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People arrested in UK for projecting Epstein and bully images
The UK has arrested
people for projecting large images of
the bully and
Epstein.
This is outrageous censorship.
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MSNBC strict standard to staff critical of Charles Kirk
MSNBC is applying a
ridiculously
strict standard to staff that post
criticizing Charles Kirk for his politics.
I have a suspicion that MSNBC is not applying the same strictness to
statements that support the bully.
But I don't watch MSNBC (I don't
have a cable hookup since they use DRM and track people), so I don't
really know.
Does anyone know first hand if this is true?
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Therapy sessions given to bullshit generators
Psychotherapists are invited to
give
recordings of therapy sessions to
a bullshit generator service to summarize them. They must agree to
give the company a "non-exclusive, transferable, assignable,
perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide license" to patients’ anonymized
therapy sessions.
With so much data to work with, I expect that these recordings
will often be deanonymized.
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Deportation thugs find people by subpoenas for data
The deportation thugs
often find
people by subpoenas for data from
dis-services that the targets are dependent on.
This included graduate students with visas, who were accused of the
non-crime of speaking up for Palestinians' lives and rights.
In the early years of the century I learned about the listening and
tracking capabilities of portable phones, and concluded people should
refuse to carry these surveillance devices. So that's what I have done.
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Convincing evidence Israel has committed genocide
The UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territories
and Israel has published convincing evidence to show that Israel has
committed genocide in Gaza, and its leaders did that intentionally.
This article
goes through the case, describing the kinds of evidence and how they relate
to the genocide treaty.
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Bully filed frivolous lawsuit against New York Times
The bully
has filed a frivolous lawsuit against the New York Times
demanding 16 billion dollars damages
for
publishing things he did not like.
I say "frivolous" because lawyers say he has no valid grounds and can't win
in a fair trial. The point, however, is to ensure it can't be fair.
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Do you go to a clinic which urges you to sign up for Mychart?
Do you go to a clinic which urges you to sign up for Mychart? If so,
it is already mistreating you by making you run nonfree software.
But the developer, Epic, wants to do worse: lead users to
sign
away their right to sue if Epic misuses or leaks their personal medical data.
The old terms and conditions were already unacceptable in my view,
and so was running nonfree software, so I never did sign up.
But if you did in the past, this should be the point at which you
won't stand for any more.
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LA protester found not guilty of assaulting border patrol agent
*Jury finds LA protester
not
guilty of assaulting border patrol
agent.*
It seems the jury did not trust the testimony against the protester.
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Bill to prohibit medical corporations buying independent clinics
Democrats in Congress have introduced a bill to
prohibit
giant medical corporations from buying independent clinics.
It ought to prevent mergers too, perhaps by setting a maximum total
turnover for any one medical organization.
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Judges rule against deporting Guatemalan minors and Venezuelans
*Judges rule
against Trump administration on deporting Guatemalan
[minors] and Venezuelans.*
Using the word "children" to describe the Guatemalans protected by
this decision fails to express its full scope. It protects Guatemalan
minors who are adolescents as well as Guatemalan minors who are children.
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American economic system no longer failing by accident
*The American economic system is
no
longer failing by accident; it is
succeeding at its new design: concentrating wealth and power for the
few while dismantling the foundations of a dignified life for the
many.*
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More than a quarter million people displaced from Gaza City
*More than a quarter
of a million people displaced from Gaza City in
past month, UN figures show.*
This is, in itself, an enormous atrocity.
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Myka Sanders’ gender identity
Here's an example of the messed-up English prose that results
when people use plural pronouns for individuals:
They said if they had the opportunity to use their correct pronouns, it
would “feel like the first time” they could “properly breathe out”
since they had started working at the school.
How many individuals or groups are being
referred
to in that sentence?
I willingly use gender-neutral pronouns to refer to a person of
non-binary gender, but I do it with singular gender-neutral pronouns
when the referent is one person.
They are person (perse for
short), per, and pers.
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Rabble-rousing
* Rabble-rousing of far-right demagogues is a reminder that the battle
for a fair and habitable planet
cannot
be fought alone.*
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Copenhagen drone incursion
An unidentified drone flying near Copenhagen airport compelled
it to
shut down.
One can suspect it was done by the
Putin forces, but that is not certain.
It is legitimate to knock down a drone which is doing that, regardless
of who is controlling it. The question is whether there is a safe
enough method to use. Could it be possible to develop a net of metal
cables to catch a drone in and pull it away? This could be deployed
by a heaver and more powerful drone, or drones, that would not have
far to travel.
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Safe painkiller during pregnancy
Explaining why evidence argues that acetaminophen (tylenol) does not
cause asperger's syndrome, but that rather genes that make women more
likely to need a painkiller during pregnancy also make
asperger's syndrome a
little
bit more likely
— whether they use acetaminophen or not.
In any case, the effect is so small mdash; 0.2% of the babies they have —
that one shouldn't worry about it.
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US TikTok deal explained
Americans had a moral panic about how the Chinese government could
snoop on their
private
lives through TikTok.
Surveillance of what you watch is a real danger, but if you live in
the United States, the biggest surveillance threat is from repressive
US politicians. I expect that this deal will enable to get at records
of who uses TikTok and what each user watched.
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