This is a very good case for resisting AI creep into your life. Plan your own vacation. Read through different recipes. Decide for yourself what to wear. Of course it's nice when life is easier, but a frictionless life is also an empty one.
This is a very good case for resisting AI creep into your life. Plan your own vacation. Read through different recipes. Decide for yourself what to wear. Of course it's nice when life is easier, but a frictionless life is also an empty one.
Elon Musk says that no one has died because he slashed humanitarian aid. I went to South Sudan to check if that's true. It's not. Within an hour of starting interviews, I had the names of a 10-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl who had died because of decisions by wealthy men in…
Yesterday, Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts.
Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressional mandated. They've saved millions of lives. 🧵
An innocent Afghan girl, in tears at her 6th-grade graduation, says, “Let this be my final goodbye to the classroom, desk, & chair. Oh God, what have we done wrong?”
After sixth grade, she will be banned from education. heartbreaking farewell to learning under Taliban’s rule.
Female students at a medical school in Afghanistan’s Kapisa province weep as a man announces that they are no longer allowed to continue their studies. The Taliban’s new order bans women from medical education, closing the last remaining institutions where women can learn.
A dozen medical experts said Josseli Barnica’s death at a Texas hospital was preventable.
They called her case “horrific,” “astounding” and “egregious.”
propublica.org/article/jossel…
“Sequestered at home, a girl becomes just another mouth to feed. But as a bride, she’s a valuable commodity. A $2,000 bride price is enough to feed a family for a year. For the girls, of course, this is a nightmare.”
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…
2023 peace laureate Narges Mohammadi is a woman, a human rights advocate, and a freedom fighter. This year’s #NobelPeacePrize also recognises the hundreds of thousands of people who have demonstrated against the theocratic regime’s policies of discrimination and oppression…
BREAKING NEWS
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2023 #NobelPeacePrize to Narges Mohammadi for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all.
#NobelPrize
During last year’s demonstrations in Iran—the most widespread revolt against the state since the 1979 Revolution—schoolgirls emerged as an unexpected source of defiant energy. nyer.cm/OFmrp3z
“It’s better that people are more able to express themselves, but it quickly can lead to a pathology, rather than an acceptance of the variety of human emotions. … Retreating to a diagnosis can be a way of not engaging with it.” — Susanna Kaysen
thecut.com/2023/05/susann…
“I've been a hostage for seven and a half years now.” US citizen Siamak Namazi is the longest serving American in Iranian prison. Now, he’s speaking in an unprecedented interview from inside Evin prison to plead President Biden to get him released. “This is a desperate measure.”
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3K Followers 1K Followinga journal examining the multi-faceted links between resurgent religious fundamentalism and gender. Retweets are not endorsements. Banner image: @malakmattarart
26K Followers 6K FollowingWe are Surrogacy Concern: founded to expose the harms of surrogacy and egg harvesting, and to oppose the liberalisation of British surrogacy law.
5K Followers 2K FollowingRetired lawyer from Canada with interest in human rights and medical ethics. Women have a right to same sex spaces and sterilizing children is unethical. 🇨🇦
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Political philosophy and the ethics and metaphysics of sport. @OU_GCRN
(RT ≠ endorsement, all views personal, obvs.)
2K Followers 513 FollowingFAIR in Medicine is a network of healthcare professionals within @fairforall_org advancing fairness, understanding and promoting #prohuman medicine and science.
189K Followers 2K FollowingAuthor of book about gender-ID ideology. Show me the 3rd gamete & then we can talk.Shame needs to change sides. No, you be kind. Newsletter: Joyce Activated 🥂
1.1M Followers 2K FollowingProud RINO, dad, Husband, Lt. Col in @AirNatlGuard, CNN Senior Political Commentator, former Congressman, founder @thecountryfirst
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Infant feeding, sexed language, child rights, foster care and adoption.
VMO. Deeds not words.
5K Followers 159 FollowingA network of publishing professionals, authors, and creatives, who recognise the material reality of sex, and support freedom of expression.
21K Followers 2K FollowingAsst. Professor @SBUjournalism. Author, "We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite" (now available in stores, from @PrincetonUPress)
5K Followers 424 FollowingWe are a group of UK and Ireland based clinicians calling for greater understanding of the effects of sex and gender in healthcare #FirstDoNoHarm
4K Followers 791 FollowingDIAG is an org of lifelong Democratic voters working to depoliticize & shed light on the ideologically driven medical scandal that is "gender medicine."
14K Followers 6K FollowingTeaches Philosophy at Bates College. Author of DUTY TO SELF. Words at @Jacobin @washingtonpost @Slate @InsideHigherEd. Writes about homelessness.
30K Followers 3K FollowingHarvard University Distinguished Service Professor and Higginson Professor of Physiology and Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Former Dean of HMS.
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