Last night, israeli occupation forces raided Al Kamandjati Center located in Qalandiya Refugee Camp, destroying all musical instruments inside the center.
This will be met, yet again, with silence from our classical music industry
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The book launch will happen at Leiden University on 12 February: fd24.formdesk.com/universiteit...
Identifying the nature of the protective aim/wrongfulness is particularly important for technology-facilitated violence like image-based sexual abuse, which serves as a case study in this chapter.
These are two sides of the same coin, and the exploration presented in this chapter is the beginning of marrying continental and Anglo-Saxon legal theory in a way that I have found particularly exciting to explore and which I hope to do more of in the future.
Legal goods approach this from the perspective of what is protected, whilst wrongfulness focuses on the nature of the infringement itself.
My chapter explores fair labelling as a window into the protective aims of criminal law. A central claim is the relationship between 'legal goods' and 'wrongfulness' in justifying criminalisation. I argue that both concepts serve the same purpose.
Chapter 11: What's in a Name? Fair Labelling, Legal Goods, and the Criminalisation of Image-based sexual abuse. Marthe Goudsmit Samaritter
Thrilled to see "The Boundaries of Criminalisation: Rethinking Public Goods and Legal Interests in Domestic and Transnational Criminal Law" published
Many thanks to editors Jannemieke Ouwerkerk, Konstantinos Zoumpoulakis, Jeroen ten Voorde, and Jacob Öberg for bringing the volume together.
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Co-edited by Jeevan Hariharan (@laws.ucl.ac.uk) and me (@uvalawschool.bsky.social)
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Another reporter fired JUST FOR ACCURATELY REPORTING WHAT CHARLIE KIRK SAID.
They want that guy elevated to sainthood not because of what he did but DESPITE it.
This shit is as fixed as wrestling.
I never thought I'd do a midnight search for UK contract law on a whim, but here we are, down the rabbit hole.
I am delighted to be returning to Leiden University on 11 September to present my paper 'What is freedom for? A relational approach to liberalism' at the Centre for Political Philosophy.
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By defining liberty as the enactment of personhood, liberalism can be reoriented toward a relational account. On this view, liberty is not about flourishing through non-interference, but about flourishing through caring relationships.
Instead, I suggest we think of freedom not as an end in itself, but as a means to enact our personhood. We need freedom whether we are defined as isolated individuals or as interconnected selves—the difference lies in what that freedom looks like.
I argue that this atomistic definition of persons overlooks the fact that humans are inherently relational. While liberalism has long been tied to atomistic personhood, recognising atomism's limitations does not mean the end of political liberalism.
Liberal political theory’s traditional focus on atomistic personhood—seeing individuals as self-contained beings whose status stems from intellectual abilities—has shaped our legal systems but does not reflect human nature and increasingly struggles to capture online harms.
I am delighted to be returning to Leiden University on 11 September to present my paper 'What is freedom for? A relational approach to liberalism' at the Centre for Political Philosophy.
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Likewise!! I look forward to your next visit 😊
This is how I've set up Text-to-Speech, using Kokoro
Install kokoro in terminal:
pip install kokoro>=0.9.2 soundfile python-docx
then create a .py file with the script, the code I have used is now available here: gist.github.com/SharedAcadem...
this creates a .wav file based on the .docx.
then install an audiobook app for listening to longer files, as they enable bookmarking, note taking, and +10 and -10 second skips and rewinds, and enjoy listening
let me know if any of this needs more explanation and/or if it works for what you are wanting!
In the terminal, install
pip install pydub
and
brew install ffmpeg
Then run script to convert .wav into .mp3, available here: gist.github.com/SharedAcadem...
Once the audio file creation is complete you end up with a .wav file that you could convert to mp3, which is more compact. you could also do it in one go with the above script, but as it makes further requirements on what is installed I have separated them.
once you have the script set up as wanted, you can run it through the terminal. If you use software such as Visual Studio Code, the only thing you need to do is to make sure that the .docx file is in the same directory as the script, or else adjust the path in the configuration section of the script
you can change voices and languages in the configuration section, here are some samples of voices huggingface.co/hexgrad/Koko...
The code above defaults to US English, for British English use language code 'b'
This is how I've set up Text-to-Speech, using Kokoro
Install kokoro in terminal:
pip install kokoro>=0.9.2 soundfile python-docx
then create a .py file with the script, the code I have used is now available here: gist.github.com/SharedAcadem...
this creates a .wav file based on the .docx.
Sure! Not sure how familiar these terms are so please forgive any redundant over-explanation
I use Visual Studio Code for convenience, but the combination of a plain text file saved as .py for the code and running it in the terminal works too.
Went down a text-to-speech rabbit hole because my current version of Microsoft Word cannot read text out loud in a mechanical voice, and the AI app readers have a limit, and now I have a python script running in terminal creating an audiobook-for-the-purposes-of-proofreading-with-tired-eyes
I have a post on Criminal Justice Theory Blog (@theoryjustice.bsky.social) about personhood theory and understanding wrongs of non-contact offences, here: image-based sexual abuse. Many thanks to @markedsouza1.bsky.social and Liat Levanon! criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/28/i...
3 more days to submit your abstract for this great conference on Thicker Notions of Human Rights #Accountabilities which will take place in Brussels 19-21 November! The final conference of our great project on future proofing #humanrights 🤩
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Isreal murdered 6 brothers delivering food to starving Gazans. The youngest was 10 years old.