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Lilian Edwards
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Director of Pangloss Consulting for all your AI and GDPR needs! Emerita Prof Newcastle Law School: Hon Prof, @CREATe Glasgow Uni. Formerly @ATI, @SCRIPT: Trying not to be a grey skies thinker & use this place more , [email protected] .. more

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Lilian Edwards is a Scottish UK-based academic and frequent speaker on issues of Internet law, intellectual property and artificial intelligence. She is on the Advisory Board of the Open Rights Group and the Foundation for Information Policy Research and is the Professor of Law, Innovation and Society at Newcastle Law School at Newcastle University. .. more

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · Dec 12
Since approximately gazillion people have joined lately, I’ve updated my extremely random starter pack of UK and Europe tech, AI, law & policy folk
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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4h
I slept for 4 hrs this afternoon - unheard of - and still feel awful

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4h
This is the very definition of a regressive tax on the most struggling universities. Could it possibly have been written by people only families with & interested in the health of elite universities?

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Budget 2025 for universities and students
Team Wonkhe unpacks an unusually consequential Budget for higher education, as a complex mix of fee rises, international student levies, and stealth costs for graduates reshape the sector’s financial ...
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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 5h
Thats sweet

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 6h
I'm supposed to get flu Vax free on NHS but naturally as the season takes off , no sign of it yet....

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 6h
I just got COVID Vax & am wiped out! But obv this is the preferable option...

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 13h
I guess you heard about the hospital one which collected and distributed patient info via Otter on behalf of Dr who no longer worked there or responded to email asking him to turn it off?

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 13h
It's winter man. This is what it always used to be like pre COVID..

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 13h
I'd like to answer about the British Consulate after recent experience in Frankfurt. Pass it my way!

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 15h
But these are apples and oranges too. A lay magistrate not = a trained sheriff. And a panel of judges is obv best but hopelessly expensive solution cfed to juries w biases and no need to show reason.

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 22h
Can't see how - the same people will use AI to generate the summary. Or do editors hope to recognise the summary as slop without er the bother of reading the review?

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 22h
Ppl will generate it using GPT. Oh joy.

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 22h
Just checked - 68% of all convictions in Scotland occurred in a sheriff summary court for last figs

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 22h
Again, but see Scotland

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 22h
Except er in Scotland where it's the dominant form. ( Most criminal cases before single sheriff) Whether we are less just than England would be a question on which I suspect there are views .

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 22h
Yeh I think better to bolster public interest defenses than rely on perverse juries..

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 22h
Blocked! What are you guys up to?? 🤣

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 22h
Much more likely elsewhere to leave academe altogether than combine. See comments elsewhere about overwhelming lack of time in underfunded overstudented overadmined unis

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 22h
I think it's actually a practice now almost wholly reserved to London although that includes Oxbridgers living in London. As usual the SE bubble is another place. Signed a "provincial" Emerita of 5 universities

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 22h
If not clear I personally think this is a loss

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 22h
And actually it's a reverse trend, when I joined Edinburgh most of the senior profs had a side hustle but 35 yrs later who on earth has the time? Only 0.2 decorative profs who are really only barely academics. And practitioners can't get entry level jobs cos no PhD, no pubs

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1d
The last three weeks papers?

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 2d
I hang on grimly to having some kind of access to Freeview TV for this exact reason. I don't always constantly want to make choices choices! Last night I watched Official Secrets by accident cos it came on, wld never have chosen it..losing browsing is big loss, TV and books...

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 2d
Thanks!!

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 2d
A really terrible one that somehow sucks me in every time at this time of year is Last Xmas, the most on the nose film ever...

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 2d
Ps just start at 1.46 in - bit of faffing at start ( I didn't edit it!)

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 2d
Benjamin and Nelson for me!!!;;

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 2d
Wowowowow ♥️
cydharrell.bsky.social Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 2d
love love love the civic tech representation here! <3 (Hidalgo, Norrick, Van Dyck, & Voegeli)
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That's a pretty awesome group of people

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 2d
Dyou want the terrible ones? Probably Bourne, Bridget Jones and Coyote Ugly. Cos they're ALWAYS ON on something like ITV3. Don't think I've seen anything good 6 times but nearest is Cap Am Winter Soldier which I adore, reincarnation of 70s state conspiracy surveillance genre

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 2d
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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 2d
Finally it is doubtful if law is keeping up with the problems behind shiny technical means to deliver explanations. Dun& Bradstreet has just discovered counterfactuals. How long till chain of thought!