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Event |
| 3:02a |
Australia's universities corrupted to make profit the goal
Australia's universities have been corrupted by government pressure
to make profit the goal.
I expect that the right-wing ideology of the previous government
encouraged this, but the change seems to have been happening for
longer than that.
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| 3:02a |
Piecing together failure of Greek vessel to rescue migrants
Independent evidence is being used to piece together the actions of
the Greek coast guard vessel that failed to rescue migrants from a
trawler. There is evidence that the trawler sank because the coast
guard vessel towed it — which the government's story covers up.
After rescuing some of the migrants, Greek officials stole their
phones. The coast guard vessel's cameras, intended to record the
facts in such situations, were somehow not in operation. And there is
evidence that agents of a secret "security" unit were present. |
| 3:02a |
Birds building nests with litter
* Almost 200 bird species found to build nests with human litter,
including cigarette butts, plastic bags and fishing nets.*
These materials could be harmful to the growing chicks. |
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| 3:02a |
Side effect of detecting writing by machines
*Programs to detect [writing made by machine learning models] [tend
to] discriminate against non-native English speakers, shows study.
It is general experience that programs intended to judge people often
turn out biased, even if there was no intention to do that. |
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| 3:02a |
Legalizing small gene changes in plants
The EU is considering legalizing small gene changes in
plants for cultivation, as an exception to the general
policy prohibiting them.
This might be acceptable provided that the law also makes them an
exception to patent law: patents should not cover the use of these
plants. |
| 3:02a |
What is really killing New York pizza
*Rightwingers say "pink-haired liberals" are killing New York pizza.*
In fact, *An air quality rule passed seven years ago requires some
shops to install air filters like those used in Italy.* |
| 3:16a |
Israel's int'l espionage
*Spain closes Pegasus investigation
over ‘lack of cooperation’ from Israel.*
I would hope Spain would have ways to put pressure on Israel to cooperate
with this investigation -- for instance, sanctions.
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| 3:16a |
Anti-abortion Senator blocking military app'ts
A right-wing senator is blocking
every appointment
to an office in the Pentagon as a vindictive display of hostility to Biden's policy of paying personnel's
travel cost for getting an abortion. |
| 3:16a |
Long Covid, hunting supplements
Some of the sufferers of Long Covid are organizing to
test treatments
that have been found to benefit a few, though no one understands why.
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| 3:16a |
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| 11:32a |
Anti-abortion Senator blocking military appts
A right-wing senator is blocking
every appointment
to an office in the Pentagon as a vindictive display of hostility to Biden's policy of paying personnel's
travel cost for getting an abortion. |
| 11:32a |
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| 11:32a |
Russia blocks Syrian aid
Putin is using millions of Syrians as pawns by playing with their
food and
medical aid.
To some extent, the US joined in the game by rejecting the shorter renewal
that Putin offered. It would have been better than none.
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| 11:32a |
Mountain Valley pipeline blocked
The Mountain Valley pipeline has been
blocked again by a court,
which said that the Endangered Species Act was not properly applied.
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| 11:32a |
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| 11:32a |
Urgent: Protect the right and possibility of paying cash
UK citizens: call for laws
to protect the right and possibility of paying cash.
The petition is weakened by the words "at least until 2050", but it is better than nothing.
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| 11:32a |
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