Tootfinder

TRAHRSL
The trans rights are human rights software license
You have to agree that trans rights are human rights to be granted a license to use the software

The Tangerine Tyrant is a clear and present danger to the American People and the national security of the United States.
"The Dutch intelligence services AIVD and MIVD have reduced the amount of information they share with their American counterparts, citing political developments in the United States under President Donald Trump and growing concerns over the politicization of intelligence and 'respect for human rights.'"

The National Press Club is deeply troubled by President Trump’s comments today regarding the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Mr. Khashoggi’s murder inside a diplomatic facility was a grave violation of human rights and a direct attack on press freedom.
That fact is not in dispute.

Lately, I’ve been feeling burned out by how much people in my life assume things about me and my beliefs, so let's talk about it.
I spend some parts (not all) of my evenings online, usually from around 20:00 to 22:00 or sometimes even until midnight (00:00), not because I am consumed by politics but because I like to learn and reflect on how society could be better. I enjoy exploring ideas about justice, solidarity, and human rights in a way that feels meaningful to me. For me, spe…

"Billions live in environments that violate human rights, global analysis finds"
#Environment
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-billions-environments-v…

RE: https://syzito.xyz/@fkamiah17/115745279326032857
The folks, here on the fediverse, who malign those of us that speak up for the human rights of Palestinians and against Israel’s ongoing genocide, who label us “antisemitic” for rejecting the antisemitic co…

YouTube confirms it removed 700 videos from three prominent Palestinian human rights groups in early October to comply with US State Department sanctions (The Intercept)
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/04/youtube-google-israel-palestine-human-ri…

Actually, I do want to come back to masculinity under patriarchy and whiteness under white supremacy because I think it's worth talking more about. The "man" under patriarchy (at least "Western" patriarchy) is represented as power and independence. The man needs nothing and thus owes nothing to anyone. The man controls and is not controlled, which is intimately related to independence as dependence can make someone vulnerable to control. The image of "man" projects power and invulnerability. At the same time "man" is a bumbling fool who can't be held accountable for his inability to control his sexual urges. He must be fed and cared for, as though another child. His worst behaviors must be dismissed with phrases such as "boys will be boys" and "locker room talk." The absurdity of the concept of human "independence" is impossible to understate.
Even if you go all Ted Kaczynski, you have still been raised and taught. This is, perhaps, why it is so much more useful to think in terms of obligations than rights. Rights can be claimed and protected with violence alone, but obligations reveal the true interdependence that sustains us. A "man" may assert his rights. Yet, on some level, we all know that the "man" of patriarchy acts as a child who is not mature enough to recognize his obligations.
White violence and white fragility reflect the same dichotomy. "The master race" somehow always needs brown folks to make all their shit and do all the reproductive labor for them. For those who fully embrace whiteness, the "safe space" is a joke. DEI shows weakness. Yet, when presented with an honest history adults become children who are incapable of differentiating between criticism and simple facts. *They* become the ones who must be kept safe. The expectation to be responsible for one's own words and actions, one of the very core definitions of being an adult, is far too much to expect. Their guilt needs room, needs tending, needs caring. White people cannot simply "grow the fuck up" or, as they may say of slavery, "fucking get over it."
And again, interestingly, it is *rights* that they reference: "Mah Freeze PEACH!" I find it hard to distinguish between such and my own child's assertion that anything she doesn't like is "not fair!" No, these assertions fail to recognize the fundamental fabric of adult society: the obligations we hold to each other.
At the intersection of all privilege is the sovereign, the ultimate god-man-baby. Again, referencing the essay (https://hexmhell.writeas.com/observations-on-domination-and-trump)
> This is where it becomes important to consider the ideology behind the sovereign ritual. Participation within the sovereign ritual denotes to the participants elements of the sovereign. That is, all agents of the sovereign are, essentially, micro dictators. By carrying out the will of the sovereign, these micro dictators can, by extension, act outside of the law.
While law enforcement is the ultimate representative of sovereign violence, privileges allow a gradated approximation of the sovereign. Those who are "closer" in privilege to the sovereign may, for example, be permitted to carry out violence against those who are father away. The gradation of privilege turns the whole society, except for the least privileged, into a cult that protects the privilege system on behalf of the most privileged. (And immediately Malcolm X pops to mind as having already talked about part of this relationship in 1963 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf7rsCAfQCo.)

To anyone who's been following human rights issues in #Tibet or the #Uyghur regions, or Chinese links to illegal #rareearth mining in #Laos

YouTube confirms it removed 700 videos from three prominent Palestinian human rights groups in early October to comply with US State Department sanctions (The Intercept)
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/04/youtube-google-israel-palestine-human-ri…

YouTube quietly erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations;
The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/04/yo

“Arguing that ‘no country should be above international law,’ Mayor Brandon Johnson urged the United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday to hold President Donald Trump’s administration accountable for what he called a ‘worsening human rights crisis in the United States.’”

Suffering the human-rights violation of trying to join a Microsoft Teams meeting.

Looks like #Labour is fighting back! "Farage boats" 😂
"Starmer to rethink human rights law to tackle ‘Farage boats’"
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/oc…

Assessing Human Rights Risks in AI: A Framework for Model Evaluation
Vyoma Raman, Camille Chabot, Betsy Popken
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05519 https://arx…

In one of my first talks about human rights and AI (2022) I used the widespread printing press reference to emphasise that in many cases it supported colonialism.

https://axbom.com/aihr/

This text by Sonja Drimmer really breaks down common printing press misrepresentation. Love it!

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“Danny Danon, the Israeli ambassador to the U.N. … disparaged Albanese personally, calling her a ‘witch.’”
https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-israel-gaza-human-rights-albanese-e1a4fbde166e34bc8d305bfbf6e2bd51

"Countries with state subsidies for abortion, transgender-friendly policies for children, hate speech laws and affirmative action policies will now be considered to be violating human rights under rules imposed at the State Department that will impact how the agency conducts its annual Human Rights Report."
**Abortion And DEI Policies Now Considered Violations Of Human Rights, U.S. Says**
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2025/11/21/abortion-dei-now-considered-violations-of-human-rights-us-officials-say/

Airstrikes by the United States of America on boats in the Caribbean and in the Pacific violate international human rights law.
The U.N. human rights chief said Friday that
U.S. military strikes against boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean allegedly carrying illegal drugs from South America are
“unacceptable” and must stop.
The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, called for an investigation into the strikes, in what appeared to mark t…

Classified U.S. report finds backlog of hundreds of possible Israeli human rights violations (John Hudson/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/10/30/state-department-report-israel-gaza-human-rights-violations/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p118#a251030p118

AI and Human Oversight: A Risk-Based Framework for Alignment
Laxmiraju Kandikatla, Branislav Radeljic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09090 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Make no mistake, the only values the European Commission gives a single damn about are expressed in Euros and cents.
The guiding principle of the successor to the European Coal and Steel Community isn’t human rights, democracy, and the rule of law, it’s the Single Market.
How dare you even pretend to care when you are beyond silent in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people, you despicable bunch of fancy-suited hypocrites.

Over the past two months the U.S. has blown up at least 20 boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific.
“80 people have been killed in what are extrajudicial executions under international law,” says Juan Pappier, Americas deputy director at Human Rights Watch.
The Pentagon claims the boats were carrying drugs but officials have acknowledged they don’t know who has been killed.
The U.S.now has 15,000 military personnel in the region.

Lamentable... Menos mal que hay quienes guardan todo esto para que nadie pueda eliminarlo
@… https://social.freedom.press/@freedomo

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@JessTheUnstill/115540066802554150
I wonder how long it will take for the population of the United States to realize they are only allowed to have (what are otherwise considered) human rights in any way shape or form be…

The Chinese side of AI safety is glimmer than Musk's dreams
https://www.aspi.org.au/report/the-partys-ai-how-chinas-new-ai-systems-are-reshaping-human-rights/

Worth a read on the broad opposition to the CAQ's proposed Quebec constitution. It's great to see lengthy quotes from my colleague and friend Paul-Étienne Rainville, who works at the Ligue des droits et libertés.
“The government has not respected any of the criteria established by the United Nations for the adoption of a democratic and legitimate constitution.”

Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to push the Overton window a bit more to the right by curbing ECHR
No respect for #HumanRights |
Fuckwit.
https://www.theguard…

And so it continues: US anti-fascism expert leaves country day after being blocked from flying to Spain.
No matter how many peace deals a Western leader states to broker, if you don't respect human rights you don't deserve the #NobelPeacePrice
#AntiFa

I think the root of the “AI” evil is when AI researchers in the 1960s recognized that they outrageously underestimated the complexity of the human mind.
They became humiliated by their promises that AGI was just a few years away—and then went full goblin mode that’s lasting to this day.
Some of the OG researchers took it quite badly that they stalled and weren’t in the limelight anymore.
‣ Marvin Minsky (co-founder of MIT AI lab and arguably the most important early AI bro) went on to visit Epstein’s island multiple times.
‣ Karl Steinbuch, who came up with the German term for computer science ("Informatik")—who also was a literal Nazi (and likely war criminal) in World War II—later wrote articles in ultra-right magazines about things like “equal rights rob women of their children”.
‣ John McCarthy (inventor of Lisp, co-authored document that coined the term “Artificial Intelligence”) was a staunch Republican who years later claimed (in a serious article) that “thermostats have beliefs”.
[one moment, I am receiving more information]
‣ There’s a second Epstein Island AI pioneer? Who also was Chief Learning Officer at… Trump University? That would be Roger Schank (founded one of the first AI companies in the 1980s AI boom, it even had an IPO. Of course the 1980s AI bubble burst).
Obviously all of the above received all the awards in computer science and are very revered people.

Russia’s Ministry of Justice designated Human Rights Watch
an “undesirable organization”
on Nov. 28,
effectively banning the group from operating in the country.
Human Rights Watch noted that Russia had already forced the closure of its Moscow office in 2022.
“Our work hasn’t changed, but what’s changed, dramatically, is the government’s full-throttled embrace of dictatorial policies,
its staggering rise in repression,
and the scope of the war crimes…

"How do you acknowledge that the father of the computer was a homosexual, brutally bullied by the state into suicide, and then fund groups that want to deny gay people fundamental human rights?
The ARM processor which powers the modern world was co-designed by a #trans woman. When you throw slurs and denigrate people's pronouns, your ignorance and hatred does a disservice to history a…

🗡️ Landmines and violence in Colombian Amazon confine Indigenous Siona families
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/09/landmines-and-violence-in-colombian-amazon-confine-indigenous-siona-families/…

"Fossil fuel projects face stricter scrutiny after Europe’s top human rights court ruling"
#Europe #FossilFuels #Energy

Q&A with Palantir CEO Alex Karp on "the woke left and the woke right", being patriotic, the Ukraine war, Palantir's culture, Trump, democracy, Israel, and more (Steven Levy/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/alex-karp-goes-to-war-palantir-big-inter…

"You Have Arrived in Hell" -- Torture and Other Abuses Against Venezuelans in El Salvador's Mega Prison (Gonzalo Y./Human Rights Watch)
https://www.hrw.org/report/2025/11/12/you-have-arrived-in-hell/torture-and-other-abuses-against-venezuelans-in-el
http://www.memeorandum.com/251112/p71#a251112p71

This CSO letter submitted today has a single #China/#HongKong entity, China Labour Bulletin.
Which self-dissolved in mid-2025...
https://foejapan.org/en/issue/20251205/27117/

https://mastodon.social/@randahl/115507006485634894
This is why @… made the Gaza Verified Archive (e.g., see

The New Orleans City Council Dec. 3 launched an online portal
for residents to report civil and human rights abuses by ICE and CBP paramilitary units occupying the city during the Trump regime’s anti-migrant occupation.
The launch of the portal, came as CBP forces began disappearing residents in the city, Kenner and other suburban areas of the Greater New Orleans area and parts of the River Parishes

CDU has spoken clearly in opposition to Chatcontrol. If they keep their word, this is a good thing for basic human rights in Europe, but a bad thing for accelerationists as well as the development of nifty censorship- and spying-resistant side channels.
Then again, can you trust CDU? Eh...

The whole of human history is one group or another deciding it has exclusive rights to exist on some arbitrary piece of soil. All are migrants, perhaps excepting a few incels still living in grandma's basement.

Fuck Apple
https://mastodon.social/@film_girl/115313176565921574

Mehdi's interview with Muhammad Yunus:
#MehdiHasan

(Just to be clear: My implication here is not that tearing down buildings — even historic ones, even the White House — is the same as harming human beings or depriving them of their civil rights. The implication is that it’s the same fascism that drives both those things.)

Israel has announced it will reopen the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt in the next few days
as part of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire.
However, the border will only open in one direction:
for Palestinians to exit.
Israeli American human rights lawyer Sari Bashi says the move validates fears that
Israel’s goal is to “continue the ethnic cleansing of Gaza.”
This comes as a coalition of 12 Israeli human rights groups concluded in a new report that …

I’ve spoken with my boss (he’s a bit of a dickhead but his heart’s in the right place) and confirmed that I won’t be getting fired for opposing Israel’s ongoing genocide and supporting the human rights of the Palestinian people to live with freedom and dignity like the rest of us but not everyone is as lucky.

The EU Parliament awards the Sakharov Prize, its top human rights award, to two imprisoned journalists: Belarus' Andrzej Poczobut and Georgia's Mzia Amaglobeli (Ferdinand Knapp/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/sakharov-p

December 10, 2025 -- Today is Human Rights Day, celebrated internationally in honor ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-10-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p32#a251211p32

YouTube Removed Hundreds of Videos of Israeli Human Rights Violations to Comply With Trump Sanctions | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/youtube-deletes-videos-israel

Read this from @… and then contact your Senators and Representatives.
Tell them to reject any policy that removes civil and human rights from our fellow humans. This is the key to expanding the ICE imprisonment and deportation and abuse and murders to trans citizens. They won't stop with them. Fascism eve…

Again the parallels with a certain German speaking country, mid C20th, hardly need stating.
Gaza organ theft: even in death, they're not free from occupation
https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-anal

Rams, Clippers sign deals to promote Rwanda https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/46424485/los-angeles-rams-la-clippers-sign-deals-promote-rwanda

You’re not an ally if your freedom/privacy/human rights/democracy event is sponsored by surveillance capitalists like Google that are complicit in Israel’s genocide and pose an existential threat to human rights and democracy.
#FOSDEM #etc

"The alleged British links to mass deforestation and displacement in a conflict few have even heard of"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Deforestation

The Paris prosecutor's office refers a probe into Apple's Siri recordings to the Office for Combating Cybercrime, after a human rights organization's complaint (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Trump’s efforts to disband programs that promote democracy abroad
and to downplay allegations of corruption and human rights abuses in other countries
took on an added dimension this week
when he appeared before Israel’s parliament and called for pardoning Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The request to dismiss corruption charges was the latest in a long line of actions reversing America’s long-standing posture as an exporter of democratic values.

AI and human rights. Video, slides and transcript from my January 2022 talk.

https://axbom.com/aihr/

#HumanRights

Gutting of key US watchdog could pave way for grave immigration abuses, experts warn (José Olivares/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/30/us-watchdog-human-rights-department-homeland-security
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p52#a251130p52

The federal watchdog system at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
that oversees complaints about civil rights violations, including in immigration detention,
has been gutted so thoroughly that it could be laying the groundwork for the Trump administration to
“abuse people with impunity”, experts warn.
Former federal oversight officials have sounded the alarm at the rapid dismantling of guardrails against human rights failures
– at the same time as the gov…

Ooh, I feel more US sanctions on the UN coming up. https://flipboard.com/@bbcnews/top-stories-hc55lmo2z/-/a-WOBuTLhPRXugyid_r6rXUg:a:3199692-/0

Former Meta lobbyist’s appointment to Irish data commission ‘conflict of interest,’ complaint alleges https://therecord.media/meta-lobbyist-ireland-dpc-conflict

Soon, they might even try anti-fascist ideologies
#politics #resistance #resist #usa

“This is illegal. The occupation is illegal.” The International Court of Justice agrees, as has the United Nations, according to numerous resolutions passed starting in 1967. And yet now the Security Council has effectively given Israel’s occupation of Gaza the force of international law."
Opinion | In Gaza and the West Bank, Human Rights Work Changes Course - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/NnUaf#selection-993.114-993.404

Fantastic interview:
#Zeteo #MehdiHasan

I don’t know if this is a sick burn (by a FOSDEM organiser spilling the truth about FOSDEM) or an own goal.
🤷‍♂️ https://pleroma.debian.social/objects/f49df30a-d65e-4195-833d-29b7481b3aba

A-list comedians are performing at the first Riyadh Comedy Festival, drawing criticism from Human Rights Watch, as Saudi Arabia expands its cultural footprint (Chloe Veltman/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/27/nx-s1-5555462/saudi-comedy-festival-chappe…

⛏️ Behind our screens: The truth about ‘artisanal’ mining and ‘natural’ technology
https://globalvoices.org/2025/10/05/behind-our-screens-the-truth-about-artisanal-mining-and-natural-technology/

Investigation: the US government allowed and even helped US companies sell tech used for China's surveillance across five GOP and Democratic administrations (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/chinese-sur

Classified report finds ‘hundreds’ of possible Israeli human rights violations - The Washington Post
https://archive.ph/Cca6k

The EU was not called the European Coal And Steel Community for nothing, folks.
We talk a mean human rights and democracy. But we’re still the European Coal and Steel Community.
Go Single Market, amirite?! https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/@mf_newsdigest/11550764176416580…

Republican Speaker Mike Johnson thinks the “No Kings” rally planned for next week is a “Hate America” rally meant to extend the government shutdown
—something someone who has never been to a “No Kings” event would say. 
The “No Kings” rally is a nationwide action with a very simple goal:
oppose the blatantly authoritarian tilt of the Trump administration.
The protests are supported by groups like the Human Rights Campaign,
the American Civil Liberties Union,

In the #China Pavilion at the Osaka #Expo, robots dance and #AI sings. But on closer look, these companies on display are the same ones sanctioned by the US for trade, human rights, and geopolitical reasons.

China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show (Damian Grammaticas/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq50j5vwny6o
http://www.memeorandum.com/251103/p5#a251103p5

Strengthening legal protection against discrimination by algorithms and artificial intelligence
Frederik J. Zuiderveen Borgesius
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02859 https://…

The Authoritarian Stack.
This is brilliant – if you’re interested in human rights, democracy, and tech, and want to understand technofascism/corporatocracy bookmark and read this.👇
#AuthoritarianStack #tech

US axes website for reporting human rights abuses by US-armed foreign forces
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqx30vnwd4do

BeepBank-500: A Synthetic Earcon Mini-Corpus for UI Sound Research and Psychoacoustics Research
Mandip Goswami
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17277 https://arx…

"Unacceptable": UN human rights chief condemns Trump admin's boat strikes (April Rubin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/31/un-condemns-us-boat-strikes-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/251031/p56#a251031p56

If only there were some clue about why the Democrats keep losing to Trump…
…It couldn’t possibly be that denying the basic humanity of Palestinians and going all in on genocide doesn’t resonate with people who aren’t fascists, could it? https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/1156562588…

What’s scariest is that the West has abandoned any pretense of caring about human rights or moving beyond its colonial mindset. We are told that genocide is fine, actually, and that those who commit it are our friends. We are told to just let go and become Nazis. It is in this moment that we must decide whether we are to embrace our humanity and resist this psychopathic vision for our species and take the first steps towards a future in which humanity explores its potential among the stars o…

Digital welfare fraud detection and the Dutch SyRI judgment
Marvin van Bekkum, Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23843 https://arxiv…

The killing of two unarmed Palestinians by Israeli soldiers in the northern West Bank city of Jenin
has provoked international outrage
after video footage of the incident went viral on Friday.
Credited to the local Palestine TV station, the footage shows two young Palestinian men surrendering to Israeli soldiers
and lying on the ground in front of a garage under soldiers’ instructions.
They then appear to be directed by the soldiers to go back inside the garag…

A 79-year-old owner of a Los Angeles area car wash is seeking $50m in damages from the federal government after US immigration authorities allegedly slammed the US citizen to the ground and detained him for almost 12 hours.Rafie Ollah Shouhed suffered significant injuries during an immigration raid this month, his attorney said, including broken ribs and a traumatic brain injury. The agents “violated the Constitution, California civil rights law, and basic human decency”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/26/los-angeles-car-wash-owner-ice-raid-lawsuit?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

"US is violating human rights laws by backing fossil fuels, say young activists in new petition"
#US #USA #America #FossilFuels

Yesterday I finally managed to close my account on #Vercel . I was hosting some stuff for free, so I was costing them money instead of giving them anything, but I still don't want to depend on them in any way.
But to the point, I just checked the online conversation about them... and I'm sad to notice how quickly people¹ forgot that Guillermo Rauch was very proud of sharing time with Benjamin #Netanyahu. He was so proud that he decided to share that moment with the entire world, so he showed us how little he cares for human rights, dignity and decency.
That's why I deemed necessary to remind folks about this serious contention point and inspire them to look for alternatives.
1. Including people who seem to care about these topics, which makes me think that the information didn't reach them in the first place. Let's help them know.
#boycott_vercel #BoycottIsrael #FreePalestine

I remember a time when at least folks in the West tried to pretend they were civilised and cared about things like human rights and democracy. Now even that pretense is gone. Now it’s “might makes right, motherfucker!” And “yeah we’re douchebags and barbarians, what’re you going to do about it?”

The growth of print culture in the eighteenth century was associated with the growing prestige of reason,
hostility to superstition, the birth of capitalism, and the rapid development of science.
Other historians have linked the eighteenth century explosion of literacy to the Enlightenment, the birth of human rights, the arrival of democracy and even the beginnings of the industrial revolution.
The world as we know it was forged in the reading revolution.
🔥Now, we ar…