Do you know why people use online calendar tools? So that they don't actually have to spend time on 15 emails per appointment. (subtweeting linkedin DMs)

Calling on all alumni in Washington D.C., London, Milan and Vienna! 📢

We would love to see you at our 20th-anniversary celebrations this April and May. Come talk to your former profs and reconnect with fellow alumni. Prior registration is required via Hertie Connect 👇

The Post contacted 25 aid groups, U.N. agencies and donor countries to ask about aid delivery to Gaza and found that Israeli authorities have denied or restricted access to items ranging from lifesaving medical supplies to toys to chocolate croissants.

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Contemplating turning down all talk / travel invitations without prepaid hotels at a minimum, travel preferably.
I'd save buckets of time not giving talks and/or not dickering about things by email, and a lot of money from missed expenses.

Does anyone else suddenly have Apple Support Keynote suddenly making colour backgrounds to text even though they are set to being transparent? Just the last couple days version 14.0 (7039.0.94)?

When there were a LOT fewer people, before all that industrialisation and colonising etc. were those people mostly in extreme poverty? Nope! We can tell because height & malnutrition. Parts of the world are STILL recovering from the 16th century!
#ethics
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Bart Preneel Ian Brown 🇮🇨 🦣 🦋 Microsoft Office Mujaheed Shaikh Anke Hassel I've been hanging out with members of the works council, some of whom don't even have smart phones. It's entertaining which parts of the @microsoft infrastructure still work when they are supposedly excluded for #cybersecurity reasons.

Bart Preneel Ian Brown 🇮🇨 🦣 🦋 Yeah, I think it makes more sense to either provide a phone or a dongle. Maybe smartphones with the OS of the email system provider should replace office phones.

#cybersecurity #privacy Microsoft Office #techPolicy #digitalGovernance #FutureOfWork

So all you have to do to get access to the private mobile device of everyone in any organisation that uses Microsoft Office is hack a few email accounts, then you will get mandatory software added to everyone's phones? Am I nuts to be offended? Ian Brown 🇮🇨 🦣 🦋 Bart Preneel #cybersecurity

recommender systems are so broken. RTing on twitter achieves essentially nothing now unless there are also likes and discussion. Before recommenders, RTs meant the people who followed / trusted you saw what you thought they needed to. Still does for those of us who read lists.

The UN University is seeking a senior AI research scientist! Sounds like a great job, though you have to live in Macau careers.unu.edu/o/sr-researche…

Free version of scoop with Catherine Belton revealing recent Kremlin documents planning for U.S. disinformation campaign. Shocking to see in black and white. wapo.st/3PSCYuQ #disinformation #Russia #Ukraine

If you were on a break during Easter you might have missed this very helpful report coming out of the EU-US Trade and Technology Council last week, where both the EU and the US made it *very* clear that US-based researchers can use article 40.12 DSA for research purposes.

Love how the Bayeux Tapestry is mostly an intricate political drama about succession and invasion except for that one scene where the characters are like 'BLOODY HELL A COMET' and it's never mentioned again

When you celebrate Eid this week, Gulfisha Fatima would be spending her 4th Ramzan in jail. Incarcerated for speaking against oppression, for our liberty and our freedoms.

At least 17 states have adopted California's vehicle emission standards - c2es.org/document/us-st…

Those were all at risk when 17 Republican state AGs filed this lawsuit, dismissed today by the DC Circuit.

Chechnya reportedly bans all music outside of 80–116 BPM (h/t Monica). djmag.com/news/chechnya-…

Excellent overview of China's response to US semiconductor export controls: americanaffairsjournal.org/2024/02/a-new-…

Very excited to share our work on the cognitive consequences of disagreement! We find that the experience of disagreement reduces young children's overconfidence and prompts their exploration.
With Mahesh Srinivasan & Jan Engelmann

Link to paper: srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cd…

Be sure to sign up if you want to hang around while Ivana Bartoletti and I have fun talking together next week :-)

#AIEthics #digitalGovernance #AIRegulation #polarisation #polarization #inequality