Belonging, not belongings
Latest #SenseOfFairness blog:
"people do not feel they have a place in society, that their voices are not heard and will not be heard, that they have no agency. They withdraw into fury and anger because they feel that they no longer have a place in which they are welcomed as belonging"
http://senseoffairness.blog/2025/07/18/belonging-not-belongings/
What's a Fair Use?, latest #SenseOfFairness blog post, about the #KadreyvMeta decision on #AI training using #copyright materials
It's not as widely reported, in fact the judge himself said:
“this ruling does not stand for the proposition that Meta’s use of copyrighted materials to train its language models is lawful. It stands only for the proposition that these plaintiffs made the wrong arguments and failed to develop a record in support of the right one.”
Inequality in dignity, latest #SenseOfFairness blog:
"a lack of fairness in dignity, echoing wider unfairness in society, is fuelling political and social tensions. Many people have the sense that the status status quo isn’t working for them, and are willing to see dramatic change as a result. Byrne is right, we need to be working to close the dignity deficit, to instil a greater fairness, an equality, in dignity"
#Fairness #Dignity #Recognition
http://senseoffairness.blog/2025/04/29/fairness-in-dignity-or-the-dignity-deficit/
Poverty isn't bashful, a #SenseOfFairness blog from some years ago disagreeing with a comment from the recently departed #Pope. His sentiments were always right, and as I acknowledged, he did have more true knowledge of poverty than I
http://senseoffairness.blog/2020/06/26/poverty-isnt-bashful/
Fair chance hires, latest #SenseOfFairness blog:
"Prison is only temporary for all but the worst offenders. We need to be better at rehabilitation, and we need to do more to reduce recidivism. We need more second chances, and more fair chance employers."
I am happy to confirm as ever that the Sense of Fairness blog is a purely personal endeavour
A just AI transition?
Latest #SenseOfFairness blog, highlighting early work trying to identify the differential impacts of the adoption of #AI on economies and society, and suggest some actions that nations might take. Perhaps unsurprisingly, without such actions it is clear that AI will exacerbate existing #inequalities both between countries and within them
Though I'm cynical about both the A and the I of #AI (and was before the recent start of a re-evaluation), it's clear it will have significant effects on our world, particularly our world of work.
http://senseoffairness.blog/2025/01/14/a-just-ai-transition/
Data and inequality
Latest #SenseOfFairness blog:
A response to the Gini coefficient-obsessed article in this weekend's Financial Times, and a suggestion that what matters to people, and is generating concern now, is not so much #inequality as #unfairness
Because #SquidGame is back, here's my post in response to the first series
Shortsighted failings lead to health unfairness
Latest #SenseOfFairness blog:
"Fairness argues that we should care about outbreaks of viruses that affect other communities in our shared world, but so does selfish good sense. We need not be so shortsighted."
http://senseoffairness.blog/2024/12/12/shortsighted-failings-lead-to-health-unfairness/
Debilitating poverty
Latest #SenseOfFairness blog:
"In a world of unfairness in which many are kept poor, these are significant findings. In a world seeking greater growth, where growth has been held back by stagnant productivity, they are still more important."
#poverty #fairness #productivity #education #EducationalAttainment
http://senseoffairness.blog/2024/10/24/debilitating-poverty/
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