"Australia remains the only liberal democracy not to have adopted its own constitutional or statutory bill of rights. Instead there is a patchwork of local laws and international agreements...The Australian commitment to human rights is always subject to political whim."
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/18/for-all-the-talk-of-australian-values-our-rights-as-citizens-and-humans-remain-fragile

Hartmut Rosa, Situation and Constellation, On the Disappearance of Human Agency
"Particularly in our professional lives – but increasingly also in our leisure time – our decision-making is prescribed in advance by guidelines and forms, algorithms and apps, right down to the smallest of details. The role of situational, sensitive consideration and judgment is being replaced by the constellation-based machine logic of execution, which we wield on a daily basis. »Agree«/»Reject« – this is how agents of action turn into executors of actions."

"...When spheres of discretion and judgment disappear and the creativity of human agency is eliminated from everyday practices of execution, we feel an increased sense of powerlessness. And as our power of judgment dwindles, so does our energy to act."
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https://www.suhrkamp.de/rights/book/hartmut-rosa-situation-and-constellation-fr-9783518588338

#HumanRights #citizens #dehumanisation #BillOfRights #HumanAgency #HumanAction #PowerOfJudgment #machine #algorithm #robodebt #HumanInTheLoop #HITL #HeterogeneousEnsemble #assemblage #apparatus #ToDoList #governance

“#UK #media erases the plight of #Palestine #HungerStrikers”

by Skwawkbox with The Canary

@thecanaryuk
@uk_politics
@palestine
@Palestine
@palestine@lemmy.ml
@BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4
@BBCNews
@AlJazeera
@guardian
@Independent @thetimes

“As the UK government, supported by its #corporate #media #apparatus, covers its eyes & ears & accelerates #Starmer’s #war on #free #speech, the right-minded, good-hearted people around the world know which side of history to stand on”

https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2025/12/22/uk-media-ignore-palestine-hunger-strikers/

#Press

For those who don’t know it yet, I highly recommend the interactive diagram editor Apparatus (https://aprt.us/). It is one of the most innovative end-user programming tools I have ever seen.

Today, I had fun building an interactive visualization explaining the concept of convergence of a sequence toward its limit. It only took me 3 hours, no LLMs involved.

#ExplorableExplanation #Apparatus #Math #teaching

#Italian newspaper "Il Fatto Quotidiano" is now merely an appendage of #Putin's disinformation #apparatus.

https://spravdi.gov.ua/en/how-an-italian-newspaper-became-an-outpost-of-russias-propaganda-machine/

#RussiaIsATerroristState

The #Principia Wiki has a page about #Apparatus which has since become one of the most visited pages coming from Google search results.

Even now with Principia being revived as open source and such, it still seems to be overshadowed by the popularity Apparatus had back in the day. Which is unfortunate, but hey, I have lots of nostalgia for it too.

So I decided to set up a new website for collecting information about the game, intended to look very similar to the old community site for the game:

https://apparatus.voxelmanip.se

#Android

Rolig konsert igår! Kängpunkbandet Äppäratus från Malaysia, Peace Talks från Amerika, Hardpass från Malmö och Crow Noise från Malaysia (som jag tyvärr missade). Bra band och rolig stämning! Många Luleåbor var på plats 👍

#malmö #malmöhardcore #apparatus #peacetalks #tomrummet