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As someone who has covered robots and robotics a lot, this is absolutely the framing presented by the creators that the press is just regurgitating.

A lot of these robotics folks don’t actually have any idea what they’ll be used for they just constantly parrot “replace humans”

I’m so annoyed by the framing of this article. It’s a Robot-Wars style contest of “everybody bring your bipedal robots! Let’s race!” and the headlines all focus on robot vs human rather than “Look at the extremely complex engineering people made! Cool!”

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The only one I've read thusfar is The Door on the Sea by Caskey Russell, which went straight onto my Hugos noms

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Fucking hell. I'm sorry you went through that, dude.

If you are 'anti-Zionist' then you must be pro-Jewish settlement in Europe, in North America, in Australia and NZ, etc, and should be in favour of the return of stolen Jewish lands and homes across Europe.

If you're not in favour of Jews living *anywhere* then indeed you are just an antisemite.

We lived all over Europe! In countries that often put up only token effort to stop the Nazis murdering their Jewish populations. And which to this day have mostly done fuck-all about trying to return Jewish lands to the families of those who were murdered.

I had a brilliant conversation about this recently with Mungi Tutu, the granddaughter of Desmond Tutu. She said: when non-Jewish Europeans said "a land without a people for a people without a land" about Palestine, that was racist both toward Palestinians and toward Jews. Jews had land!

His question is: do you think anything has really changed since the Holocaust? Are you sure that your friends & neighbours wouldn’t turn on you just like they did then? If it’s still the same, then the existence of Israel is still just as essential and you should move here.

And as I’ve said before, if you disagree with the project of the state of Israel then surely you must be very positive about Jewish people who are making our lives outside Israel.

Netanyahu is deliberately stress-testing that hypothesis and proving it false. Antisemitism does his work for him.

The thing about data is that it's data, it be bad it can be good, but it's almost never neutral.

What's so frustrating about this is that a lot of nations in Africa could really use good data science and population study, but that's not going to be how it's used, is it ☹️

Oh my.

Earthset, from the Artemis II Crew.

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One of the things I most resent about this is that I know it to be a deliberate strategy by Netanyahu, he does not want Jewish people to feel safe living outside Israel. And it’s working, global antisemitism is rising. The antisemites are making his point for him.

Trans people are exhausted.

Non-stop fighting, writing, documenting, archiving, pleading, begging, hiding, crying and more.

Exhausted.

I have been considering similar tbh.

It's a week to go until the 6th Joint Conference of the British HIV Association (BHIVA) and the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH) in Liverpool, UK.

aidsmap will be reporting news from the conference: https://www.aidsmap.com/conferences/bhiva-bashh-2026

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Our cat overlords: we want to play now, human

Do you see how ridiculous this is?

Of course you do.

This is the same as every single GC being portrayed as a feminist in the media.

Can you see that, too?

So, if you found yourself, even for a second thinking 'reaching out to JK Rowling is good' you need to stop speaking on this matter immediately and read stuff by trans people.

It is clear that many cis people are not aware just how up to her neck Rowling is in funding and driving anti trans sentiment in the UK.

She's not just a person with a vile opinion.

This.

Reminder that shes not just a bigot with bad opinions

She actively funds hate groups taking regular trans people to court for doing their jobs, signal boosts lies about individual trans people to her millions of followers and lobbies courts and government to attack us

Also, arseholes don't acknowledge that there is learning and skill involved in being a good hairdresser, as well as the social skills that the arseholes evidently lack. Hairdressers are stereotyped as stupid airheads.

Arseholes gonna arsehole, innit :(

Gail knows this, but let me make it clear why those weirdos bring it up:

1. It's a working class job
2. Generally stereotyped as being done by women and queer people

Kent calls itself the largest local authority in England; Birmingham the largest local authority in Europe. Yet Birmingham is in England, and England is in Europe. What is going on?

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White supremacists freely march the streets of Manchester calling to “restore Britain” to a time of its imperial dominance while people who call out the Israeli genocide of Palestinians are arrested. Institutional racism enables the freedoms of racists while policing those who oppose it. It’s gross.

Freeing Speech Strengthened powers to fine universities for infringing academic rights are welcome To have been an ordinary student at a British university at any point over the past decade or so has been an odd, at times positively disconcerting, experience. Far from having one’s intellectual horizons broadened, one may have witnessed mild-mannered philosophers harassed out of their jobs for daring to point out that women are female, the routine “no-platforming” of speakers and the unmistakable whiff of self-censorship among academics whose raison d’être should be to speak and think freely. The announcement today by Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, that Labour plans to strengthen powers to hold universities to account for infringing free speech and academic freedom is, therefore, welcome. Under a new complaints system to be brought into force in the coming academic year, the Office for Students (OfS), the higher education watchdog, will have enhanced powers to fine universities for breaching their duties under the Freedom of Speech Act. Institutions that fall short of their statutory duties could face penalties equivalent to the greater of £500,000 or 2 per cent of their income, which in the case of wealthier institutions could stretch to millions of pounds. The most wayward institutions could be threatened with deregistration and loss of public funding. Financial sanctions with bite are exactly what is needed. The unacceptable treatment in recent years of sex-realist feminists, religious thinkers and those whose research places them on the wrong side of fashionable opinion illustrates the gravity of the problem in British campuses. There is little point in imposing statutory duties to protect liberal norms in higher education if there is no means of enforcing them. Under the new system, complaints can be made to the OfS by visiting speakers, as well as by academics and staff. Until now, the only recourse for wronged parties has been internal process

The Times have an opinion piece in which they call gender critical bigots 'sex realists'

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