Anne
@geniets.bsky.social
researching links between health, (in)equity and tech; medicine & migration
I guess that depends on whether calculators lie awake at night regretting your bad math. Shouldn't the real question be how the industry can protect vulnerable people from being manipulated into believing that AI, which has been deliberately designed to mimic human interaction, is actually sentient?
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
As first AI-led rights advocacy group is founded, industry is divided on whether models are, or can be, sentient
www.theguardian.com
August 26, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I guess that depends on whether calculators lie awake at night regretting your bad math. Shouldn't the real question be how the industry can protect vulnerable people from being manipulated into believing that AI, which has been deliberately designed to mimic human interaction, is actually sentient?
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ICYMI this explains strategies like those of Farage. Making morally outrageous proposals makes it easier to promote slightly less atrocious ideas.
Today I wrote about a general tendency to accept atrocious premises, and the need to reject fascism's false choices in order to find expansive and imaginative paths forward.
Breaking the premise, embracing the obstacles, pursing everything.
www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-...
Breaking the premise, embracing the obstacles, pursing everything.
www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-...
There Is No Trolley Problem
We actually aren't constrained into atrocious premises by thought exercises. Obstacles are a reason to fight, not an excuse to quit. Our friends and neighbors aren't distractions..
www.the-reframe.com
August 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
ICYMI this explains strategies like those of Farage. Making morally outrageous proposals makes it easier to promote slightly less atrocious ideas.
More details also in a separate investigation by The Guardian & partners from a few months ago, highlighting the extraordinary courage of Viktoriia Roshchyna and exposing the underreported, widespread use of torture to silence journalists www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a... (TW: distressing content)
August 9, 2025 at 1:07 PM
More details also in a separate investigation by The Guardian & partners from a few months ago, highlighting the extraordinary courage of Viktoriia Roshchyna and exposing the underreported, widespread use of torture to silence journalists www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a... (TW: distressing content)
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"The house will be built with stone that happens to be there.
The revolution will be made with people who happen to be there.
The picture will be painted with paint that happens to be there."
Bertolt Brecht, "Bad Times.
The revolution will be made with people who happen to be there.
The picture will be painted with paint that happens to be there."
Bertolt Brecht, "Bad Times.
Bertolt Brecht: Bad Times
www.walterlippmann.com
July 3, 2025 at 11:32 PM
"The house will be built with stone that happens to be there.
The revolution will be made with people who happen to be there.
The picture will be painted with paint that happens to be there."
Bertolt Brecht, "Bad Times.
The revolution will be made with people who happen to be there.
The picture will be painted with paint that happens to be there."
Bertolt Brecht, "Bad Times.
A harrowing Sky news documentary by two doctors on the scale of destruction of the health infrastructure in Gaza (TW: contains distressing images) www.youtube.com/watch?v=bycL...
Doctors on the frontline: Victoria Rose and Tom Potokar take you inside the war in Gaza
YouTube video by Sky News
www.youtube.com
June 21, 2025 at 12:18 PM
A harrowing Sky news documentary by two doctors on the scale of destruction of the health infrastructure in Gaza (TW: contains distressing images) www.youtube.com/watch?v=bycL...
Right now, it feels like Project Humanity is somehow stuck in one massive Karpman’s Triangle.
June 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Right now, it feels like Project Humanity is somehow stuck in one massive Karpman’s Triangle.
NHS surgeon Dr Victoria Rose on the urgent need to evacuate more children from Gaza for urgent medical treatment youtu.be/oTYZAX4ZQAk?...
British surgeon recalls dire malnutrition in kids on return from Gaza hospital | ITV News
YouTube video by ITV News
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June 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
NHS surgeon Dr Victoria Rose on the urgent need to evacuate more children from Gaza for urgent medical treatment youtu.be/oTYZAX4ZQAk?...
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"These medical professionals, many of whom voluntarily risk their lives in a conflict without moral limits, confirm the collective horror."
Doctors’ testimonies demand a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, writes @kamranabbasi.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
Doctors’ testimonies demand a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, writes @kamranabbasi.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
June 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
"These medical professionals, many of whom voluntarily risk their lives in a conflict without moral limits, confirm the collective horror."
Doctors’ testimonies demand a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, writes @kamranabbasi.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
Doctors’ testimonies demand a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, writes @kamranabbasi.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
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This new report shows that hundreds of people seeking safety in the UK have been imprisoned for arriving on a ‘small boat’ since 2022. Among those are victims of trafficking & torture & children prosecuted as adults.
This practice breaches international law & causes profound harm. It must stop.
This practice breaches international law & causes profound harm. It must stop.
June 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
This new report shows that hundreds of people seeking safety in the UK have been imprisoned for arriving on a ‘small boat’ since 2022. Among those are victims of trafficking & torture & children prosecuted as adults.
This practice breaches international law & causes profound harm. It must stop.
This practice breaches international law & causes profound harm. It must stop.
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Jerome Tubiana update on Libya & returns: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
May 26, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Jerome Tubiana update on Libya & returns: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Powerful autobiographical account by Tina Rathbone, an Episcopal priest and journalist, of accompanying and building community with people seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The Asylum Seekers: A Chronicle of Life, Death, and Community at the Border
A Chronicle of Life, Death, and Community at the Border
bookshop.org
May 23, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Powerful autobiographical account by Tina Rathbone, an Episcopal priest and journalist, of accompanying and building community with people seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Most recent IPC Report on the situation in the Gaza Strip and the risk of impending famine. www.ipcinfo.org/ipc-country-...
May 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Most recent IPC Report on the situation in the Gaza Strip and the risk of impending famine. www.ipcinfo.org/ipc-country-...
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Voices from Gaza: ‘We’re dying slowly from hunger, from sickness, from the world turning its back on us’
Voices from Gaza: ‘We’re dying slowly from hunger, from sickness, from the world turning its back on us’
Distressing stories from inside Gaza describe a people slowly starving, some resorting to crime in a bid to survive, and an unimaginable mental health crisis
www.irishtimes.com
May 11, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Voices from Gaza: ‘We’re dying slowly from hunger, from sickness, from the world turning its back on us’
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Leaders across the globe must now decide whether to act to end the “escalating atrocities in Gaza” or “bear witness to the annihilation of the Palestinian population,” UN experts have said
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
May 9, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Leaders across the globe must now decide whether to act to end the “escalating atrocities in Gaza” or “bear witness to the annihilation of the Palestinian population,” UN experts have said
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
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For all the US criticism of the EU, they follow the most horrendous aspects of #EU #migration policy. You learn a lot about politicians these days from what they agree on. (If you don’t know the situation in #Libya read @sallyhayd.bsky.social.)
Breaking News: The Trump administration is planning to send a group of migrants to Libya, in a sharp escalation of its deportation program.
Trump Administration Plans to Send Migrants to Libya on a Military Flight
www.nytimes.com
May 7, 2025 at 9:42 AM
For all the US criticism of the EU, they follow the most horrendous aspects of #EU #migration policy. You learn a lot about politicians these days from what they agree on. (If you don’t know the situation in #Libya read @sallyhayd.bsky.social.)
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Please read 'My Fourth Time, We Drowned', which documents the horrific abuses taking place in Libya & how the EU is already implicated in crimes against humanity for sending refugees/migrants there: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/696846... @melvillehouse.bsky.social
May 7, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Please read 'My Fourth Time, We Drowned', which documents the horrific abuses taking place in Libya & how the EU is already implicated in crimes against humanity for sending refugees/migrants there: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/696846... @melvillehouse.bsky.social
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Americans need to read… @melvillehouse.bsky.social
May 7, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Americans need to read… @melvillehouse.bsky.social
“The very tough anti-smuggling law has been a timeless governmental weapon to minimise illegal immigration. In reality it is completely useless, only filling up Greek prisons with people who have no record or connection to criminal offences” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘It was steer or they would kill me’: why Sudanese war refugees are filling prisons in Greece
Prosecutors are using harsh anti-smuggling laws to jail people who have no connection to criminal offences, say migrants’ lawyers
www.theguardian.com
April 30, 2025 at 7:34 PM
“The very tough anti-smuggling law has been a timeless governmental weapon to minimise illegal immigration. In reality it is completely useless, only filling up Greek prisons with people who have no record or connection to criminal offences” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Haunting, much needed reporting in this week's Guardian from the international Viktoriia Project (CW): www.theguardian.com/world/series...
The Viktoriia project | The Guardian
<p>The Viktoriia project was formed to investigate the disappearance of Viktoriia Roshchyna, a 27-year-old Ukrainian journalist, and expose how Russia is systematically detaining and torturing an esti...
www.theguardian.com
April 30, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Haunting, much needed reporting in this week's Guardian from the international Viktoriia Project (CW): www.theguardian.com/world/series...
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People seeking asylum can't afford bus fares in London as they get only £8.86 a week. This isolates them and impacts their mental health.
On Friday we joined @citizensuk.org and others outside City Hall calling on @sebdance.bsky.social to make buses free for those in the asylum system. 1/2
On Friday we joined @citizensuk.org and others outside City Hall calling on @sebdance.bsky.social to make buses free for those in the asylum system. 1/2
April 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
People seeking asylum can't afford bus fares in London as they get only £8.86 a week. This isolates them and impacts their mental health.
On Friday we joined @citizensuk.org and others outside City Hall calling on @sebdance.bsky.social to make buses free for those in the asylum system. 1/2
On Friday we joined @citizensuk.org and others outside City Hall calling on @sebdance.bsky.social to make buses free for those in the asylum system. 1/2
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The impact of this intensified blockade is even more devastating than the one Israel imposed at the beginning of the war, after Gallant’s “no electricity, no food, no fuel” order; Gaza’s stockpiles were much higher back then than they are now.
www.972mag.com/starvation-g...
www.972mag.com/starvation-g...
Weaponizing starvation, Israel seeks full control over Gaza aid
The acute hunger crisis in the Strip is part of a deliberate Israeli strategy to cripple Hamas’ governance capabilities and banish humanitarian groups.
www.972mag.com
April 27, 2025 at 9:38 PM
The impact of this intensified blockade is even more devastating than the one Israel imposed at the beginning of the war, after Gallant’s “no electricity, no food, no fuel” order; Gaza’s stockpiles were much higher back then than they are now.
www.972mag.com/starvation-g...
www.972mag.com/starvation-g...
'No Other Land' is available to watch in the UK on Channel 4.
March 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
'No Other Land' is available to watch in the UK on Channel 4.
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Superb piece by @sallyhayd.bsky.social
‘Guantánamo on steroids’: Inside a prison for suspected Islamic State members in Syria
www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...
‘Guantánamo on steroids’: Inside a prison for suspected Islamic State members in Syria
www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...
‘Guantánamo on steroids’: Inside a prison for suspected Islamic State members in Syria
During my visit, an administrator says ‘that’s correct’ when I ask if many detainees had died from tuberculosis, and ‘no answer’ when I request the exact figure
www.irishtimes.com
March 1, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Superb piece by @sallyhayd.bsky.social
‘Guantánamo on steroids’: Inside a prison for suspected Islamic State members in Syria
www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...
‘Guantánamo on steroids’: Inside a prison for suspected Islamic State members in Syria
www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...