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| 1:02a |
Private equity's homes deadly
*After an investment firm bought St. Joseph’s Home for the Aged, in
Richmond, Virginia, the company
reduced staff, removed amenities,
and set the stage for a deadly outbreak of COVID-19.*
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| 1:02a |
Private equity in retail
*Stop Private Equity
from Driving Retailers into Bankruptcy, Destroying Jobs and Livelihoods.*
In addition, they destroy useful stores where you can actually buy things,
and reduce competition.
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| 1:02a |
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| 3:02p |
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| 3:02p |
The antithesis to automating repression and censorship
Arguing that
machine learning cannot enable authoritarian states
to figure out what people really want, because they will get only the
data of what people say when they are intimidated by an authoritarian state.
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| 3:02p |
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| 3:02p |
Infant mortality rate, TX
Since Texas's abortion ban, infant mortality there has
increased by 20%.
This could be because many women now are forced to carry a pregnancy
to the end even though it is unlikely to result in a viable birth.
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| 3:02p |
Greek fires human-caused
Greece asserts that most of the recent fires were started by human action,
and
there is evidence for arson.
Why would anyone commit such a heinous crime? ISTR that Greece has a law
that if a protected forest is destroyed by fire, it ceases to be protected
and the landowners can build what they wish. This would be a powerful motive
for greedy people with contempt for everything else in the world.
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| 3:02p |
Anthem not censored, HK judge
*Hong Kong
judge defies government’s bid
to [issue an injunction against various uses of] pro-democracy protest
song,* known unofficially as the "Hong Kong national anthem."
The infamous "national security law" makes it a crime to sing the song
in Hong Kong — doing so would be interpreted as a protest. This decision
about an injunction seems to threaten to pressure non-Chinese web sites
to delete it.
I hope that judge won't be imprisoned and subject to brainwashing.
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| 3:02p |
Bukele's justice: mass trials, SLV
El Salvador plans to hold
trials with up to 900 defendants
in a trial.
That is a highly efficient way of trying large numbers of people, if
justice for each one is not required.
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| 3:02p |
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