Predictably, assisted suicides are provided under ever-lessening oversight, to ever-expanding cadres of the eligible, leading eventually to death on demand.
Read More ›Legislation like this must be carefully written because assisted-suicide activists frequently redefine terms and obfuscate crucial distinctions.
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The distillation technique that DeepSeek apparently uses to poach OpenAI’s database results, over time, in a loss of information on the internet.
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The complex legal wrangle continues but, in general, I would advise against treating AI products as legally equivalent to human products.
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Nature rights is an ideological statement demoting mankind into just another animal in the forest.
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Associated Press, covering for the transgender lobby, is all yesterday’s news, akin to a million-year-old mosquito stuck in amber.
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It is way past time for the overburdened courts to dismiss these animal standing cases out of hand at the trial court level.
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The life-and-death challenge we face is how to ensure that AI systems never “take over” or even make recommendations and decisions that endanger humans.
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Philosophy prof Jonathan Birch, principal investigator of the Animal Sentience Project at the London School of Economics, has written a book on whether and how animals feel things: The Edge of Sentience (Oxford University Press 2024). It’s not as arcane a topic as it might at first appear. It shows up in new legislation and think tanks. At Amazon, we learn, for example, “In 2021, he led a review for the UK government that shaped the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022. In 2022-23, he was part of a working group that investigated the question of sentience in AI.” And as Birch told Marc Bekoff at Psychology Today, I’m probably best-known for my work on invertebrate sentience, which is one part Read More ›
Lawfare and the resulting usurpation of public policy by courts allows the elites to decide environmental policies by diktat.
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Is it any wonder that Silicon Valley CEOs ban their own children from social media? When did a phone become more fun than parties and people?
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Euthanasia activists claim that legalizing assisted suicide doesn’t increase overall numbers. But their study actually shows a significant impact.
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Who is responsible for allowing the Salt Typhoon hack to go on so long and infiltrate so deeply? Government and telecoms currently blame each other.
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This article is reprinted from National Review with the permission of the author. More than 30 U.S. cities have adopted nature rights ordinances, mostly to prevent fracking. And now in the recent election, 57 percent of voters in Everett, Wash., granted rights to a geological feature, specifically, the Snohomish River watershed. From the initiative: The Snohomish River Watershed possesses the rights to exist, regenerate, and flourish, which shall include the right to naturally recharge, the right to naturally flow, the right to water quality necessary to provide habitat for native plants and animals, the right to provide clean water, and the right to restoration. The Snohomish River Watershed shall also have the right to be free from activities or projects which violate those rights. This is Read More ›
Reflecting on his 100-hour workweeks and legal battles, he cautions against solo ventures without financial and legal backing.
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This article is reprinted from National Review with the permission of the author. The “nature rights” project — and its ancillaries — keeps advancing, mostly ignored by those who could stop it in its tracks with legislation declaring that only humans and our associations and juridical entities have legal standing in courts or enforceable rights. Now, a “whale rights” project has commenced, pushed pro bono by a big international law firm, Simmons and Simmons. From the Legal Cheek story: These frameworks centre on the concept of a “legal person” — an entity acknowledged as having “standing” within the judicial system. Traditionally, this status has been reserved for humans, community organisations, and corporations. Granting this designation to whales represents a groundbreaking shift, acknowledging the value Read More ›
Also, the great anti-assisted-suicide and disability-rights campaigner Diane Coleman — who founded Not Dead Yet — who recently passed away.
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Unlike organizations on the other side of this issue, anti-assisted-suicide work doesn’t have the backing of billionaires like George Soros.
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Sewell killed himself at the urging of a speaking and texting chatbot. The next gen is nearly flawless human impersonation video bots. Protect your children.
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Policy-makers should pass laws declaring that only humans and our associations are entitled to rights and standing in courts.
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