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Meta Pixel onsite: UK police
The London thug department gave
crime victims'
personal data to Facebook. They did this by putting a Facebook
tracking pixel in a page for
"securely and confidentially"
reporting crimes including rape.
In general you cannot trust a web site that says the data you enter is
"secure". That could change if and when creating a tracking pixel
and putting one into a web site are both criminal offences.
*[Big US] tax prep companies shared
private taxpayer data with Google
and Meta
for years, congressional probe finds.* This too was done using tracking pixels.
Please
avoid using the term "sharing"
to refer to snooping on people and sending their personal data to a company.
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Climate convert Abigail Disney
Heiress Abigail Disney used to love riding in her father's private 737 jet.
Now she joins civil disobedience
to block airports for them, for the sake of climate defense.
I like this statement:
My father was a good and decent man, and so are most of
the people who own private planes. But we are facing an active
emergency, and decency is worthless when unaccompanied by meaningful
action, including a vigorous inquiry into the consequences of our
personal choices and preferences. And niceness is a hollow virtue if
we do not lift a finger to keep our children and grandchildren safe.
However, I expect that anyone who actually made many millions of
dollars in business must have been exploiting people somehow.
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| 7:47a |
Urgent: Demand Sultan Al Jaber resign as head of COP28
Everyone:
Support the demand
that oil sheikh al-Jaber resign as head of COP28.
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| 7:47a |
James Hansen on global heating
*The world is shifting towards a superheated climate not seen in the
past 1m years, prior to human existence, because
"we are damned fools”
for not acting upon warnings over the climate crisis, according to
James Hansen, the US scientist who alerted the world to the greenhouse effect in the 1980s.*
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United against Modi
26 Indian opposition parties have
allied to defeat
Modi's repressive Hindu-nationalism.
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| 7:47a |
Urgent: Revive the Equal Rights Amendment
US citizens: phone your congresscritter to urge per to sign the
discharge petition for HJ Res 25, which would affirm the continued
validity of the Equal Rights Amendment and allow it to be ratified by
states now.
Enough states have ratified it
already that it can take effect, if the old deadline is extended in this way.
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
+1-202-224-3121,
+1-888-818-6641 and
+1-888-355-3588.
If you phone, please spread the word!
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Grain export sabotage, UKR
The
Putin forces attacked
Odessa's port facilities, especially for grain export.
He has decided to go for all-out food warfare against the whole world,
The whole world had better league together to make him stop.
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Black Sea subterfuge
The US claims that Russia is planning to attack civilian ships
in the Black sea and
claim that Ukraine's mines blew them up.
Also that Russia has planted more mines.
Ukraine can legitimately retaliate against Putin's threats to attack
civilian ships sailing to and from Ukraine, by attacking ships sailing
to Russian ports. Especially the main Russian oil export port,
Novorossiysk. To avoid polluting the shore, it should attack tankers
traveling empty into Novorossiysk. To maintain better relations with
other countries, it should attack Russian-owned or Russian-flagged
ships, but not make a commitment to limit attacks to them.
This would do enormous economic harm to Russia, and I expect it would
convince Putin to reestablish the Ukraine food export deal.
Of course, there may be reasonable things for Ukraine's supporters
to do to facilitate export of food from Russia.
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| 7:47a |
(Satire) Somebody sneezed at an NRA meeting
(satire)
*138 Dead
As Loud Sneeze Startles NRA Meeting.*
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| 7:47a |
Mayor Driscoll support, UK
Jamie Driscoll, a Labour Party member and elected mayor, was blocked
by the party executive from running again.
He has responded
by resigning in a huff.
I hope they don't send him to The Village. Perhaps there is no need,
since he has made it clear why he resigned ;-{.
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| 7:47a |
Climate upheaval
June was the hottest month ever recorded; July may be worse.
*If humanity really is at the controls, then
it is drunk.*
The author hopes that the name "Anthropocene" will make people aware
of the need to exercise wise stewardship of Earth's climate and land
use. I have worried that it would make people drunk on a feeling
of power, and suggested the name "Obscene"
instead. "Chaoticene" is another idea, because that's what it is producing:
unpredictable disasters. Though we can see some trends that will continue,
the local effects may continue to include unpredictable disasters among the predicted disasters.
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