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Antonia Waltermann 🟥
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Legal theory & philosophy @ Maastricht University (NL). Interests: non-human agents and the social construction of (legal) reality, law & cognitive science. Also: plants, cats, food, hiking, mostly at @gardenandlibrary.bsky.social
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lornamcampbell.bsky.social
"Key to all of this is understanding that US companies are explicitly going to be used to enforce US national security interests. And that includes the US technology companies that are at the heart of our national infrastructure and embedded into our everyday lives."
carolecadwalla.bsky.social Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 17d
NEW: A mass propaganda event is about to engulf the US news cycle and what, if anything, survives it will be a lesson for our times.

But it’s what the rest of the world does now that’s key. When someone tells you who they are, believe them.
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January 3, 2026 at 7:52 PM
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joshuagrubbsphd.bsky.social
It’s 1990, I’m 1 years old, and the republican president of the US is attacking a petrol state

It’s 2004, I’m 15 years old, and the republican president of the US is attacking a petrol state

It’s 2026, I’m 37 years old, and the republican president of the US is attacking a petrol state
January 3, 2026 at 10:21 PM
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cristianfarias.com
Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.
Twitter thread in Spanish by José Mario de la Garza, a human rights lawyer in Mexico, translated using Google Translate: 1. Overthrowing a dictator sounds morally right. No one mourns a tyrant. But international law wasn't built to protect the good, but to restrain the powerful. That's why it prohibits force almost without exception: not because it ignores injustice, but because it knows that if each country decides whom to "liberate" by force, the world reverts to the law of the strongest. 2. The problem is not Maduro. The problem is the precedent. When military force is used to change governments without clear rules, sovereignty ceases to be a limit and becomes an obstacle. Today it is “overthrowing a dictator”; tomorrow it will be “correcting an election,” “protecting interests,” “restoring order.” The law does not absolve dictatorships, but neither does it legitimize unilateral crusades. Cont’d: 3. The uncomfortable question is not whether a tyrant deserves to fall, but who decides when and how. Because history teaches something brutal: removing a dictator is easy; building justice afterward is not. And when legality is broken in the name of good, what almost always follows is not freedom, but chaos, violence, and new victims. The law exists to remind us of this, even when it makes us uncomfortable. Maduro isn't the problem: he's the face of the problem. Removing him from power would be merely opening the door. Behind him is the machine: Rodríguez, Cabello, the military command, the operators of repression and plunder. If you only change the person at the top and leave the system intact, what follows isn't democracy: it's a reshuffling. And there's something even more difficult: Chavismo didn't just capture institutions, it captured daily life. Economy, media, bureaucracy, employment, fear, favors, blackmail. A country can't be "de-Chavistaized" by decree or by an electoral miracle. The real transition begins when that network is broken without setting the country ablaze. The challenge is enormous, and it's also a moral one: to unite without vengeance, but without impunity. Targeted justice for those most responsible, truth for the victims, guarantees that the rest will dismantle the system, and a plan for people to live again—not just survive. Because freedom doesn't come with a new president: it comes when the state ceases to be a threat.
January 3, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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ntinatzouvala.bsky.social
The legal assessment of the US intervention is not, in fact, complex
joerglau.bsky.social Joerg Lau @joerglau.bsky.social · 16d
Let me sum up the reaction of the German government:
International law applies when our enemies violate it, it’s that simple.
January 3, 2026 at 8:59 PM
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astriddeilmann.bsky.social
Heute wäre ein guter Tag um mit den Beschwichtigungen aufzuhören & ein Programm für eine souveräne EU aufzulegen.

Mit mehr Integration & Investitionen in erneuerbare Energien, gemeinsame Sicherheit & eine eigene digitale Infrastruktur - um uns von den Trumps dieser Welt unabhängig zu machen.
January 3, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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markus.reuter.netzpolitik.org
Merz: "Die rechtliche Einordnung des US-Einsatzes ist komplex. Dazu nehmen wir uns Zeit."

Man muss kein Völkerrechtler sein, um zu wissen, dass hier gar nichts komplex ist - außer der Angst von Friedrich Merz klare Worte für diesen illegalen Angriff auf ein souveränes Land zu finden.
January 3, 2026 at 8:12 PM
amwaltermann.com
“I don’t need a machine, I have a community” is such a lovely way of putting what academia is, can and should be
rheinze.myatproto.social Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 29d
Also I don’t need to read every book and article, discerning whats important for my research and what isn’t is a really important skill. And what I also do is collaborate with other researchers, organise conferences, edit books, review others‘ work. I don’t need a machine, I have a community
December 22, 2025 at 6:59 AM
amwaltermann.com
This thread! 👇🏻

With genAI, I keep coming back to two questions:

1. What are we outsourcing?
2. Who are we outsourcing to?

The answers to either don’t make me inclined to use it…
carlbergstrom.com Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Dec 16
I've spent all day struggling to write a single page of a popular science article. I bang away at a word processor; give up; start diagramming on paper. Take some notes; draft a few sentences in pen; return to the computer...and very slowly I figure out what I was trying to say in the first place.
December 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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um-foundations.bsky.social
Pre-announcement: on Tuesday, 27 January (16-18h), we will host Alexander Somek (Vienna) at our Maastricht Foundations of Law Colloquia. He will present his paper "Republicanism and Liberal Democracy: Transformations of our Political."
@lawinmaastricht.bsky.social
December 15, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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nrvscrcts.bsky.social
Elsevier's 'reading assistant' appeared for the first time for me today, on this of all articles. 📚
Screencap of an article titled Are we ghosts in the machine? AI, agency, and the future of libraries with an Elsevier AI 'reading assistant' layered overtop of the article
December 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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kimlanelaw.bsky.social
All travelers from ESTA countries (yes the ones on visa waiver programs) will have to disclose 5 years of social media + huge amounts of personal data to enter the US now. All US academic associations should now meet outside the US if we want to meet our international colleagues.
clarajeffery.bsky.social Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · Dec 10
This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...

and these are our closest allies!
Travelers visiting the United States from countries like Britain, France, Germany and South Korea could soon have to undergo a review of up to five years of their social media history, according to a proposal filed on Tuesday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The change would affect visitors eligible for the visa waiver program, which allows people from 42 countries to travel to the United States for up to 90 days without a visa as long as they first obtain electronic travel authorization. In a document filed on Tuesday in the Federal Register, C.B.P. said it plans to ask applicants for a long list of personal data including social media, email addresses from the last decade, and the names, birth dates, places of residence and birthplaces of parents, spouses, siblings and children. Under the current system, applicants from visa waiver countries must enroll in the Electronic System for Travel Authorization program. They pay $40 and submit an email address, home address, phone number and emergency contact information. The authorization is good for two years.
December 10, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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dermotlynott.bsky.social
Sisyphus pushing a rock up a hill. Sisyphus is labelled "Me trying to work", and the rock is labelled "Microsoft Authenticator popups". God I hate microsoft authenticator.
December 9, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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polwiel.bsky.social
Stop de sloop! Vanmiddag stond ik met duizenden op de Dam om te protesteren tegen de desastreuze onderwijsbezuinigingen, nota bene doorgezet door een demissionair, ultraminoritair rompkabinet.

Lees hierover ook dit opinieartikel in NRC van afgelopen donderdag 4 december: lnkd.in/ety2QdZe
December 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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hdijkstra.bsky.social
🚨 Vacancies at Maastricht in research programme "Europe: Society, Politics and Global Order" (do share!)

- Assistant Prof Political Philosophy in Euro Democracy
- Assistant Prof Euro Political History
- PostDoc Disinformation and Euro Democracy

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December 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
amwaltermann.com
Today, higher education in NL takes to the streets once again to fight against budget cuts and for science, education, critical thinking and solidarity.

🟥 #WOinActie 🟥
December 9, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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carloierna.bsky.social
In zijn opiniestuk in de NRC (4-12) roept de ex-minster van OCW feitelijk op tot wetenschappelijk passivisme: we mogen ons niet bemoeien met de politiek. Beste ex-minister: dat kan niet.
Kom op 9 december in actie tegen de sloop van het hoger onderwijs
Op 9 december komen we opnieuw in actie tegen de bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs. Ben jij er bij? Stop de sloop!
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December 8, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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tomtheuns.bsky.social
I am very pleased to share I will be returning to Maastricht University, my alma mater, to give a public talk on my book 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦 (Hurst/Oxford).

When: Monday 19 January, 20:00
Where: Auditorium, Minderbroedersberg 4-6

www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/nl/events/pr...
Protecting Democracy in Europe - Agenda - Maastricht University
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December 6, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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fonolog.bsky.social
Ik moet toegeven dat ik de afgelopen twee jaar gefascineerd ben geweest door de figuur van Eppo Bruins: minister van onderwijs, cultuur en wetenschappen in een kabinet dat onderwijs, cultuur en wetenschappen zo snel mogelijk wilde afschaffen.

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Onderzoekers die hun mening niet durven geven
Ik moet toegeven dat ik de afgelopen twee jaar gefascineerd ben geweest door de figuur van Eppo Bruins: minister van onderwijs, cultuur en wetenschappen in een kabinet dat onderwijs, cultuur en wet…
neerlandistiek.nl
December 5, 2025 at 6:09 AM
amwaltermann.com
As of today, I'm officially an associate professor at @lawinmaastricht.bsky.social

Thank you to everyone who's been part of the (academic) journey so far. I will let the gif below represent my joy and pleasure.
kermit the frog from the muppet show is standing in front of a red curtain
Alt: kermit the frog from the muppet show is standing in front of a red curtain doing an overly excited happy dance - roughly as excited I am to make this announcement
media.tenor.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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roberttalisse.bsky.social
Kant's moral philosophy
November 27, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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gregpak.net
I'm an "A.i." abolitionist.

No consumer-facing LLMs or generative "A.i." in anything.

Sure, machine learning in science and a few other limited applications is fine.

But consumer-facing LLMs and generative "A.i." that are based on theft, push disinfo, and can be manipulated by billionaires?

No.
July 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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astrokatie.com
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.

Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
us.theconversation.com The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · Nov 21
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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lawinmaastricht.bsky.social
Join us in Maastricht on 14 November for the VSR–VWR Symposium: Vulnerability and the Law – Multidisciplinary Perspectives.

A full day of engaging talks and discussion on how vulnerability shapes law, justice, and society.

🕓 Register by 10 November → www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/events/vsr-v...
November 5, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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mattcole.bsky.social
Absolutely fucked that I now have to consent to an AI scanning my data to improve Wiley’s systems in order to publish in a top journal.

As if they don’t profit enough from hosting my intellectual property. My data is now a training pipeline.
November 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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ywcath.bsky.social
I was thinking of being a bat for Halloween, but I just couldn't imagine what it would be like.
October 31, 2025 at 11:09 AM