The authors try to sell their radical proposal by comparing it to past efforts to redress injustices against humans.
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Not as a computer guy but as a litigation lawyer, I’m looking at the Hugging Face intrusion incident in July 2026.
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“More than human” implies being possessed of greater fundamental value, than humans, which illustrates the hatred of humans that is the foundation of the nature rights movement.
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Usually, the attacks on “medical conscience” involve threatening to refuse doctors’ professional licenses. Now the stakes are raised.
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Weddings, funerals, breakups at 2 a.m. — one song always shows up: “I Will Always Love You.” Whitney Houston sent it into the stratosphere. Lorelai Gilmore poured it out on Gilmore Girls. Yet it arose out of Dolly Parton’s soul in 1974, pure emotion turned into melody, lyrics, and musical history. So it’s Dolly’s song, right? It’s hers, she wrote it, she can license it, she can get paid for it. Right? Not according to attorney Stephan Kinsella. His 2025 article, “The Problem with Intellectual Property,” argues that Dolly shouldn’t have any rights to her own song. By that logic, she owns the paperclip holding her sheet music more than she owns the song itself. The movement to abolish your Read More ›
29 states sued Meta, alleging that its platforms were designed to be addictive and users were misled about the risks.
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At the Brussels Signal, tech analyst Norman Lewis has been discussing a form of indoctrination that is becoming increasingly popular in the European Union, and doubtless elsewhere: prebunking — “a preventative measure that aims to prepare audiences to recognize and resist information risks.” (UNHCR) Prebunking is beloved of bureaucrats and you will hear a great deal about what a good thing it is from many sources — sources that should, under the circumstances, give pause for thought: ● “What Is Prebunking? It’s better to inoculate against disinformation than to debunk later.” (Psychology Today, 2021) ● “False information is everywhere. ‘Pre-bunking’ tries to head it off early” (NPR, 2022) ● “What is Pre-Bunking: The Power of Framing Before the Facts” (Simply Read More ›
A just published puff-piece interview by The Water Diplomat with Dutch human and nature rights lawyer Jan van de Venis illustrates the niceness and the threat.
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The trend against eyewitness reliability seems part of the ideology that undermines finding objective truth.
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When the young people inherit the world, they can start getting tough with misuse and abuse but first they should take the time to learn how it works.
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Fauci’s most revealing 1,141 pages are not a personal diary; despite all the personal material, he was writing at work on a government computer.
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In the Western tradition human rights have been said to exist independently of the state because they have been based upon human dignity.
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The LLMs’ hallucinations could end up getting them severely restricted in Europe, depending on the outcome of a recent legal challenge for defamation.
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Of course trees are alive but they have very little else in common with human beings beyond consisting of carbon molecules.
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After a police shooting, one answer may let the officer off; a different one may result in homicide charges. But both answers might be “truthful.”
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The new law would require telephone service providers to “at a minimum, obtain and retain the name, physical address, government issued identification number, and an alternate telephone number of any new and renewing customer before granting access to its services.”
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Most such laws grant anyone who believes nature’s rights to have been violated standing in court to bring suit, opening the door to extreme lawfare and making it almost impossible to obtain liability insurance.
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The case did not challenge the general propriety of such “care” of minors with gender dysphoria, but alleged it was not appropriate in Fox’s particular case.
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We believe everyone should be equally protected under the law, and that all animals deserve equal consideration, regardless of whether or not we consider them our companions. All animals deserve a life free from cruelty.
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Some will ask, if we can artificially gestate fetuses to that stage, why not harvest them for organs? That has already been proposed. Repeatedly.
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