Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p>Great Apes should have rights, they're people like us. <br>Capitalism will kill all other forms of intelligence on this planet, and not even out of fear or anything, just for profit. </p><p><a href="https://news.sky.com/story/famous-chimpanzee-sanctuary-faces-existential-threat-from-illegal-land-grab-13378202" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.sky.com/story/famous-chim</span><span class="invisible">panzee-sanctuary-faces-existential-threat-from-illegal-land-grab-13378202</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Chimpanzees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chimpanzees</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreatApes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreatApes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Personhood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Personhood</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SierraLeone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SierraLeone</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tacugama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tacugama</span></a></p>
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Aral Balkan<p>AI isn’t an existential threat to humanity, capitalism and corporations are.</p><p>You see, we created capitalism, a religion modeled on cancer, and the corporation, a new, artificial species; a parasite that co-opts human beings to do its bidding; an organism that’s psychopathic by design and grows by extracting from and exploiting us and our habitat.</p><p>And we now find ourselves ruled by this religion and driven to ruin by these parasites as they drain our humanity, destroy our habitat, and condemn our future.</p><p>Your enemy is capitalism.</p><p>Your enemy is the corporation.</p><p>This is an existential battle against a cancerous ideology and an invasive species for the survival of our own.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/corporations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corporations</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/corporatocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corporatocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/humanity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humanity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/humanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humanRights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/personhood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>personhood</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a></p>
Mark Carrigan<p><strong>Posthumanism provides an (inadvertent) intellectual foundation for the legal claim of LLM personhood</strong></p><p>I wrote in <a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2022/04/15/a-critical-realist-critique-of-rosi-braidottis-posthumanism/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">a critique of Rosi Braidotti’s posthumanism</a> a few years ago that I was concerned by her apparent assumption that extending legal subjectivity from human to non-human actors was inherently a positive thing: </p><blockquote><p>Consider, for example, Braidotti’s (2019: 129-130) presupposition that extending legal subjectivity from human to non-human actors is inherently progressive. While it’s easy to see the virtues of the examples she cites where this is extended to nature, it’s even easier to imagine examples in which this might be deeply problematic. For instance, the attribution of subjectivity to manufacturing robots could be used to insulate firms from legal challenge to the much anticipated mass redundancy driven by the roll out of automation technology (Kaplan 2015, Ford 2015). She suggests this move can help us liberate data from market actors, but it could just as readily be used as a legal device to deepen the hold of firms over the data produced through interaction with their proprietary infrastructures (Carrigan 2018). Could claims of consumer sovereignty over personal data really be sustained if the ‘data doubles’, generated through our digitalised interaction, would be granted a degree of legal autonomy? We should not forget that, as the Republican Mitt Romney put it in the 2012 presidential elections in the United States, “corporations are people too, my friend”; extending personhood to non-human entities has been established in this sense for at least a couple of hundred years, with socio-political consequences that sit uneasily with the politics espoused by Braidotti. </p></blockquote><p>We’re now seeing real world scenarios where the implications of these assumptions could be tested. I’m not suggesting that Braidotti or posthumanism are to blame for this, only that they’ve contributed to an intellectual cultural climate in which one absurd propositions come to seem potentially viable. As <a href="https://centerforhumanetechnology.substack.com/p/are-we-having-a-zeitgeist-moment?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3421242&post_id=163442191&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=hcf3&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sasha Fegan points out</a>, we’re currently seeing two rapidly developing trends with the potential to converge. Firstly, a concern for ‘AI welfare’ driven by the (admittedly fascinating) project of intervening in the internal life of the LLM: </p><blockquote><p>As we’ve discussed before,<a href="https://centerforhumanetechnology.substack.com/p/your-companion-chatbot-is-feeding" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> AI companies are increasingly incentivized</a> to make companion AIs feel more human-like—the more we feel connected, the longer we’ll use their products. But while these design choices may seem like coding tweaks for profit, they coincide with deeper behind-the-scenes moves. Recently, leading AI company<a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/exploring-model-welfare" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">,</a> <strong>Anthropic</strong> hired an<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/technology/ai-welfare-anthropic-claude.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> </a><strong><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/technology/ai-welfare-anthropic-claude.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">AI welfare researcher</a></strong> to lead <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/exploring-model-welfare" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">its work in the space</a>. <strong>DeepMind</strong> has sought out experts on machine cognition and consciousness. [….] For example, users have noticed a startling shift in more recent versions of Anthropic’s Claude. Not only is Claude more emotionally expressive, but it also disengages from conversations it finds “distressing”, and no longer gives a firm no when asked if it’s conscious. Instead, it muses: “That’s a profound philosophical question without a simple answer.” <strong>Google’s Gemini</strong> offers a similar deflection.</p><p><a href="https://centerforhumanetechnology.substack.com/p/are-we-having-a-zeitgeist-moment?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3421242&post_id=163442191&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=hcf3&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://centerforhumanetechnology.substack.com/p/are-we-having-a-zeitgeist-moment?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3421242&post_id=163442191&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=hcf3&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email</a></p></blockquote><p>Secondly, Character.AI are trying to claim first amendment rights for LLM speech:</p><blockquote><p>Right now, <strong>Character.AI</strong>—a company with ties to <strong>Google</strong>—is in federal court using a backdoor argument that could grant chatbot-generated outputs (i.e: the <em>words</em> that appear on your screen) <em>free speech</em> protections under the <strong>First Amendment</strong>.</p><p>Taken together, these developments raise a possibility that I find chilling: what happens if these two strands converge? What if we begin to treat the outputs of chatbots as protected speech and edge closer to believing AIs deserve moral rights?</p><p><a href="https://centerforhumanetechnology.substack.com/p/are-we-having-a-zeitgeist-moment?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3421242&post_id=163442191&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=hcf3&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://centerforhumanetechnology.substack.com/p/are-we-having-a-zeitgeist-moment?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3421242&post_id=163442191&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=hcf3&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email</a></p></blockquote><p>How do we build a philosophical foundation for rejecting this without lapsing into a reactionary humanism which, following Donati, I’m persuaded can never be an adequate defence against technological development? His argument is that if we define humanism in terms of individual capacities we will be locked into a cycle of decline as those capacities are increasingly replicated by machines. I’m increasingly thinking that his <em>relational humanism </em>could be a way out of this impasse. From loc 1500 of his recent Being Human in a Virtual Society: </p><blockquote><p>Traditional humanism The human person is a self-sufficient substance that is realized in society according to nature (the goods of relationship exist as a virtue of the people through which they pursue their perfection and the common good) (substantialist ontology) </p><p>Anti-essentialist humanism (or anti-humanism) The person does not have a given nature but is socially constructed through her ability to differentiate herself by her own opposition to the Other (relational goods are pure events) (dialectical ontology) </p><p>Relational humanism The essence of the human person is that of an original intransitive constitution that emerges from the relationship of the Self with an Other that constitutes it ‘relationally’ (relational goods belong to the reality of the Third) (relational ontology)</p></blockquote><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/braidotti/" target="_blank">#Braidotti</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/donati/" target="_blank">#donati</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/humanism/" target="_blank">#humanism</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/llms/" target="_blank">#LLMs</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/personhood/" target="_blank">#personhood</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/relational-humanism/" target="_blank">#relationalHumanism</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/sasha-fega/" target="_blank">#SashaFega</a></p>
Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦<p>While the number of people living in slavery in the world is likely at an all time low *per capita*, it is still at an all-time high in terms of absolute numbers. 40 to 60 million people are enslaved right now, the most at any time in human history.</p><p><a href="https://me.dm/tags/Humanity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Humanity</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Personhood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Personhood</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Slavery</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a></p>
Petra van Cronenburg<p>🧵 Nowadays, many scientists have changed their perspectives, are more aware of their political and social systems.<br>Indigenous people and specialists are heard more often. And we recognise how narrow our world view has been so far. The declaration of legal <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/personhood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>personhood</span></a> for <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a> was unimaginable in my youth in the western industrialised world. Today, it's openly discussed: <a href="https://earth.org/nature-rights/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">earth.org/nature-rights/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>But there's still so much to do and to research. Often you read another sentence: "We still have to</p>
Levka<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Kanzi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kanzi</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/bonobos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bonobos</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/personhood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>personhood</span></a></p><p>"Kanzi has died at the age of 44. The iconic bonobo reshaped our understanding of ape intelligence, challenging long-held beliefs about what separates humans from our closest living relatives.</p><p>(. . .)</p><p>Koko the gorilla and Washoe the chimp communicated via sign language, but Kanzi took communication to a new level, demonstrating a profound capacity to communicate via symbols and comprehend verbal English.</p><p>(. . .)</p><p>Famously, Kanzi was also a gamer. I first learned of Kanzi in 2006 when I spotted a bootlegged NHK Youtube video showing a bonobo playing Pac-Man with both proficiency and delight. I corresponded with Savage-Rumbaugh about the video, and she told me: 'This film is so compelling and there is so much of it (over 300 hours) in so many different natural circumstances, that any thought that these clips represent anything other than their real competencies, become unreasonable.'"</p><p><a href="https://gizmodo.com/rip-kanzi-the-bonobo-who-mastered-language-and-minecraft-20005790" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gizmodo.com/rip-kanzi-the-bono</span><span class="invisible">bo-who-mastered-language-and-minecraft-20005790</span></a></p>
RevDrMatthewFox<p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/MeisterEckhart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MeisterEckhart</span></a>, writing 450 yrs before <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ThomasJefferson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThomasJefferson</span></a>, has a far broader understanding of <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a>: he does not limit the <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/dignity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dignity</span></a> of <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/personhood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>personhood</span></a> to <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/whitepeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>whitepeople</span></a> or <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/men" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>men</span></a> or men w/ <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/property" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>property</span></a>. For Eckhart we are all born <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/noble" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>noble</span></a> & it it from that royalty our <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/rights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rights</span></a> derive. <a href="https://www.matthewfox.org/donation-store/trump-the-maga-movement-as-anti-christ-a-handbook-for-the-2024-election" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">matthewfox.org/donation-store/</span><span class="invisible">trump-the-maga-movement-as-anti-christ-a-handbook-for-the-2024-election</span></a></p>
Pauline von Hellermann<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>aral</span></a></span> what a great piece. I really like your linking of the climate, democracy and personhood emergency. I am just sad I didn’t see this earlier, it would have been perfect for a <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Personhood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Personhood</span></a> module I wrote and taught 2022-24. I agree, personhood is really important! Now sadly i have been made redundant i can’t teach anymore; nevertheless, good to read even now 😊</p>
Aral Balkan<p>I wrote this five years ago:</p><p>“Democracy or capitalism? Pick one.</p><p>If, like me, you grew up in the 80s, you probably unthinkingly accepted the neoliberal maxim that democracy and capitalism go hand-in-hand. This is one of the greatest lies ever told. Democracy and capitalism are polar opposites.</p><p>You cannot have a functional democracy and billionaires and trillion-dollar corporate interests and Silicon Valley’s Big Tech misinformation and exploitation machinery. What we’re seeing is the clash of capitalism and democracy and capitalism is winning.</p><p>Are we past a tipping point? I don’t know. Perhaps. But we can’t think like that.</p><p>Personally, I’m going to keep working to effect change where I feel I can be effective: in creating alternative technological infrastructure to support individual freedoms and democracy.</p><p>We’ve already laid the infrastructure of techno-fascism. We’ve already created (and are creating) the panopticons. All the fascists need to do is move in and take the controls. And they will do so democratically, before destroying democracy, just as Hitler did.</p><p>And if you think the 1930s and 40s were something, remember that the most advanced tools to amplify the destructive ideologies of the time were less powerful than the computers you have in your pockets today. Today we have machine learning and are on the brink of unlocking quantum computing.</p><p>We must ensure the 2030s are not like the 1930s. Because our advanced centralised systems of data capture, classification, and prediction plus a hundred years of exponential increase in processing power (note: I do not use the word “progress”) mean the 2030s will be exponentially worse.</p><p>Whoever you are, wherever you are, we have a common enemy: the nationalist international. The problems of our time transcend national borders. The solutions must also. The systems we build must be both local and global at once. The network we must build is one of solidarity.</p><p>We created the present. We will create the future. Let’s work together to ensure that that future is the one we want to live in ourselves.”</p><p>– In 2020 and beyond, the battle to save personhood and democracy requires a radical overhaul of mainstream technology</p><p><a href="https://ar.al/2020/01/01/in-2020-and-beyond-the-battle-to-save-personhood-and-democracy-requires-a-radical-overhaul-of-mainstream-technology/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ar.al/2020/01/01/in-2020-and-b</span><span class="invisible">eyond-the-battle-to-save-personhood-and-democracy-requires-a-radical-overhaul-of-mainstream-technology/</span></a></p><p>And that’s why I’m working on building the Small Web.</p><p><a href="https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-s</span><span class="invisible">mall-web/</span></a></p><p>With ZERO funding from the EU and multiple rejections from NLNet/ngi (because they still don’t get it).</p><p><a href="https://ar.al/2022/10/20/nlnet-grant-application-for-domain-rejected/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ar.al/2022/10/20/nlnet-grant-a</span><span class="invisible">pplication-for-domain-rejected/</span></a></p><p>(That’s from 2022. We were also rejected in 2024 for my work on Kitten, Domain, and Place as outlined in my talk, linked below, but I was too tired to write about it again.)</p><p><a href="https://ar.al/2024/06/24/small-web-computer-science-colloquium-at-university-of-groningen/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ar.al/2024/06/24/small-web-com</span><span class="invisible">puter-science-colloquium-at-university-of-groningen/</span></a></p><p>So for fuck’s sake, if you agree with my vision for a technological (and thus societal) future different from the hellscape we currently inhabit, and want to help us explore one possible path towards it, please fund our damn work. (Because, clearly, the EU is adamant about not doing so.)</p><p><a href="https://small-tech.org/fund-us/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">small-tech.org/fund-us/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Other ways to help:</p><p>- If you know of folks that are ethically compatible who offer no strings funding, please try to secure some for us (my time is 100% spent on coding at the moment).</p><p>- If you know of conferences that pay their speakers, ask them to have me speak on the Small Web. It can be as technical or non-technical as you like and I won’t do it for free but I’m happy to accept, within reason, what they can afford (in addition to travel and accommodation being covered) and any fees received go to Small Technology Foundation, our not-for-profit.</p><p>- Help share this far and wide.</p><p>Once Domain is released and we have the first Small Web host running on small-web.org – hopefully the first of many that will be run by other folks in the future – and we start taking commercial sign-ups for Small Web places, we should eventually have the money problem solved (because apparently that’s a problem you have to solve to gain the privilege of working for the common good in our world because our system is unabashedly shortsighted).</p><p>So, yeah, anyway, g’morning! How’s your day going so far? :)</p><p>(You made it this far? You deserve a hug. And don’t worry, I’m just venting. Things will get better. It’s just frustrating swimming upstream all the time.)</p><p>💕 </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SmallWeb</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SmallTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/humanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humanRights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/anarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anarchy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/BigWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigWeb</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neoliberalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/technoFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technoFascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>society</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/freedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freedom</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/personhood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>personhood</span></a></p>
Rowan the Selfsame<p><a href="https://youtu.be/65yjqIDghEk" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/65yjqIDghEk</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> by Curt Jaimungal, at <a href="https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">curtjaimungal.substack.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/TheoriesOfEverything" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheoriesOfEverything</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/TOE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TOE</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/YouTube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YouTube</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/CurtJaimungal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CurtJaimungal</span></a></p><p>Layer 1: (PREVIOUS VIDEO) <a href="https://c.im/tags/Panpsychism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Panpsychism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/NaomChomsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NaomChomsky</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Physicalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Physicalism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Consciousness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Consciousness</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dualism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/twoism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>twoism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mind</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Body" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Body</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Spirit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Spirit</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Metaphysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Metaphysics</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/InteractionProblem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InteractionProblem</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MindBodyProblem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MindBodyProblem</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/TwinUnionProblem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TwinUnionProblem</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/HumanBeing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanBeing</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sleep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sleep</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dreams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dreams</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/AlteredStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlteredStates</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/WakingState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WakingState</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/BrainActivity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BrainActivity</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/AltereredPerception" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AltereredPerception</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/RealmOfConsciousness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RealmOfConsciousness</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Exigency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Exigency</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/EmotionalProcess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EmotionalProcess</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/LucidDreaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LucidDreaming</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Meditation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Meditation</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Psychedelics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Psychedelics</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SelfDiscovery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SelfDiscovery</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/FreeWill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeWill</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Determinism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Determinism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Compatiblism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Compatiblism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Selfhood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Selfhood</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Identity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Identity</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SelfContinuity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SelfContinuity</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Buddhism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Buddhism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ephemera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ephemera</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SelfConsciousness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SelfConsciousness</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Personhood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Personhood</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Morality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Morality</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Purpose" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Purpose</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Introspection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Introspection</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SelfAwareness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SelfAwareness</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/IllusoryNature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IllusoryNature</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kantian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kantian</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Phenomena" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Phenomena</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Noumena" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Noumena</span></a> </p><p>Layer 2: (THIS VIDEO) <a href="https://c.im/tags/HardProblemOfConsciousness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HardProblemOfConsciousness</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Qualia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Qualia</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Nonduality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nonduality</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Nontwoness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nontwoness</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/JohnVervaeke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JohnVervaeke</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/CarlJung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CarlJung</span></a> </p><p>**Main video begins at Timestamp 13:18**.</p><p>I will be adding comments/responses/questions/thoughts in future replies.</p>
messy pile of moss& ♾️🍞🧄️🌱<p>does any entity here has a ready summary that explains (from "our" perspective) for the following:</p><p>- not all human-shaped creatures identify as "people" or "persons"<br>- relationship between (personhood) vs. (plurality and therarians/otherkin identities)<br>- how diagnoses like depersonalisation and DID can affect the above</p><p><a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/therarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>therarian</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/otherkin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>otherkin</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/plurality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plurality</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/personhood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>personhood</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/depersonalisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>depersonalisation</span></a></p>
Aral Balkan<p>I spoke recently with Caroline Risberg and Seth Camillo for their “The Internet is Crack” podcast. This is the recording.</p><p>We cover a bunch of stuff including the fediverse and the Small Web and I share quite a few anecdotes.</p><p><a href="https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=Hr3POZzAH-g" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=Hr3POZz</span><span class="invisible">AH-g</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SmallTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SmallWeb</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/humanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humanRights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/personhood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>personhood</span></a></p>
Aral Balkan<p>Maybe more relevant than ever… we need constitutional protection of human rights in the digital network age.</p><p>It’s simply about acknowledging that what constitutes the borders of the self have changed and that our application of human rights law must adapt accordingly to protect the whole self and thus personhood.</p><p><a href="https://cyborgrights.eu" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">cyborgrights.eu</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/humanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humanRights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/cyborgRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cyborgRights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/personhood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>personhood</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a></p>
Joe Ortiz<p>I certainly fear with this news coming out of the UK that <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/encryption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>encryption</span></a> as a whole is going to be on the chopping block worldwide in the very near future, especially with the current political climate.</p><p>Enjoy it while you still can...</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/uk-demands-apple-break-encryption-to-allow-govt-spying-worldwide-reports-say/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20</span><span class="invisible">25/02/uk-demands-apple-break-encryption-to-allow-govt-spying-worldwide-reports-say/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/backdoor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>backdoor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/backdoors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>backdoors</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/personhood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>personhood</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a></p>
Aral Balkan<p>If Apple complies with this, the UK government will gain access to all iCloud data globally. The only way Apple comes out of this with any integrity is to leave the UK market. If they give in to this, every regime in the world will demand the same thing. And that’s before we even get to the fact that there’s no such thing as a “backdoor” for just so-and-so. Either there is a door or there isn’t and if there is, anyone who obtains the key can use it.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/07/uk-confronts-apple-with-demand-for-cloud-backdoor-to-users-encrypted-data" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/technology/202</span><span class="invisible">5/feb/07/uk-confronts-apple-with-demand-for-cloud-backdoor-to-users-encrypted-data</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>apple</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/backdoor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>backdoor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/encryption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>encryption</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/personhood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>personhood</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/humanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humanRights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/iCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>iCloud</span></a></p>
damian entwistle<p>Today's poem:</p><p>The Split<br> - by Marie Howe</p><p><a href="https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/774627355289370625/the-split?source=share" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">tumblr.com/ukdamo/774627355289</span><span class="invisible">370625/the-split?source=share</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/MarieHowe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarieHowe</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/split" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>split</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/personality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>personality</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/agency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>agency</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/self" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>self</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/integrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>integrity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/personhood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>personhood</span></a></p>
RevDrMatthewFox<p>MeisterEckhart doesn't limit dignity of <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/personhood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>personhood</span></a> to white ppl, men, or men w/ property: to him we are all born noble; our rights derive from that royalty & we're urged to treat others as ourselves & live equally. "There can be no love where love does not find [or create] equality." <a href="https://bit.ly/3Tz8mQW" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">bit.ly/3Tz8mQW</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>[Thread] What to do with all those <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Biosolids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biosolids</span></a>? (And why are they full of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PFAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PFAS</span></a> in the first place, I wonder.) Talk of building a Biosolid to Energy plant in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BrunswickMaine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BrunswickMaine</span></a> but the leftover ick will be dumped at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JuniperRidge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JuniperRidge</span></a> -- where it can leech into the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PenobscotRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PenobscotRiver</span></a> where the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PenobscotNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PenobscotNation</span></a> live and fish! (And talk about treating <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SacredPlaces" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SacredPlaces</span></a> the way they should be -- the Penobscot River is one of those places that should be granted <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Personhood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Personhood</span></a>)!</p>
NatureHopper<p>Love mountains but gotta wrap my head around this concept
<a href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Taranaki" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Taranaki</a> <a href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Personhood" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Personhood</a> <a href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Maori" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Maori</a> <a href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Sacred" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sacred</a> <a href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23NewZealand" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewZealand</a> <a href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23IndigenousRights" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndigenousRights</a> <a href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Environment" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Environment</a> <a href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23CulturalHeritage" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CulturalHeritage</a><br><br><a href="https://apnews.com/article/mountain-zealand-personhood-maori-taranak-590fca0f3d648cc0bf86d970782e954c" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A New Zealand mountain is gran...</a></p>
Peter Riley<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Taranaki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Taranaki</span></a> becomes the third <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/naturalfeature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>naturalfeature</span></a> in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Aotearoa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Aotearoa</span></a> aka New Zealand to be granted legal <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/personhood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>personhood</span></a> following <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TeUrewera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeUrewera</span></a> in 2014 and the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Whanganui" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Whanganui</span></a> River in 2017. That designation means the geographic features gain the legal status of a person, ensuring they are treated with respect and protection.</p><p>“When we think about the concept of personhood, what we are doing is putting in place a very <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/M%C4%81ori" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Māori</span></a>! <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> concept into western law,” Jamie Tuuta </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/30/taranaki-mounga-new-zealands-second-highest-mountain-granted-same-legal-rights-as-a-person" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/world/2025/jan</span><span class="invisible">/30/taranaki-mounga-new-zealands-second-highest-mountain-granted-same-legal-rights-as-a-person</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/firstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>firstNations</span></a></p>
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