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Using my Right to be Forgotten

Header image: KF in Dalle-E The 2016 RTBF policy brief from @article19org is an excellent overview (Mar 29, 2016) Policy Brief: The Right to be Forgottenhttps://article19.org/resources/policy-brief-the-right-to-be-forgotten/… Another overview can be found here: (Oct 5, 2023) The EU’s right to be forgotten is migrating to other countries https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/the-eus-right-to-be-forgotten-is-migrating-to-other-countries.php ╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬ Considering @article19org’s Requirement 1: The courts or independent […]

Right to Be Forgotten

One of my areas of interest is the RTBF. Below are links and resources on the topic. (Oct 5, 2021) Into Oblivion How news outlets are handling the right to be forgotten https://www.cjr.org/special_report/right-to-be-forgotten.php  Is unpublishing “anathema to the profession, or is it a twenty-first-century professional practice that we have to have?” “We’re trying to restore […]

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Google knowledge panels

Almost everyone has seen these but it’s unlikely that you’ve given them much thought. I have given them quite a lot of thought, so read on and allow me to do some of the heavy lifting for you. ➡ In short, I believe you should claim your knowledge panel (if/when you get one). ╬ Google […]

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AI, AI, and chicken nuggets

Header image: KF in DALL-E & edits in Gimp Until recently, when I saw the abbreviation AI, I thought of “academic integrity”. Now see it more often referring to “artificial intelligence”. For this post, I’m thinking about artificial intelligence as artificial learning (AL), arguing that LLM output often only offers a resemblance of learning: a substitute […]

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Tutt (2014) The Revisability Principle

Header image: KF in Dall-E the principle that an individual’s identity should always remain, to some significant extent, revisable; that no person should be tied forever to her identity at a particular moment in the distant past, and that to the extent individuals must forever account for who they were long ago, their individual freedom […]

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Unpublishing

Unpublishing is an umbrella term for a set challenges that stem from requests from third parties to remove, obscure or otherwise alter accurate information published about them at some point in the past. Deborah L. Dwyer, https://unpublishingthenews.com/ (, 2022) Readers’ Ombudsman: The rights – and wrongs – of being forgotten https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/4817305/readers-ombudsman-newspaper-digital-archives-right-to-be-forgotten/ (Sept 10, 2021) The Media […]

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Forgetness

[F]orgetting is memory’s foe. Memory is sacred and forgetting is something to overcome. Memory is revered and forgetting is disparaged Eichhorn, K. (2019). The end of forgetting: Growing up with social media. (forgiv/getness) I have been doing a lot of reading around the right to be forgotten. It keeps coming back to me, the more […]

Think

Header image: KF in Dall-E The Latest Study on Trigger Warnings Finally Convinced Me They’re Not Worth It (July, 2019) https://slate.com/technology/2019/07/trigger-warnings-research-shows-they-dont-work-might-hurt.html On Self-Validation [F.I] Ishu Ishiyama (1993)http://trumpeter.athabascau.ca/index.php/trumpet/article/view/365/574 Life is a process of self-validation. On the Internet, We’re Always Famous https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/on-the-internet-were-always-famous “Legally white but socially brown, and on the receiving end of racialized enmity and discrimination, Iranian […]

About

My name is Kieran: Click below to hear me say my name. I was taken by the passage in David Brooks’ The Road to Character that introduced the differences between résumé virtues and eulogy virtues. My résumé virtues are below in the “KF-Resume” file. This could be read as just a list of places I […]

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Update 6: April 2021

Nicholle and I are doing great. We received an invitation to apply for permanent residency, so maybe the Canadians will let us stay in their lovely country long-term, if that’s how things pan out. We are slowly putting the application together and hope it will be successful. If it is, Nicholle will have more (and […]

September 2019

Aug 31 / Sept 1 As August gave way to September, we were away at a friends house over the weekend for a barbeque. There was a lot of good talk and interesting (and completely random!) things mentioned. I made a few notes so I wouldn’t forget to follow up on a few things. anorak […]

August 2019

Aug 2 We went to The Farewell: ” Billi’s family returns to China under the guise of a fake wedding to stealthily say goodbye to their beloved matriarch — the only person that doesn’t know she only has a few weeks to live. “ We were mostly interested in this because it is set in […]

March 2019

Mar 1 So the weirdest thing happened. For some inexplicable reason, my MA thesis was downloaded, in the US,  226 times last month. Bizarre! Compare (here) that to the 52 downloads in total in the last 6 months of 2018. Who are these people?! I was reading some commentary on Jason Brennan’s book Against Democracy “Epistocracy is a […]

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LOCKDOWN XX June 29-Aug 18 Choons Software Twitter concepts: https://twitter.com/G_S_Bhogal/status/1492255231169679365

February 2019

Feb 2 Two movies worth checking out: Same Same But Different (2009) [IMDB link]. “Benjamin (David Kross), a German high school student, is a backpacker on his first major tour. In a nightclub in Phnom Penh, he meets a young local girl, Sreykeo (played by Apinya Sakuljaroensuk), and rapidly falls in love with her. Ben […]