Urgent: Vote NO on blank check for deportation thugs

US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to vote NO on the $70B blank check for the deportation thugs.

See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.

US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.

To phone your congresscritter about this, the main switchboard is +1-202-224-3121.

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Urgent: Reject section 702 of U SAP AT RIOT Act

US citizens: call on reject section 702 of the U SAP AT RIOT Act, which has a loophole that the NSA uses to snoop on US citizens without a warrant.

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Urgent: Windfall profits tax on fossil fuels

US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to put a windfall profits tax on fossil fuels, and spend the money building renewable generation.

To do this, you can use this campaign and modify the text to add that suggestion for spending.

I did this because my congresscritter and senators are notably progressive. If yours are Republicans, it might be better strategy to in your case to support campaign's own suggestion -- to use the tax money as a rebate to ease Americans' immediate suffering.

See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.

US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.

To phone your congresscritter about this, the main switchboard is +1-202-224-3121.

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Urgent: Stop climate-hushing

US citizens: call on major media to stop climate-hushing.

See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.

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Urgent: Limit fishing before sharks and tuna are wiped out

US citizens: call on the WTO to limit fishing before sharks and tuna are wiped out.

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Urgent: Support comprehensive gun violence reform

US citizens: call on your representative and senators to support real, comprehensive gun violence policy reform.

See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.

US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.

To phone your congresscritter about this, the main switchboard is +1-202-224-3121.

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Urgent: Stop persecutor's $1.8 billion insurrection slush fund

US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to stop the persecutor's $1.8 billion insurrection slush fund.

In my letter I called it a step in a coup.

See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.

US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.

To phone your congresscritter about this, the main switchboard is +1-202-224-3121.

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Urgent: Stop warfare-powering supposed-intelligence data centers

US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to stop the Pentagon's warfare-powering supposed-intelligence data centers.

See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.

US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.

To phone your congresscritter about this, the main switchboard is +1-202-224-3121.

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Urgent: Stop Warfare-Powering data centers

US citizens: call on Stop the Pentagon’s Warfare-Powering AI Data Centers

See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.

I am deeply concerned about the Pentagon’s plans to build data centers for computers to decide who to bomb.

In addition, just by running the data centers, the Pentagon will make nearby American cities unlivable, by making water and electricity scarce and expensive. 7-in-10 Americans oppose data centers being built in their communities because of the hardship they create.

I urge you to block the Pentagon from building new taxpayer-subsidized data centers. And please don't be quick to call them "AI", because that is a marketing hype campaign which we should not boost.

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Google's goal to control prices

Matt Stoller thinks Google's next goal is to control nearly all prices based on collecting personal information about nearly all purchases and personal preferences.

See https://www.consumerreports.org/money/questionable-business-practices/instacart-ai-pricing-experiment-inflating-grocery-bills-a1142182490/ and https://substack.com/redirect/d27787e6-e804-4231-8f23-2eaf0e1bc652?j=eyJ1IjoiMmRjd2YyIn0.m51z6BBZ0nK06POYEEH_mMhm8t1iRiokalBUx8IccKE

It is unfortunate that Stoller effectively boosts this scheme by describing it with the term "artificial intelligence".

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Universities thinking about themselves as businesses

Many US universities are thinking about themselves as businesses and judging their activities in terms of cost and profit.

The idea that an educated populace is important is being discarded.

Besides, why bother studying what people have written, or art they have made, when de-generative supposed intelligence can produce it faster?

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Massachusetts trying to protect immigrants

Describing what Massachusetts has done, and is considering doing, to protect immigrants from the federal deportation thugs and stop the latter from causing them gratuitous and avoidable problems.

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(satire) Starving kids in basement

(satire) *Stephen Miller Reminds Picky-Eater Son That There Starving Kids In Basement.*

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Complete copies of books from LLMs

Some well-known LLMs have been proved to be able to deliver up nearly complete copies of the text of some well-known books.

They may, as a result, be found to infringe the copyright on those books.

Precisely why and how this happens is a factual question, but this article does not tell us the answer. In particular, it does not prove that their developers intentionally and specifically stored large parts of any specific book's text verbatim. It could be that the writing style of that book is so distinctive that continuing repeatedly from any portion of the book always finds the text that comes next in the book.

A couple of years ago I heard that someone had made Copi(a)lot reproduce the whole text of the GNU GPL version 3 that way. GitHub surely did not intend for it to do that! And, of course, it omitted the crucial license notice which ought to say that the program is released under the GNU GPL, version 3 or later.

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Where Deform party won local elections

Where the Deform Party won election to local government, they will use local government power to spread persecution and fear.

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Interest in human rights between China and US

The rulers of China care only a little human rights, but the current rulers of the US have ceased to raise the issue because they care even less.

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Campaign for the right to die

The campaign for the right to die, and to assistance in dying, continues in the UK, though limited to those who are expected to die anyway within a short time.

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US unprepared for new pandemics

Budget cuts and direct cancellation of specific programs have left the US unprepared for new pandemics.

Both the saboteur in chief and the saboteur of health have pushed to create these new problems.

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Publicly spread hatred of Muslims

Some members of SCROTUS publicly spread hatred of Muslims.

The world's main religions — Christianity, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism — have all displayed in recent years the potential to persecute unbelievers. Right-wing fanatics try to stir up the hatred to the point of killing. However, in each of those religions, most believers do not want to kill and can live in peace with other groups. The crucial thing is to reject the right-wing killers.

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US history of prosecuting whistleblowers

The US history of prosecuting reporters and their sources (whistleblowers) runs through Nixon and Obama, and merges into the persecutor's current efforts to totally subjugate the news media.

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