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| 12:06a |
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| 12:06a |
About Facebook
In January 2025, Zuckerberg announced that Facebook and Instagram will
replace
fact-checking with a system of not-really-checking similar to what
ex-Twitter does.
The announcement was made in ways that
signaled
the intent to become a loyal part of
the corrupter's tame media
organizations.
That article also argues that "social media" fact checking was never
very effective. (I have no experience with it so I don't know whether
that was true.) It further argues that result was inevitable, but I don't
think that that claim is sustained there, so I am skeptical that anyone can know
whether this is true.
See facebook.html for many other reasons
to refuse to be used by Facebook.
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| 10:36a |
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| 10:36a |
Kurds wants US troops, SYR
*Kurdish general urges [the fascist]
to leave US troops in
north-east Syria.*
If Russia were still contending for power in Syria, Putin would have
told him not to do this. But Putin may have little influence now over
decisions about Syria.
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| 10:36a |
EPA to require incinerators monitor for toxic emissions
*EPA to require municipal waste incinerators monitor for toxic emissions.*
This is a very good idea, and should have been adopted many years ago.
I speculate that it was delayed by opposition by business.
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| 10:36a |
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| 10:36a |
Pressure for wrecker to top past outrages
Predicting that the wrecker will feel "second album pressure" to commit
outrages that top what he did in the past.
</li> |
| 10:36a |
Labour party called to deprioritize poor people
An article calls on the Labour Party to further deprioritize poor
people in general to focus narrowly on voters who graduated university
but couldn't get a decent job afterward.
It might be a good strategy for getting reelected, if we take for
granted that Labour won't do what Britain really needs: to tax the
rich and enable all non-rich Britons to have a better life.
</li> |
| 10:36a |
Instigator of UK racist riots sentenced
An instigator of the racist riots in the UK some months ago
has been sentenced to 7 years imprisonment.
The US government needs to make sure to do this reliably in response
to efforts to intimidate voters or lawful election campaigners. If it
had responded vigorously in 2020 when a mob of magats besieged a
Democratic campaign bus, perhaps magats would not have been so ready
to attack the Capitol on Jan 6.
</li> |
| 10:36a |
Lead in air from Roman mining
Roman mining activities put a substantial amount of lead into the air,
which shows up in Arctic ice cores. This could have reduced the
average IQ by up to 3 points.
That decrease could have had an effect on society overall.
If this atmospheric lead arrived in the Arctic, it may have arrived in
Asia and North America too. So the effect could have reached there
too. However, it is also possible that the level of lead in the
Arctic was less than in Europe,
Maybe it would have reached parts of Africa and South America too.
I don't know enough to say whether this was likely to result.
</li> |
| 10:36a |
Fake news law in Spain
Spain is considering a law requiring whoever posts fake news
to publish a correction.
A law like this is good if it is not misused. The danger is that
a repressive government is surely going to try to misuse it.
The bullshitter often calls reports of truth that criticizes him
"fake news". If the US had that law he would surely try to use
it to censor truthful criticism of him.
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| 10:36a |
UK Thugs illegally keep photos of arrested people
It is illegal in the UK for thugs to retain photos of people who were
arrested if they were not charged with a crime. But it seems that
thugs regularly do this and use it for facial recognition.
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| 10:36a |
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| 4:36p |
Kurds want US troops, SYR
*Kurdish general urges [the fascist]
to leave US troops in
north-east Syria.*
If Russia were still contending for power in Syria, Putin would have
told him not to do this. But Putin may have little influence now over
decisions about Syria.
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