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Seán Fobbe

@seanfobbe@fediscience.org

Human Rights Lawyer ⚖️ Legal Data Scientist 📈 Open Data Advocate

My research specialties are international law, human rights law, international criminal law, natural language processing of legal text and Open Legal Data. I've also published quite a bit on cultural heritage and am the lead author of the 'Destroying the Soul of the Yazidis' report.

I love #rstats and have recently gotten into #bayesian #stats with #stan

🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine

#HumanRights #IntLaw #OpenData #OpenSource

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Academic Website:

https://seanfobbe.com

Business Website:

https://fobbe-consulting.com

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https://codeberg.org/seanfobbe

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3808-7730

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Seán Fobbe @seanfobbe@fediscience.org · May 28, 2026

This is certainly an interesting new website: https://isaiprofitable.com/ Haven't checked the numbers, but it's roughly in the ballpark of what reputable tech news reports.

#AI

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Is AI Profitable Yet?

Seán Fobbe @seanfobbe@fediscience.org · May 23, 2026

RE: @hn100@social.lansky.name

Well, this is awkward.

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Hacker News 100: "Microsoft reports AI is more expensive than payin…" - Mastodon

Seán Fobbe @seanfobbe@fediscience.org · May 22, 2026

Looking for some new reading on law, technology, human rights and data science? I maintain an active blog over at https://www.seanfobbe.com with essays, tutorials, research updates, data features and much more!

✅ Blog with Essays, tutorials, research updates, data features, presentations, recordings, slides and much more!
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Check out the blog! https://www.seanfobbe.com/posts

#Blog #OpenAccess #OpenScience

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Seán Fobbe @seanfobbe@fediscience.org · May 21, 2026

Beautiful essay by Jacob Harris on why he doesn't vibe code: https://jacobharr.is/personal/i-dont-vibe-code

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Why I Don’t Vibe Code

A “brief” accounting of various reasons why vibe coding has just never clicked for me personally as a developer.

Seán Fobbe @seanfobbe@fediscience.org · May 19, 2026

In the past I always looked down on that "verify installation media" option that is available on most Linux bootable media (I think). What's going to happen, I thought to myself? Never had an issue with an installation media before.

Of course, I always tested anyway, just to be sure and to calm my paranoia.

This is the first time that the test caught a corrupted USB drive and man am I glad that this feature exists.

Always test important stuff, even if it seems silly.

#Testing

Seán Fobbe @seanfobbe@fediscience.org · May 19, 2026

I am deeply grateful for the grouped notifications feature introduced some time ago, otherwise my notifications panel would have been unusable after that script kiddies post went viral.

Thanks @Gargron@mastodon.social !

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Eugen Rochko (@Gargron@mastodon.social) - Mastodon

Seán Fobbe @seanfobbe@fediscience.org · May 19, 2026

We somehow went from "script kiddies are bad" to giving any random office worker the power to launch hundreds of programs that will hammer unknown servers across the web to make mediocre power point presentations.

Not to mention the massive usage spikes that are now hitting public software and data repositories.

What a world.

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Seán Fobbe @seanfobbe@fediscience.org · May 14, 2026

GitHub really hasn't been doing doing well for a while, but recently it's been really bad.

Source: https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

#GitHub #Uptime

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The Missing GitHub Status Page

Historical GitHub uptime reconstructed from archived status data.

Seán Fobbe @seanfobbe@fediscience.org · May 12, 2026

So Anthropic's Mythos was simply a PR stunt.

Surprise.

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/11/anthropics-bug-hunting-mythos-was-greatest-marketing-stunt-ever-says-curl-creator/5238111

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Anthropic’s bug-hunting Mythos was greatest marketing stunt ever, says cURL creator

After all that hype, AI scanner found one low-severity cURL flaw

Seán Fobbe @seanfobbe@fediscience.org · May 08, 2026

Ich war im "Nerds of Law" Podcast bei Katharina Bisset zu Gast! Viel über Legal Data Science, Diagramme, Daten und die wohl ewigste Entscheidung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts!

Podcast: https://www.nerdsoflaw.com/2026/05/nerds-of-law-165-21-jahre-mit-sean-fobbe/

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Nerds of Law 165 – 21 Jahre mit Seán Fobbe

Der heutige Gast ist zwar nicht mehr ganz 21 Jahre, aber damit hat der Titel eigentlich auch nichts zu tun. Es geht vielmehr darum, was man aus Diagrammen und Daten lesen kann und dass gewisse Entscheidungen einfach Zeit brauchen … aber immerhin dauert es nicht so lange, bis Seán im Podcast zu hören ist. Ach ja, und es wird etwas technisch, aber Michael lernt wieder einmal viel dazu.

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#Podcast #NerdsOfLaw #Bisset #LegalDataScience #OpenAccess #OpenScience #OpenData #KWIC #BVerfG

Seán Fobbe @seanfobbe@fediscience.org · May 05, 2026

Replying to @Weltenkreuzer@social.tchncs.de

@Weltenkreuzer@social.tchncs.de Danke für den Hinweis! Meine Familie wollte, dass ich das debugge und ich war unbegeistert 😂

Seán Fobbe @seanfobbe@fediscience.org · Apr 21, 2026

Wo findet man offene juristische Daten für wissenschaftliche Forschung, Legal Tech und Legal Data Science? Insgesamt 19 umfangreiche Datensätze stelle ich dauerhaft, kostenlos, #OpenAccess und urheberrechtsfrei hier zur Verfügung: https://seanfobbe.com/de/data/

Darunter sind zehntausende Urteile des BVerfG, BGH, BVerwG, BPatG, BAG, IGH und StIGH, deutsche Bundesgesetze-/verordnungen, Parlamentsprotokolle und Drucksachen des Bundestages, sowie völkerrechtliche Verträge.

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✅ #OpenSource mit vollautomatisierten Pipelines
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Zu den Datensätzen: https://seanfobbe.com/de/data/

#OpenData #OpenScience #OpenAccess #LegalTech #BVerfG #BGH #BVerwG #BPatG #BAG #ICJ #PCIJ #UNSC

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Seán Fobbe @seanfobbe@fediscience.org · Mar 09, 2026

There is a Wikipedia page dedicated to "deaths linked to chatbots" and it's grim reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_linked_to_chatbots

#Wikipedia #Chatbots

Seán Fobbe @seanfobbe@fediscience.org · Feb 16, 2026

Replying to @deliverator@infosec.exchange

@deliverator@infosec.exchange Yep, I find this disappointing as well. The Reg article is quite one-sided and doesn't address the fair use double standard at all. They usually do much better...

Seán Fobbe @seanfobbe@fediscience.org · Feb 16, 2026

Boosted by

Philip C James @PhilipCJames@mas.to

AI companies copy all written works they can get their hands on and call it fair use, if someone does it to their models it suddenly becomes "unauthorized distillation" and should be actionable in court. The double-standard is ridiculous. https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/14/ai_risk_distillation_attacks/

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Seán Fobbe @seanfobbe@fediscience.org · Feb 13, 2026

Zum Wochenende was neues zu lesen!

Vor kurzem habe ich mit dem Business Circle (Veranstalter der Vienna Legal Innovation) über Legal Data Engineering und die Gründung meines neuen Unternehmens gesprochen. Unter anderem über:

🔸Herausforderungen bei juristischen Datenprojekten

🔸Tips für Legal Data Projekte

🔸Marktchancen im Legal Data Engineering

🔸Die Zukunft offener Daten

Mehr zu allen diesen Themen bald.

Zum Interview: https://www.businesscircle.at/newsroom/legal-data-engineering-und-juristische-datensatze-sean-fobbe-im-interview

Viele Freude beim Lesen!

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Is AI Profitable Yet?

Hacker News 100: "Microsoft reports AI is more expensive than payin…" - Mastodon

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Why I Don’t Vibe Code

Eugen Rochko (@Gargron@mastodon.social) - Mastodon

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Anthropic’s bug-hunting Mythos was greatest marketing stunt ever, says cURL creator

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