Monthly Archives: September 2018

Talks & Travels

Posted on September 6, 2018 by Michael Froomkin

I’m in Berkeley for an AI workshop for the next couple of days.

Oct 4-7 I’ll be in Amsterdam for the Amsterdam Privacy Conference.

Nov 2-3 I’ll be in New Haven for the AI and Robotics in Medicine Roudtable.

Maybe I’ll see you at one of these?

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More on DeSantis & Racism

Posted on September 4, 2018 by Michael Froomkin

The Miami New Times offers discussed #4, the Facebook group previously):

1. He spoke at a Muslim-bashing event alongside Milo Yiannopoulos and Steve Bannon.

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3. He defended a supporter who said “bring back the hanging tree.”

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5. He proudly associated himself with Sebastian Gorka, who has ties to a Hungarian far-right group that collaborated with the Nazis. …

If he’s not a bigot himself, he sure does pal around with them a lot.

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We Robot 2019 Now Accepting Paper & Demo Proposals

Posted on September 4, 2018 by Michael Froomkin

We invite submissions for the 8th annual robotics law and policy conference—We Robot 2019—to be held at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, USA, on April 11-13, 2019. Previously, the conference has been held at University of Miami, University of Washington, Stanford, and Yale. The conference web site is at http://robots.law.miami.edu/2019.

We Robot 2019 seeks contributions by American and international academics, practitioners, and others, in the form of scholarly papers, technological demonstrations, or posters. We Robot fosters conversations between the people designing, building, and deploying robots and the people who design or influence the legal and social structures in which robots will operate. We particularly encourage papers that reflect interdisciplinary collaborations between developers of robotics, AI, and related technology and experts in the humanities, social science, and law and policy.

This conference will build on a growing body of scholarship exploring how the increasing sophistication and autonomous decision-making capabilities of robots and their widespread deployment everywhere from the home, to hospitals, to public spaces, to the battlefield disrupts existing legal regimes or requires rethinking policy issues.

We invite proposals for each of the following:

  • Scholarly papers
  • Demonstrations
  • Poster sessions


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Real or Onion? (V)

Posted on September 3, 2018 by Michael Froomkin

Scientists Determine Tingling Sensation Of ASMR Caused By Mass Brain Cell Die-Off.

Didn’t really believe it, but it made me look at the URL when it came up on my news feed. Yes, it’s the Onion.

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The Center Isn’t Where You May Think

Posted on September 1, 2018 by Michael Froomkin

Short of space aliens abducting the President and Vice-President, 1 perhaps the best quick fix for US politics would be to have both people and pundits acknowledge that the public is now very firmly centered on a suite of actually quite milquetoast progressive policies.

If that idea would only penetrate, we might see those who oppose those widely popular policies being asked why they are bucking what the voters want. It’s likely that the local/regional support for these policies is unevenly distributed, but with these levels of national support it has to be the case that most legislators represent districts that don’t want to jail kids for smoking a joint, but do want affordable college, national health of some kind, and to get out from under the evil thumb of their arrogant spying price-gouging local ISP.

  1. Wait a minute, that makes Paul Ryan the President. Never mind.[↩]
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