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ICE protests working

samedi 18 avril 2026 à 10:39

Massive public resistance to the bully's deportation sweeps is partly successful, and they have weakened his appetite for them.

The worst thing about them, in my view, is not that they are deporting people but that they stretch the law and the facts to create false excuses for it, and that they use deportation as a tool for political repression. These pervert justice and human rights, which harms everyone in the US.

US lawfare targeting UN on Palestine

samedi 18 avril 2026 à 10:39

Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on human rights in Palestine, has been singled out by the persecutor as a special target for the most extreme possible lawfare persecution.

It is shocking that the US has the power to block use of bank payment cards world-wide. No country should have that special power, and European countries ought to set up their own networks that the US cannot censor. But I can affirm that it's not hard to live without a bank card. I never use mine except to buy airline tickets, which I do perhaps once every few years — and I could pay cash if necessary.

The other forms of harassment and punishment described in the article are harder to cope with.

LLM influences on humans and LLMs

samedi 18 avril 2026 à 10:39

LLM-generated communications are systematically different from human utterances. As LLM output influences people, and other LLMs, these tendencies could bring important changes in how people communicate, even with other people.

One change the LLM companies have brought about intentionally is the practice of referring to them as "artificial intelligence", which presumes they are more capable than they really are.

Anti-vax disinformation down

samedi 18 avril 2026 à 10:39

The wrecker's antivax officials are spreading antivax views less for the moment, having learned that voters dislike that.

Do not be fooled by this. It is not a change in substance and does not imply they will reverse the harmful changes they have already made. To make America safe from contagious diseases again requires replacing the magat public health officials with public health officials dedicated to protecting public health, and ready to use scientific knowledge to do so.

US as war criminal

samedi 18 avril 2026 à 10:39

*Retired military officers call [the bully's] threats against Iran "likely war crimes".*

*Congress Must Restrain [the bully] from Nuclear Weapons First Use, Says Union of Concerned Scientists.*

The bully's deranged threats against Iran constitute proof that the attack he threatened would be an intentional attempt at genocide.

By contrast, we know that the US military's bombing of the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school was due to out-of-date records which said that it was still part of the adjacent IRGC base. To have chosen knowingly to bomb a school, in the absence of some specific military need (which did not exist) would have been a war crime, but an error is not.

By contrast, I tend to think that the bombing of Iran's B1 bridge, a primarily civilian facility, was a war crime.

Moreover, the bully and Netanyahu are, I believe, guilty of the crime of aggressive war.

One of right-wing extremists today is to erase both the goal and the means for punishing war crimes, crimes against humanity, and aggressive war. They are so carried away by hate that they regard all attempts to limit acts of hatred as outrageous interference.