So, @Rivian's #Autonomy & #AI day was a big deal! Join @mweinbach and me on episode 457 of my #MobileTechPodcast for our analysis, plus a first look at the @OnePlus #OnePlus15R, @nothing #NothingPhone3a community edition, and more :) Listen and subscribe... https://worldpodcasts.com/rivian-autonomy-ai-day-in-depth-oneplus-15r-battery-and-first-look-nothing-phone-3a-community-edition-new-jolla-phone-and-more-with-max-weinbach-of-creative-strategies/
#Autonomy
→ The world needs social sovereignty
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/12/the-world-needs-social-sovereignty/
“The term digital #sovereignty means that an institution has #autonomy and control over the critical #digital infrastructure, data, and services that make up their online presence.”
“Today, institutions often communicate through the censorious filter of corporations that do not have the best interests of people or #society at heart. They let their message be governed by the whims of out-of-touch […] people […].”
Parents are having to rethink conversations with kids who suddenly want to change their names
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/kids-choosing-their-own-names
How can #autonomy be provided in #postgrowth circumstances? Our new paper discusses this: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09632719251382401
GCC backs Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara Amid UN endorsement http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TPfDZV #Morocco #WesternSahara #UNSecurityCouncil #GCC #Autonomy
https://jessica.substack.com/p/pregnancy-decriminalization-bill
#abortion #pregnancy #miscarriage #reproductiverights #reprojustice #feminism #patriarchy #misogyny #autonomy #humanrights #humanrightswatch
For #China, #Russia represents a captive market—a guaranteed buyer of Chinese goods and a guaranteed seller of energy at prices Beijing influences. The relationship is asymmetric by design. China gains resource #security and a testing ground for #yuan internationalization. Russia gains survival capacity but at the cost of strategic #autonomy. https://substack.com/inbox/post/180687978
This was spotted by me, January 18, 2025, in Shenzhen - you hear #RealJackShea a local specialist,
just like #TaylorOgan - thanks guys for all the great tours this year!
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#shenzhen #robocleaning
#autonomy #autonomous #alwaysbesweeping
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xf53ujprnmfktaxb77fztor6/post/3m72zfqj32c2i
#Church #Autonomy #Doctrine Requires Dismissal of #CatholicSchool Employee's #Discrimination Claim
In MoChridhe v. Academy of Holy Angels, (MN App. Dec. 1, 2025), a #Minnesota state appellate court rejected an #employment discrimination claim by a former media specialist/librarian at a #Catholicschool. The school refused to renew her contract when she disclosed that she was undergoing #gendertransition to present as a female.
https://religionclause.blogspot.com/2025/12/church-autonomy-doctrine-requires.html
Not surprising...!
How #Patriarchy Undermined the #RomanRepublic
by Douglas Boin, Nov 24, 2025 2:00 PM
Excerpt: "The men of the republic, who called themselves their society’s 'Chosen Fathers,' enforced this two-tiered society through strict #VotingLaws and limits on women’s #autonomy. Heavily manipulated voting districts ensured that only the voices of the senatorial elite, Rome’s self-proclaimed optimates, or 'best men,' dominated, not progressive champions, freed slaves, or newly-enfranchised citizens. No woman could run for higher office. Women could neither sit on juries, nor exercise their vote.
" 'As soon as women become the equals of men,' the statesman and senator Cato the Elder said in 212 B.C., 'they will have become our masters.'
"Yet as Rome’s republic expanded beyond the capital city, beyond Italy, and gradually acquired its Mediterranean empire, stories of a different sort of woman reset women’s expectations at home. In the eastern Mediterranean, highly educated woman philosophers, avant-garde poets, and above all, the fearless Greek-speaking queens of Egypt, including #Cleopatra, held sway. Inspired by these role models across #Europe, #Africa, and #Asia, #RomanWoman began to challenge the republic’s inequities and ideologies and claim their voices in the male-dominated republic.
"Grandmothers and mothers taught their daughters to read and cultivate their intellectual talents. An educated girl, the new wave of educators argued, knew how to assert herself against a man who 'swaggers through the city acting like a tyrant.' Cato’s quotation comes from a pivotal moment when women and their allies poured into the streets to demand the repeal of a war-time-era tax on their savings. Other women were political leaders who earned the scorn of their contemporaries. Some were erased or forgotten. In one case, the life of an upper-class woman and contemporary of Julius Caesar, Clodia, saw her reputation destroyed by false claims of harlotry, home-wrecking, and husband-killing.
"#Clodia, an unapologetic champion for expanded voting rights for the enfranchised men of Italy, bravely went before an all-male jury in the center of the Roman Forum in April 56 B.C., as the prosecution’s star witness to testify against her day’s runway, endemic corruption. Instead of defending his client from the charges, however, the leading defense attorney, Marcus Tullius Cicero, turned the case into a referendum on Clodia’s character. Transforming Clodia into the trial’s villain, the speech, the Pro Caelio, outlasted Rome’s fall. It has been taught in high school and college classrooms for two millennia as a masterclass of rhetoric, from which countless men in business, law, and politics have learned to emulate Cicero’s #misogyny.
"Trailblazing women like Clodia have always, in the historian’s shorthand, been called “ahead of their time.” But history deserves to be told from another point of view: by pointing out the parade of men who have stubbornly and perennially thwarted progress. Rome’s republic might have survived a bit longer had its own people listened to, not silenced, its women."
Read more:
https://time.com/7326211/roman-republic-women/
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/YJcBB
#RomanWomen #HistoryRepeatsItself #FallOfRome #RomanHistory #USPol #HistoryRepeats #WomensRights #VoterDisenfranchisement
People Are Violent When Oppressed but Peaceful When Free
https://classautonomy.info/people-are-violent-when-oppressed-but-peaceful-when-free/
The dominant story told by states, police departments, and those who own the world’s wealth insists that human beings are naturally violent and must therefore be controlled… This claim is so endlessly repeated that many take it as truth…
#Domination #Creates #Violence #Oppression #Autonomy #ArtivicialScarcity #HierarchicalSystems #ForcedCompetition #Resentment #ImplicitThreats
The increased #autonomy of #robots and the application of #robotics in non-industrial environments such as #healthcare ⚕️, #agriculture 🚜, autonomous #driving 🚌 and private #homes 🏡, must be accompanied by the revision of existing #standards addressing specific issues. As an example new safety standards for #wearable robots, such as exoskeletons for rehabilitation and worker support https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/collection/rolling-plan-ict-standardisation/robotics-and-autonomous-systems-rp-2025
@pixeltracker Cool. My idea of going beyond #BeyondPDF for #ScientificPublishing #OpenScience with #WebStandards :
https://csarven.ca/linked-research-decentralised-web
See e.g. @dokieli https://dokie.li/
Reminder: all pictures are taken by Naeema and you can see additional pictures & videos on her instagram!
💐 https://www.instagram.com/gazannaeema_/
With a better phone to access internet, I hope Naeema & her mother Haneen can come here soon and post themselves.
So meanwhile, if you want to read Naeema's words without me interfering, please follow her on instagram 💜
[Rapha]
#GazaVerified #photography #expression #freedom #art #autonomy #instagram
A U T O N O M Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ltCKKB1ZNc
Released on April 14, 1978, as the B-side to "I Don't Mind," "Autonomy" was included on the Buzzcocks' debut album, Another Music in a Different Kitchen.
Musically, the song took experimental cues from “#KrautRock” electronic pioneers like #Can. - #SteveDiggle : “What if I just keep playing chords straight down the neck? It was the most simple, obvious thing, but I'd never heard anybody else do that..”
Have you ever noticed how deeply our society has mangled the idea of autonomy until it barely resembles anything human. We are trained to imagine ourselves as tiny sovereign islands whose choices exist in perfect isolation, even though every choice we make bleeds outward into the lives, bodies, and emotional landscapes of the people around us. This distortion becomes most obvious when you look at how people react to being asked to include others in decisions that materially affect them. They treat that inclusion like a robbery of their freedom while pretending that the fallout they create is somehow weightless. It is a strange fucking equation where accountability feels like trespass but consequence does not. That reversal is not natural. It is manufactured. Once you see that pattern clearly, you see the fingerprints of imperial logic all over it. Empire teaches people to believe that their impacts are simply facts of life while the impacts they endure from others are violations. It builds a worldview where asserting your comfort is normal and absorbing the discomfort you cause is the responsibility of everyone else. Even in intimate settings like friendships and sexual relationships, people reproduce this same structure. They cling to a tiny imagined sphere of personal autonomy that somehow must override any harm, risk, or emotional turbulence that their habits create for the people tied to them. They do not call it domination, because domination becomes invisible when it is practiced in miniature. But the architecture is the same as the state. Autonomy in this society is an anemic little idea. It is important, but its actual scope is minuscule. Without collective reinforcement, it barely extends beyond the limits of your limbs. People act like it is this vast realm of unbounded license, but in reality, it is a fragile conceptual tool that only gains strength when held collectively. Autonomy means next to nothing alone but can reshape the world when connected, autonomy becomes powerful only through reciprocal recognition. When people defend autonomy as if it thrives in isolation, what they are actually defending is the right to ignore the relational web that makes meaningful freedom possible at all. They mistake solitude for sovereignty. This is why the refusal to let affected people participate in decisions about your habits is not neutrality. It is a small scale reenactment of the governing posture. It is the transformation of personal life into an arena where one person’s preferences become law and everyone else becomes subject to its effects without representation. People get defensive because they think the alternative is giving up their body or their agency to someone else. But the real alternative is mutual accountability, not subordination. It is the acknowledgment that freedom and consequence are siblings, and you cannot amputate one without mutilating the other. The irony is that this hyper individualist version of autonomy destroys the very thing it claims to protect. When you treat others as intruders the moment they engage with the consequences you create, you turn autonomy into a weaponized excuse to avoid responsibility. You reproduce the emotional logic of the state: my expansion is natural, your resistance is aggression. You dull yourself to the effects you produce while reacting violently to the idea that anyone else’s needs might intersect with your own. That is how empire sneaks into intimate life. It teaches people to feel righteous about impact and persecuted by accountability. Calling autonomy a shared delusion is not cynicism. It is clarity. Human autonomy has always been conditional, always intertwined with the collective arrangements that allow us to survive and express ourselves. Pretending otherwise only makes cooperation impossible and leaves people trapped inside tiny fictions of personal sovereignty that cannot withstand pressure from reality. When we admit that autonomy is constructed, relational, and fundamentally limited, we become able to actually use it. We can explore the psychological forces behind defensiveness. We can talk honestly about how to reshape habits that spill over onto the people we care about. We can stop mimicking the structures that dominate us. If we want liberation, we cannot replicate the same imperial logic that treats consequence as invisible and accountability as violation. We have to rebuild autonomy as a cooperative process, not a barricade. Because any model of freedom that depends on apathy toward those affected by it is not freedom. It is empire wearing the mask of the self.
#Anarchism #AntiAuthoritarian #PowerDynamics #TraumaInformed #Psychology #SocialDynamics #InterpersonalRelationships #AbolitionistPerspective #LeftistDiscussion #CollectiveCare #CommunityCare #Decolonize #CriticalTheory #SurveillanceCulture #HierarchyKills #Autonomy #LiberatoryPractice
GIScience In The Era Of Artificial Intelligence - A Research Agenda Towards Autonomous GIS [GeoAI]
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https://www.psu.edu/news/earth-and-mineral-sciences/story/mapping-new-frontier-ai-integrated-geographic-information-systems <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1080/19475683.2025.2552161 <-- shared paper
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https://youtu.be/JPwIGH9uPm0?si=D9MLgolEyizcWKT9 <-- shared video, “This is a video demo for the GIS…”
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #opensource #QGIS #GeoAI #AI #deeplearning #autonomousGIS #spatialanalysis #cartography #LLM #largelanguagemodels #geoprocessing #decisioncore #model #modeling #workflow #QAQC #autonomy #sociallyresponsible #publicgood
@Penn State University
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 176 (1955)
More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/1915/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #action #autonomy #compliance #compulsion #freedom #liberty #selfcontrol #selfgovernance
In Sabah politics, the conflict is fundamental: 🩵 local parties fight for MA63 rights and state autonomy against 💜 federalist coalitions whose priorities often align with Peninsular interests rather than Sabahan sovereignty.
#sabahpolitics #sabah #ma63 #regionalism #federalism #grs #warisan #malaysia #autonomy #borneo #localpower #politicaldynamics #ge17sabah #identity #rights #elections #cameronmovement #decentralisation #election #elections #generalelection #democracy #government
As you grow, you will encounter various leadership and mentoring styles. Understanding these concepts will help you navigate diverse environments by embracing structure when it supports you and seeking autonomy when it matters most. #ParentingTips #ParentingStyle #Autonomy https://podcasts.apple.com/fi/podcast/emberhart-podcast/id1784530203?i=1000683468493
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