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Urgent: Zero-waste delivery by Amazon
Everyone:
call on Amazon to implement
zero-waste delivery.
Of course, we shouldn't buy from Amazon either way, and I don't; but
that is no reason not to sign.
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Nigel Farage splashed by milkshake, UK
A Briton has been charged with
"criminal
damage" for throwing a milkshake at right-wing extremist politician Nigel Farage.
I am surprised that superficial contact with a milkshake is considered to cause damage. {-;
Perhaps McDonald's milkshakes contain toxic substances that are absorbed through the skin. Good
for him that he did not consume it! ;-}
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A Boeing quality quash
*[Boeing
employee] Roy Irvin alleges he was reprimanded as "insubordinate" for flagging issues on 787
Dreamliner planes.*
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Disloyal flags in high places, AZ
*[Corrupter's] ally Kari Lake gave
speech in front of Confederate flag.*
Fascists, Nazis, Confederates — it seems that the corrupter and his followers endorse all
of them almost indiscriminately. Why so nonselective about it? All they have in common is
their rejection of the ideals of the United States.
I think that's exactly the point: that the corrupter seeks to ridicule those ideals by
encouraging any and all sorts of disloyalty to them.
Loyal Americans should warn Kari Lake that they will drive her out to Texas, as their
predecessors did to the last band of Confederate supporters to invade Arizona.
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Deepfake political scams, FB
Deepfakes displaying politicians and other public figures, clothed
normally, have been
used
on Facebook to promote scams.
I think the crucial issue raised by deepfakes is not nudity. It is fraud. False nudity in the
deepfake is one kind of fraud, but the other kinds of fraud are just as bad. I've called
unauthorized deepfakes the moral equivalent of perjury.
Thus, rather than criminalizing making nude deepfakes only, I suggest we criminalize making and
showing any sort of deepfake without the subject's permission.
If you want to show a fictional or satirical picture of a hypothetical action, you can express
the idea just as well with an evidently non-evidential cartoon.
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Workers for Uber and Lyft, MN
Minneapolis made Uber and Lyft agree to pay workers more and improve some other
working
conditions.
However, this does nothing to reduce those companies power over drivers, nor to reduce their
unjust treatment of passengers (identifying them and requiring them to run nonfree software).
If I am me, I will continue to refuse to do business with Uber
and Lyft.
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| 2:55p |
Urgent: Accountability for Israel in Gaza
US citizens:
call
on Congress and the Biden administration to stop shielding Israel from accountability for
war crimes.
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
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US as a democracy as per Putin
Putin, a repeated supporter of the corrupter, claims that the felony conviction of the
corrupter proves that the US is failing
as
a democracy.
That is backwards, of course. The corrupter's conviction shows that the US is trying to defend
its democracy from a campaign to corrupt it. Putin supports that campaign and lies much as its
members do.
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Israeli plot intercepted, 9th circuit
*A Federal Judge Visited Israel on a Junket Designed to Sway Public Opinion. Now He's Hearing
a
Gaza Case.*
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When "ownership" is questionable, ROU
Romania asks Louis Vuitton to
give
credit to the Romanian design that inspired one of his latest fashion products.
The campaign to condemn and
eliminate "cultural appropriation" is unjust and wrong, because learning from other people
and imitating them is what culture is all about, and this is how culture develops.
However, asking the imitator to give credit is no obstacle to cultural
development, and I think it is a reasonable request.
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