Of Course it does.
AI tools used by English councils downplay women’s health issues, study finds
Exclusive: LSE research finds risk of gender bias in care decisions made based on AI summaries of case notes
American neo-Nazis point to Trump’s rhetoric — his attacks on diversity initiatives, his hard-line stance on immigration and his invocation of "Western values” — as driving a surge in interest and recruitment. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/11/world/politics/american-nazis-aryan-freedom-network-trump/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #nazis #wwii #adolfhitler #holocaust #us #donaldtrump #trade #tariffs #republicans #hatespeech #discrimination #aryanfreedomnetwork #daltonhenrystout
Après la leçon "terroriste vs déséquilibré", ne confondez plus "prière de rue vs messe en plein air" https://www.letelegramme.fr/morbihan/arzon-56640/900-fideles-sont-venus-a-la-messe-televisee-en-plein-air-et-sous-le-soleil-a-arzon-ce-dimanche-10-aout-6869370.php
“When I hear people call me a communist spy, or when members of this body say those things, I get a little offended,” Wu said, clasping his hands atop of a podium and looking across the room at his fellow lawmakers. “Because our family has been the victims of communism for a very long time, and we fled to this country as fast as we possibly could.”
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/08/06/texas-house-democrat-gene-wu-anti-asian-mayes-middleton/
A federal judge appointed by Reagan acknowledges that many of Trump's cuts to NIH grants are racist, discriminatory, and illegal.
Foreign workers
Accepting immigrants is one option, but I hope it doesn't end up like Japan.
https://note.com/poison_raika/n/nf115bc62a2d0
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Іноземні працівники
Я сподіваюся, що прийняти іммігрантів є одним із варіантів і що ми не закінчимо, як Японія.
https://note.com/poison_raika/n/n091240368787
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This is pretty great. Someone is suing Workday for using AI in the hiring process that they claim is discriminatory.
WNBA Incidents Expose Misogyny in Sports Culture
As a coach, an uncle, and a son, I believe we must speak out against the normalization of misogyny. This is bigger than sports—it’s about the dignity and humanity of every woman.
Silence teaches the next generation that power means domination.
-healthy food,
-clean drinking water
-a clean, safe, and private space to live
-the means available to wash our clothing
-healthcare and access to medication
-comfortable bed for sleeping
-transportation
-heating and cooling
-access to the tech devices modern life now requires
If we have all that 
and I am listening to complaints about how terrible life is because we are missing out on anything else, I'm sorry but my empathy is feeling rather limited.
#Housing #Poverty #HumanRights #Entitlement #ClimateEmergency
#Economy #Discrimination #War #ClimateMigration #Biases
Friday, August 8, 2025
This is child trafficking: Russia launches catalog of Ukrainian children for adoption, sorted by eye and hair color — Inflicting ‘serious losses,’ Ukraine strikes Russian radar systems, landing craft in Crimea — Over 70% of Ukrainians reject Russian peace plan, support for US proposal remains divisive — What it’s really like being Black in Russia … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/08/friday-august-8-2025/
What it’s really like being #Black in Russia
“Russia is not a comfortable country to live in for anyone who doesn’t fit the image of the ‘ideal #Russian’ promoted by the media and authorities.”
“How much more of this can one take?” a bloodied Villa cried in an Instagram video filmed from what appeared to be the back of an ambulance. As she described the #attack, Villa said the #police failed to intervene.
https://kyivindependent.com/what-its-really-like-being-black-in-russia/
What a wonderful idea, obviously nothing could go horribly wrong with this.
｢ That might include labs or medical tests that the app could use to develop an AI-driven analysis of what might help users lose weight, the CEO, Geoff Cook, told the Associated Press. Apps and health systems will also have access to their competitors’ information, too. Noom would be able to access a person’s data from Apple Health, for example ｣
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/30/trump-health-tracking-big-tech
Out now: ‘Tell me more…’: the kind of information added influences ethnic discrimination in the Swiss rental housing market with @eva_zschirnt and Julie Lacroix #discrimination #housing #experiment @sociology
https://direct.mit.edu/euso/article/27/3/519/128884/Tell-me-more-the-kind-of-information-added
https://www.europesays.com/2311518/ Trump orders federal regulators to probe alleged bank discrimination against conservatives #124461660 #article #business #Conservatism #cryptocurrency #Discrimination #ExecutiveOrders #GeneralNews #Legislation #Politics #WashingtonNews
The move means that #transgender #ServiceMembers will now be faced with the choice of either taking a *lump-sum* [meager] separation payment offered to JUNIOR troops [regardless of their actual status] or be removed from the service.
An #AirForce [#USAF]spox told AP that “although service members with 15 to 18 years of HONORABLE service were permitted to apply for an exception to policy, none of the exceptions to policy were approved.”
F⁕⚠︎ You! Muther f⁕⚠︎ers…
#US #AirForce to deny #retirement pay to #transgender #ServiceMembers being separated from the service
The #USAF said Thurs it would DENY all transgender #service members who have served between 15 & 18 YEARS the option to retire early & would instead separate them without retirement #benefits.
#Trump #Hegseth #discrimination #military #service #betrayal #LGBTQ #hate #bigotry #MaleSupremacy #heterosexism
https://apnews.com/article/air-force-transgender-no-early-retirement-e6a4da806f2cc2bdc05f49438cbd26fd?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-08-07-Breaking+News
Meet the woman refusing to be silenced by Japan’s far-right https://www.byteseu.com/1263451/ #AlternativeForGermanyParty #AsahiShimbun #CityHall #discrimination #DonaldTrump #Immigration #Japan #JapaneseFirst'SanseitoParty #MegumiFukushima #Sanseito #SocialMedia #SoheiKamiya #TinoChrupalla #Tokyo #Tsurugashima
Of course …
WP Exclusive: #Trump admin plans to scale back criticism of #HumanRights abuses by #ElSalvador, #Israel, #Russia
Leaked draft reports show the Trump admin is planning to eliminate or downplay accounts of #PrisonerAbuse, #corruption, #LGBTQ+ #discrimination & other abuses.
The admin claims the reports are “shorter” for “readability”.
#law #InternationalLaw #HumanitarianLaw #autocracy #authoritarianism #tyranny
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/08/06/trump-human-rights-el-salvador-israel-russia/
