#harm
#Mississippi #Banned #Gay #Adoption. So We Made an #EscapePlan
There are very few spaces in Mississippi where #LGBTQ #people feel #empowered to enter as #authentic #humanbeings without the #threat of #judgment, of being #denied #service, or looking over their shoulders in fear of those who would do us #harm.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Mississippi #TheSouth #Representation #Culture
https://www.miamiherald.com/living/article282241923.html#storylink=cpy
A #California #SchoolBoard #Member who sent #alarming #emails, claiming to be an '#executioner for #God' and even declaring himself the #Christian #Messiah, while #threatening #harm to #children, has been #apprehended
#JasonVassar from #Sonora has been put under #psychiatriccare.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #MentalHealth #RepublicanParty #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #EmptyThePews #ThePartyOfHate
https://themessenger.com/news/california-school-board-member-executioner-for-god-manifesto
#God's Voice, You, Or The #Devil? Rebutting #VladSavchuk's 8 Horrendous Tips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N8UcyqcZoY
#religion #christianity #harm #evil #atheism #atheist #community #abuse #myths #holyspirit #deception
Ads for SUVs " breaching social responsibility in an environmental context."
"Toyota SUV adverts banned in UK on environmental grounds. Advertising Standards Authority says Hilux poster and video condone driving that disregards ‘impact on nature’. Advertising for SUVs is pushing up demand for massive gas-guzzling, highly polluting cars in urban environments, just when we want streets that are safer and cleaner and an [accessible] low carbon transport system,” Wignall said, adding that the situation was similar for flights, meat and dairy."
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/nov/22/toyota-suv-adverts-banned-in-uk-on-environmental-grounds
#advertising #PublicSpaces #SUVs #regulation #GHG #pollution #harm
#spectacles #nature #rivers #climate
#JayneOzanne #resigns from #GeneralSynod over its ‘#callous #disregard’ for #LGBTQ+ #people.
Ozanne announced that she has #quit the #decisionmaking #body due to the “callous disregard of the #harm #ChurchofEngland #teaching #causes #LGBT+ #people”.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #Religion #ChurchOfEngland #Hate #Bigotry #Homophobia #Transphobia #EmptyThePews
#Hardright #Hategroup #GaysAgainstGroomers #fuming after #ChatGPT #refused to make #antitrans #statements
“I’m sorry, but I cannot create #content that #promotes #harm or goes against #ethical #principles, including discouraging #genderaffirming #care for #minors.”
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #Schadenfreude
I humbly seek your #forgiveness for our ingratitude toward the gifts you bestowed upon us. I implore you, in my #prayers, that in the creation of future universes, those who seek to #oppress might be compelled to grant the rest the agency to 'opt-in' to any path of #harm.
...
Kind reminder why fighting #inequality and #poverty and limiting #harm by the richest communities really is the order of priorities when fighting #climatechange
How very Frech debate...
By the end the column isn't much better than the rather extremist report.
I can not NOT see resemlence to the way harms related to the stigma/taboo of homosexuality were seen as inherently associated with homosexuality no more than 25 years ago. One would assume that a public report writers could make the difference.
I'm not denying that porn industry is deeply troubled and it has done next to none to curtail the harm. It has been only interested in profits.
I do not deny either that the industry is deeply gendered but if the discussion totally omits porn made with only men for men, it's useless. Seeing everything through fixed positions with women infront of the camera and men as viewers isn't legitimate. For men also the industry is harmful and men are also exploited but that is not the whole of it.
Crusades aren't productive, on the contrary, atomising the problems and addressing them with proven methods is. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/09/france-is-reckoning-with-the-harms-of-online-porn-but-will-anything-change
#porn #harm
“Since the commencement of this bench #trial, my chambers have been inundated w/hundreds of #harassing & #threating phone calls, voicemails, emails, letters, & packages.
“The #FirstAmendment right of defendants & their #attorneys to comment on my staff is far & away outweighed by the need to #protect them from #threats & physical #harm.
#law #Trump #Engoron #Kise #Habba #TrumpTrial #PoliticalViolence #MAGA #Cult #TrumpDavidians #DomesticViolentExtremists #DomesticTerror
Harming Nature and liability
Company directors could be held responsible for nature risks. Pollination director Laura Waterford says directors have been put on notice by a new legal opinion advising that failure to address nature risks could constitute a breach of duty under the Corporations Act.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/programs/the-business/2023-11-02/company-directors-could-be-held-responsible-for/103058746
Nature-related harm and Corporate social responsibility
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/111337129314506975
#CorporationsAct #liability #EU #SupplyChains #CimateDisclosure #MandatoryFramework #law #harm #ClimateEmergency #biodiversity #climate #risks #deforestation #LoggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #nature
#Transgender #Venezuelan #presidential #candidate’s #campaign an ‘important step’
Adrián told the #WashingtonBlade that “even though we didn’t #win, this #road was an important #step we collectively took to once and for all end the #regime of #NicolasMaduro, which has done so much #harm to our people.”
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #SouthAmerica #Venezuela #Politics #Progress #RoleModels #Representation #Culture https://www.washingtonblade.com/2023/10/25/transgender-venezuelan-presidential-candidates-campaign-an-important-step/
How to Support Harm Doers in Being Accountable
by Project Nia and the Barnard Center for Research on Women
It's not possible to hold someone accountable. It has to be their choice to engage in #accountability.
Treat people with dignity. Start from a position of caring and love. It takes time. The person who has done harm has to feel like they feel seen as a full human. People need time to evolve their sense of self.
What are Obstacles to Accountability?
Barnard Center for Research on Women
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRhoaRlyeq8
Shame separates and causes hyper-focus on the self, which blocks accountability.
We're trained that to admit harm is to admit being a terrible person.
We need to open ourselves up to more nuance and contradiction.
We're all fallible. We can heal.
@georgetakei personally I think the #WarOnDrugs needs to end including cancelling all #VictimlessCrimes, purging all convictions, freeing as well as rehabilitating and reimbursing those affrcted by it.
Amything else will keep the #DrugWar violent and present and increase the #harm done to everyone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJUXLqNHCaI
Vu, L. et al. (2023). Ignorance by choice: A meta-analytic review of the underlying motives of willful ignorance and its consequences. Psychological Bulletin, 149(9-10), 611–635. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000398
"Meta-analytic results reveal that 40% of participants avoid easily obtainable information about the consequences of their actions on others, leading to a 15.6-percentage point decrease in altruistic behavior compared to when information is provided. "
Alex Jones bankruptcy claim DENIED in landmark ruling; he must finally begin paying his victims. He spent $93K in July alone!
#talk #show #host #conspiracy #theorist #AlexJones #denied #banktuptcy #filing #judge #says #must #pay #restitution to #his #victims #finally #SandyHook #tragedy #became #profits for #alex #guilty of #deliberate #cruelty #intentional #harm https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/landmark-ruling-alex-jones-denied-bankruptcy-protection-ordered-to-pay-11-billion-to-sandy-hook-families/ar-AA1izW3n
Why #swimming #icon #DianaNyad #changedhermind on including #trans #women in #women's #sports
“I am #today #firmly on the side of #inclusion.” She now says she #regrets the #harm that #essay may have caused.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #Sports #Swimming #Allies #Representation #Culture
This should serve as a model for all first world Countries, as #hatespeech can never be considered #freespeech as it's done to #intentionally cause #harm #others.
#Judge #upholds injunction on #Montana #drag #ban, saying it #targets #FreeExpression and #freespeech.
No #evidence before the court indicates that #minors face #harm from #drag-related #events or other #speech and #expression #critical of #gendernorms,” Morris wrote in his #ruling.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Montana #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/15/montana-drag-ban-blocked-free-speech/
Orientation towards the common good in cities: The role of individual urban mobility behavior
"Because of the design of cars, the interactions car passengers have with their direct environment are significantly reduced."
"There are few opportunities for interaction between the driver and the environment...Isolation can reinforce individualistic behaviors and cause drivers to reduced opportunities for social and spatial interaction."
"In contrast to motorized individual transport, non-motorized individual transport means active transportation (walking, cycling). Research has shown that this mode of transportation is beneficial for communities (reducing traffic, decreasing noise, and reducing pollution) as well as individuals (increased physical and mental well-being)"
"Through direct interaction with the geographic and topographic environment (different road surfaces, hills and valleys, parks or play streets, etc.), bicyclists develop a rich and extensive cognitive “picture of the city”."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272494423001731
#TheCommonGood #participation #walkability #bikeability #transportation #harm #ActiveTransportation #ClimateEmergency #FossilFuel #SensoryStarvation #capsules
#Bulgaria #court #rules in favour of #woman who called all #gay #people ‘perverts’.
They ruled that she didn’t intend to #cause #harm to the #dignity of a #particular #person due to their #sexualorientation, #Euractiv reported.
— No she intended to cause harm to the dignity of all #LGBTQ people due to their #sexualorientation.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #EuropeanUnion #Bulgaria #Hate #Bigotry #Homophobia #DefundBulgaria
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/12/bulgaria-supreme-court-milena-slavova/
@parismarx I don't understand why anyone would want to connect #chips to their #brain. The prospect of creating a new #market and the associated #greed seems like one motivation. #research (in any field) should never cause #harm. I really hope that #animaltesting and #cruelty towards #animals in general will end soon. ❤️
Fossil fuel combustion kills
Quantifying Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Human Deaths to Guide Energy Policy
"This is the first review to analyze the substantial body of literature that enables approximate quantitative estimation of the human cost of carbon emissions, measured in lost human lives."
"When attempting to quantify future harms caused by carbon emissions and to set appropriate energy policies, it has been argued that the most important metric is the number of human deaths caused by climate change."
"If warming reaches or exceeds 2 °C this century, mainly richer humans will be responsible for killing roughly 1 billion mainly poorer humans through anthropogenic global warming, which is comparable with involuntary or negligent manslaughter."
"Despite repeated and ever more serious warnings from the scientific community, global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations in the atmosphere continue to increase as fossil fuel combustion increases."
"Measuring carbon emissions in human lives not only makes the numbers easier to understand for nonexperts but also clarifies energy policy priorities: clearly, allowing a policy to cause manslaughter is intuitively unacceptable."
https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/16/16/6074
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/11/australia-needs-climate-trigger-laws-conservation-groups-say-after-failed-challenge-to-coalmines
#energy #policies #Australia #governance #drought #FossilFuels #BushFires #heatwaves #casualties #emissions #GHG #harm #crimes #manslaughter #ForcedMigration #DeathToll #genocide #sacrifice #PrematureDeath #GHG #catastrophe #risk #ClimateGenocide #climate #biodiversity
Inflicting violence and suffering upon people in order to teach them that violence is wrong, is a doomed strategy, especially considering that most people who commit violent crime are victims as well. If we want to reduce violence in our communities, we need to hold people accountable in ways that aim to repair and prevent harm, rather than simply inflicting more harm and trauma.
–The New Jim Crow
#Books #Quotes #Violence #Harm #Community #Crime #Victims #Reform
#Brave #sailor who helped #disarm #ClubQ #shooter #honoured by #Navy as ‘An unassuming #hero’ who acted “without consideration of #personal #harm and #safety”.
During the horrific #attack, the fourth-generation #veteran managed to push a rifle out of reach while other Club Q #attendees #subdued and #disarmed the #shooter.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #MilitaryService #RoleModels #Representation #Culture
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/07/club-q-shooting-honour-navy-thomas-james/
No Place For #Transphobia in #Anthropology: #Transphobic #Session pulled from #Annual #Meeting #program.
The #session was #rejected because it relied on #assumptions that run contrary to the #settled #science in our #discipline, framed in ways that do #harm to #vulnerable #members of our #community
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Science #Allies #TERFS #Hate #Bigotry #Transphobia #TERFFails
https://americananthro.org/news/no-place-for-transphobia-in-anthropology-session-pulled-from-annual-meeting-program/
The NYAG’s response said #Trump & the other defendants are attempting “to sow #chaos by disrupting an ongoing #trial that has now been going for a week. Yet defendants fail to point to any purported irreparable #harm from proceeding w/a trial that has already begun.”
“And tellingly, they waited until after Mr. Trump decided to stop attending the trial.”
The response also says a #delay would create a “cascade of delays in not only this case but also other litigation involving Mr. Trump.”
Exposing engaged individuals by #doxxing them does backfire, it seems.
If you cross this line as an #official or #politician, and fancy the #law being on your side, remember that leaked information laughs into the face of the law, cannot be contained, and moves people into #harm's way.
You, too.
"They doxxed us, we dox them"
'A Framework for Understanding Sources of Harm throughout the Machine Learning Life Cycle' http://arxiv.org/abs/1901.10002 lists 7 potential sources of harm in machine learning: historical, representation, measurement, aggregation, learning, evaluation and deployment biases
#National #culturewars on #race, #LGBTQ+ #rights come to #Washington #schools
#Fascist #Rightwing #pushback on #school #policies and #curricula are leading to #educator #burnout — and #fear of personal #harm.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Washington #Education #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #DomesticTerrorism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://crosscut.com/politics/2023/09/national-culture-wars-race-lgbtq-rights-come-wa-schools
Trump says automatic voter registration in Pennsylvania will harm him
#Trump #AutomaticVoterRegistration #Pennsylvania #Harm #Election2022 #PoliticalImpact #Politics #News
You Either Are Or You Aren’t | #Panic Is #SelfInflicted #Harm
https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9yc3MuYXJ0MTkuY29tL3RoZS1kYWlseS1zdG9pYw/episode/Z2lkOi8vYXJ0MTktZXBpc29kZS1sb2NhdG9yL1YwL3JOUjZZdE9qM01rc1p6R3RHdThlY3ZfNEMwWVVqTkppWTE4UjBaVGFpUHM?sa=X&ved=0CJwCEM-BB2oXChMI6JL04M_FgQMVAAAAAB0AAAAAEAE
#worry #peace #content #mentalhealth #stoic
New #study shows why #trans #inclusion in #school #sports is so #important for #TransKids, and the #harm that being banned from #participating can have on young #trans #people.
"#Athletes are not only about #numbers and #strength, #speed,
#co-ordination"
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Education #Sports #Conservatives #Extremism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/21/trans-sport-study-inclusions-mental-health/
#DykesonBikes #condemns ‘#lesbian born #female’ #event in #Australia
The #Lesbian #group described he newly-formed #TERF #hategroup #LesbianActionGroup (LAG) #Melbourne plan's as “nothing more than #dangerous #transphobic #rhetoric and #hate, causing #harm and creating #division when we should be #united.”
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Australia #TERFS #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Transphobia
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/20/dykes-on-bikes-lesbian-event-australia/
‘A good place:’ #Queer #youth seek #acceptance at Illinois first #fosterhome for #LGBTQ+ #teens
Nationally, about a third of #fostercare #youth #identify as #LGBTQ+, and #researchers say they are at significantly higher #risk of #experiencing #homelessness and #physical #harm.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Illinois #FosterCare #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Homophobia #Transphobia
#Parents of #trans #kids urge #Senate to #oppose #online #safety #bill that could #harm #LGBTQ+ #youth
More than 100 #parents signed an #openletter asking #lawmakers to support #alternatives to #KOSA.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #TransKids #Parents #Parents #Allies #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
#Speculating About #Celebs' #Sexuality Is #Divisive — Here's Why It's Still #Necessary .
Here are ten #arguments against #speculation—and why they may actually do more #harm than #good.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #Music #TV #Movies #Representation #Culture
https://www.pride.com/gay-celebrities/celebrities-sexuality-speculation-reasons-explained
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02729-9
>"There is increasing evidence that #ship strikes are a major cause of #mortality for #whales, #sharks and other #ocean giants. With the global fleet growing, some simple actions can turn things around"
>"By collating information dating back to 1877 on what species have been struck by vessels, a 2020 study identified more than 75 #marine #species as being at risk of #harm from strikes. The marine #megafauna top the list"
#Ethics #Conservation #EnvironmentalEthics #Science
#Met #Policeofficer #sacked over #homophobic #comments and ‘#psychological #harm’ of #female #colleagues.
He was found #guilty of #grossmisconduct over “#unwanted, #unwarranted and #unnecessary” #behaviour and/or “#conduct of a #sexualnature” towards four #female #colleagues between February 2020 and March 2021.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #Police #Hate #Bigotry #Misogyny #Sexism #Homophobia #NoPoliceAtPride
Live on an unlivable planet?
In the face of the deepening climate crisis, the UN Committee specified obligations under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
“Children worldwide have been leading the fight against climate change; calling on their governments and corporations to take action to protect the planet and their future."
“This new General Comment marks a vital step forward in the recognition that every child on Earth has the right to live in a clean, healthy and sustainable environment. Governments must now take urgent action to address the global environmental crisis in order to breathe life into these inspiring words,” says David Boyd, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment."
"General Comment No. 26 specifies that States are responsible not only for protecting children’s rights from immediate harm, but also for foreseeable violations of their rights in the future due to States’ acts — or failure to act — today.
Furthermore, it underlines that States can be held accountable not only for environmental harm occurring within their borders, but also for the harmful impacts of environmental damage and climate change beyond their borders. Particular attention is to be paid to disproportionate harm faced by children in disadvantaged situations."
"The 196 States that have ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child are urged to take immediate action including organizing the phase out of coal, oil and natural gas and shifting to renewable energy sources, improving air quality and ensuring access to clean water, transforming industrial agriculture and fisheries to produce healthy and sustainable food, and protecting biodiversity."
https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/un-committee-rights-child-calls-states-take-action-first-guidance-childrens-rights
#children #rights #FossilFuels #pollution #heatwaves #harm #disasters #FailureToAct #UN #governance #biodiversity
Growing number of countries consider making ecocide a crime
New laws to criminalise environmental destruction.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/26/growing-number-of-countries-consider-making-ecocide-crime
#Ecocide #StopEcocide #law #crime #destruction #logging #LandClearing #deforestation #harm #pollution #climate #EcologicalCrisis #biodiversity
I'm here to do an #introduction post since my nicest one went down in flames when firefish.lgbt disappeared, god rest her soul
I'm a #writer. I like to write about #grief, #QueerIdentity, #hope, #praxis, and #harm + #reciprocity. (my websites are in my links!)
I have trained as a #DeathDoula, and I engage in #GriefWork & #DeathWork with and for my best beloveds: the #LGBTQIA2S+ community.
In my spare time you can find me hyperfocusing on whatever it is that I can't stop thinking about. I love a new game, a new favorite song, a new project management solution, and thinking about my chosen family and intentional community.
I'm #pagan, I am training in an old mystery tradition of pre-Gardnerian British traditional #witchcraft. We are from a long time ago and we are doing what it takes to support, love, and keep safe the people in our communities.
I will always fight for your right to #choose. I believe this right is a fundamental human gift.
So just to complicate things even more:
"The Information Commissioner’s Office and eleven other data protection and privacy authorities from around the world have today published a joint statement calling for the protection of people’s personal data from unlawful data scraping taking place on social media sites.
Data scraping is an automated way to pull large amounts of information from the web. Scraping from social media creates privacy risks and potential harms, such as the information people post online being used for reasons they don’t expect, exploited in cyberattacks or used for identity fraud."
Read their joint statement at https://ico.org.uk/media/about-the-ico/documents/4026232/joint-statement-data-scraping-202308.pdf
The U.S is not a signatory.
@verolynne What has labels and what not solely depends on #Lobbyism, not on actual #harm!
#NowPlaying #TheMetalDogIsNowPlaying
#Harm'sWay
Silent Wolf
YouTube Search:
https://youtube.com/results?search_query=Harm's+Way++Silent+Wolf
Lyrics:
https://genius.com/Harms-way-silent-wolf-lyrics
Song Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3Rrysz5CaI
LastFM:
https://www.last.fm/music/Harm%27s+Way/_/Silent+Wolf
#Harm of #antiLGBTQ #laws includes #economic #pain for #communities, #communities
As #antiLGBTQ #laws spread across #Tennessee and the rest of the #country, many #LGBTQ #people and their #families are assessing whether they should #move to a #state with a more #LGBTQ-#friendly #politicalclimate
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Tennessee #NewMexico #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
Future of the human climate niche
and
Quantifying the human cost of global warming
Future of the human climate niche
"All species have an environmental niche, and despite technological advances, humans are unlikely to be an exception. Here, we demonstrate that for millennia, human populations have resided in the same narrow part of the climatic envelope available on the globe, characterized by a major mode around ∼11 °C to 15 °C mean annual temperature (MAT). "
"We show that in a business-as-usual climate change scenario, the geographical position of this temperature niche is projected to shift more over the coming 50 y than it has moved since 6000 BP."
"Global warming will affect ecosystems as well as human health, livelihoods, food security, water supply, and economic growth in many ways."
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1910114117
Quantifying the human cost of global warming
"The costs of climate change are often estimated in monetary terms, but this raises ethical issues. Here we express them in terms of numbers of people left outside the ‘human climate niche’—defined as the historically highly conserved distribution of relative human population density with respect to mean annual temperature. We show that climate change has already put ~9% of people (>600 million) outside this niche."
"The worst-case scenarios of ~3.6 °C or even ~4.4 °C global warming could put half of the world population outside the historical climate niche, posing an existential risk"
"The ~2.7 °C global warming expected under current policies puts around a third of the world population outside the niche."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-023-01132-6
#AdaptationInSitu #climate #mitigation #ClimateJustice #Injustices #ethics #food #crops #livestock #mammals #pests #pathogens #disease #mortality #HighTemperatures #hotspots #exposure #FossilFuels #harm #ParisAgreement #HumanClimateNiche #niche #home #ClimateAction
Drones are disturbing critically endangered shorebirds.
Yet another threat to shorebirds along the coastline - habitat destruction, dogs and boats
"Drone disturbance can interrupt birds as they rest or feed. It can even cause them to avoid some locations altogether. This is particularly concerning for species such as the eastern curlew, which migrate thousands of kilometres to breed."
'Regulating drone use near critical shorebird habitats will help us to avoid exacerbating population declines, while still allowing the use of a valuable tool, where appropriate."
https://theconversation.com/drones-are-disturbing-critically-endangered-shorebirds-in-moreton-bay-creating-a-domino-effect-209391
#endangered #shorebirds #conservation #harm #disturbance #Birds #Drones #gadgets #technosphere #sky
# University of Wyoming sorority hits back at members who sued over trans sister
* Seven members of the #KappaKappaGamma #sorority at the #UniversityOfWyoming #sued the sorority in March, alleging that it violated its own #rules by #admitting a #trans #woman, #ArtemisLangford.
* The sorority has now filed a #MotionToDdismiss the #lawsuit, #arguing that the term "#woman" is "unquestionably open to many interpretations."
* The sorority also #argues that the #members who sued are #NotEntitled to #relief because they did not suffer any actual #harm.
* The lawsuit is still pending, and it is unclear how the court will rule.
* The members who sued the sorority allege that they were #forced to #share #bathrooms and sleeping quarters with Langford, which made them feel #uncomfortable.
* They also allege that the sorority's decision to admit Langford violated the sorority's own #rules, which state that members must be "#biologically #female."
* The sorority has #denied these #allegations, and it has argued that Langford is a woman, regardless of her biological #sex.
* The lawsuit is part of a larger #legal #battle over the rights of transgender people.
* In recent years, there have been a number of lawsuits challenging laws that restrict the rights of transgender people, such as laws that ban transgender people from using public bathrooms that align with their gender identity.
https://nypost.com/2023/06/25/university-of-wyoming-sorority-hits-back-at-members-who-sued-over-trans-member/
Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change: a global survey
"Climate anxiety and eco-anxiety (distress relating to the climate and ecological crises) are gaining attention worldwide as people become increasingly aware of the current and future global threats associated with our warming planet."
"Climate change has important implications for the health and futures of children and young people, yet they have little power to limit its harm, making them vulnerable to climate anxiety."
"Climate anxiety and dissatisfaction with government responses are widespread in children and young people in countries across the world and impact their daily functioning. A perceived failure by governments to respond to the climate crisis is associated with increased distress."
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(21)00278-3/fulltext
#Children #YoungPeople #Betrayal #Emotion #OneHealth #EcoAnxiety #IntergenerationalJustice #ClimateChange #FossilFuels #Harm #Risks #Governance #Failure #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction
#Biden #administration unveils new #actions to #protect #youth on #SocialMedia and #online Platforms by applying a whole-of-#government approach to address issues concerning #mentalhealth, #safety and #privacy.
Measures will seek to reduce #harm from #online #platforms
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #DemocraticParty #Allies #OnlineSafety
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2023/05/23/biden-admin-unveils-new-actions-to-protect-youth-online/
Ex-#Met #PoliceOfficer advises #trans people to ‘turn and walk away’ if they see #cops in the street.
“If you see a #Metropolitan #Police officer, turn around and quickly walk away. I know how they will view you and I know a great many of them will mean you #harm"
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQIA #UK #London #Police #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Discrimination #Transphobia #NoPoliceAtPride
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/04/18/met-police-natalie-ashton-trans-transphobi/
As long as #human #intelligence is the only model of intelligence, we will never understand #AI and much #harm will flow from that.
We need to take the "artifical" part in Artifical Intelligence much more seriously. The "intelligence" part will, or will not, flow from that. It's not crucial point anyway.
It's about time.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/20/big-oil-is-behind-conspiracy-to-deceive-public-first-climate-racketeering-lawsuit-says
"Now, the first-ever #climate change #RICO [Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations] case alleges that international oil and coal companies, their trade associations, and a network of paid thinktanks, scientists and other operatives conspired to deceive the public…about the direct link between their greenhouse gas-emitting products and climate change."
CALL FOR PAPERS: "The Power of Things: Exploring the Relationships Between Objects and Crime" for a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary #Crime, #Harm, and #Ethics. Submissions due 30 November. BE IN OUR SPECIAL ISSUE! Get in touch about it.
#Academia #Criminology #Sociology #Anthropology #CallForPapers #Opportunity #Objects