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Over reliance on gps
Letting tech companies and governments track you all the time is
dangerous not only if they declare you an enemy. If you go into the
wild after getting used to that way of life, you may find yourself
hopelessly lost because your navigation skill was never developed.
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Microsoft forcing Windows useds to identify themselves
Microsoft is tightening the chains that force Windows useds to
identify themselves.
I suspect that it planned the strategy of leaving openings to avoid
doing this, then gradually close them, as a way to avoid inspiring a
lot of resistance all at once.
If you have been using other workarounds, now is the time to put your
foot down and stop. Bite the bullet and defenestrate your computer!
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Republican's "terrified" to cross Trump
*Eric Swalwell, a Democratic representative from California, said his
Republican colleagues were "terrified" of crossing Trump not only
because of the negative impact on their political careers, but also
from anxiety that it might provoke physical threats that could cause
personal upheaval and require them to hire round-the-clock security as
protection.*
We know from the attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband, as well as the
attack on the capitol on 6 Jan 2021, that this danger exists.
But that danger does not excuse what they are doing, which is allowing
the same menace to engulf and destroy their country. It is their duty
to start to resist.
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Lawyer used Artificial Stupidity for submission to court
A lawyer defending a right-wing activist gave the task of finishing
a submission to the court to an Artificial Stupidity.
Since it had not passed the bar exam, or studied law,
the text it output was full of errors.
Please do not call these systems "intelligence". It is important for
people to know not to expect their output to be veridical.
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Responding to Amazon's wrongdoing
Suggestions for responding to Amazon's wrongdoing
beyond simply refusing to do business with it.
From AthenaForAll.org.
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States can enforce and update their antitrust laws to stop Amazon
from hoarding wealth and power – for example, by stopping it from
overcharging online vendors and crushing smaller competitors.
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Stop giving Amazon public handouts like sales tax exemptions and
discounted utility prices – especially since these subsidies come
at the expense of public services like school budgets.
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Support workers organizing for better working conditions and a say
in how the corporation operates.
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Pass privacy laws to stop Amazon from using its surveillance tools
to punish workers and manipulate customers.
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Require Amazon’s data centers to be powered by renewable energy
instead of coal and gas, and make sure we don’t have to pay higher
utility bills to offset its energy use.
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Encourage state and local governments to buy their supplies from
local businesses instead of signing enormous contracts with Amazon,
and to place stricter rules on their contracts with cloud
providers.
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Rebalance the tax code so Amazon pays its fair share of taxes
instead of getting lower rates than most small businesses and
regular people.
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Vote out politicians – even progressive ones – who consistently
side with corporations at the expense of regular people.
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Space superstorms
Space superstorms of charged particles coming from the Sun
can bring down power-grids. The loss of electric power could
lead to disastrous superleaks of radiation from old nuclear fuel
that depends on power to cool the cooling water. Such a disaster
could expose millions of people to carcinogenic radioisotopes.
It occurs to me that one solution might be to install large wind farms
and batteries near each nuclear plant. That would also speed the day
that we can retire and clean up the nuclear plants.
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US no longer gold standard for press freedom
*The US used to be the gold standard for press freedom. Not any more.*
One other cause of this is that mainstream media are no longer
independent. They have been bought, either by billionaires that are
easily corrupted by the wreckers or by bigger companies that don't
dare get on the wrecker's bad side.
People have said to me that the US Constitution ought to be changed to
make it harder to subversion by powerful elected officials. If that
is possible, but I don't see how it could work. (Never mind that the
magats would block the effort.) Every governmental system is made of
humans, If the most powerful of those humans want to make the system
bad, we can't count on the system to stop them.
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