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Charges dropped against sign-holder, UK
The UK government has dropped its appeal of a court's dismissal of charges
against a protester who reminded the public of juror's absolute right to
vote to acquit any accused.
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Homelessness study, U of C
*The
Mortality of the US Homeless Population*
The article linked to just above displays symbolic bigotry by capitalizing "black" but not "white".
(To avoid endorsing bigotry, capitalize both words or neither one.) I
denounce bigotry, and normally I will not link to articles that practice it. But I make
exceptions for some articles because I consider them important — and I label them like this.
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LLM farms as a massive electricity sink
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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| 11:22a |
Urgent: Protect the Right of Organizing
US citizens:
call
on Congress to pass the PRO Act, to help workers unionize.
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
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| 11:22a |
Oligarchy vs the masses, UK, US
Billionaires
have
concentrated wealth.
Any party that tries to woo right-wing voters by
promising
not to raise taxes has made a choice not to address those issues. By making this choice for
Labour, Starmer has ruined it.
Many Britons supported the Labour Party precisely because its goal was to do something about that.
It rejected Communism, but advocated an increased level of Socialism. Now Starmer thinks to drag
them along for lack of a better alternative.
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"Normal politics" as a 1945-75 anomaly
George Monbiot contrasts politics we learned to expect in the democratic world from 1945 to 1975 with
the
true normal of history.
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UK media sting ops: Project 2025
Russell Vought, one of the authors of Project 2025, had a conversaion with a right-wing supporter
from a wealthy family, or so he thought; but perse
was really a British journalist who recorded the whole conversation.
In the recording, Vought claimed that
the bullshitter was lying when he said that
Project
2025 has nothing to do with him. Which one was lying —
the corrupter or Vought? We can't
tell a priori, since Vought seems to approve of lying for political victory. But since many of his
close supporters believe Project 2025 is for him, I think that he told them it was.
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