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| 4:17a |
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| 4:17a |
Urgent: Protect Chaco Canyon
US citizens:
call on Congress
to protect Chaco Canyon by rejecting HR 4374.
To sign without running nonfree
JavaScript code
from the web site,
use the Salsalabs workaround.
If you have disabled the page's JavaScript, you may get a blank
response after signing. That does not mean anything is wrong; your
signature has probably been sent in properly. The blank screen has
text that is rendered invisible by CSS; if your browser gives you a
way to disable the CSS in the page (as Icecat does), that should make
the text appear.
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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| 4:17a |
Urgent: End reliance on fossil fuels
US citizens:
call on President Biden
to end the reliance on fossil
fuels.
The White House comments lines are
+1-202-456-1111
and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213.
If you phone, please spread the word!
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| 9:02a |
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| 9:02a |
Survey of students on freedom of speech
A survey of students of perceptions of their freedom of speech
found that the vast majority feel free to express their opinions.
The survey is useful but it could have been worded more carefully.
The question asked whether students felt free to express the opinions
they happen to hold. For the students who answered yes,
it could be that they feel no pressure about what opinions they express.
But it could be that they feel free to express their actual opinions
because they agree with the majority.
We would get a clearer and more reliable picture of students'
percieved range of freedom to express opinions by asking them, "Would
you feel free to express opinion A, supposing you held that opinion?
What about opinion B? Opinion C? Opinion D? … Opinion M?" It
would state a list of various opinions that students might conceivably
hold, and find out which ones are safe to express in their milieu. |
| 9:03a |
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| 9:03a |
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| 9:03a |
Biden's climate bill
*Six ways Biden's historic climate bill has succeeded — and fallen short.*
The shortcomings are not Biden's fault. He had to negotiate a
compromise with senators working for plutocrats,
including planet roasters, and
Senator Manchin
was not the only one.
I criticize Biden for weakness on other decisions, including some that
are climate-related, and he is certainly no Bernie Sanders, but not
for this compromise. I don't see a basis to conclude that anyone else
could have done better on this. |
| 9:03a |
AI generated a recipe for chlorine gas
Supposed "AI" that generates recipes generated one which made chlorine gas.
I can't tell for certain, but this looks like yet another bullshit
generator that can come up with things that look smooth but doesn't
really know or understand its subject. |
| 9:03a |
Health problems caused by global heating
* From the strain extreme heat puts on your heart to the damage it may do
to your mental health, not to mention the increased air pollution, the
forecast [from global heating] isn't good.* |
| 9:03a |
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| 9:03a |
If Tories can't send boat people to Rwanda
If the Tories can't send boat people to Rwanda, they want to send them
to Ascension Island in the South Atlatic: over a 1000 miles from
Africa or South America.
In addition, they plan to adopt the cruelty of Australia's
right-wing government, which sent people to the exile island of Nauru
and would never let them go to Australia.
(I think most of them have been given asylum in other countries.)
The Tories plan to do likewise, so that the people sent to Ascension
Island would never get a hearing for asylum in Britain.
The US has adopted a similar system of sending asylum seekers to
Mexico unless they could afford to use one of the limited authorized
ways for a refugee to enter the US — which are difficult for people
from poor countries to use.
Thus we see the principle that people who are denied human rights in
their own countries should be able to get asylum in other countries
being chipped away almost to nothing. |
| 9:03a |
AI guides planes without contrails
An AI system has proved capable of guiding airplans to avoid making
contrails.
This is a good thing to do because contrails add to global heating.
I categorize this system as artificial intelligence because it
understands a limited field in a way that has been validated. It
understands how to avoid making contrails. |
| 9:03a |
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| 9:03a |
Parental approval for Nicknames
*Targeting Trans Kids, Florida School Board Requires Parental Approval
for [any students to use] Nicknames.* |
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