought that everyone
else would back down at the last minute,” #zweig