Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤
@hyoyoonkang.bsky.social
I write and teach critical intellectual property, theories, law & humanities & history of science in the UK university titanic. Mostly unserious here. Private account.
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We are very pleased to announce the 2025/6 ISHTIP Online Seminar Series, which brings together scholars from around the world who explore intellectual property issues from theoretical and historical angles.
Please find below the programme, dates for your diary, registration links ⬇️
Please find below the programme, dates for your diary, registration links ⬇️
Happy this is happening, hope to see many of you IP and IP related nerds online!
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I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
We exist and we are close to burn out (but workload says we are still under loaded)
if your press asks for names, give 6 to 8--NOT the biggest, most senior stars in your field. None of them will do it. part of the problem is that the ppl best poised are "mid-career"--i.e. have a book, tenure. TWIST: the mid-career folx, IF THEY EXIST, are so fucking overloaded I can't even tell you
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
We exist and we are close to burn out (but workload says we are still under loaded)
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are you fucking serious
November 25, 2025 at 10:47 AM
are you fucking serious
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People scratching their heads about Thiel and Greenland but that is because stuck in an old model of international politics. This is neoroyalism rather than westphalia.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
November 24, 2025 at 1:23 AM
People scratching their heads about Thiel and Greenland but that is because stuck in an old model of international politics. This is neoroyalism rather than westphalia.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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“The former ANU vice-chancellor’s golden handshake means that her new annual salary will be more than the total annualised savings ANU sought from the proposal to disestablish the ANU School of Music.”
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/911946...
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/911946...
More details about ANU former vice-chancellor payments released
'In accordance with her entitlements under her contract.'
www.canberratimes.com.au
November 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
“The former ANU vice-chancellor’s golden handshake means that her new annual salary will be more than the total annualised savings ANU sought from the proposal to disestablish the ANU School of Music.”
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/911946...
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/911946...
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"Working Knowledge: A Simon Schaffer Reader" -- Edited by Charlotte Bigg, John Tresch, and Simon Werrett
@uchicagopress.bsky.social press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
@uchicagopress.bsky.social press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
November 25, 2025 at 11:21 AM
"Working Knowledge: A Simon Schaffer Reader" -- Edited by Charlotte Bigg, John Tresch, and Simon Werrett
@uchicagopress.bsky.social press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
@uchicagopress.bsky.social press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Spontaneous in-class assignment: "Explain situationships to Guy Debord."
November 25, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Spontaneous in-class assignment: "Explain situationships to Guy Debord."
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‘Gutenberg seems to have had a habit of falling out with people.’
Adam Smyth (@adamwithbooks.bsky.social) on a biography of the printer told through his books.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Smyth (@adamwithbooks.bsky.social) on a biography of the printer told through his books.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Smyth · Slice It Up: Gutenberg’s Great Invention
Gutenberg remains unknowable: an implied but not a felt presence. This is true for all but a small number of 15th-...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 11:55 AM
‘Gutenberg seems to have had a habit of falling out with people.’
Adam Smyth (@adamwithbooks.bsky.social) on a biography of the printer told through his books.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Smyth (@adamwithbooks.bsky.social) on a biography of the printer told through his books.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Very good. EU member states are obliged to recognise same sex marriages of EU citizens who have exercised free movement rights.
CJEU, free movement law/LGBT rights
New judgment: Member States (in this case Poland) are obliged to recognise same sex marriages of EU citizens who have exercised free movement rights curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo...
New judgment: Member States (in this case Poland) are obliged to recognise same sex marriages of EU citizens who have exercised free movement rights curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo...
November 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Very good. EU member states are obliged to recognise same sex marriages of EU citizens who have exercised free movement rights.
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NEW: Economic myth-making in twentieth-century Belgium - @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Economic myth-making in twentieth-century Belgium
This article takes enchantment as a category of analysis to histories of national economies. Taking the economic history of twentieth-century Belgium as a case study, it argues that attention for e...
www.tandfonline.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM
NEW: Economic myth-making in twentieth-century Belgium - @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
how low can academics fall
Look, LLM use in academia isn't just students. You need to be speaking clearly with your collaborators about your writing standards from the beginning. Make people say out loud that they don't write their own articles anymore.
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
how low can academics fall
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I used to fall asleep in a furrow, tired out from counting meteors.
-Hadrian of his youth,
from Memoirs of Hadrian
by Marguerite Yourcenar
(tr. Grace Frick)
-Hadrian of his youth,
from Memoirs of Hadrian
by Marguerite Yourcenar
(tr. Grace Frick)
November 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I used to fall asleep in a furrow, tired out from counting meteors.
-Hadrian of his youth,
from Memoirs of Hadrian
by Marguerite Yourcenar
(tr. Grace Frick)
-Hadrian of his youth,
from Memoirs of Hadrian
by Marguerite Yourcenar
(tr. Grace Frick)
Had similar experience with IP controversy on Covid vaccines along the labels of “critics” and “experts”
I think there's an interesting study of media to be done looking at who gets labeled an "expert" and who gets labeled a "skeptic". Certainly for coverage of "AI", but I wonder if there are other topics that would make interesting comparisons.
November 25, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Had similar experience with IP controversy on Covid vaccines along the labels of “critics” and “experts”
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1/9 I LOVE the intro chapter of this book on close reading. We do close reading in law, too. It shows concretely how close reading is done, in 5 steps: scene setting, noticing, local claiming, regional argumentation and global theorizing.
Am I the first law professor wanting to assign parts of this book to law students, esp. the Introduction by @johannawinant.bsky.social and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
1/9 I LOVE the intro chapter of this book on close reading. We do close reading in law, too. It shows concretely how close reading is done, in 5 steps: scene setting, noticing, local claiming, regional argumentation and global theorizing.
Hobbling towards the end of term feeling
November 25, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Hobbling towards the end of term feeling
birthdays are when the persons who gave life and cared should be celebrated
November 24, 2025 at 10:51 PM
birthdays are when the persons who gave life and cared should be celebrated
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Say what you want about 90s kids, but No Blood For Oil and Don't Sell Out are pretty good advice to live by.
November 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Say what you want about 90s kids, but No Blood For Oil and Don't Sell Out are pretty good advice to live by.
Cherry picking into autarchy or banana republic (international oligarchy trading out of London, presumably wouldn’t fall under “remittance”)
Trevor Phillips proposes banning "remittances" (ie: imposing currency/exchange controls on international cash transfers by foreign nationals from Britain). He says this would disincentivise immigration, in a Times piece saying the Home Secretary needs to go [much] further
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
November 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Cherry picking into autarchy or banana republic (international oligarchy trading out of London, presumably wouldn’t fall under “remittance”)
the denial is reassuring then
In the memo, “Nvidia also responds to claims that the ‘current situation is analogous to historical accounting frauds (Enron, WorldCom, Lucent) that featured vendor financing and SPVs [special purpose vehicles.)’”
@barrons.com $NVDA
@firstadopter.bsky.social
www.barrons.com/articles/nvi...
@barrons.com $NVDA
@firstadopter.bsky.social
www.barrons.com/articles/nvi...
November 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM
the denial is reassuring then
It does pain me for the first time in a big way that work doesn’t stop for my kiddo’s important birthday.
November 23, 2025 at 10:41 PM
It does pain me for the first time in a big way that work doesn’t stop for my kiddo’s important birthday.
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Excuse me, I need you to look at the color of these perfect apples.
November 23, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Excuse me, I need you to look at the color of these perfect apples.
Susan Sontag’s essay vs Susan Sontag’s fictions
“I’m not a serious thinker. I’m a writer: that’s very different. I think a writer’s intelligence has to be alive, has to be incomplete. It has to carry contradiction. It has to be sort of haphazard and amateur.”
- Benjamín Labatut
- Benjamín Labatut
November 23, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Susan Sontag’s essay vs Susan Sontag’s fictions
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You think LLM-based chatbots can help students learn? Think again.
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
www.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
You think LLM-based chatbots can help students learn? Think again.
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
Covent Garden at night pre-Advent
November 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Covent Garden at night pre-Advent
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You know what I’m glad we have studies to prove obvious things because our society is literally whored out to data.
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
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
You know what I’m glad we have studies to prove obvious things because our society is literally whored out to data.