UK to teach anti-trans propaganda in schools, introduce a new Section 28 against (quote) "questioning gender", and literally erases the word "transgender" completely from the government education policy: https://bsky.app/profile/wearequeeraf.com/post/3ltz2dfg4xc2z

What the UK is doing is a campaign of elimination

Let's play a game.

Don't say PowerPoint presentation, say slidedeck
Don't say Word, say text document
Don't say Photoshop, say image editing
Don't say Excel, say spreadsheet
Don't say...

Language is important. When corporate companies own the names of the tasks or the digital items you create, you have become a cog in their branding machine.

#bigtech #DataSociety #academicchatter

#Serbia 🇷🇸 is on a general #strike today (January 24). Please spread the word, international community seems not to be fully aware of what's happening here. This is important, not just for Serbia, but for the whole #Balkans. Thank you!

@EUCommission

https://www.dw.com/en/serbia-protests-may-lead-to-general-strike/a-71360278

#srbija #strajk #balkan #europe #europa #protest

There's a parliamentary petition for an independent review of the Cass report into gender medical services for young people. It's a highly problematic document commissioned by the previous government and shaped by anti-trans viewpoints.

If you're a Brit, you can sign it, whether you live in the UK or not. Please do.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700217

When I was a teenager in the 2000s I somehow got the opportunity to interview the drummer from Minor Threat for a hardcore zine.

I asked him for his advice for young musicians. He said “you’re not going to listen to this advice because you don’t think it’s cool, and one day you’ll regret it, but always wear earplugs.”

I didn’t listen.

Didn’t think it was cool.

Permanent ear damage by my mid 20s.

A jockey who is paralyzed from the waist down lost his ability to walk after a small battery for his $100,000 exoskeleton broke and the manufacturer refused to fix it because it was more than 5 years old

https://www.404media.co/paralyzed-jockey-loses-ability-to-walk-after-manufacturer-refuses-to-fix-battery-for-his-100-000-exoskeleton/

🆕 blog! “Yet another AI Racism example”

Here's a good pub-quiz trivia question - which Oscar-winning Actors have appeared in Doctor Who? It's the sort of thing that you can either wrack your brains for, or construct a SPARQL Query for WikiData0. I was bored and asked ChatGPT. The new Omni model claims to be faster and more accurate. But, in my […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/09/yet-another-ai-racism-example/
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#DoctorWho #racism