Another reporter fired JUST FOR ACCURATELY REPORTING WHAT CHARLIE KIRK SAID. They want that guy elevated to sainthood not because of what he did but DESPITE it. This shit is as fixed as wrestling.

I never thought I'd do a midnight search for UK contract law on a whim, but here we are, down the rabbit hole.

I am delighted to be returning to Leiden University on 11 September to present my paper 'What is freedom for? A relational approach to liberalism' at the Centre for Political Philosophy. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

I am delighted to be returning to Leiden University on 11 September to present my paper 'What is freedom for? A relational approach to liberalism' at the Centre for Political Philosophy. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

This is how I've set up Text-to-Speech, using Kokoro Install kokoro in terminal: pip install kokoro>=0.9.2 soundfile python-docx then create a .py file with the script, the code I have used is now available here: gist.github.com/SharedAcadem... this creates a .wav file based on the .docx.

Went down a text-to-speech rabbit hole because my current version of Microsoft Word cannot read text out loud in a mechanical voice, and the AI app readers have a limit, and now I have a python script running in terminal creating an audiobook-for-the-purposes-of-proofreading-with-tired-eyes

I have a post on Criminal Justice Theory Blog (@theoryjustice.bsky.social) about personhood theory and understanding wrongs of non-contact offences, here: image-based sexual abuse. Many thanks to @markedsouza1.bsky.social and Liat Levanon! criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/28/i...

3 more days to submit your abstract for this great conference on Thicker Notions of Human Rights #Accountabilities which will take place in Brussels 19-21 November! The final conference of our great project on future proofing #humanrights 🤩 futureproofinghumanrights.org/news/closing...

Isreal murdered 6 brothers delivering food to starving Gazans. The youngest was 10 years old.

Fascist fucks. And even if they did have a criminal record, this is still fascist fuckery.

🚨New Publication on *Creating* Sexually Explicit Deepfakes & Criminal Law. Pleased to share my latest research with Ruya Tuna Toparlak on why term 'sexual digital forgeries' is preferred, distinct harms of creation & analysis of law reforms around the world onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A third police officer is arrested in Rotherham for raping a 14-year old girl. When we say male sexual violence is "systemic", this is what we mean: It's when a child victim of rape is either ignored by the police or raped by the police. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Here's a radical thought: Assume that girls' feelings reflect facts. Assume that girls can read their environment and are adept at risk assessment. Assume that girls' are ... right. Take them seriously. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Justine McCarthy: Strip-search of protesters is a scandal of unadulterated hypocrisy www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

A forensic doctor who examined the bodies of some of the 15 paramedics and Palestinian rescue workers shot dead by Israeli forces and buried in a mass grave in southern Gaza has said there is evidence of execution-style killing. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

"Samira Moyheddin recently wrote, '...Don’t stay in jobs where your knowledge is a liability.' [We are compelled] to say out loud, all the time, that if the university has become a place where our knowledge—of genocide, Palestine, racism, fascism—is a liability, then we must change the university."

I have a post on Criminal Justice Theory Blog (@theoryjustice.bsky.social) about personhood theory and understanding wrongs of non-contact offences, here: image-based sexual abuse. Many thanks to @markedsouza1.bsky.social and Liat Levanon! criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/28/i...

“My biggest advice to the trans youth out there is seek out your community, because we're out here. You have a community of people who love you, who are rallying around you, who support you … You are not alone. We will fight with you and we will fight for you.” Solidarity. Today and every day. 🏳️‍⚧️

NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID. This is what actual campus censorship looks like.

And here it is: criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/28/i... Comments and reflections most welcome! Thanks to @marthe.bsky.social!

Proposal to automatically give babies mother’s surname ignites row in Italy Politician says idea would be ‘compensation for centuries-old injustice’ of children being assigned father’s name. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Next week I will be publishing a postdoc vacancy on children’s rights & digital investigations to work @crisresearch.bsky.social in Brussels on a new EU Research Project on digital investigations of child sexual abuse. Keep an eye out for it here, linkedin and VUB jobsite! #criminology #crimsky

Her name is Rumeysa Ozturk, she's a student from Turkey, and even her lawyer doesn't know where she is right now.

You truly could not make it up. You could not.

I am delighted to be returning to Leiden University on 17 April to present my paper 'What is freedom for? A relational approach to liberal personhood'. I argue that a relational definition of persons doesn't necessarily spell the end of liberalism. More here www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

In our next post, @marthe.bsky.social (Max Planck, Freiburg) argues that the wrongfulness of image-based sexual abuse lies in its infringement of personhood, and this infringement is better captured using a relational definition of persons. Coming this Friday: criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com

I recently joined Christopher Murphy on the DOING TIME, TALKING CRIME podcast to discuss my research on image-based sexual abuse (IBSA). In the episode, we discuss the meaning and motives of IBSA, its effects on victims, and explore the legal and social challenges that surround this crime.

If a non-citizen has no right to contest their removal because the government claims that they’re in a Venezuelan gang, what’s to stop the government from claiming that *we’re* in a Venezuelan gang? That’s the most elementary reason why due process matters: www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-133-...

Israel readies plans for occupation of Gaza. Two officials said the plans were made possible by US President Donald Trump’s return to the White House. www.ft.com/content/4012...

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

Musk’s X suspends opposition accounts in Turkey. “The majority of the suspended accounts were "university-associated activist accounts, basically sharing protest information, locations for students to go." www.politico.eu/article/musk...

It’s going to be the summer of anti-fascism. Let’s get ready.

‘We have failed to prevent genocide’ – Francesca Albanese – Channel 4 News www.channel4.com/news/we-have...

We zoeken bij RTL een enthousiaste journalist met een interesse in technologie die het ook leuk vindt om op televisie daarover te vertellen. Het gave is dat je je eigen verhalen mag bedenken, onderzoeken en natuurlijk maken, zie: jobsearch.createyourowncareer.com/RTL/job/Hilv...

Belangrijk, vooral voor de mannen: de schade en impact die dit soort AI-naaktbeelden hebben op slachtoffers is vergelijkbaar met wanneer daadwerkelijke naaktfoto's zijn verspreid. Of, zoals deepfake-onderzoeker @marthe.bsky.social het duidelijk zegt:

Lisa's stiefvader heeft een taakstaf gekregen en moet een jaar lang zich verplicht laten behandelen bij de Waag. Het maken van dit soort beelden zonder iemands toestemming is gewoon strafbaar (seksueel delict). De apps waarmee dit gebeurt zijn lastiger aan te pakken: www.rtl.nl/nieuws/binne...

Het aantal slachtoffers van 'uitkleed-apps' - waarmee je via AI van iemand een naaktfoto maakt - neemt in Nederland flink toe. 99 procent van de slachtoffers is vrouw, en de daders zijn vaak mensen uit hun directe omgeving. www.rtl.nl/nieuws/binne...

Our statement about Take It Down Act.

Totally. More joyous enthusiastic complicated sex in films otherwise the only sexual script is from racist, misogynistic, sexually violent mainstream porn: More sex, please, it will save us from porn www.thetimes.com/article/50f8...

On the Porn Review, @sarahditum.bsky.social rightly highlights the role of Big Porn platforms. Their business model & algorithms push more extreme, violent content which shapes our behaviour - that's how they make money - just like social media companies www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Harms of sexual strangulation? It's giving young women brain damage & consent does not protect you. We need to be doing more to share the latest medical evidence & reduce the prevalence of this material in mainstream prn. Read more ⬇️ with my comments www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/chok...

Dat de politie weinig kan doen, frustreert Nathalie ook. Zij diende geen klacht in, net omdat de politie haar vertelde dat dat nutteloos was… “Volgens hen had ik moeten verwachten dat zoiets kon gebeuren als ik zoveel volgers had”. #rhizomaticharms www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...

"Elon Musk owns at least two private jets, which together 'produce 5,497 tonnes of CO2 per year. This is the equivalent of 834 years’ worth of emissions for the average person in the world, or 5,437 years’ worth for someone in the global poorest 50%.'"

The UK will be the first country in the world to make it illegal to possess, create or distribute AI tools designed to create child sexual abuse material Those who break these laws could face five years in prison Read our ahead-of-time coverage here 👇

🌟Very happy to share the call for abstracts for the closing conference of our IBOF project Future Proofing Human Rights: Developing Thicker Forms of Accountability which will take place 19-21 November 2025 in Brussels, Belgium! Deadline 20 April! Please share! All info: lnkd.in/ebAWTyHU

They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology—members of the Hall of Honor like Elisabeth Friedman and Ann Caracristi—and People of Color in Cryptologic History honorees—like Wash Wong and Ralph Adams. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity order. /2

Reform needed to criminalise AI models used to generate CSAM. As explained by Baroness Kidron, they “allow paedophiles to generate bespoke CSAM scenarios of unimaginable depravity”. Pleased to add my comment on how urgent this is @politicshome.bsky.social www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Translation from article: “You don’t have to make it unnecessarily complicated. The one who on a political stage, during a political speech, in front of, at least in parts, right-wing extremist audience, swings their right arm multiple times diagonally in the air, that one makes the Hitler salute. “

Die Zeit won't even show the salute.

Yes I wonder if the guy who's spent the last three months supporting far-right groups was doing a fascist salute it seems so unlike him.