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Tuesday, April 1st, 2025

    Time Event
    2:38p
    Urgent: Amazon lawsuit attacking CPCS

    US citizens: call on Amazon to drop its lawsuit attacking the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

    Also, don't buy from Amazon. Yes, you can do it!

    8:38p
    Rebuke for Smithsonian Institute

    The magats rebuke the Smithsonian Institution for presenting modern scientists' and scholars' ideas of science and history, instead of the old-fashioned superstitions and prejudices they replaced.

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    8:38p
    Data from Amazon echo to be sent to Amazon

    Amazon "echo" devices should be called "tattle" because they tell Amazon what they hear.

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    8:38p
    Migrating Social Security Administration off of COBOL

    The Social Security Administration has 60 million lines of COBOL code and has long planned to migrate that very slowly and carefully into a more modern programming language. It would take years. But now the wrecking crew (LOGE, *) wants to do it in a few months.

    It will surely have many new bugs. But instead of having humans do it, they plan to use bullshit generators to write the new code.

    That will guarantee plenty of absurd mistakes that humans wouldn't make.

    What could make the situation worse than that? The SSA could stop answering the phones, and eliminate most of the human beings to complain to.

    Hmm, that's what they just did. Looks like someone is planning to make the Social Security system fail disastrously.

    * LOGE = Lots of Grief, Evisceration

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    8:38p
    Harvard's Middle Eastern Studies department

    Two faculty of Harvard's Middle Eastern Studies department have suddenly "departed", and it is reported that they were fired except that the university doesn't want to admit that.

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    8:38p
    EPA email address to request exemption to evade air pollution rules

    * EPA sets up email address where "regulated community" can request exemption to evade air pollution rules.*

    This is to speed the billionaires' ultimate sabotage project — to make the survival of civilization outside their realms impossible.

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    8:38p
    Trump administrator at "war" with mRNA technology

    *Trump administration at "war" with mRNA technology: scientists alarmed vaccine skeptics could kill research.*

    mRNA vaccines are the target of persistent disinformation along many fronts. Some disinformation exaggerates the significance of side effects that happen a small fraction of the time and generally cause no permanent harm. Others harp on thousands of people go had serious side effects but neglect to compare those with the millions of lives the vaccines saved.

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    8:38p
    Saboteur tried to seize control over who can vote

    The saboteur tried to seize personal control over who is allowed to vote in the US.

    It follows the latest magat fashion of using a small federal power for leverage to bully lesser governments and institutions into repression: in this case, into requiring voters to show ID cards. The range of ID cards to be accepted would be so limited that many poor voters would do without them, and be disenfranchised.

    Greg Palast estimates that 21 million eligible voters would be barred from voting, if states obey this.

    It would also take the US another bit step towards having a national ID card — which is, itself, oppression.

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    8:38p
    Universities that survive eager submission to state

    Universities that hope to survive through eager submission to state repression will find themselves reduced to even more abject subservience,

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    8:38p
    Wedge in solidarity

    *Despite the diversity of pro-Palestinian demonstrators, [deportation thugs] go after non-white visa and scholarship holders "to create a wedge in solidarity".*

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    8:38p
    Urgent: Stop fueling destruction to Amazon forest

    US citizens: call on banks to stop fueling destruction of the Amazon forest.

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