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.
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/
"#NewYork opens first-in-nation #homeless #shelter for #transgender people"
#Trans people face heavy #housing and #job #discrimination, this is a huge help
Sometimes I'm angry at my state, "New York you fucking suck!" (if you're not swearing every other word you're not a real knickerbocker- a New Yorker)
But sometimes I'm quite fond of #NY 
My country, well we're not going to talk about that right now 
https://gothamist.com/news/new-york-opens-first-in-nation-homeless-shelter-for-transgender-people
The Voting Rights Act at 60: still the frontline for democracy
Decades after its passage, the revolutionary law continues to face threats and attempts to pervert its purpose
from #TheGuardian #Guardian
George Chidi
Wed 6 Aug 2025 07.00 EDT
Congress wrote the #VotingRights Act to prevent the case-by-case whack-a-mole games local lawmakers were playing with election rules. It forced jurisdictions with a history of #discrimination to clear elections changes with the Department of Justice before they could go into effect. It banned literacy tests to vote and allowed challenges to district maps when those maps would not allow proportional representation for minority voters.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/06/voting-rights-act-at-60?CMP=share_btn_url
#Columbia & #Brown to Disclose #Admissions & #Race Data in #Trump Deal
A widely overlooked part of a settlement with the two #universities could profoundly alter how elite #schools determine who gets accepted.
#law #Constitution #AcademicFreedom #education #discrimination #nationalism #racism #ExecutiveOverreach #AbuseOfPower #dictatorship #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/nyregion/columbia-brown-admissions-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
https://www.europesays.com/2303456/ Japan’s aging atomic bomb survivors speak out against nuclear weapons #AsiaPacific #Discrimination #FranceGovernment #FumikoDoi #GeneralNews #japan #KatsumiTakahashi #London #MelanieGringoire #News #NuclearWeapons #PolandGovernment #SamanthaAnne #UnitedKingdom #UnitedKingdomGovernment #Warsaw #world #WorldNews #WorldTopics
https://www.alojapan.com/1338919/japans-aging-atomic-bomb-survivors-speak-out-against-nuclear-weapons-2/ Japan’s aging atomic bomb survivors speak out against nuclear weapons #AsiaPacific #discrimination #FranceGovernment #FumikoDoi #GeneralNews #Japan #JapanNews #JapanTopics #KatsumiTakahashi #London #MelanieGringoire #news #NuclearWeapons #PolandGovernment #SamanthaAnne #UnitedKingdom #UnitedKingdomGovernment #Warsaw #WorldNews HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Eighty years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a dwindling number of
“Regardless of your political leanings, I think most people would agree these are the kind of bad situations that should be addressed by the nation’s top #CivilRights enforcer,” Noureldin said.
…The exodus will hamper its ability to carry out essential functions, such as battling #SexualHarassment in #housing, #discrimination against #disabled people, & the improper use of restraints & seclusions against #students in schools, said Omar Noureldin, a fmr snr atty in the #CivilRights Division & President Joe #Biden appointee who left in Jan.
Just published:
'Algorithmic Fairness', Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
By Deborah Hellman, who you may know from the 2008 book 'When Is Discrimination Wrong?'
Open access.
‘Poland Ends ‘LGBT Free’ Zones…
Municipal officials in the town of Łańcut, Poland, have abolished the country’s last remaining “LGBT Ideology Free” zone, righting more than five years of political assault on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans (LGBT) people across the country.’
https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/05/16/poland-ends-lgbt-free-zones
