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| 2:38a |
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| 2:38a |
Immigrants mostly abide by local customs
Immigrants in the US are unlikely to commit crimes, compared with
native-born citizens, and unauthorized immigrants are even less
likely. But the bully is using an example of a hate crime committed
by a marginally authorized immigrant as an excuse
to
demonize all immigrants.
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| 2:38a |
Pregnant in WV. What to do?
A prosecutor in West Virginia
threatens
to prosecute women who have miscarriages.
It is not safe to be pregnant in West Virginia. If you get pregnant there,
move to a state that won't prosecute you, and stay away. Even if you want to
have the baby, you are not safe doing that in West Virginia.
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| 2:38a |
USA attacks science and education. Why?
Why the wrecker attacks education, even education
that Americans admire.
*Authoritarians know that if they can convince us our country has never
been wrong, they can make us believe our ruler is always right.*
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| 2:38a |
Fire danger up, FEMA down
Global heating has given
the
western US a warm spring and a high danger of wildfires. Put this
together with sabotage of FEMA and the Weather Service and it spells
danger.
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| 2:38a |
Rupa Marya, an elite medical student, CA
*In late May, UCSF terminated Rupa Marya following a nine-month
suspension from the elite medical school based on social media posts
in which she criticized Israel’s genocide in Gaza and questioned how
Zionist ideology affects health care outcomes.* The school fired
her and
is
trying to smear her reputation. She has sued the school for this.
The article reports that the school has committed similar repression
against others.
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| 2:38a |
Punishing 12 countries peoples en masse
The bully has returned to his favorite theme: banning people from
various countries from
traveling to the US at all.
This is foolish and unjust because the ban punishes hundreds of
thousands of people, of whom perhaps a handful might do some harm.
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| 2:38p |
Urgent: Dept of Education
US citizens:
call
on Congress to reject attacks on the Department of Education.
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
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| 2:38p |
Urgent: A national universal medical system
US citizens:
call
on Congress to establish a national universal medical system.
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
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| 8:38p |
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| 8:38p |
Lethal autonomous weapons laws, UN
Diplomats are meeting to draw up
regulations for
weapons which act under the direction of a machine learning
system.
The article starts by assuming that the reader foolishly embraces the
unjust computing systems that society invites and pressures everyone
to use. Let us recall that some readers stubbornly refuse. But the
assumption applies to most people.
What can we conclude about this issue?
- It does not make much difference whether the
machine learning system is inside the weapon
or located in an office at headquarters.
- If the machine learning system chooses the targets, and they are
then attacked, it does not automatically make a difference whether
humans transmit the orders from it to the system that carries out the
attack.
- Or whether humans participate in the actual attack.
- Those differences can have some effect if the humans are ready to
refuse to carry out an illegal order.
- But we cannot count on them to do so, unless there is a firm
culture of insistence on obeying the rules of war.
- Israel uses
such
a system to choose targets in Gaza and the human soldiers involved
seem to impose little restraint on killing of civilians there.
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