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| 5:44a |
Rail nationalization
Labour says it will re nationalize
Britain's railways.
At last a clear decision that it will improve one area than
right-wing rule has wrecked.
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| 5:44a |
Climate-related power outages
* Power outages in the US are surging, as climate-related extreme weather
strain an already
burdened energy grid.*
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| 5:44a |
UNRWA operations
*Germany to resume funding of UNRWA aid operations in Gaza…
after review says Israel has
provided no
evidence of terrorist links.*
Other countries must do likewise — because the alternative is horrible.
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| 5:44a |
Urgent consideration
British doctors' associations have condemned the suspension of Dr
Sarah Benn from medical practice, which was done for no reason except
that she was convicted of protesting against
government policies that
endanger human health.
There is no reason whatever to think that she has become incapable of
properly practicing medicine.
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| 5:44a |
Hijab crackdown
*Iranian women violently dragged from streets by [religious thugs]
amid
hijab crackdown.*
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| 5:44a |
Miss AI
There is a "AI beauty contest" for images drawn by generative systems,
whose "conversations" (if they pretend to have any) are
output from
bullshit generators.
This is an extrapolation of the absurdity of beauty contests whit real women.
and highlights that absurdity.
The corrupter bought a beauty contest, and was accused of rigging the outcome
so that the contestants had to go to bed with him to have a
chance of winning.
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| 5:44a |
Shadow of the superhero
The corrupter's torpidity in his criminal trial punctures the false
"strongman" image that he cultivates with so much bluster and
pretension when he is in
control of his life.
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| 5:44a |
Reporting in India
India drove out an Australian journalist for the ABC network by
various sorts of harassment including sending DMCA take down notices
for her stories. The government objected to what
she said in news
coverage.
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| 6:14a |
BSI's risky silence
If you thought that the insertion of a back door in XZ indicates a
problem with free software, please compare that with the worse problem
of nonfree software.
Microsoft's servers are in far worse shape.
And that's not to mention the ways the developers/owners of those
programs can break those programs' "security" — that exists only if
they
choose to let it exist.
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| 6:14a |
Mahtab Eftekhar
Being a woman in Afghanistan is so horrible that even being a woman in
Iran is a
big step up.
I'd be tempted to support forcibly removing the Taliban from power so
that they can't do these things any more. But that is not a real
solution. We tried that already, and it led to 20 years of war that
we were slowly
but steadily losing.
I don't think we know a way to fight that war and win.
This is why I still believe that removing US troops from
Afghanistan was the right thing to do.
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| 6:14a |
Gaza aid pier
The US is building a pier in Gaza to receive aid. But Biden has given
Israel plenty of opportunity to choke off the flow of aid
once it gets
onto the pier.
I also wonder if there will really be a "third party" available to
transport the aid into Gaza. It would not surprise me if the amount of
aid that really arrives is far too little.
Biden should have taken Netanyahu down a peg by showing that the US
does not need Israel's approval to deliver aid to Gaza.
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| 6:14a |
ByteDance
Word is that TikTok will shut down in the US rather than sell its US
business to
some other company.
To shut down TikTok would be a great start. Maybe then we could shut
down the other sites that use "recommendation engines" programmed to
maximize "engagement with the site" — in other words, addiction.
However, much of the harm done by addictiveness could be prevented
by taking recommendation engines out of the
control of the platform itself.
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| 6:44a |
MEPs vote
The European Parliament has voted take the EU out of the
Energy
Charter Treaty.
That treaty is a threat to civilization because it penalizes member
countries for effective measures to reduce use or extraction of fossil
fuels.
Even worse, it was designed to be impossible to effectively get out
of. It says that countries that abrogate it are still subject to the
treaty's punishments for reducing the profits of petroleum companies.
If the EU decides to defy that, it may be powerful enough to kill the
ghost of the treaty.
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| 1:39p |
Amnesty Int'l on UK's universal failings
*UK accused by Amnesty of
‘deliberately
destabilizing’ human rights globally* for political reasons.
*The damning Amnesty report also criticizes Israel's allies for the
failure to stop the "indescribable civilian bloodshed" in Gaza.*
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