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| 12:43p |
(Satire) driver's seat up-skirt feature
(satire)
*Tesla
Announces Plan To Add Up-Skirt Cameras On All Vehicles.*
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| 12:43p |
How election-integrity research stopped
Stanford University is shutting down the elections research of the
Stanford
Internet Observatory because defending against Republican lawfare was too expensive.
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| 12:43p |
Divorce as illegal, USA
*The Christian right[-wing] is coming for
divorce
next.*
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| 12:43p |
Urgent: overturn "Citizens" United decision
US citizens:
call on Congress
to overturn the "Citizens" United decision.
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
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| 12:43p |
Urgent: Ban certain political contributions
US citizens:
call
on Congress to support legislation banning political contributions from utilities, monopoly
corporations, and corporations seeking government contracts.
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| 12:43p |
NHS failing profits some politicians, UK
*Tory party CEO is director at cancer care firm benefiting from
NHS waiting lists.*
The
Labour candidate running against Jeremy Corbyn is an owner of a company that profits from
the NHS's failings.
I'd want to support a party in which such people would feel out of step with the party's goals.
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| 12:43p |
Urgent: Netanyahu's invitation to Congress
US citizens:
call on Schumer
and Jeffries to withdraw their invitation to Netanyahu to address Congress.
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| 12:43p |
Urgent: fake abortion clinics
US citizens:
call on the
Senate to oppose fake abortion clinics.
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
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| 12:43p |
US sanctions against informal group, ISR
*US imposes sanctions on "extremist Israeli group" for
blocking Gaza aid.*
So far, so good, but what about when the Israeli government blocks aid by not permitting it to
be brought to Gaza.
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| 12:43p |
Media-addiction recovery
Some
teenagers
can recover from antisocial media addiction if they simply don't have a user-manipulating
device to be used by.
Remember that part of what enables them to manipulate the users so much is that the client
programs of the antisocial media platforms are nonfree software. Companies design them to be
addictive, and users cannot modify them to be less so.
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| 12:43p |
Republicans on the Big Oil lawsuits
Republican state attorneys general are working with Big Oil to block
lawsuits over harm to people
caused by oil combustion.
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| 12:43p |
New push for gas export terminals
Some plutocratist Democrats in Congress are pushing to fund new export terminals for fossil gas,
provided it is "certified" as emitting
somewhat less greenhouse gas than other fossil gas.
This is a swindle — replacing a small but real contribution to climate defense
with mere lip service.
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| 12:43p |
When voting about the greedy pricing
Robert Reich: for
most US voters, the
most important issue is the high prices that are caused by greedy corporations without much
competition to restrain them, and most voters think that the wrecker will push prices down.
I don't think the wrecker will even try to reduce prices. He seeks to bamboozle the
public, not to serve it. Promises from a bullshitter are meaningless. Lately more billionaires
have been giving their support to the wrecker, so they must not think he will reduce
their unparalleled profits.
So why does anyone believe that the wrecker will drive prices down?
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| 12:43p |
Chiquita Banana as terrorist
A US court convicted Chiquita (the banana company) of paying a
terrorist group (paramilitaries)
to kill some of its
workers.
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| 12:43p |
Online addictive-feeds law, NY
New York State is about to prohibit communication platforms from
offering user's-history-dependent feeds to
users
under age 18.
I think this policy is very wise, but limiting it to only some users, based on their age, is
misguided. Millions of adults have been sucked into conspiracy theories and even plots for
insurrections by such systems. This policy also threatens to lead to requiring a user to show
ID so as to prove per age.
So the policy should apply to all users regardless of age.
Instead of basing suggestions on what you have previously looked at, a
platform should
make available for download that list , as URLs one per line. Given that list, you could
process it any way you like to get suggestions, then ask to look at those.
Please do not use the word "children" or "child" to refer to anyone under age 18. A 17-year-old
is not a child. A 13-year-old is a teenager.
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| 12:43p |
Four Tops lead singer fiasco, Detroit
Singer who joined the Four Tops in 2019 was
involuntarily
hospitalized for claiming to be a member of the Four Tops.
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| 12:43p |
Drug war's damage in Cent. Am. forests
*Cocaine traffickers have put two-thirds of Central America's key
habitats for threatened birds under threat,
study
finds.*
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| 12:43p |
Aid delivery hampered, ISR
*[UNRWA] says [Israeli] authorities are hampering [aid delivery] operations by failing
to grant requests for
access
permits.*
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| 12:43p |
Cheng Lei
Cheng Lei, formerly a political prisoner in China, has used her prison
experience as the basis for
stand-up comedy in Australia.
Cheng Lei is an Australian citizen who was working in China as a journalist for an Australian
organization. China allowed her to return to Australia. Chinese who have been political
prisoners in China are often not allowed to leave China.
Using Eventbrite for access to an event is always bad because signing up using Eventbrite
requires running nonfree software. Also, it requires identifying yourself. Those are two
injustices to the attendee; I would not attend a performance if it required me to give my name
to get a ticket.
In this specific situation, the injustices put some attendees in danger, too. It would not
surprise me if Chinese crackers broke into the Eventbrite data
base to find out who attended this performance. The performers were aware that Chine would try
to identify the attendees; they should have protected their audience from digital identification
as well as from cameras.
And did they insist on making it possible to pay cash? As China demonstrates every day, making
people identify themselves to buy things is the foundation of repression.
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