@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA book excerpt details how the US animal agriculture industry helped create "ag-gag" laws criminalizing undercover journalism exposing factory farm abuses (Will Potter/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/poli
@servelan@newsie.social"term-limited Trump would run roughshod on the Constitution with little to no interference from the other two branches of government."
'We knew': Analyst who predicted worst Trump abuses says they're 'all coming to pass' - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-abuses-washington-post/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHundreds of alleged human rights abuses in immigrant detention, report finds (Nicole Acevedo/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/immigration-detention-human-rights-abuses-report-rcna222499
http://www.memeorandum.com/250805/p130#a250805p130
@cdarwin@c.im‘Horrific’ report reveals abuse of pregnant women and children at US Ice facilities
The alleged abuses uncovered include deaths in custody,
physical and sexual abuse of detainees,
mistreatment of pregnant women and children,
inadequate medical care,
overcrowding and unsanitary living conditions,
inadequate food and water,
exposure to extreme temperatures,
denial of access to attorneys,
and child separation.
The report, compiled by t…
@servelan@newsie.socialSoldiers Are Taking a Stand Against Trump’s Abuses | Portside
https://portside.org/2025-07-05/soldiers-are-taking-stand-against-trumps-abuses
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialCitizen Lab director warns cyber industry about US authoritarian descent
Ron Deibert, the director of Citizen Lab, one of the most prominent organizations investigating government spyware abuses, is sounding the alarm to the cybersecurity community and asking them to step up and join the fight against authoritarianism.
🕵️
@Dragofix@veganism.socialMany people regard horse racing as a harmless sport in which the animals are willing participants who thoroughly enjoy the thrill. The truth is that behind the scenes lies a story of immense suffering. https://www.animalaid.org.uk/the-issues/our-campaigns/horse-racing/…
@UP8@mastodon.social☕ A better brew: How regenerative coffee could root out exploitation
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/07/a-better-brew-how-regenerative-coffee-could-root-out-exploitation/
@david_colquhoun@mstdn.socialThe Zoë dieting app gets the treatment from @timharford.ft.com on the BBC's excellent MoreOrLess programme. It isn't pretty. Grossly exaggerated claims made for Alzheimer's. Tim Spector abuses science. Listen from 16:45 at https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live/bbc_…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Trump administration has halted litigation aimed at stopping civil rights abuses of prisoners in Louisiana and mentally ill people living in South Carolina group homes.
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-admin-halts-lawsuits…
@markhburton@mstdn.socialWar on Want:
"WHO says Israel is causing 'man-made mass starvation'. At least 66,000 children are now suffering from severe malnutrition – and more than 100 people, including dozens of children, have already died from hunger.
"And yet, while Israel continues to commit genocide, the UK government is still arming Israel, maintaining close military and trade ties, and turning a blind eye to Israel’s war crimes."
@servelan@newsie.social"The office of Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff asserts it “identified 510 credible reports of human rights abuse” against immigration detainees. DHS disputed the claims."
Hundreds of alleged human rights abuses in immigrant detention, report finds
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/immigration-detention-human-rights-abuses-report-rcna222499
@johl@mastodon.xyzThe ICE List: Tracking Deportation Agents Across America
Crowdsourced database of individuals involved in deportations, ICE operations, and associated abuses.
https://icelist.info/
@rmdes@mstdn.social
@arXiv_csCR_bot@mastoxiv.pageNicknames for Group Signatures
Guillaume Quispe, Pierre Jouvelot, Gerard Memmi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02543 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.02543
@cdarwin@c.imRon Deibert,
the director of Citizen Lab, one of the most prominent organizations investigating government spyware abuses,
is sounding the alarm to the cybersecurity community
and asking them to step up and join the ⭐️fight against authoritarianism.
On Wednesday, Deibert will deliver a keynote at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas,
one of the largest gatherings of information security professionals of the year.
Ahead of his talk, Deibert …
@paulwermer@sfba.socialOne would hope that this actually is a violation of law - There certainly are no exigent issues requiring this abusive treatment. I would feel a lot better if I saw a concerted action from Congress - or at least the #Democrats, in the hope that a few #GOP might join in - to stop this. But I fear that's …
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialOne would hope that this actually is a violation of law - There certainly are no exigent issues requiring this abusive treatment. I would feel a lot better if I saw a concerted action from Congress - or at least the #Democrats, in the hope that a few #GOP might join in - to stop this. But I fear that's …
@memeorandum@universeodon.comMaurene Comey urges DOJ colleagues to stand up to 'abuses of power' in memo after her firing (Minyvonne Burke/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/maurene-comey-urges-doj-colleagues-stand-abuses-power-memo-firing-rcna219436
http://www.memeorandum.com/250718/p6#a250718p6
@markhburton@mstdn.socialCo-op will take Israeli products off shelves due to 'violations of international law & human rights abuses' - Canary
https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2025/06/24/co-op-israeli-products-2/
@villavelius@mastodon.online“I stand with all those who denounce the grave humanitarian abuses in Gaza, where innocent civilians, trapped in their enclave, are dying of hunger and being killed by bombs.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itI continue to maintain that Biden was one of the worst presidents in my lifetime - mostly due to an accident of timing. If he had been president in 2016 or 2000, he obviously would've been a huge improvement over Trump or Cheney, respectively. Heck, even in 2008 or 2012 or 1996 he would've been.. fine.
But after covid, BLM, 4 years of Trump 1.0 abuses, & subsequent open insurrection by literal fascism, he was the wrong person for the job. He gave the fash 4 years to prep
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialAI, AGI, and learning efficiency
An addendum to this: I'm someone who would accurately be called "anti-AI" in the modern age, yet I'm also an "AI researcher" in some ways (have only dabbled in neutral nets).
I don't like:
- AI systems that are the product of labor abuses towards the data workers who curate their training corpora.
- AI systems that use inordinate amounts of water and energy during an intensifying climate catastrophe.
- AI systems that are fundamentally untrustworthy and which reinforce and amplify human biases, *especially* when those systems are exposed in a way that invites harms.
- AI systems which are designed to "save" my attention or brain bandwidth but such my doing so cripple my understating of the things I might use them for when I fact that understanding was the thing I was supposed to be using my time to gain, and where the later lack of such understanding will be costly to me.
- AI systems that are designed by and whose hype fattens the purse of people who materially support genocide and the construction of concentration campus (a.k.a. fascists).
In other words, I do not like and except in very extenuating circumstances I will not use ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, etc.
On the other hand, I do like:
- AI research as an endeavor to discover new technologies.
- Generative AI as a research topic using a spectrum of different methods.
- Speculating about non-human intelligences, including artificial ones, and including how to behave ethically towards them.
- Large language models as a specific technique, and autoencoders and other neural networks, assuming they're used responsibly in terms of both resource costs & presentation to end users.
I write this because I think some people (especially folks without CS backgrounds) may feel that opposing AI for all the harms it's causing runs the risk of opposing technological innovation more broadly, and/or may feel there's a risk that they will be "left behind" as everyone else embraces the hype and these technologies inevitability become ubiquitous and essential (I know I feel this way sometimes). Just know that is entirely possible and logically consistent to both oppose many forms of modern AI while also embracing and even being optimistic about AI research, and that while LLMs are currently all the rage, they're not the endpoint of what AI will look like in the future, and their downsides are not inherent in AI development.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHow Trump's Imposition of Massive Tariffs is Repeating the "Ship Money" Abuses of King Charles I (Ilya Somin/Reason)
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/06/15/how-trumps-imposition-of-massive-tariffs-is-repeating-the-ship-money-abuses-of-king-charles-i/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p62#a250615p62
@arXiv_csCR_bot@mastoxiv.pageStealtooth: Breaking Bluetooth Security Abusing Silent Automatic Pairing
Keiichiro Kimura, Hiroki Kuzuno, Yoshiaki Shiraishi, Masakatu Morii
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00847
@AccordionBruce@Mastodon.socialTonight’s episode of @… radio will praise the protesters in #LosAngeles standing up (with an occasional #accordion) against abuses of power 🪧
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@servelan@newsie.social'We Had to Eat Like Dogs': Report Details 'Abusive Practices' at Florida Immigrant Prisons | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/florida-immigrant-rights-abuses
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe BBC's annual report for 2025 shows that the corporation took an average of 119 days to resolve bullying and harassment complaints, up from 101 days in 2024 (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/07/bbc-bullying-complaints-samir-shah-1236459090/…
@cdarwin@c.imWe were just in LA working on finalizing what we need to launch in Los Angeles,
where ICE activity is ramping up and community fear is growing.
But to do this, we need your help right now.
We must raise money to fund our first deployment.
Money that will help cover vans, production crews, legal infrastructure, and community coordination.
Chip in any amount you can to help us expose ICE’s abuses and power our Liberty Vans;
and educate the American people on…
@markhburton@mstdn.social"... abolishing Ofwat and replacing it with a shinier regulator won’t stop sewage dumping or profiteering if the finance and ownership structures stay the same."
Surfers Against Sewage.
Water companies to be overseen by new watchdog to 'prevent abuses of the past', government says - live updates - BBC News
https://www.…
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialWhy is the US so tolerant of a government that allows- and seems to permit - these abuses? (I'm not talking about the #GOP - I do not expect better. I'm talking about the #Democrats who pose for photo ops with Netanyahu, and who in spite of nice words about rights fail to condemn the
@paulwermer@sfba.socialWhy is the US so tolerant of a government that allows- and seems to permit - these abuses? (I'm not talking about the #GOP - I do not expect better. I'm talking about the #Democrats who pose for photo ops with Netanyahu, and who in spite of nice words about rights fail to condemn the
@servelan@newsie.social"Mass detention isn’t merely a step along the way to achieving Trump’s goal of mass deportation. Mass detention is also the goal."
The Abuses at ICE Detention Centers Fulfill a Trump Campaign Promise | The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/article/198275/ugly-truth-ice-abusive-detention-centers
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzUK Co-op shops / Israel
Nice one Co-op. I do sometimes shop there, and this'll encourage me to do so. Good to see principle being upheld over profit.
"British food retailer the Co-op Group will cease sourcing products and ingredients from 17 countries, including Israel, where there are "internationally recognised" human rights abuses and violations of international law, it said on Tuesday.
"The Co-op, which is owned by its members and trades from over 2,300 food stores across the UK, said it would stop selling carrots from Israel from this month as part of a commitment to no longer stock Israeli goods."
Commiserations to any Israeli food-growers who _don't_ support the atrocities in Gaza and are caught up in this.
#CoOp #food #shopping #Israel #UKPol
