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| 10:23a |
Alito's vow revenge for criticism
Alito's wife vowed revenge
on the people who criticized Alito for
displaying an upside-down flag, after Jan 6 when that was a symbol of
claiming falsely that the corrupter had won the election.
Note the typical right-wing thinking, which regards a truthful criticism of a false claim as a
vicious attack that deserves revenge. If those critics made false claims of their own, revenge
in kind (refuting the false claims) would be possible and legitimate. But Ms Alito does not
claim that they did so.
Perhaps, for her, opposing militant Christianitism, and defending the separation of church and
state, is enough grounds to label someone as evil.
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| 10:24a |
Prosecution of Arundhati Roy
India will prosecute Arundhati Roy for her political opinions, under a law
passed by Modi's party
for
that purpose. Other human rights
defenders
in India have been persecuted too.
India
promised
Kashmir a referendum on whether to be part of India, then never held the referendum. There
has been unrest in Kashmir ever since. A few years ago, Modi imposed martial law and an
internet
shutdown on the whole state (which
India
asserts is no longer a state).
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| 10:25a |
LLM takeout taken out, McDonald's
McDonald's tried to replace human workers with
a
bullshit generator, but even in the narrow domain of ordering food from a menu it worked
badly.
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| 10:25a |
Feelings arising from major losses
A psychotherapist writes about the error of trying to help someone by
rushing or pressuring per to "cheer up"
after
a real loss.
Years ago, I had no "feelings police". If something made me despair, I cried.
Five years of cancellation have helped me develop a "feelings police" of a sort. It does not
blank out feelings of danger, loss and suffering, but enables me to set them aside in order to
deal with the situation in a calm and steady way.
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| 10:26a |
Ethiopia's distrupter-in-chief conned US
An account of how Ethiopia and the west fell for
Abiy
Ahmed as a messiah and how his government collapsed into war and chaos.
The article is too long for me to read it all carefully. I would like to have done so.
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| 10:26a |
Plastic prohibition working, Vanuatu
Vanuatu has cleaned up its lagoons by prohibiting several common kinds of
disposable plastic items — including
artificial
flowers.
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| 10:26a |
A climate-planning govt agency, UK
A British court ruled that planning agencies must consider the climate
damage that will result from the fossil fuel to be extracted when they
consider whether
to
approve fossil fuel development.
This is exactly the needed policy, but the planet roasters will try anything to get it reversed
or undermined. If they fail, it will set an example for the world.
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| 10:26a |
Faked websites with "election news"
*Deluge of fake news websites threatens to
drown
out truth during US election.*
*Most people in petrostates
want a quick switch to clean energy, UN poll finds.*
In the US, 54% want a quick switch. Alas, democracy in the US is not running very smoothly.
*Fossil fuel use reaches
global
record despite clean energy growth.*
No amount of renewable generation will save us unless we use it to contrive a drastic reduction
in greenhouse emissions.
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| 10:26a |
Complaints about NYPD insignia up
*[New York Thug Department] complaints surge under [night-mayor] Adams to reach
highest
level since 2012.*
You have to expect an ex-cop in a powerful office to encourage cruelty and brutality by cops
— simply by tending to take their side in disputes. And even if the ex-cop is black,
encouraging cops' cruelty will promote white supremacism, because the two go together.
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| 10:26a |
LLM training is a natural-resources hog
The massive adoption of chatbots (bullshit generators often
"referred to
misleadingly as artificial intelligence") is
greatly increasing the
demand for electric power. This in turn is increasing the use of fossil fuels and thus
accelerating climate disaster.
How ironic that this is a byproduct of making online services function worse.
The article erroneously states that neural network systems "make decisions similar to the human
brain." Aside from the confused concepts — it makes no sense to compare a decision with a
brain — digital "neural network" systems do not work like groups of real neurons. These
"neural networks" implement an abstraction and simplification of early theories of how real
neurons work. They can do some useful things, but we should avoid erroneous explanations of
them.
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| 10:26a |
Digital surveillance veering, EU
*EU Council has
withdrawn
the vote on Chat Control, because the plan no longer has majority support.
Chatcontrol
is the plan to impose massive censorship on internet communications, and its defeat is a great
victory. Of course, it is not guaranteed to be a permanent victory.
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| 10:26a |
Nuclear power as boondoggle, AUS
The Australian right wing plan for new nuclear power plants has been
revealed
as a bogus business boondoggle to make a poisonous pile of pollution.
I expect them to show as much respect for truth as the bullshitter
does in the US, by continuing to champion the debunked claims.
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| 10:26a |
Recent IDF collateral damage, Gaza City
Israel tried to
assassinate
a HAMAS commander, disregarding the presence of numerous civilian bystanders nearby and the
evident likelihood of many civilian casualties. Not surprisingly, many civilians were killed by
the attack.
This was a war crime according to the Geneva conventions, if I understand this point correctly.
The presence of a valid military target, even an important one, does not excuse predictably
killing many civilians.
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