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GenAI: A “Tool” for Further Embedding Systemic Bias in Decision-Making
I came across this deeply awful but not remotely surprising story in The Guardian today and noted how it absolutely shows several issues that are problems feeding into each other, and how GenAI amplifies existing systemic marginalisation and bias. 1) there is an enormous, ongoing issue of medical misogyny, where healthcare workers read the same…
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Empire, Kenya and a Boy From Glasgow
A fascinating and bittersweet part of my family history here, and a sign of how the lives of very ordinary people end up entwined with the wider world, which here in Britain in the mid-20th century meant with Empire. This book belonged to my Granda, from when he was sent to Kenya to do National…
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A Nonbinary Trans Historian’s Perspective on Media Depictions of Gendering Human Remains
(Originally written for Trans Day of Visibility 2025) On TDOV, a historian’s perspective on the transphobic nonsense some people spout about bones, burials and gender. We have been finding burials of gender divergent folk and folk outside the binary since we started any form of organised study of archaeology. The 18th and 19th century European…
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GenAI, Big Tech, and How People Become Collaborators in Making Their Lives Worse
“I’ll just step over to Green Gables after tea and find out from Marilla where he’s gone and why,” the worthy woman finally concluded. “He doesn’t generally go to town this time of year and he never visits; if he’d run out of turnip seed he wouldn’t dress up and take the buggy to go…
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In the Wake of the Supreme Court Ruling: trans and disabled oppression are manifestations of Starmer’s Labour Party’s attempts to court fascists
She was sitting there one afternoon in early June. The sun was coming in at the window warm and bright; the orchard on the slope below the house was in a bridal flush of pinky-white bloom, hummed over by a myriad of bees.
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Intersex Erasure, Nonbinary Erasure and Misogyny in the UK Supreme Court Ruling
Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies’ eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place.