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Ex-Tory MP apologizes for ancestors' links to slavery

mercredi 6 septembre 2023 à 23:31

Bad mistake: *Ex-Tory MP apologises for ancestors' links to slavery.*

You should never apologize for things others have done for which you are not responsible.

Aside from that, what she did was proper. She acknowledged the ancestors' actions, which had been unknown to her until a historian dug them up in old records, and she denounced them. That is the right thing for anyone to do who has as little responsibility for those actions as she has.

It is horrible that people have made death threats against her for things someone else did long ago. Advocating Tory policies entails moral responsibility for them (though not for slavery hundreds of years ago), but it doesn't justify threats of violence.

Dirty secret behind Tory "crime week"

mercredi 6 septembre 2023 à 23:31

*The dirty secret behind Tory "crime week": their policies ruined policing.*

I thought that a Tory "crime week" would be when plutocratist politicians go all-out for corruption ;-}.

Republican fanatics sentenced to prison for violent threats

mercredi 6 septembre 2023 à 23:31

Republican fanatics are being sentenced to prison for violent threats against election workers who might have the temerity to do their jobs honestly.

Amazon published guides to identifying mushrooms

mercredi 6 septembre 2023 à 23:31

Amazon has published guides to identifying mushrooms which were written by language models that have no intelligence and could lead people to poison themselves.

Please do not refer to such bullshit-generator systems as "artificial intelligence"!

Tories let British finance run out of control

mercredi 6 septembre 2023 à 23:31

*The Tories let [British finance] run out of control. Now Labour plans to repeat their mistakes.*

I'm richer than you! infinity loop