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Don’t let 21stC fascists take your rights away!
As someone or other must have said “The price of freedom is eternal vigilance”
Today, we celebrate 75 years of the European Convention on Human Rights. From the right to a fair trial and freedom of expression to freedom of thought, conscience, and belief, the #ECHR has been instrumental in advancing human dignity and liberty. 🧵

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Celebrating 75 years of the European Convention on Human Rights
Today, we celebrate 75 years of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Brought into being after the horrors of the Second World War and the Holocaust, and following in the footsteps of the Un...
humanists.uk
November 4, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Supreme Court flaws.

I have been, and remain, very critical of the Supreme Court decision in For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers. I have at least 15 fundamental criticisms of the judgment.
November 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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With friends like these, who needs enemas?
November 4, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Read and share!
Human rights groups call for UK regulator to be downgraded over "disturbing" single-sex spaces guidance

A number of groups have launched formal proceedings claiming that the regulator is not "fit for purpose".

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Human rights groups call for UK regulator to be downgraded over "disturbing" single-sex spaces guidance
After issuing guidance on single-sex spaces in the UK, the EHRC is facing calls to be downgraded by human rights groups.
gcn.ie
October 30, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Peaceful protest should never be met with violence.
October 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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If you’re making six figures at 20—and everyone around you is too—how does that shape your sense of reality?
Maribeth Rauh (ex-Google DeepMind, now at AI Accountability Lab) on how tech’s bubble skews how we see the world—and even how we see AI.

🎧 youtu.be/uAaYSIPsxCI?...

#AI #podcast
October 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Adult Human Female hockey star kicked out of women’s restroom by ‘gender police’ who thought she was a man -

www.outsports.com/2025/5/21/24...
PWHL hockey icon Madison Packer 'told to go to men’s restroom' - Outsports
After a 'humiliating' experience, Madison Packer calls bathroom policing a by-product of anti-trans propaganda.
www.outsports.com
September 21, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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🚨 There ARE other options 🚨
AI won’t go back in the bottle — but it doesn’t have to exploit. DAIR & Algorithmic Justice League show another path. New Internet is Crack episode w/ Anita Say Chan on data misuse + ethical blindspots.

🎧 youtu.be/wQXYaWIlmkU

#AIethics #DataJustice #TheInternetIsCrack
September 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Predatory Data.
We call data “the new oil,” but it’s always been built on exploitation. Dr. Anita Say Chan explains who pays the price.

🎧 Full episode: youtu.be/wQXYaWIlmkU

#PredatoryData #DataEthics #TheInternetIsCrack #DigitalJustice #AIandSociety #podcast
September 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Nice try, Peter.
Trump Adviser Gets Epic Reminder After Claiming The Left Went After Him Like They Did Charlie Kirk
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September 16, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Murder is wrong.

Pogroms are wrong.

Using a murder to incite a pogrom against a small and vulnerable group in society is wrong.

(If I’m not mistaken, an assassination was the excuse for the wave of mob but state-sanctioned violence in Russia in 1881 that gave us the term “pogrom.”)
September 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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The left overwhelmingly has condemned the killing of Kirk and offered condolences to his family in this terrible time. The right has declared “war” and demanded revenge before we even have a suspect in custody.
September 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM