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Keir Starmer Labour Party
George Monbiot: *It's as if Keir Starmer is seeking out all the
positive reasons to vote
Labour — and deleting them.*
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| 4:23a |
Voter Rolls Being Targeted
Unofficial groups of Republicans are trying to rig elections by
pressuring local election officials in some states to
remove voters
from he voting lists.
In Michigan, Nevada, and Georgia they have had successes.
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| 4:23a |
Neuralink concerns
Advances in brain-machine
interfaces are dangerous.
Musk has spoken in favor of fascism more than once. He could make
Neuralink implants trigger pleasure in the brain whenever the patient
hears words that endorse fascism. If the Neuralink itself is not
capable of relaying the sound that the patient is hearing, the
apparatus to run it could simply have an internet-connected
microphone.
The only way to make them safe is if users have full control
over the software that operates them and talks directly with them.
They also need to be able to study the circuit diagram and verify
that the device was built honestly.
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| 4:23a |
Olivia Rodrigo concerns
Singer Olivia Rodrigo became a champion of freedom by distributing
condoms and emergency contraception pills at her concerts. But now
she has ceased that practice, citing a
vague concern about "children"
that attend.
I can't tell whether "children" in her statement refers to the people
we normally call "children" — pre-teens — or to everyone under 18.
But either way, I can't see even a lick of sense in that decision to
stop. Whatever a person's age, if person is going to be sexually
penetrated, it is good for that person to have a condom available. Whatever a
female's age, if she may get pregnant, it is useful for her to have
emergency contraception available.
Unless she presents clearly some other reason, I have to think that
she has yielded to an incoherent right-wing moral panic.
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| 4:23a |
Human development index, UN
Increased plutocracy is increasing the income disparity between countries
along with income disparity within most
countries.
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| 4:23a |
AI discrimination
Bullshit generators such as ChatGPT increasingly show racial stereotypes
in
judging people's employ-ability.
They don't actually understand anything, including the concept of
"employ-ability" or "bigotry", so employers should not use them for
that purpose.
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| 4:23a |
North Sea oil, plans and protests
*Climate activists across Europe
block access
to North Sea oil infrastructure.*
Governments that refuse to recognize that drilling for oil and methane
is deadly are showing contempt for the lives of their young citizens.
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Physicianality as a crime, UK
British physicians are threatened with
loss
of their license to practice medicine as further punishment for being convicted of climate
defense protests.
You can see this as further damage to non-rich Britons by Tories, who don't care about the
non-rich, or as further repression intended to keep the drilling for oil and gas going.
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