'People will try to capitalise upon the..things that pull us apart rather than the many..commonhoods that draw us together. So always, always focus on the joy and rally back towards the light' @michaelpedersenoyster ends our first series with hope. Full episode here podfollow.com/shamis-speak...

"I convinced myself I was studying literature within the realms of law and it was very easy to do so because it is a celebration in almost a flamboyance of language." is there anything that @michaelpedersen.bsky.social can't make beautiful?

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'I was trying to experience this grief as the last reverberation of loving someone' @michaelpedersen.bsky.social explains the process of writing the beautiful book Boy Friends in the wake of his dearest friend, Scott Hutchinson's, passing. Listen to the full episode now podfollow.com/shamis-speak...

'it just seemed ridiculous... that they were gonna look down on me...when their education costs hundreds of thousands of pounds and we were sitting at the same table and perhaps I was even getting better grades...' @michaelpedersen.bsky.social - full episode podfollow.com/shamis-speak...

'I was obsessed with friendship. I was obsessed with emotionally vulnerable friendships....I wanted a piece of that friendship pie' @michaelpedersen.bsky.social talks about the most delicious kind of pie, that we all deserve a generous slice of. Full episode podfollow.com/shamis-speak...

NEW EPISODE DROPS TOMORROW with the rather wonderful @michaelpedersen.bsky.social

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'You need to create law which is lasting and not dependent on a certain type of technology' Baroness Charlotte Owen on the need to carefully craft legislation to protect against the harm, rather than focusing on an iteration of tech. Listen to the episode podfollow.com/shamis-speak...

'The way that I always describe it to people is imagine a woman walking into a pub and suddenly you can take her image and put it into a sexually explicit content of her.' Baroness Charlotte Owen on why it's Image Based Sexual Abuse, not Deepfake Porn. Listen now podfollow.com/shamis-speak...

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'Women are more reluctant to use AI because they consider it cheating in the workplace and this is putting women at a disadvantage.' Is AI cheating? New episode with Baroness Charlotte Own as she discusses AI, image-based sexual abuse and the law. Listen and subscribe now www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk

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"..all the training data is around women's bodies. So if you put a man's image into the model, it would simply produce a man's head on a woman's body." Listen to the full episode with Baroness Charlotte Own podfollow.com/shamis-speak...

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'Using AI..you can take any woman's photograph..and create a sexually explicit image..without her consent' NEW EPISODE! Baroness Charlotte Owen visits the Speakeasy to talk about AI, consent & the need for law to catch up with technology. Listen to the full episode podfollow.com/shamis-speak...

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'We shouldn't be sending arms. We should not be sending arms.' Baroness Doreen Lawrence on Gaza in this week's episode of the Speakeasy. Listen to the episode in full please sign up as a free subscriber to receive our zine inspired by this episode www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk

'Stephen wasn't the only young black boy who was murdered. There was others before him. And others since. But the care that people have around the black community is never the same.' Baroness Doreen Lawrence in the Speakeasy. Listen to this episode in full www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk

' I think where the police was concerned, they used it as...we can't do this because we'll be accused of being racist...but if you do your job and do your job correctly, nobody would accuse you of anything' Baroness Doreen Lawrence episode in full podfollow.com/shamis-speak... #BlackHistoryMonth