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"#Forcibly locking #people up in #psych wards isn't the progressive alternative to the #prison system it's often made out to be. Losing your basic #rights and #autonomy isn't less #traumatizing when we refer to it as "#treatment". If the alternative to locking people up in a #bigoted, #capitalist, #abusive prison system becomes forced treatment in a bigoted, capitalist, abusive psych ward then that's not a real alternative at all, that's just two ends of the same beast."

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TumblrReblog by @nando161mando💬 1  🔁 75  ❤️ 145 · Forcibly locking people up in psych wards isn't the progressive alternative to the prison system it's often made out to be. Losing your basic rights and autonomy isn't less trau…

It busts my brain that this is not standard everywhere. But I guess I should know better. 😬 🤦‍♀️

"New Hampshire is the first state to legally require doctors and medical staff to follow a patient's desires to seek sterilization...."

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Tools sit on a table in an exam room during a maternal care simulation at Androscoggin Valley Hospital in Berlin.
NHPR · NH is the first state to require doctors to follow patients' wishes on sterilizationBy Olivia Richardson

A key challenge for postwar Syria is building trust between the Arab majority and its historically sidelined Kurdish minority. The security regimes in Kurdish parts of Aleppo show just how slow that trust may be in coming. #syria #kurds #autonomy

csmonitor.com/World/Middle-Eas

Posted into WHAT'S NEXT FOR THE MIDDLE EAST? @what-s-next-for-the-middle-east-csmonitor

The Christian Science Monitor · Syria’s Kurds want autonomy. Damascus wants unity. Can they find middle ground?By Dominique Soguel

Review of "Dissident Peace: Autonomous Struggles and the State in Colombia" by Anthony Dest

An important text that paints a vivid, complex picture not from the bird’s eye view of power or media headlines, but from the trenches of struggle centered around the voices, experiences, and cosmovisions of Black and Indigenous communities in what is called Colombia.

Rigorous but accessible, Dest helps the reader make sense of everything from the 2016 Peace Accords to the 2021 Cali uprising to the 2022 election of Gustavo Petro. Broken down into four chapters, he brings to the fore those often left out of the conversation by problematizing the vanguardism of the FARC-EP, the connections between coca cultivation and settler colonialism, the living legacy of white supremacy, and the successes and setbacks of urban rebellion.

Based on relationships built over decades and a deep commitment and unapologetic analysis and reflexivity, Dest translates – literally and figuratively – the terrain of struggle for those committed to liberation and autonomy on terms distinct from either the FARC-EP or the State. The book impressively captures the dynamics at play at the intersection of capitalism, settler colonialism, whiteness, patriarchy, drug trafficking, guerrilla movements, and state repression.

It centers those excluded by power’s vision for Colombia, and demonstrates how out of, or despite, that exclusion, Black and Indigenous peoples continue to organize, propose alternatives, strengthen autonomy, and work for a dissident peace.

#Colombia #autonomy #Indigenous @bookstondon #bookstodon #books #reading

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#2040 to #2050: #AGI
General purpose #robots and agents with broad #autonomy. Fluent in role plays, can perform any basic physical task, continously learning and interacting with the physical world.

2041 the Coffee Test is passed at 75 Trillion Parameters.

2044 the #Robot College Student is passed at 250 Trillion Parameters.

2050 Voight-Kampff is passed at 2 Quadrillion Parameters

Ukrainian startup says its drones could work on their own by year’s end, thanks to #AI

#Ukrainian #drones #autonomy startup the #FourthLaw is showcasing new footage as it aims to become the first to reach the latest holy grail of #DroneWarfare: full #autonomy.

“When we’re talking about full autonomy, I think we’re definitely going to see singular demos by the end of this year,”

kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-

The Kyiv Independent · Ukrainian startup says its drones could work on their own by year’s end, thanks to AIBy Kollen Post