This isn't exactly best practice when you are compiling a supposedly independent country assessment on the human rights record of a government. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/arti...

Sadé is releasing a new song as part of the “Transa” benefit album. This is the rare news post where every new paragraph made me go "what? wow" in good ways. Andre 3000 is on this project too, and the lead is an I Would Die 4 U cover Lauren Auder + Wendy & Lisa. 46 tracks variety.com/2024/music/n...

Sade to Release First New Song in Years as Part of Transgender Awareness Compilation

Sade will release her first song in years as part of transgender awareness compilation 'Transa,' arriving on Nov. 22.

Decisions concerning people’s freedom, mobility, and ability to seek safety in the United States should not be made by computers. That's why EFF and over 100 other organizations are calling on the U.S. government to stop this practice.

EFF & 140 Other Organizations Call for an End to AI Use in

EFF, Just Futures Law, and 140 other groups have sent a letter to Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) must stop using artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the

Far-right riots in the UK: the culmination of years of rhetoric and policies - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Far-right riots in the UK: the culmination of years of rhetoric and policies

The hostile environment, references to “swarms” and an “invasion” of migrants,1 and a “stop the boats” campaign with threats of deportation to Rwanda2,3—these are just a few of the tactics that recent...

Utterly appalling reports from the Rotherham hotel attack. They evacuated the staff & left the residents. They extinguished some of the fires themselves. They knew this hotel was going to be attacked & they left people there. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/arti...

Urgent protections needed for asylum seekers in hotels, say refugee groups

Exclusive: Post-riots letter urges Home Office to ensure evacuation protocols are clear, and to house people in communities instead

The UK Home Office continues to abuse migrants, including those who do make it through the limited available regular pathways. Thanks to tbij.bsky.socialwww.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024...

‘We sacrificed everything we had’: seasonal workers left without jobs…

Workers were promised UK jobs before recruiter had licence revoked

Grim insight into conditions of some delivery riders for companies like Deliveroo, with workers often making below minimum wage (because they’re classified as ‘independent contractors’) for long days unable to afford rents and living in a dilapidated encampment www.theguardian.com/business/art...

‘I wouldn’t wish this on anyone’: the food delivery riders living in ‘caravan shantytowns’ in Bristol

Gig economy workers for Deliveroo and Uber Eats in the city are living in appalling conditions, while putting in long hours, earning low pay and facing mental health problems

There’s an old Irish term for someone who likes to stay home by the warmth and comfort of the fireplace (what we might today call a couch potato)... cailleach na luatha. I like to translate it (with some poetic licence) as “divine hag of the ashes”

Publication day! For this thought-provoking, engaging, hopefully useful handbook on Intersectional Feminist Research Methodologies. I contributed a chapter, "The archival is personal is political: Historiography, the archive, and feminist research methods". www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

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