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The war on play
The other side of children's spending a harmful amount of time
on antisocial media platforms is children's spending little time
playing outdoors — because playing outdoors is
firmly discouraged
by society.
This is related to the hyper cautious attitude promoted by parents' fear.
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| 4:25a |
Assange granted appeal
Julian Assange's
ultimate appeal
ruled that (1) the US has to provide
assurances of protecting Assange from certain cruel practices that are
not unusual in the US, and (2) if the US does that, he will get
another appeal in the UK about whether the charges against him were
politically motivated.
This isn't victory but it is a step in that direction.
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Rushed deportation bill
Australia plans to order people awaiting deportation to take various steps
to arrange permission for
their own deportation.
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| 4:25a |
Russia's torture
Putin's state boats about torturing the terrorists that killed
attendees at a music event.
I have no more sympathy for those terrorists than you do,
but we must never tolerate torture, not even torturing terrorists.
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| 4:55a |
Surtaxes on expensive property
Some local governments in the US have passed surtaxes on very expensive
apartments and houses.
We should do this at the state or federal level —
that would be more effective.
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| 4:55a |
San Jose AI detection
San Diego is trying out a software system to
recognize "homeless encampments".
They define "encampments" more broadly than one might expect. For
instance, they define "vehicles that people are living in" as
"encampments". While breaking up an encampment in the usual sense of
that word is likely to bring attention from the press, forcing someone
who lives in an RV to move it is not big enough to do that, which
means they could get away with it without even reproach.
San Francisco went to the absurd length of prohibiting parking an RV
in the city. As a result, people who live in houses but own an RV
can't leave the RV nearby in order to prepare for a trip.
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| 4:55a |
Australian military drone
Australia has developed a
laser system to destroy drones.
The article says nothing about its effective range, but I think
Ukraine needs this, and fast. So do ships passing through the Bab
al-Mandeb.
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| 4:55a |
Musk's X lawsuit
The musk-ket lost his lawsuit against an organization that scraped many tweets so as to
measure how Ex-Twitter handled disinformation.
One of the dangers of services' (or dis-services)' requiring a nonfree
client program to access them is that these client programs give them
more power to interfere with scraping. They may go beyond threatening to sue, and make it actually impossible.
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APT 31 hacking group
China is accused of using cracking to harm Chinese expat dissidents
and various others who interfere with China'
efforts to export
its tyranny.
The US government ought to publish an official list of those targets
who wish to prove they were attacked by China. For political
candidates, this would be an endorsement that few can match.
I'm Susan. China fears me enough to try sabotage against me.
It seems China did not attack my opponent, who has opposed
bills to support Taiwan.
Show China what you think — Vote for me on November 5!
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