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Christopher Coenen @chrixcoenen.bsky.social · 8d

'10 Regeln für die Digitale Welt' sind nun "in der Welt"! 😊

Ich durfte sie in einer spannenden Gruppe mitdefinieren, u.a. mit @jurgenpfeffer.bsky.social und @paulnemitz.bsky.social.

Hier eine der vielen News dazu:

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Kommentare sind sehr willkommen!

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„10 Regeln für die Digitale Welt“:

1. Erhebt digitale Technik nicht zum Selbstzweck.
2. Schreibt Maschinen keine Menschlichkeit zu.
3. Schafft Raum für Muße und analoge Begegnung.
4. Garantiert den Erhalt sozialer und demokratischer Kompetenzen.
5. Zerstört nicht die Natur für den technischen Fortschritt.
6. Behandelt Menschen nicht als bloße Datenobjekte.
7. Lasst Euch nicht Eurer menschlichen Potenziale berauben.
8. Verleugnet nicht die Grenzen der Technik.
9. Nutzt Maschinen nicht, um die Freiheit Anderer zu untergraben.
10. Verhindert Machtkonzentration und garantiert Teilhabe.

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(Jan) Christoph Bublitz @jcbublitz.bsky.social · 12d

Freue mich, später im Deutschen Theater zu sprechen. Wer vorbeikommen möchte...
www.deutschestheater.de/programm/pro...

Produktionen

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 20d

An early look at next week’s cover: "Remote Control,” by Barry Blitt.
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The cover of the September 29, 2025, issue of The New Yorker.

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(Jan) Christoph Bublitz @jcbublitz.bsky.social · 23d

Just received my contributor's copy of the CUP handbook on Experimental Jurisprudence by @kevintobia.bsky.social, which may well beome the prime reference for anyone interested in the field, given the many interesting chapters and leading authors.

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Research Center for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg | FAU CHREN @humanrights-fau.bsky.social · Aug 15

📣 Exciting Call Papers for The Journal of Human Rights/Zeitschrift für Menschenrechte: „New Technologies and Human Rights“. Submissions from various disciplines welcome. Read more here: www.humanrights.fau.eu/2025/08/08/c...

Call for Papers: New Technologies and Human Rights

for the Journal for Human Rights, edition 1/2026 How are AI, social media, and automated systems changing our society, and what do these developments mean for human rights? The Journal for Human…

www.humanrights.fau.eu

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Orin Kerr @orinkerr.bsky.social · Jul 20

Number of judicial opinions that cite "A Theory of Law": 9

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Legal Tribune Online, LTO @lto-de.bsky.social · Jul 14

Rund 300 Rechtswissenschaftler und Ex-Verfassungsrichter melden sich in einem offenen Brief zu Wort. Sie kritisieren darin den Umgang mit Brosius-Gersdorf, eine "unsachliche Debatte" und "mangelnde Vorbereitung" seitens der Politik.

Ex-Verfassungsrichter kritisieren Umgang mit Brosius-Gersdorf

Nach dem Desaster um die Verfassungsrichterwahl kritisieren knapp 300 Rechtswissenschaftler die bisherige Diskussion und das Verfahren als 'unsachlich'.

www.lto.de

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(Jan) Christoph Bublitz @jcbublitz.bsky.social · Jul 3

Honored to give a keynote later at UOC Barcelona on human rights and neurotechnology. Interview with me here:
www.uoc.edu/en/news/2025...

Christoph Bublitz

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · Jul 1

In a stunning reversal, the Senate voted 99-1 this morning to strip from Trump's big bill a 10-year moratorium on state-level AI regulations.

Gift link to my story on how it happened and who's celebrating: wapo.st/3TOyiaG

In dramatic reversal, Senate votes to kill AI-law moratorium

A GOP-led bid to stop states from regulating AI collapsed after a deal to save it fell through.

www.washingtonpost.com

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(Jan) Christoph Bublitz @jcbublitz.bsky.social · Jul 1

New Viewpoint: Countries allowing assisted suicide should offer candidates psychedelics and support to change their minds. If we truly value life, shouldn't we explore every therapeutic option - even controversial ones - before accepting that suffering is untreatable?
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(Jan) Christoph Bublitz @jcbublitz.bsky.social · Jun 20

5/ (Our correspondence was intended for publication before negotiations concluded but it remains relevant). Read it here:
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

UNESCO’s Recommendation on Neurotechnology: realizing the rights of people with mental disabilities - Nature Mental Health

Nature Mental Health - UNESCO’s Recommendation on Neurotechnology: realizing the rights of people with mental disabilities

www.nature.com

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(Jan) Christoph Bublitz @jcbublitz.bsky.social · Jun 20

4/ ... is matter of human dignity. States should use maximum available resources for making them available. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGSo...

A streaming brain-to-voice neuroprosthesis to restore naturalistic communication

YouTube video by Berkeley Engineering

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(Jan) Christoph Bublitz @jcbublitz.bsky.social · Jun 20

3/ To avoid this impression, we call on states to use its implementation as an opportunity to live up to their obligations and fill them with life. In particular, we think that providing devices or prostheses that restore essential human capacities as speech, communication or movement ...

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(Jan) Christoph Bublitz @jcbublitz.bsky.social · Jun 20

2/...the Recommendation focuses more on risks than on potential benefits. The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities established numerous important binding obligations of states which are broader than those of the Recommendation. This might be seen as a setback.

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(Jan) Christoph Bublitz @jcbublitz.bsky.social · Jun 20

1/ UNESCO member states recently concluded negotiations on the first global Recommendation on the Ethics of Neurotechnology, to be adopted in November. Our comment in Nature Mental Health examines it through a disability rights lens. While people with disabilities are primary neurotechnology users..

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(Jan) Christoph Bublitz @jcbublitz.bsky.social · Jun 8

Also interesting, 𝘢𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘳.
From Sanskrit, the earthly incarnation of godly powers.

(Jan) Christoph Bublitz @jcbublitz.bsky.social · Jun 8

On the etymology of 𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺:

Manly strength (vir) --> inherent powers --> implicit powers --> something not really there, irrealis -> virtual.

(from Heim, The Paradox of Virtuality
academic.oup.com/edited-volum... )

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(Jan) Christoph Bublitz @jcbublitz.bsky.social · May 24

2/ At least when used without consent and outside of medical treatment. What would this imply? Read more in our latest article (behind paywall, send me a message for the file).

(Jan) Christoph Bublitz @jcbublitz.bsky.social · May 24

The EU AI Act & Neurotech: Guidelines by the EU Commission suggest that brain stimulation methods might be considered "subliminal techniques"and hence fall under the prohibited practices of Art. 5 AIA.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Brain Stimulation May Be a Subliminal Technique Under the European Union's Artificial Intelligence Act

Click on the article title to read more.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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(Jan) Christoph Bublitz @jcbublitz.bsky.social · Apr 9

UK gov researching AI homicide prediction tool. Problems are clear and many. However, lets not forget that risk assessment is somewhat unavoidable standard practice in criminal law and forensic psychiatry. Much depends on which data used and for what precisely.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill

Exclusive: Algorithms allegedly being used to study data of thousands of people, in project critics say is ‘chilling and dystopian’

www.theguardian.com

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Satan’s Niece @krissychula.bsky.social · Apr 6

This is high art

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Doramad, 1940

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Science Magazine @science.org · Mar 17

For the first time, researchers have used the #CRISPR gene editor to repair a flawed gene in the human body. scim.ag/3RdMzMT

Gene editing fixes DNA—and treats incurable lung and liver disease

A promising clinical trial marks another milestone for the CRISPR gene editor

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(Jan) Christoph Bublitz @jcbublitz.bsky.social · Mar 11

Berlin: Der Film "Der Code" über den Auschwitz Überlebenden Yehiel De-Nur wird diesen Donnerstag (einmalig) im Babylon gezeigt. Interessant auch deswegen, weil De-Nur zur Verabeitung in den 60ger Jahren LSD-Behandlung in den Niederlanden machte.
babylonberlin.eu/film/8138-de...

BABYLON in Berlin - Der Code - Premiere mit Filmteam

Kino Babylon

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(Jan) Christoph Bublitz @jcbublitz.bsky.social · Mar 4

Interesting. I work on psychological debunking in law, and I wonder how precisely you construct the bridge premise. Even if a judge is a motivated reasoner, why is this false? Originalism, as a theory, does not seem to refer to psychological processes. I suppose an epist. legal premise is needed?

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