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The Avengers, Rogue Roombas, and Robot Accountability

By Hilary Ledwell and Michael Schulson

…ur cat or your toes. You have toes (I assume). So, anyway, I agree—the bad news is that we’re totally not ready for Ultron. The good news is that we may be ready for Roombas. But the middling news is that even that may not be all that easy. MHS: Because Roombas aren’t people? HL: Well, yes, and because it might still be hard to figure out who to sue to compensate you for your rogue Roomba. Or your rogue oven that burns your smarthouse down while y…

Syria Receives Sudanese Weapons on Ukrainian Aircraft via Qatar and Turkey

By Haroon Moghul

…missile’s performance. “The kills are proof that the FN-6 is reliable and user-friendly, because rebel fighters are generally not well trained in operating missile systems,” the newspaper, Global Times, quoted a Chinese aviation analyst as saying. The successful attacks on Syria’s helicopters by Chinese missiles brought “publicity” that “will raise the image of Chinese defense products on the international arms trade market,” the newspaper wrote….

Our Failure To Understand Ferguson: A Cognitive Explanation

By Andrew Aghapour

…n teach us about Ferguson Watch filmmaker Dean Peterson’s short video of a New York City subway stairwell: When the video was posted three years ago, it prompted this jewel of an observation by Metafilter user James Bording: “On its own, when you see one person slip, you automatically assume that person slipped, was clumsy or not playing attention. But when you look at the aggregate, you realize that the failure isn’t on the individual at all, rat…

An Art of Flesh and Blood: Remembering Disability Activist Rev. Rick Curry

By Gregory Mozgala

…each other. A young man with a severe case of cerebral palsy—a wheelchair user who relied on a personal attendant—in the next room overheard us and threw himself out of his chair, dragging himself over to us so he could join the conversation. I saw a man who couldn’t walk without crutches suddenly get up and run to the front of a bar when he realized it was his time to sing karaoke (a miracle?), and I watched people from all over the country and…

Catholic Bishops Fund Anti-Choice ‘Clinics’ Set to Receive Trump Title X Funding

By Patricia Miller

…million was diverted from the U.S. Agency for International Development to promote the NFP agenda of the Family of the America Foundation. More recently, Boston Archbishop Sean O’Malley, chair of the USCCB’s Committee on Pro-Life Activities, voiced support for federal measures that would divert funding from Planned Parenthood to organizations like Obria, “so women can obtain their health care from providers that do not promote abortion.” Of course…

Don’t Tread on our Gas Stoves: The Latest Right-Wing Cause May Be Silly But the Strategy is the Point

By Annika Brockschmidt

…tove from my cold dead hands.” Others, like influential right-wing Twitter-user “Catturd,” are willing to endanger themselves explicitly: “Dear Liberals…I turned on all my gas stove eyes today and let them burn for no reason—and there’s absolutely nothing you can do about it but cry.” Ron DeSantis is willing to imply defending gas stoves with weapons by lifting a sign of a modified Gadsen “Don’t tread on me” flag featuring a gas stove rather than…

New Book by Olivier Roy Argues that Aggressive Attempts to Christianize the West Actually Hasten Secularism

By Ivan Strenski

…e can’t really say with any degree of conviction that this new anthropology is either merely a symptom of the final victory of profane secularism or the first shoots of a new―although not Christian―growth of the sacred, and thus a new chapter in the history of religion in Europe itself….

What Fidel Castro’s Death Means for LGBT Rights in Cuba and More, in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…we are going to burn and send you to hell, where you all belong.” Ireland: New group promotes LGBT inclusion in Presbyterian Church The Belfast Telegraph reports on a retired lawyer’s efforts to create a group that would promote inclusion of LGBT people in the Presbyterian Church, an effort “to emulate the success of existing grups such as Changing Ireland and Accepting Sexuality, which have been operating within the Church of Ireland and the Iris…

‘Putin’s Children’ Push ‘Traditional Values’ in Latvia; Jewish Reparative Therapy Group Finds ‘Haven’ In Israel; Sikh Activist in UK Supports LGBT South Asians; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…arriage – it just has to apply it to same-sex couples.” Nick Duffy at Pink New notes that the New Chapel (Unitarian and Free Christian) in Manchester recently made provision for transgender people to be rebaptized, something Wilson says he does not support, saying that “as an Anglican I think you are baptized once.” India: Supreme Court Reconsiders Recriminalization of Homosexuality On Tuesday, in what an LGBT activist called “a progressive step i…

Art(ful) History in Texas

By Lauri Lebo

…als, since last week the board voted to delay indefinitely the purchase of new science textbooks that include the changes McLeroy has lobbied for. Because new science textbooks are estimated to cost $350 million, the board opted to bridge the gap between the old and the new science standards with supplemental materials. The board will review and select the materials next spring. Using supplemental materials may be something of a creationist cloak…