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| 5:47a |
Apology for statement on child-grooming gangs
Tory minister Suella Braverman stated in an interview that
child-grooming gangs in the UK were mainly made up of
Pakistani-British. The newspaper was forced to apologize for
publishing this, since it turns out those gangs are mostly whites.
Braverman is Indian-British. Since India and Pakistan have been
persistent enemies since the partition which divided them in 1947. I
suppose she seized an opportunity to spread hate against Pakistan.
You can hardly trust a Tory.
*Whether or not Suella Braverman becomes the next Tory leader, her
extreme [and usually cruel] ideas rule the party.*
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| 8:02a |
FEMA out of money
*Disaster recovery projects stall nationwide
as FEMA
runs out of money.*
This is because it is compelled to prepare for the government shutdown. |
| 8:02a |
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| 8:02a |
Biden's giveaway to polluters
*Oil Change International: Biden’s offshore drilling plan is
a massive
giveaway to polluters just days after president skips United
Nations summit on ending fossil fuels.*
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| 8:02a |
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| 8:02a |
Thugs aren't above the law
A UK thug has been charged with murder for shooting a man dead
who was unarmed and caught in his car, which was blocked in and
could not move. So the thugs that carry guns went on a sort of
strike.
A former head of a thug department rebukes the demand of thugs
to be above the law.
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| 8:02a |
Identity politics law
AI programs (real or pretend) often implement racial bias. California
is considering a law that attempts to stop this — by identity
politics!
Identity politics is not a real solution to any problem. What's more,
the problem of bias in algorithms is subtle. It is a mistake to
assume that people know how to avoid it or even detect it as a
consequence of their demographic background.
What California (and all polities) ought to do is require all software
used to make decisions about individual people to be free software and
its source code published, That way the public will be able to study
whether its behavior is biased.
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| 8:02a |
Biden authorized fossil fuel leases
Biden has authorized sale of three fossil fuel leases over five years.
These would add to future US oil production — when what survival
requires is a massive reduction.
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| 8:02a |
Thinktank hired global heating denialist to prepare report
A UK thinktank published a report overestimating the cost of achieving
"net zero" which was "full of errors that even a schoolboy would be
embarrassed about." This should have been no surprise given that the
thinktank — or should we call it a "drunktank" — hired a global
heating denialist to prepare the report.
The article refers to him as a "climate skeptic", but that PR term is
used to excuse climate denialism. A real skeptic applies rationality
to check claimed conclusions. Clearly that denialist did not aim to
qualify as a real skeptic.
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