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FBI requests statistics from thug departments
The FBI has asked US thug departments to submit more detailed crime
statistics, but does not require them to offer data at all.
Many thug departments did not submit any.
These reports are important, so they should be mandatory. |
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Urgent: Wealth tax on the ultra-rich
US citizens: call on Congress to pass a wealth tax on the ultra-rich.
The Capitol Switchboard number is +1-202-224-3121.
If you call, please spread the word! |
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Workers suspended by Amazon
After a machine fire in an Amazon warehouse, some workers in the next
shift refused to work, perhaps fearing the smoke could damage their
respiratory tracts. Amazon "suspended" them. |
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Abortion paid for by Republican Herschel Walker
Correction about Republican candidate Herschel Walker: the woman whose
abortion he paid for in 2009 was not his son's girlfriend, as I wrote.
She was, rather, his own girlfriend.
It appears I misunderstood some of the text in the previous article.
Paying for her abortion was the right thing for him to do. We should
not criticize him for that — not in the slightest. (In a country with
a good national medical system, she would not have needed such help, but
that's a different issue.)
When Walker has done which does deserve criticism is (1) advocating a ban
on abortions in the future, and (2) covering up his history to win support
from others who want to ban abortions.
It does children no favor to bring them into a world in which climate
crisis is developing into climate disaster — so please help avoid it.
Avoiding this will also help stop the process short of total disaster. |
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Climate emergency already started
The climate emergency has already started. We need to push hard to
avoid disaster. Most Americans understand this, but rich
planet-roasters dominate the media. |
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OPEC driving oil prices up
OPEC has decided to cut supplies of oil and drive the price back up.
If it were only a matter of prices and the short-term economy, I would
recommend that the US ship a lot of oil — that would really screw
OPEN. However, the most important issue at stake is global heating
and the disaster we must avoid. To do the right thing now means
helping people get through this winter, in ways that will reduce the
long-term demand for fossil fuels. |
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Thug attacked teenager making video
A Welsh thug has been convicted of attacking a teenager for making a video
of the exterior of a police station.
The thug said he had decided to assume arbitrarily that anyone
making a video of the police station was a terrorist.
The judge described the victim as a "vulnerable boy". This suggests
to me that the judge may believe there are people who are "not
vulnerable" and that it would have been acceptable to attack one of
them this way. I don't think so. |
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Rules for how AIs treat people
The White House published a draft statement of rules for how AIs
treat people.
Although these rules are not legally binding, it makes sense to
test a set of rules — for a while — before making it binding.
However, from what I can see in this article, these rules are based
on the usual wrong assumption: that rules about the use of data
about individuals can eliminate the danger posed by of accumulation of
that data.
Does it require an AI used to judge people be free software?
If not, we know it is too weak.
The dangers of collecting data about you include repression, for instance when China does it,
and putting you at a disadvantage, for instance when a John Deere
tractor does it.
To make data collection by tractors respect the rights of farmers, it
must deliver that data about a given farm only to the farm owner,
and if an AI analyzes the data, that should be free software running
on the farmer's computer. |
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Australian journalists could face jail
* Journalists working for foreign-owned outlets could face jail under
Australia's foreign interference laws for exposing defence force war
crimes or misuse of surveillance powers, a new paper has warned.*
There is a general pattern in which Australian laws to "protect security"
lack safeguards against repression. Consider the Australian equivalent
of the Espionage Act, which was used to prosecute whistleblower Witness K,
and the law allowing Australia to force anyone to sabotage any
computer system (that perse has access to) or be put in prison. |
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Republicans buying political office
Without campaign finance reform, rich Republicans will be able to buy
themselves almost any office by spending tens of millions of dollars. |
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Repetitive Republican lies
Republicans have been repeating since the 1930s the lies they told
to attack the New Deal.
It is true that the corrupter added some new lies to go with the old lies. |
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Urgent: Reject underwater tunnel for Line 5 oil pipeline
US citizens: call on the Army Corps of Engineers to reject the underwater
tunnel for the Line 5 oil pipeline. |