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Urgent: Pam Bondi V reporters
US citizens:
phone your congresscritter and senators
to urge them to put a stop to Attorney General Bondi's
campaign to force reporters to rat on their sources.
For information about that campaign, see
here.
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| 8:38a |
Urgent: Privatization of Science
US citizens:
call
on NIH and NSF to stop cutting critical health research.
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| 8:38a |
Urgent: Medical programs under RFK jr.
US citizens: phone your congresscritter and urge per not to let RFK
jr. decide which kinds of government medical programs to keep
and which to cancel.
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
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| 8:38a |
Urgent: Safe protesting
US citizens:
Insist
that Protesting Tesla is not domestic terrorism. Denounce any attempt
to arrest and imprison nonviolent activists.
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| 2:38p |
Law to protect consumers under threat
Republicans in Congress want to repeal the law that allows the FTC to
punish companies for cheating you.
This is on top of replacing the head of the FTC with someone who won't
necessarily want to stop companies from cheating you.
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| 2:38p |
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| 2:38p |
Confusion from failure of communication on safety issues
When scientists talk about a "conservative" estimate of future change,
they mean a low estimate of the amount of change. When safety
engineers talk about a "conservative" estimate, they mean the largest
plausible change, on which safety plans ought to be based.
This failure of communication confuses governments about how to plan
safety measures sufficient to protect the population and critical
facilities.
I don't know of an article I can link to to give more explanation,
but I would be glad if you find one and tell me about it.
For me to link to a URL, it needs to be accessible anonymously
without running any nonfree JavaScript code.
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| 2:38p |
Cash crucial for emergencies
Sweden has recognized that cash is crucial in emergencies, and now
encourages everyone to keep a supply of cash for emergency use
and to use some regularly.
This is a victory against the danger of mass surveillance.
The central bank now urges the government to require some
businesses and public agencies to accept cash. But there is no
guarantee that such a law will be passed, or that it will cover
enough places that ask for payment.
You can help pressure businesses to accept cash.
Go to a business ready to buy something carrying a copy
(or at least URL) of the statement in favor using cash,
and offer to pay cash. If the business refuses to accept it,
give it the statement and then say, "I'll return some day
and see if you will accept cash from me."
It would be a good thing to establish a national organization
to promote cash payment, and present anonymity as one of
its advantages.
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| 2:38p |
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CEO of CBS news is resigning
The CEO of CBS News is resigning.
One must suspect that the corporation
that owns CBS wants to let the corrupter censor CBS News.
</li> |
| 2:38p |
Amnesty International declared 'undesirable organisation'
*[Amnesty International] declared ‘undesirable organisation’ amid
Kremlin crackdown on critics, journalists and activists.*
It vows to continue its work anyway.
This is what the would-be dictator wants to do in the US.
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| 2:38p |
Attack on nonprofits removed from House dooH niboR bill
The attack on nonprofit organizations has been removed from the House
dooH niboR bill,
which still imposes large and deadly cuts on medical and food aid
for the poor and grants large tax cuts to the rich.
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| 2:38p |
Britain, France and Canada attacked Israel's expansion of its war
*Britain, France and Canada attacked Israel’s expansion of its war as
disproportionate, described conditions in Gaza as "intolerable" and
threatened a "concrete" response if Israel’s campaign continues.*
This looks like the start of a gradual diplomatic effort.
That might have made sense 2 months ago, but now that people
in Gaza are on the edge of starving, it is too slow.
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| 2:38p |
Young Britons would rather live in world with no internet
Almost half of Britons age 16 to 21 would rather live in a world with no internet.
Nonfree software which is designed to be malware plays a role in many
of the things they find painful. By rejecting nonfree software and
SaaSS, they could avoid the worst aspects of today's internet. Users
would have more control about how programs treat them. With free
software for client programs, they would have more control over how
services treat them — users could fix dark patterns and defeat
attempts to addict them.
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| 2:38p |
List of threats to survival of bees
Compiling a list of all the threats to the survival of bees.
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| 2:38p |
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| 2:38p |
Wrecker claims certain government grants for climate resilience was "fraud"
The wrecker has declared, arbitrarily, that accepting certain
government grants for climate resilience was "fraud". And he is
trying to use that as an excuse to shut them down immediately by
freezing their bank accounts,
before any court decisions about the
bizarre accusations.
</li> |
| 2:38p |
Labour disregarding torture practices by some countries
Labour is reviewing "security" relations with other countries, but
doing it by disregarding some countries' torture practices despite
criticizing them while it was not in power.
These countries include India, Pakistan, Libya, Sri Lanka, Bahrain,
Salafi Arabia and Sierra Leone.
Of course, Labour desires favorable treatment by those other countries,
but should not purchase that by treating their torture as acceptable.
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| 8:38p |
Talk in Milan, Italy
I will speak at 17:15 on May 26 in the Politecnico di Milano, in
Milan, Italy at Piazza Leonardo Da Vinci 32, Room 9.1.2.
Topic: Computing freedom, software, and services
We understand that the uses of computing can be unjust.
Most do not realize that the mechanisms of computing
can be unjust at their own level in their own ways.
A nonfree program is one that that the users do not control. If that
does your computing, its owners control your computing. This is the
basic idea of the free software movement -- but what about using
services?
When you use a service to do your own computing, the service's owner
controls that computing. If that owner isn't you, this is unjust. By
contrast, if your computer talks to a store's server on your behalf,
to arrange a deal between you and the store, your side of that
can be fully under your control.
Society and powerful institutions lure and pressure people into a
tangled web of online dis-services and nonfree software which may seem
impossible to escape. But you can start by rejecting a few of them.
Saying no even once is helping! |