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Testing of raw milk deregulated
The FDA has discontinued some tests for milk and dairy products, as
well as testing for bird flu in cows,
due
to the reductions in staff that the DOSE inflicted.
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| 2:38a |
Censoring "60 minutes" show
CBS
gave the bully the
power to censor 60 Minutes; the producer resigned in protest.
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| 2:38a |
Holding a sign as a crime, UK
British thugs violently arrested protester
Susan
White, 74 years old and fragile, for holding some sort of sign. I
have not seen a concrete description of what the sign said, but thugs
interpreted it as support for Palestine Action. Thus, the act of
blackwhiting that declared Palestine Action to be "terrorist" has thus
provided an excuse for additional, similar blackwhiting.
Terrorism is a crime. It is fundamentally unjust to label a group (or
individual) as "terrorist" without a fair trial.
Ms White has been placed under house arrest, not officially but in a
disguised, dishonest fashion: she is forbidden to go to Liverpool
Center, but outside her door is Liverpool Center, so she can't leave.
The authorities didn't provide her with a jetpack with which to fly to
a point outside Liverpool Center. But I have a feeling she could not
use it. She says she has injuries from the attack; I presume she needs
to visit clinics and pharmacies. Is that forbidden too?
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| 2:38a |
Bias efforts in LLM models
The bully is getting exercised about
biases
in LLM output, when they don't align with his biases, so he seeks
the power to punish their developers for it.
He also objected to the term "artificial intelligence" on the grounds that
"artificial" has negative connotation. However, no one can deny that these
systems are artificial — they were designed and made by humans.
It's "intelligence" that misrepresents them.
Let's call them
"bullshit
generators"; that avoids both of those words and is more accurate
as a description.
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| 2:38p |
Imprisonment of reporter Mario Guevara
Reporter Mario Guevara, lawful US resident, was covering a No Kings
protest when he was arrested on bogus minor charges. An official
dismissed the charges, but the deportation thugs insist on keeping him in prison.
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| 2:38p |
Ukraine law weakening independence of anticorruption prosecutors
Ukraine passed a law weakening the independence of anticorruption prosecutors.
That is an unfortunate action, but it has no effect on the moral
issues about Putin's invasion and Ukraine's independence. I expect
Putin will try to use it to prove that he should rule Ukraine,
but that would be as irrational as the rest of his propaganda.
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| 2:38p |
Australian man with work visa sent home
An Australian man with a US work visa was working in the US and living
there with his sweetheart. He made a short visit home for a funeral
ceremony, and border thugs sent him back to Australia, saying nothing
coherent that pretended to be a reason.
I speculate that this was part of the push to meet the quota for
deportations. I think that each airport has a daily quota for
deportations, and agents are supposed to fake reasons when they don't
have any real ones.
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| 2:38p |
Reactor operator doing unauthorized work on nuclear plant
When he Nuclear Regulatory Commission found out that a reactor operator
was doing work on a nuclear plant that the NRC had not authorized,
it said, "Oh dear!".
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| 2:38p |
Sentencing for thug who shot Breonna Taylor
The thug who shot Breonna Taylor (by firing blindly into the house) was
convicted for that. The corrupter's "Justice department" recommended
sentencing him to supervised release, but the judge disregarded this
and sentenced him to three years in prison.
I am glad the judge disregarded the slanted advice, but I have a hunch
that the corrupter will pardon that ex-thug. He has pardoned many
people for violent crimes committed in causes that he supports.
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| 2:38p |
Digital systems imposed on teachers, students and parents of students
A teacher and parent reproaches schools and the digital systems they
imposes on teachers, students, and parents of students.
She complains that using them is a pain. She is not aware that they
are also unjust (since they are nonfree client programs,
and often talking to surveillance servers).
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| 2:38p |
Increase of Syphilis in the US
Syphilis has been increasing in the US for years, a sign of a generally
poor medical system. This includes congenital syphilis, which is
easy to prevent if pregnant women receive medical attention — so the
increase shows a failure to give them any.
Naturally, the saboteur in chief has wiped out federal programs to
help in the measurement, detection and treatment of sexually
transmitted diseases.
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Google deal to buy hydroelectric electricity
Google has made a large deal to buy he electricity produced by existing
hydroelectric facilities.
I don't see that this promotes renewable generation or reduces greenhouse
emissions at all. The electricity those generators will make would certainly have been used. This deal won't fund development of more.
It will shuffle the money around, as Google buys current from those
generators and the rest of us are compelled to buy current from other
generators — perhaps at a higher price.
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| 2:38p |
Lunatic plan for income for future State of Palestine
The most lunatic possible plan for income for the future State of
Palestine: from exporting fossil gas!
Since Palestine is a hot and arid land, I doubt it will survive till
2100 even if it gets started, unless the world curbs global heating.
And neither will the rest of us! Proposing to solve a problem
through more fossil fuel extraction is madness.
President Correa of Ecuador famously invited the wealthy to pay
Ecuador not to develop a fossil gas deposit — but rather to leave
the gas in the ground.
The wealthy were not interested in helping to
prevent global disaster, so they didn't accept. It shows that the
death of billions of non-rich is no skin off their backs.
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| 2:38p |
Hungary opposition figures urge Democrats organize against autocratic takeover
*Hungary opposition figures urge Democrats to organize against autocratic
takeover by [the saboteur in chief],* saying that his actions now
resemble what Orbán did at the start.
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| 2:38p |
Australian who worked in the US
An Australian who worked in the US, and lived there with his sweetheart,
all with a suitable visa, was inexplicably deported when he returned
from a short visit to Australia. It seemed that the border agents
did not try to understand that he had permission for what he did.
Now he has been separated from his work, his apartment, his possessions,
and his sweetheart — exiled from home with no way to appeal.
The article reveals nothing about him that I would expect border
thugs to hate. So why did they do this? It could be that the needed
to meet their daily quota. Or maybe management encourages them to
persecute people randomly — perhaps to increase the general level of
terror.
Does anyone know of further developments in this case?
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| 2:38p |
Brain engagement of people using ChatGPT
A controlled experiment found that people who repeatedly used ChatGPT
to do a task (writing essays) manifested less brain engagement, and
didn't do the task as well as people who focused their own minds on
it.
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| 2:38p |
Facebook data center in rural Georgia
Facebook build a data center in rural Georgia, near some houses, and
once it started sucking lots of ground water, those houses' wells dried up.
The company could easily afford to compensate them for this damage,
but the law seems to be biased in favor of the data center owner.
The article describes what the data center is doing as "AI", but that
is a misleading hype campaign. Probably what it mostly does is
run bullshit generators.
To call things like chatbots "AI" is to boost that marketing
campaign.
Please do as I do and make a distinction between true (albeit narrow)
artificial intelligence and bullshit generators.
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| 2:38p |
Urgent: Call on Wells Fargo to stop practices that cheat public
US citizens: call on Wells Fargo to stop various nasty practices that cheat the public.
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| 2:38p |
UK organisations aiming to support Palestinians have bank accounts frozen
Two UK organisations that aim to support Palestinians have had their
bank accounts frozen. They have lost access to their money,
without any sort of trial, and without any clear path for recourse.
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Urgent: Call on Democratic leadership to back Mamdani
US citizens: call on Jeffries and the Democratic leadership to back Mamdani.
Don't let the Democratic establishment side with AIPAC and billionaire
interests over democracy and equality.
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| 2:38p |
Urgent: Cancel contract for use of Musk's artificial stupidity system
US citizens: call on Hegseth to cancel the $200-million contract for
the use of Musk's artificial stupidity system.
I edited the message not to use the term "artificial intelligence" or "AI",
and not to cite the corrupter as an authority on what to do.
Here's how to make the actionnetwork.org letter campaign linked above
work without running the site's nonfree JavaScript code. (See
https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html for why that issue
matters.)
First, make sure you have deactivated JavaScript in your browser or
are using the LibreJS plug-in.
I have done the next step for you: I added `?nowrapper=true' to the
end of the campaign URL before posting it above. That should bring
you to a page that starts with, "Letter campaigns will not work
without javascript!"
They indeed won't work without some manual help, but the following
simple method seems adequate for many of them, including this one.
To start, fill in the personal information answers in the box on the
right side of the page. That's how you say who's sending the letter.
Then click the "START WRITING" button. That will take you to a page
that can't function without nonfree JavaScript code. (To ensure it
doesn't function perversely by running that nonfree code, you can
enable LibreJS or disable JavaScript by visiting that page.) You can
finish sending without that code By editing its URL in the browser's
address bar, as follows:
First, go to the end and insert `&nowrapper=true'. Then tell the
browser to visit that URL. This should give you a version of the page
that works without JavaScript. Edit the subject and body of your
letter. Finally, click on the "SEND LETTER" button, and you're done.
This method seems to work for letter campaigns that send the letters
to a fixed list of recipients, the same recipients for every sender.
Editing and revisiting the URL is the only additional step needed to
bypass the nonfree JavaScript code. I'm sure you'll agree it is a
small effort for the result of supporting the campaign
without opening your computer to unjust (and potentially malicious)
software.
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| 2:38p |
Urgent: Discharge petition to force vote on release of Epstein files
US citizens: phone your congresscritter and call on per to
sign the discharge petition to force a vote on whether
to release the Epstein files.
Concealing them is far from the worst thing magats are doing to
our country, and we should not forget about the greatest dangers.
But that doesn't mean we should disregard this.
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
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