Greatly enjoyed the political philosophy of @jamespatton.bsky.social ‘s Duskpunk. Drawing from Mbembe’s Necropolitics, in this blogpost I explain why the game’s resource of plasm is such a great narrative mechanic. Check out the game on steam! codedmass.com/2026/04/04/d...
Looking forward to discussing my book with the amazing Delphine Dogot, Kristina Irion, and Maša Galič on 15 December. Join us in person or online through the link below!
Google, the world’s largest search engine operating three in four smartphones, has played Brussels like a fiddle – shaping laws, silencing rivals, and calling it "innovation". The chart shows how Big Tech bankrolls Brussels’ top think tanks.
Read our latest story here: www.ftm.eu/articles/goo...
Poster voor demonstratie op 5 oktober
The Transnational Association of Legal Scholars has reopened its Academy - this is a week-long, intensive, online training for a selected 16 grad students. criticallegalthinking.com/2025/07/14/c...
Suspending the right to asylum and cutting food rations is not "getting tough" but a blatant breach of EU law. The @ec.europa.eu should of course intervene, but @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu will not bother an ally with infringement proceedings. www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2025/07/10/g...
“The goal [is] to concentrate the entire Gazan population into the remaining 25% of the territory and to debilitate them to the extent that they either flee, are permitted to leave or simply wither away. And western govts and big tech are happy to facilitate it.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Cross-border investigation: @lemonde.fr, @elpais.com, and @netzpolitik.org reveal how, between 2016 and 2023, @frontex.bsky.social illegally transferred the personal data of over 13,000 people to Europol.
Published by @wearesolomon.bsky.social 👇
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Journalists and rights defenders in Europe are under spyware surveillance.
We join civil society in calling on the EU to act. Now.
Spyware like Graphite is too invasive to comply with human rights.
www.ecpmf.eu/civil-societ...
a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes'
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UPDATE: it's now 187 NGOs & trade unions urging suspension of the #EU - #Israel Association Agreement.
Credible findings of genocide & apartheid are NOT compatible with the human rights clause - nor is inaction.
EU ministers failed on June 20. They must not fail again on July 15.
#SuspendTheDeal
Friedrich Merz's arrival as German chancellor in May rekindled the fading Franco-German love affair — and the lovebirds have already found a shared interest: killing Europe's ethical supply chain dream.
If you missed our #facct2025 CRAFT session on the "Hidden costs of digital sovereignty: Greece’s data infrastructures as a site of political contestation", it is now online available online!
youtu.be/Xb2UhtBsr2w
"Israel’s use of force against Iran is, on the facts as we know them, almost certainly illegal."
In a 1985 LA Times oped, Mark Bruzonsky compared Israel and South African apartheid. He described how he first rejected the analogy but then came to see it as apt. Now, of course, Israel’s variation has proven to be far more destructive and deadly.
novaramedia.com/2025/06/04/k...
Data centres will not create the thousands of jobs gov would like us to think they will.
Good news! Though once again charging individuals without accompanying structural changes..
Two accepted panels on Palestine were targeted after the preliminary programme was published online: Technologies at war: The role of tech companies and the EU in facilitating war crimes and genocide in Gaza, and Cyber Surveillance and Data Violence in Palestine: Protection, Practice, and Legality. CPDP approached the panel organisers and advised them to remove the word ‘genocide’ in the titles and descriptions, including references to crimes and violations of international law. CPDP then unjustifiably singled out these two panels with a disclaimer that read: “The text of this panel represents the opinions of the Panel Organiser and not those of CPDP. The case before the ICJ regarding the categorization of Israel’s activities in Gaza has yet to be decided.” Upon the request of the panels’ organisers, the disclaimer was removed. Discussions about human rights abuses, atrocity crimes, or genocide do not require a court ruling to be legitimate. At the core of international law and human rights work is prevention — a responsibility that also extends to private companies, which are expected to identify and mitigate risks of contributing to such abuses. These obligations are clear under the Four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. The International Court of Justice (ICJ), in its provisionary measures orders, affirmed the responsibility of state and non-state actors to take actions in the face of a clear and imminent risk of genocide. Multiple UN bodies and experts, genocide scholars, and leading human rights organisations have already categorised the Israeli conduct in Gaza as genocide that has met all legal elements of this crime.
"We were excited to have a panel accepted on the role of technology in genocide in Gaza at this year’s Computers, Privacy & Data Protection (CPDP) conference in Brussels. However, CPDP then requested that Access Now & others remove the word “genocide” from panel titles & descriptions. We declined."
One more week to submit your abstracts for Gikii 2025 🎉
When workers send emails including words related to Israel’s war on Gaza, messages are delayed as much as 45 minutes or never arrive at all. interc.pt/3H5WAtI
"Which is to say, The Pitt’s literalism may be its superpower. In the face of mass institutional acquiescence to fascism, there’s a lot to be said for loudly asserting the value of radical empathy and social justice."
TODAY 📣 Join @plixavra.bsky.social, @hannescools.bsky.social at SPUI25 to learn more about the role of #AI 🤖 in democratic societies. You can also join online at 4 pm bit.ly/437yJBv @uvahumanities.bsky.social #Democracy
When Trump sanctioned the ICC, Microsoft cut off services to the court. Now imagine our government, hospitals, and power grid running on Microsoft Cloud. Digital self-determination isn't abstract—it's about whether our society functions when geopolitics shifts. #CloudRisks #DigitalResilience
European Parliament LIBE votes on the #Europol reform report next week Tuesday, 20 May.
MEPs 👏must 👏vote 👏against the expansion of Europol’s surveillance powers!
Read & share the detailed #ProtectNotSurveil position paper now:
➡️ protectnotsurveil.eu
Around 100.000 people have been demonstrating in The Hague against our government's stance towards, and complicity in, Israel's genocide in Gaza. This is huge for two reasons: (1) the largest demonstration in 20 yrs; (2) The Netherlands is traditionally pro-Israel.
Picture: nos.nl/artikel/2567...
Join us for a lively discussion on #AI in democratic societies! Looking forward to talking about risks and regulation through the example of #predictivepolicing and what the implications are for the EU's #digitalsovereignty. Link below 👇
Today, @hrw.org publishes a new report on the media freedom crisis in #Greece. The pervasive constraints on journalism are fostering a climate of self-censorship, harming democracy & the rule of law
“From Bad to Worse: The Deterioration of Media Freedom in Greece” www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...
How should legal education respond to AI? Together with 11 UCL Laws colleagues, this paper is our vision for the sector. It's rooted in academic integrity, fundamental competences, and concerns around impacts on learning to learn and intellectual risk taking. (🧵)
discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
