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Why longtermism is the world’s most dangerous secular credo | Aeon Essays It started as a fringe philosophical theory about humanity’s future. It’s now richly funded and increasingly dangerous

“Longtermism might be one of the most influential ideologies that few people outside of…Silicon Valley have ever heard about.”

Worth reading to understand the extremely dangerous philosophy of our new tech oligarch overlords.

By former longtermist @xriskology.bsky.social
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I make no comment on the ICC case against Netanyahu, nor on the government response (which the telegraph believes is surrender,the guardian thinks is a stalling position and the left think is giving in to Israel) but…Jenrick does know there’s an ICC warrant out for Putin and Khomeini is dead, right?

Chronic pain and ravaged mental health: this is the brutal reality of Britain’s new working class | Aditya Chakrabortty The story of former Amazon worker Karolina Sobczak reveals much about the people who keep our society running – at huge personal cost, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre.... “Early on, assessors describe her as “fit for work”, but later they note “she is in agony” and “uses a cane” to walk. She was getting panic attacks..Her body couldn’t always tell when she really needed to urinate,+so she’d wet herself.” Life as an #Amazon worker.

This needs to be said, loud, and often.

Screenshot of a TikTok post that shows a young baby in the hospital. White text reads Kirstin About a week ago, we found out Luca most likely has AML leukemia. They were waiting for more tests to return but felt pretty confident this was the route we were headed. Since it was the very beginning stages we had.someny time as a family perore St treatment. Could be a Couple Weeks to max a couple of months. I hated the diagnosis but was unbelievably grateful we had some time before being admitted and starting chemo. Unfortunately, when Luca came to the hospital for his bone marrow biopsy he caught RSV. He was doing ok and then declined very quickly. On Wednesday night, he was admitted into the ICU and throughout the night declined more and was intubated. Yesterday morning was some of the scariest moments of our life. Luca was fighting for his life. They were able to

Young child with possible leukaemia goes to hospital for bone marrow biopsy & ends up in ICU with RSV

We need mandatory masking in healthcare.

A baby can’t protect themselves. You can’t take a “you do you” approach with an infant.

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What U.S. Travelers to UK Need to Know About UK’s Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) Americans traveling to the UK as tourists or business visitors are generally visa-exempt. Starting on Jan. 8, 2025, visa-exempt Americans traveling to the UK will need to use the new Electronic Travel...

Heads up for US colleagues- starting Jan 8th, those of us flying to the UK on US passports will need a visa: natlawreview.com/article/what...

The water industry’s annual get-together, the British Water Conference, has been secretly rebranded by sewage campaigners, with attendees guided to the event via stickers from Brighton station pointing to “The Grand Sewage Conference”

38 Degrees and People vs Profiteers teamed up for the stunt

Those who are saying that Americans should make any major household purchases before the Trump and Musk plan to capsize the American economy for everyone but billionaires goes into effect on January 20 are not kidding and we ignore them at our peril

Read this. Read the replies. This happened in Missouri and has happened in states all over with abortion bans.

Your morality on abortions aside. Abortion bans will slowly collapse a state.
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I'm going to be honest I miss the way bluesky was a little bit before election day, but any honest reconciling of why people are coming en masse to Bluesky should start with the communities who came after because after election day they were getting rape threats in their DMs.

A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments. Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.

NEW: Porsha Ngumezi is the fifth case we've reported on in which a woman died after not receiving a D&C or its second-trimester equivalent in time, or at all.

Her case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.

‘Woke’ didn’t lose the US election: the patrician class who hijacked identity politics did | Nesrine Malik Why is this simple explanation being so widely embraced? Because it does not require a commitment to real, structural change, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

'The readiness to repudiate identity politics & group them under “bad woke” is less about policy and more about the fact that social justice never really found a home amongst liberals, who were happy to capture its energy but not its demands.'

The week's column

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Welcome @abscbnfactcheck.bsky.social !

Bathroom bans and policies don’t do what they purport to do.

The argument is they're created to 'protect women', but they usually do the opposite. 

To turn a phrase, they stink all round... Here's why 🧵

I studied the Holocaust & the mass slaughter of LGBTQ ppl during that time & thru history. The greatest lesson of the Holocaust was the need for Human Rights [what extremists now call ‘identity politics’ or ‘regulation’]. Most don’t think it impacts them.

Full text: Trump’s comments on white supremacists, ‘alt-left’ in Charlottesville A transcript of the president's remarks at Trump Tower.

I’m trying to tune out as much US politics as I can. However I t’s clear, that apart from asset stripping the richest country in the world, his rag tag group of super-rich plan to destroy significant human rights. Previously: www.politico.com/story/2017/0...

Trump’s pal: 1488 combines 2 white supremacist symbols. The first is 14, short for the "14 Words" slogan: "We must secure the existence of our people & a future for white children." The second is 88, which stands for "Heil Hitler" (H is the 8th letter of the alphabet)*. Sleep well! 👀

Obeying in advance

Preaching to The Choir, by Rebecca Solnit

Per @aoc.bsky.social and co., I'm here to celebrate echo chambers and preaching to the choir. Which sings back, beautifully. "The primary assumption behind the idea that we shouldn’t preach to the choir is that one’s proper audience is one’s enemies, not one’s allies." harpers.org/archive/2017...

55 Tufton Street based lobby group lgballiance has used the iconic anthem, A Small Town Boy, in their latest anti-trans+ campaign WITHOUT the artists permission

"We will do everything we can as soon as possible to have A Small Town Boy removed from this film" - Jimmy Somerville
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Bluesky,

Activate the Emergency Medical Hologram

omg it worked

Jeremy Clarkson, a notorious supporter of hunts, owns a pub and farm business. If you don’t want your money supporting those linked to wildlife cruelty, check out bloodbusiness.info to make ethical spending choices.

But the bio is a dead giveaway. Anyone who claims to be able to recover your money from you after you've been scammed is a scammer, and more than that, they're a scammer who is right down the hall from the original scammer.

Nuts & Bolts of the International Criminal Court Arrest Warrants in the ‘Situation in Palestine’ What do the ICC arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant mean in practice, what happens next, and what are the implications for other States?

Nuts & Bolts of the #InternationalCriminalCourt Arrest Warrants in the ‘Situation in Palestine’

An Expert Explainer by leading scholar @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social

What do arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant mean in practice, what happens next?

www.justsecurity.org/105048/icc-a...

'I slept in a bin last night': Liverpool's homelessness crisis Special report: The numbers of rough sleepers and those living in temporary accommodation in the city is soaring, with charities and services at breaking point

This shouldn't be happening.

The numbers of rough sleepers and those living in temporary accommodation in the city is soaring, with charities and services at breaking point

A sad but important read from @liamthorp.bsky.social

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

I’ll gladly mail my congressmen detailed write-ups on my bowel movements, if they think what folks do in the bathroom is their business!

Heat pump starter pack just dropped.

go.bsky.app/KCLxmj9

🧵 Please watch the full video (on Erin’s thread).

As someone that has spent 1/3 of their life working to support people facing tech-enabled abuse, I wish more people follow Evan’s (@evangreer.bsky.social) lead to push back against cis-sexism/transphobia in the digital rights landscape.