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Thursday, May 11th, 2023

    Time Event
    4:01a
    Workers to lose 300 million over grocery store merger

    *Grocery Store Workers Stand to Lose Over $300 Million Annually if Kroger and Albertsons Merge*

    4:01a
    There’s Still Time to Avoid Climate Catastrophe

    *There's Still Time to Avoid Climate Catastrophe.*

    4:01a
    The coronation pulled a screen across a desperate, polarised nation

    *The coronation [in the UK] pulled a screen across a desperate, failing nation — just as intended. Those who opposed it must be portrayed as radical, or the whole rotten system it represents might come crashing down.*

    If I imagine myself as British, I do not see myself as opposing either the coronation or the monarchy. I simply see them as side issues. Queen Elizabeth II was not responsible for the Tory policy of repression and impoverishment of the poor, nor for Starmer's ruination of the Labour party. Those are what's really bad about the UK government.

    4:01a
    Why Native history is American history

    The presence of indigenous people in what is now the US was not a mere detail. The desire to take their lands was central to the history of the US.

    4:01a
    WhatsApp could disappear from UK over privacy concerns

    The Tories want to ban communication systems that use end-to-end encryption. They've announced their decision that "safety", supposedly to be achieved by monitoring everyone's communications, outweighs privacy, so digital systems that maintai8n our privacy against state surveillance will be banned.

    Paradoxically, what may defend us is WhatsApp.

    The WhatsApp application is nonfree software -- users can't tell what it really does, let alone fix anything malicious or merely broken that may be in it. So many nonfree programs are malware that we shouldn't suppose any of them is honest. The nonfree WhatsApp App could send all the user's private nessages, in plain text form, to whoever Meta/Facebook wishes, whether that be the Chinese government, the UK government, the US government, or Meta itself.

    We can't have free software packages that do communication with end-to-end encryption if communication systens with end-to-end encryption are prohibited. Paradoxically, a proporietary app which is not fit to trust may protect our right to have systems which can be worthy of our trust.

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