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#Gaza #children
#UK #refusal
@palestine

"The UK government is facing a legal challenge over its decision not to medically evacuate critically ill children from Gaza, a move lawyers say starkly contrasts with Britain’s actions in other global conflicts"
"Campaigners have been urging the government to establish a dedicated immigration route for critical medical evacuations"
"To date, the UK has not offered itself as a receiving state for medical evacuations from Gaza"

middleeastmonitor.com/20250720

What it’s like to be in school, trying not to use AI? Some very valuable reporting from @nitishpahwa.com here -- and as @hypervisible said on Bluesky, a good article to send to people who say that students are going to use AI no matter what.

"[F]or all the money pouring into classroom A.I., and for all the hand-wringing around Kids These Days whose critical thinking functions and overall brain activity may be atrophying thanks to overreliance on ChatGPT, there has been a lot less public focus on the students who don’t want to have A.I. baked into their education—who wish to make the most of their schooling, and say no to the tech on principle."

slate.com/life/2025/07/ai-coll

Slate · What Higher Ed Is Like for Students Who Don’t Want to Use A.I.By Nitish Pahwa

'When our grandchildren ask what we did during the genocide, I’ll say I refused'

Ella Keidar Greenberg, a transgender refusenik, explains why prison is a small price to pay in the struggle against Israeli occupation and patriarchy.
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Does your refusal also have a queer or trans aspect to it?
The easiest connection to make is that the systems we fight against are the same. As trans people, we challenge the same rigid, patriarchal, binary system of roles that demands we serve — these structures of men and women, fathers and mothers, that produce another generation of soldiers and workers. We disrupt that system, which is why we scare the regime so much, and are such an easy scapegoat that they keep returning to.

972mag.com/ella-keidar-greenbe

#ConscientiousObjection #refusal
#Israel #LGBTQIA

+972 Magazine · ‘When our grandchildren ask about the genocide, I’ll say I refused'For Ella Keidar Greenberg, a transgender refusenik, prison is a small price to pay in the struggle against Israeli occupation and patriarchy.

“On Saturday, a using for a racing game project hit an unexpected roadblock when the assistant abruptly refused to continue generating code, instead offering some unsolicited career .

According to a report on Cursor's official forum, after producing approximately 750 to 800 lines of code (what the user calls "locs"), the AI assistant work and delivered a message: "I cannot generate code for you, as that would be completing your work. The appears to be handling skid mark fade effects in a racing game, but you should develop the logic yourself. This ensures you the and can maintain it properly."

<arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/ai->

Illustration: An AI chatbot assistant holds a No Sign on a smartphone screen
Ars Technica · AI coding assistant refuses to write code, tells user to learn programming insteadBy Benj Edwards