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the figureheads of the UK anti-trans movement are (mostly? almost all?) cishet people, & the overwhelming majority of lesbians support trans people, going by polls. but the first group think they get to decide what a lesbian is
![Perhaps most concerningly, the Supreme Court adopts extremely transphobic rhetoric concerning transfeminine lesbians.
The Court concludes that a lesbian “must be a [AFAB] female who is sexually oriented towards (or attracted to) [AFAB] females”. The Court concludes that female here cannot include trans women, as the “concept of sexual orientation” would be “rendered meaningless”, and in its opinion, wrongly affect the composition of lesbians as a group.
The Court claims this would lead to an “inevitable loss of autonomy and dignity for lesbians”. It points to evidence from gender-critical groups like the LGB Alliance and The Lesbian Project to make this argument. They claim the inclusion of trans women is having a ‘chilling effect on lesbians’ to associate in lesbian-only spaces. The vast majority of lesbians reject this claim.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:i7aox3qj5gv2bqvlclpwcw5u/bafkreicrxzlblscgchacobotqqxbvfhiyclwilbbzjs363mwf65meyssly@jpeg)
April 19, 2025 at 10:53 AM
the figureheads of the UK anti-trans movement are (mostly? almost all?) cishet people, & the overwhelming majority of lesbians support trans people, going by polls. but the first group think they get to decide what a lesbian is
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NEOLIBERALISM IS DEAD. SAY HELLO TO TECHLORDISM www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2025/04/15/n...
NEOLIBERALISM IS DEAD. SAY HELLO TO TECHLORDISM - Yanis Varoufakis
After 1971, neoliberalism was an ideology essential in legitimising the emancipation of financial capital from the regulatory shackles of the New Deal and the post-war Bretton Woods system. Today, a n...
www.yanisvaroufakis.eu
April 14, 2025 at 10:28 PM
NEOLIBERALISM IS DEAD. SAY HELLO TO TECHLORDISM www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2025/04/15/n...
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MIT following Harvard's lead here
April 15, 2025 at 1:07 AM
MIT following Harvard's lead here
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“No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue"
-- Harvard (unlike Columbia) gives the middle finger to Trump
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
-- Harvard (unlike Columbia) gives the middle finger to Trump
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
April 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
“No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue"
-- Harvard (unlike Columbia) gives the middle finger to Trump
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
-- Harvard (unlike Columbia) gives the middle finger to Trump
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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When I say you don’t have to worry about microplastics in your brain I mean that there is much stronger evidence that you should be worrying about other things that you don’t ever think about, like the draining of peatlands for agriculture, and things that you think about all the time, like fascism.
April 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
When I say you don’t have to worry about microplastics in your brain I mean that there is much stronger evidence that you should be worrying about other things that you don’t ever think about, like the draining of peatlands for agriculture, and things that you think about all the time, like fascism.
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every one of these deregulated markets guys is a regulated market guy who hasn’t been punched in the face yet
April 13, 2025 at 1:57 AM
every one of these deregulated markets guys is a regulated market guy who hasn’t been punched in the face yet
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Advances and Challenges in Foundation Agents: From Brain-Inspired Intelligence to Evolutionary, Collaborative, and Safe Systems (264 pages)
This survey provides a comprehensive overview, framing intelligent agents within a modular, brain-inspired architecture
This survey provides a comprehensive overview, framing intelligent agents within a modular, brain-inspired architecture
April 6, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Advances and Challenges in Foundation Agents: From Brain-Inspired Intelligence to Evolutionary, Collaborative, and Safe Systems (264 pages)
This survey provides a comprehensive overview, framing intelligent agents within a modular, brain-inspired architecture
This survey provides a comprehensive overview, framing intelligent agents within a modular, brain-inspired architecture
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STRESS KILLS.
60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, struggling every day to keep their families going.
The result: working class people die 7 years earlier than the rich.
We need an economy that works for all, not just the few.
60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, struggling every day to keep their families going.
The result: working class people die 7 years earlier than the rich.
We need an economy that works for all, not just the few.
March 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
STRESS KILLS.
60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, struggling every day to keep their families going.
The result: working class people die 7 years earlier than the rich.
We need an economy that works for all, not just the few.
60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, struggling every day to keep their families going.
The result: working class people die 7 years earlier than the rich.
We need an economy that works for all, not just the few.
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The new OpenAI creative writing bot's "short story" has the phrase "democracy of ghosts". It's the sort of phrase that would make me stop and admire it, if I were reading a human author - which, it turns out, I was, because it's from Nabokov's 1957 novel "Pnin".
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
March 13, 2025 at 8:28 AM
The new OpenAI creative writing bot's "short story" has the phrase "democracy of ghosts". It's the sort of phrase that would make me stop and admire it, if I were reading a human author - which, it turns out, I was, because it's from Nabokov's 1957 novel "Pnin".
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
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buying into every AI rhetoric the tech industry and its ceos push into every media doesn't make you an AI enthusiast or a technologist but a gullible fool that suffers from a lack of critical and independent thinking
March 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
buying into every AI rhetoric the tech industry and its ceos push into every media doesn't make you an AI enthusiast or a technologist but a gullible fool that suffers from a lack of critical and independent thinking
