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Google search generated fake image instead of real one
Google's search algorithm chose a generated fake image rather than the
real photo of Tank Man as the response to a search for "tank man".
Google manually corrected this, but it shows the error-prone nature of
its system as operating.
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A license for a dog
Keeping a dog should require a license, and to get the license you
should have to pass a test in how to teach a tog to be friendly rather
than aggressive.
There could be alternate tests for training guard dogs, where the
trainer would have to demonstrate ability to train a guard dog so that
it will keep its actions within the bounds of what is acceptable for
such dogs.
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Extremist Republican Senator threatened to fire workers for striking
When extremist Republican Senator Tim Scott threatened to fire workers
for striking, he violated US labor law. He was urging for auto workers
to be treated this way, but he is an employer himself, and he can't
treat workers that way.
So the UAW has filed a complaint against him.
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Votes for keeping pollution high
George Monbiot explains how lobbies convince the public to vote to keep
the level of disease-causing pollution high.
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Facebook pressured to delay end-to-end encryption
The UK is again pressuring Facebook and its allied messaging features
to delay end-to-end encryption until they snoop for the state.
I sympathize with the goal of protecting children from pressure for sex,
but snooping is the foundation of tyranny and that threatens everyone.
I would never use Facebook, because (1) it requires running nonfree
software, which never deserves users' trust,
and Facebook itself does lots of snooping.
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Japan's unusually long summer
Japan's summer is extending far longer than usual,
surely due to global heating.
People around the world must wake up to start envisioning what this
will do to their lives after a couple more decades of getting worse.
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UK confiscated journalist's phone and laptop
The UK questioned a British journalist at an airport, claiming he was
suspected of "terrorism", and confiscated his phone and laptop.
He was suspected for his positive coverage of Rojava, the Kurdish
state in Syria that stands for equality and unusual systems of democracy.
Rojava was an unofficial ally of the US during the fight against
PISSI.
The most horrible thing about these law, and similar British law,
is that the crime is not actual terrorism or whatever. It is
being suspected of terrorism or whatever.
It is punishment on suspicion, with the bogus excuse that
being suspected is itself a crime.
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China demands return of "cultural relics"
China has launched a campaign demanding the British Museum return all
"cultural relics acquired through improper channels" to China. Its
supposed star example is a recent pot that the museum bought from the
potter who made it.
There are plenty of examples of stolen art that museums should return.
But often these conclusions are reached by anachronisticly applying
standards for recent times to a world that that didn't have these
standards and which these standards did not fit. To decide which
standards to judge an old event by calls for careful thought.
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Missing half the global heating equation
* The Australian government is “missing half the equation” in acting on
the climate crisis by backing a shift to renewable energy but having no
plan to get out of fossil fuels, according to an author of a new
scientific review.*
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Why women don't report rape
Rebecca Solnit explains why many women who have been raped or abused
do not report it to the law. It takes a lot of courage to face the
multiple punishments they are likely to receive for making the report.
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Urgent: Google V DOJ trial is murky
US citizens:
call on the judge
in the Google antitrust trial to provide a live video feed. It is a
matter of showing that the public interest is sufficient to justify it.
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