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Raising prices on Americans

lundi 2 mai 2022 à 12:48

*Revealed: top US corporations raising prices on Americans even as profits surge.*

Robert Reich said something similar; this is confirmation.

Musk's stated plans for Twitter

lundi 2 mai 2022 à 12:48

Musk's stated plans for Twitter are sketchy, but we can already see they are dangerous. And that includes the plan to "open source" algorithms that judge what tweets to promote.

That may come as a surprise to you, especially if you believe I advocate open source. In fact, I have never been a supporter of that.

In the mid-80s I launched the free software movement, which campaigns for all users' right to redistribute the software they run, either verbatim or modified. The free software movement says that distributing a program to users as nonfree software is an injustice to those users, and that we shouldn't stand for that.

However, we don't believe that it's wrong for you, or Twitter, to develop software and run it privately without ever distributing a copy. The Twitter service does things that are unjust, but having and using private software is not one of them.

Emergency contraception for Ukraine

lundi 2 mai 2022 à 12:48

*[There is a] rush to get emergency contraception into Ukraine as reports of rape rise.*

Bogus Johnson's decision on nursing home admission without Covid-19 test

lundi 2 mai 2022 à 12:48

When Bogus Johnson decided to allow people into nursing homes without testing them for Covid, he had already discussed with his advisors the danger of transmission by asymptomatic people.

But he told Parliament that this wasn't known at the time.

Public deception on hazards of plastics

lundi 2 mai 2022 à 12:48

*California accuses ExxonMobil of deceiving public on hazards of plastics.*