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Sunday, April 7th, 2024

    Time Event
    4:25a
    Timing a Justice's retirement

    Arguing that Justice Sotomayor should retire now and thus ensure her replacement can be chosen by Biden. I agree.

    Justice Breyer was going to stay on the court until death, but he yielded to this same argument and retired so another Liberal could take his place.

    4:25a
    Farm subsidies maximizing pollution, EU

    *EU pumps four times more money into farming animals than growing plants.*

    4:25a
    Google as not on tracking

    Google was caught tracking users' browsing even when they had enabled "incognito mode". In the settlement of a lawsuit, Google has agreed to destroy the data it thus collected.

    Abuses like tracking the actions of users cannot be excused by mere consent.

    4:25a
    Tackling extremes in identity politics

    *What a teacher in hiding can tell us about our failure to tackle intolerance.* British campaigners for Islamist censorship of "blasphemy" stirred up violent hatred against the teacher of a class that was studying religious hatred and the means used to stir it up. Now, three years later, perse is still hiding from the death threats they inspired.

    4:25a
    Ties as anachronistic

    Robert Reich sees a sign that the pressure to wear a tie may soon fade away: Biden appeared in public with Obama and Bill Clinton, none of them wearing a tie.

    It is not impossible; I've read that President Kennedy freed American men from the demand to wear hats by refusing to wear one himself. Thanks perhaps to him, no one has ever tried to pressure me to wear one.

    Ironically, this winter I started wearing a hat sometimes, but I don't treat it as an obligation: I simply do what feels comfortable based on the weather.

    As for ties, however, I reject them actively, firmly.

    3:25p
    RFK Jr. CNN Interview

    Presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr has gone off the deep end in regard to preserving democracy in the US.

    He has clamped onto a borderline issue of government influence on antisocial media platforms, and says that is more dangerous than the insurrectionist's stated plans to impose fascism if he can.

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