#Billionaire Harlan #Crow’s firm advocated for rolling back the very wetland #protections the #SupremeCourt just gutted. The obvious conflict of interest raises questions about not just the ruling’s #legitimacy but the entire #court’s.

https://jacobin.com/2023/05/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-supreme-court-corruption-wetlands

NSW Labor accused of ‘fundamental breach of trust’ over logging in promised koala national park

"Tensions are escalating in state forests near Bellingen, where a protesters’ camp is locked in a standoff with a heavy police presence. The government made one single promise – it was going to create the great koala national park – and now it’s gutting it. All communities around are considering it a fundamental breach of trust and reneging on a promise.”

Bellingen is turning into a 'blank spot' on the map, all that has the potential to 'put it on the map' is extracted, eradicated and ruined.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/12/nsw-labor-accused-of-fundamental-breach-of-trust-over-logging-in-promised-koala-national-park
#NSW #MidNorthCoast #Bellingen #Gumbaynggirr #Logging #landClearing #EndangeredHabitats #NewryStateForest #GNKP #koalas #biodiversity #Promises #Legitimacy #Trust #Climate

Possibly the best lie-to-your-face part of the explainer is this bit:

> Web Environment Integrity attests the #legitimacy of the underlying hardware
> and #software stack, it does not restrict the indicated application’s functionality:
> E.g. if the browser allows extensions, the user may use extensions; if a
> browser is modified, the modified browser can still request Web Environment
> Integrity attestation.

You know who owns the big browsers? Well, the list is basically Google, stop.

6/x

Legitimacy of 'customer' in Supreme Court gay rights case raises ethical, legal flags

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-gay-rights-lgbtq-website-9c058addfdd581ce0ead81eb59660130

#SupremeCourt #GayRights #EthicalConcerns #LegalIssues #LGBTQ #Legitimacy #Politics #News

"Procedural #Openness as a Distraction":

- Civil society participants want to make use of access and opportunities provided by the IETF’s procedural openness.
- "Their presence can confer unfounded #legitimacy on #IETF #processes. If civil society is in the room where decisions are made but does not have a voice that can match that of industry, the sheer fact of their participation in debates can function as a rubber stamp."
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@C__CS #governance #standards #tech #neutrality #ethics @ethics

🚨 CfA - My research group is looking for a new colleague (3 years, 65%)!

Candidates should be willing to do a PhD in Political Science and be interested a) in concepts such as #Legitimacy, #Polarization, #Politicization, #Democracy, and / or #Sustainability and b) in methods of #ComputationalSocialScience and / or #DataLinkage.

I am happy to provide more information about a highly interesting position in a very nice team and department that is located at the (only) lake in Muenster!

#Legitimacy of #SCotUS
https://youtu.be/MT1ZI5QYaJ4

Opinion | The justices’ ethics are to blame for the court’s legitimacy problems

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/02/supreme-court-ethics-clarence-thomas/

#SupremeCourt #Ethics #Legitimacy #Justices #JudicialSystem #Opinion

The current visit of #Lula in #China may well make some people who defended his #legitimacy against the pro #Bolsonaro mob doubt their support and the person they supported.
Calling for an end of weapon deliveries to #Ukraine at this very moment is calling for a win of the aggressor #Russia on the battle field. Lula is siding with authoritarian, aggressive powers and #warcriminals here. It does not make him or #Brazil look good, sorry to say so.
Sad to see him damage his reputation like that.

Corporate political activity can shape #PublicPolicy, but it often comes at the expense of the public's interests. #Erb 's #CPR principles offer a checklist for evaluating these activities, including #legitimacy, #accountability, #responsibility, & #transparency. These principles do not prioritize outside stakeholders over shareholders, but require corporate leaders to avoid encroaching on the public interest.
https://www.promarket.org/2023/04/10/corporate-political-responsibility-in-a-captured-economy/
https://erb.umich.edu/partner-with-erb/erb-principles/
#CSR #ESG #ethics #FreeMarkets

As promised, where we are #courts #legitimacy #thirdreconstruction

https://nadinbrzezinski.medium.com/institutional-legitimacy-6f7ae4b98d6c

@kairyssdal Fox has never represented themselves to be a news organization per say - they are a financially incentivized #infotainment #provocateur with a huge #captive #audience that they feed 24/7. Even using the word #news + #Fox gives them a form of #legitimacy they must be denied. However, will this skillful game of transparency - we knew we were lying so #NoHarm #NoFoul - provide safe harbour from $$$ judgement...just wondering as there is a strategy here.

Paper about Predictive Optimization challenges #legitimacy, presents #flaws, includes case studies. Seems to make us #rethink the #validity of such predictions.
Obviously, #automated decisions re. loans, hiring etc. can have great impacts on people and the #economy.
See Prof. @randomwalker post: https://mastodon.social/@randomwalker/109903444603053793
https://predictive-optimization.cs.princeton.edu/
#princetonuniversity #cs #adm #predictiveoptimzation #prediction #predictive #predictivecrime #ml #forecasting #optimisation #optimization #flaw

...can be addressed easily and flexibly, whereas #norms or #values or #identity - even if they be found more important as drivers of behaviour - are much more challenging. Both in terms of practical considerations (how to change them?!) and #legitimacy of "tampering" with them.

@grbenny @jeffjarvis
Yes, but education is the “sacred cow” of American society
#Musk tried to slip in w/Zuckerberg & Gates perhaps? But those 2 are very different from #Elon

Zuck attended an incredibly prestigious HS & Gates worked even harder pre-Uni before dropping out

Musk uses degree in the same manner as🍊💩; to maintain #legitimacy & #gaslight masses into believing they are something they are not

Higher education changes narrative & could be devastating😁

Will we transform by design or by disaster? In our post for the LSE Impact Blog, @KBBogner, Sophie Urmetzer, and I discuss
#transformativeresearch and how it can help to address issues of
#directionality, #legitimacy, and #responsibility in #transformations, using the example of #just and #sustainable #MobilityTransitions https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2023/01/31/transformation-by-design-or-by-disaster-why-we-need-more-transformative-research-now/

Will we transform by design or by disaster? In our post for the LSE Impact Blog, @KBBogner, Sophie Urmetzer, and I discuss
#transformativeresearch and how it can help to address issues of
#directionality, #legitimacy, and #responsibility in #transformations, using the example of #just and #sustainable #MobilityTransitions https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2023/01/31/transformation-by-design-or-by-disaster-why-we-need-more-transformative-research-now/

For the first time, Annalena Baerbock clearly stated her support for a #SpecialTribunal for the #CrimeOfAggression against #Ukraine.

Very positive, that she links her support to a reform of the #ICC's curtailed jurisdictional regime on #CoA. #Germany is in a better position to take the lead here compared to #UK or #France who sabotaged the ICC's juristiction in Kampala.

But, many questions regarding the #legitimacy & #effectiveness of such a tribunal remain.

https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/de/newsroom/strengthening-international-law-in-times-of-crisis/2573384

RT @BASeditors@twitter.com

Can citizens impact the broader #discourse about an organization and its #legitimacy? @illial@twitter.com (@dcm_unifr@twitter.com), @ElanorColleoni@twitter.com (@uniiulm@twitter.com) @MichaelEtter_@twitter.com (@kingsbschool@twitter.com), and @KMeggio@twitter.com (@NYUStern@twitter.com) address this question in new study. Read it OPEN ACCESS: https://doi.org/10.1177/00076503211073516

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/BASeditors/status/1614608576114302977

Spanish #politics are blighted by a toxic debate about #legitimacy. My latest blog post tries to make sense of the issue by talking about political capital, populism and the dangers of anti-populism. https://sharpenyouraxe.substack.com/p/political-capital-and-legitimacy #Spain