Russell Finn

Judgement Day for the EHRC How the equality watchdog turned into a culture war campaign group

Judgement Day for the EHRC: How the equality watchdog turned into a toxic culture war campaign group

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It was the end of a trail race,

A love song to the filth we left behind And the desperate crushing sadness of becoming more sensible

Good morning. Here is a love song to the filth we left behind.
And the desperate crushing sadness of becoming more sensible iandunt.substack.com/p/a-love-son...

Why I worry this Supreme Court ruling will be used to delegitimise trans people And why Parliament ducked its responsibilities

Parliament, not the Supreme Court should have decided today. I've written about why that's so problematic and why I fear today's judgment will be used to further delegitimise trans people, even though that is not what the Court intends.
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Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

tried using in work for a fairly arcane bit of accounting treatment, worst bit, it was *plausibly* incorrect. If you didn’t know, you wouldn’t know. This stuff will bleed into engineering, healthcare settings with huge consequences (especially when QA itself is performed by AI). Built on sand.

To the crowds cheering Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement:
Do you think you live on a different planet, which climate breakdown does not affect?
Do you imagine only greens and progressives will be harmed by Earth systems collapse?
Do you believe you can win an argument with physics?

In all seriousness: the last 2 weeks of TikTok posturing and Zuck grovelling, combined with the X insanity of the last year, should show you that an app with a feed that you don’t control serves *other people’s interests* - not yours.

X Out A salty, cranky case for letting Twitter die

I briefly put principles and values aside to make a saltier, crankier case for leaving X: Elon Musk is uniquely insufferable holapapi.substack.com/p/x-out

This is such a good list