Dr Bruce Baer Arnold
@baerarnold.bsky.social
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Tech Law academic (privacy, genomics, consumer protection, AI, identity). Assoc Prof managing the LLB Program at Canberra Law School. Several books out 2025/6. RTs not always endorsement. Fox in bear clothing, not a hedgehog.
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Dr Bruce Baer Arnold @baerarnold.bsky.social · 2d
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Major data breach as up to 3,000 flood victims' details loaded to ChatGPT
The NSW Reconstruction Authority says the breach occurred in March and involved the personal data of applicants to the Northern Rivers Resilient Homes Program.
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Glen Grambo 🇨🇦 @glengrambo.bsky.social · 3d
They are almost instantly recognizable, mostly due to having a 9 foot wingspan and being the size of a small car🤣
This white pelican was hanging out with a bunch of cormorants, when it decided it was time to go for a cruise around the lake!
#Birds #photography #wildlife 🪶
A white pelican with its huge yellow bill and bright orange feet, takes off from a small lake in late evening light. It has kicked up a splash with its feet as it’s taking off.
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Papa Woof und Krampus und Bleaken @papawoof.bsky.social · 3d
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NCAT re Grubisa - www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision/199...
The Council of the Law Society of NSW v Grubisa - NSW Caselaw
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Bronwyn Fredericks @bronfredericks.bsky.social · 3d
I went to the garden shop early & enjoyed just looking around. Ahh Spring!! I got my new garden hose attachment because the other one broke. I don’t throw much away & instead fix, reuse & recycle etc but when something breaks & can’t be repaired, I buy a new or secondhand one.
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Bronwyn Fredericks @bronfredericks.bsky.social · 3d
I got bedazzled by the beauty in the garden shop, inc by the orchids. I thought of my mum when I saw them, because she likes them. Have a lovely day wherever you are & whatever you’re doing today! 🌸👋🏽😀
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Dr Bruce Baer Arnold @baerarnold.bsky.social · 5d
we are incredibly grateful for your effort, effectiveness and courtesy Dr Clohesy
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NTEU ACT @nteuact.bsky.social · 5d
One of our biggest ACT contingents ever to @nteunion.bsky.social National Council! A testament to the significant growth of our union. 💜

This team of legends is in Melbourne with NTEU members from across the country.

Not yet a member? Join your union today at www.nteu.au/join. ✊
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Dr Bruce Baer Arnold @baerarnold.bsky.social · 5d
from the lord of lies - www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/elon...
Elon Musk promises to do to Wikipedia what he did to the federal government
Wikipedia is one of the 10 most popular websites on planet Earth and, in this reporter's opinion, one of humanity's greatest modern achievements of the digital age. It's the closest we've gotten to ma...
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 9d
Another craven act of surrender by Big Tech. There is exactly zero merit to this lawsuit. For Google to pay Trump off adds it to the long list of companies that have decided to be complicit in his attack on free speech
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Google to Pay $24.5 Million to End Trump Lawsuit Over Jan. 6 Ban
Google agreed to pay $24.5 million to resolve Donald Trump’s claims that being banished from his YouTube channel after the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol was illegal censorship, according to a c...
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Dr Joe McIntyre @drjoemcintyre.bsky.social · 8d
Taking time off for school holidays. Got to September and realised tank was empty...

Teddy helps
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Dr Joe McIntyre @drjoemcintyre.bsky.social · 8d
I have a piece on "Ivory Washing" coming out shortly which looks at the misuse of academic expertise to provide unwarranted legitimacy to political views. This is one of my case studies
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Jacob Schriner-Briggs @jschrinerbriggs.bsky.social · 9d
Just to take stock: the first claim was that there was an entire literature supporting the anti-birthright position. Then, *after* that claim, scholars emerged to post drafts on SSRN. And *now* the government points to a "growing body of modern scholarship" all drafted after the initial claim.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 9d
A LITERATURE IS BORN!
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Mathieu Carpentier @mathieucarpentier.bsky.social · 13d
🚨 Just out in Jurisprudence: a special issue, edited by D. Dyzenhaus and G.B. Ratti, devoted to the close relationship between HLA Hart and Norberto Bobbio.

It comprises a.o. the translations into English of five essays by Bobbio, substantial excerpts from the Hart-Bobbio correspondence...

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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 12d
Hmmmmmmm! www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/educati...
Screenshot of part of the newspaper article in this thread. It reads: At the end of July, a final response to the clarifications sought by Knight and the other person were being prepared. UTS chief legal counsel Kylie Gould reviewed the statement. So did KPMG. Vice-chancellor Parfitt directed it be sent out by his acting chief of staff, Danielle Woolley, herself a partner at KPMG until she was hired by the university. “I can confirm that no master spreadsheet of research staff as referred to was produced or delivered in partnership with KPMG,” Woolley wrote, without indicating whether any versions of the spreadsheet existed. “I trust the above clarifies the matter.” Now it has been produced and confirmed delivered, although the university maintains it was never finished and was not used. By way of explanation, UTS inserted a “context” page just before the sudden appearance of the Excel spreadsheet and emails between McGrath and KPMG. “As part of this work at that time KPMG began developing a list of D to E researchers but the Deputy Vice Chancellor Research intervened, and upon reviewing and seeking to validate this data with our own research data insights team, the work was discontinued,” the university says in its explanation. Instead, it says, the university used “aggregate” data from its own internal systems “in order to consider whether any proposed OSI changes would impact on our research activities”. Coincidentally, UTS says, the resulting insights are the same as if they had relied on the KPMG analysis.
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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 12d
Even the external barrister hired to do the internal review of a NSW GIPA (FoI) decision was told it didn't exist. But it did. It had been emailed to the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research, Prof. Kathryn McGrath, as requested. She said she discussed it with the VC. The VC signed the contract!
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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 12d
University of Technology Sydney ordered a spreadsheet from KPMG targeting individual academics by research income, which might contravene the bargaining agreement. They repeatedly denied it even existed for several info requests. But that wasn't true. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/educati...
Exclusive: University sought secret KPMG staff spreadsheet
The University of Technology Sydney denied the existence of a KPMG spreadsheet ranking the research performance of academics, in breach of its EBA, until it was forced to release it.
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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 11d
Black Hawk-Eagle at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica

#nature #birds
Close-up of a dark-feathered raptor with striking yellow eyes and a slightly raised crest, looking directly at the camera.
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Dr Bruce Baer Arnold @baerarnold.bsky.social · 11d
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Academics dispute state of finances at leading Sydney university - ABC listen
Almost one in every two Australian universities has been restructured in the past year, and there is more to come. Thousands of jobs have been cut, and thousands more are in the firing line. At the ...
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 14d
Meta appoints anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor with a mandate to make the company's chat bot less 'woke.' www.advocate.com/news/meta-ro...
Meta appoints anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor
Robby Starbuck has been appointed as an AI bias advisor at Meta with the goal of making the company's chat bot less "woke."
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Dr Bruce Baer Arnold @baerarnold.bsky.social · 15d
Fat Bear Week has begun
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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 15d
Tozi just paused chewing on her bone to snap at a passing fly, caught it expertly, then spat it out because yuck. It moved, she killed it gently with her teeth taking care to not let the yucky thing in her mouth then went back to her bone.
Cute chihuahua mix dog with her bone under her paw.
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Laura Sell @laurasell.bsky.social · 19d
"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream
The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.
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Dr Bruce Baer Arnold @baerarnold.bsky.social · 19d
interim report by Senate cttee on university governance - www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...
Quality of governance at Australian higher education providers
Interim report
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Anntics @anntics.bsky.social · 20d
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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 21d
I got to spend time with this 2-year-old black bear earlier this summer. You can tell the bear is young by its ears. Black bears tend to grow into their ears. #mammals 🌿
A young brownish black bear with a light brown back looks eagerly at some potential food off-camera from where it stands in a patch of shrubs. A brownish black bear munches on some Saskatoon berries on a shrub in front of it. The sun shines on its light brown back. A brownish black bear sniffs a shrub for potential food.
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