Joris van Hoboken

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Law Professor at Institute for Information law (IViR) & VUB: Information law, fundamental rights, digital transformation, quantum technologies, platform regulation

How are things going in the other spaces?

Well, if you ask people in DMs on Twitter if they want a Bluesky invite, the DM never goes through. (Asking if they want something like a "y k s e u l b" invite does, and I've confirmed this multiple times).

I wrote for Slate "You can’t half-heartedly resist censorship: Social media platforms should do everything possible to fight such restrictions, rather than accept defeat when faced with threats of throttling" as in Turkey. This is a response to Musk explaining the local context. https://slate.com/technology/2023/05/turkey-elections-twitter-free-speech.html
Turkey’s Government Has Blocked My Tweets. Elon Musk Doesn’t Know What He’s Supporting.

Freedom of expression has long been threatened in Turkey. It’s getting worse.

Slate
The GDPR Article 26 infringement identified by CNIL is interesting, but the decision doesn't really address the fundamental issues with extensive personal data sharing across thousands of companies in today's surveillance marketing ecosystem, from ID matching to profiling to RTB.
Steve Wozniak: If you want to learn about AI killing people, “Get a Tesla”

Tesla Killer Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has some harsh words for Tesla. In a new interview, Wozniak argued that the Elon Musk-led company’s self-driving efforts leave a lot to be des…

SkyMagzines
In Russia, “once-elite universities are allegedly pursuing research agendas dictated by the Kremlin on topics like “patriarchal values and institutional practices that protect and preserve traditional, spiritual and moral values” and “risks to Russia’s economy posed by the West’s global climate agenda.””
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/russia-war-with-no-end
A War With No End in Sight - Dissent Magazine

More Russians have died in Ukraine than in all wars the country has fought since 1945 combined. But escalating repression and a culture of helpless disengagement have kept support for the war high.

Dissent Magazine

This is an outstanding reply to, and analysis of that Pamela Paul column in the New York Times that began this way:

"A paper that says science should be impartial was rejected by major journals. You can’t make this up."

Dave Karpf, an academic, takes it apart. He also testifies as a particiant in the peer review system. Worth your time.

https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/pamela-paul-cancel-culture-grifters?utm_medium=ios

#nytimes #journalism #peerreview #science

Pamela Paul, Cancel Culture Grifters, and the Republic of Letters

It's 2023. How is this possibly still a thing?

The Future, Now and Then
We lost our blue check mark on Twitter. We’ll always have it in The Wayback Machine… https://web.archive.org/web/20230420025328/Twitter.com/internetarchive
Internet Archive (@internetarchive) / Twitter

Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library offering millions of free books, movies, & audio files, plus billions of saved web pages in the Wayback Machine

Twitter

An average user’s conversational exchange with ChatGPT basically amounts to dumping a large bottle of fresh water out on the ground, according to the new study.

https://gizmodo.com/chatgpt-ai-water-185000-gallons-training-nuclear-1850324249

'Thirsty' AI: Training ChatGPT Required Enough Water to Fill a Nuclear Reactor's Cooling Tower, Study Finds

An average user’s conversational exchange with ChatGPT amounts to dumping a large bottle of fresh water out on the ground, new research says.

Gizmodo
Two more weeks to apply for these positions!

The media, at least those that are even bothering to cover it, are truly missing the forest for the trees. The disaster of the bird site is not its garbage performance and functionality “clunkiness.” It’s that it’s a goddamned misinformation fascist propaganda engine. That’s it. That’s the story. I’ve been trying to get journalists to cover it. Guess I have to do it myself.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/07/technology/elon-musk-twitter-changes.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

How Elon Musk Is Changing the Twitter Experience

Nearly six months after buying Twitter, Mr. Musk has made tweaks that have altered what people see on the platform and how they interact with it.

The New York Times