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The UK has forbidden a P&O ferry to operate, after inspecting it and finding 31 different safety failures.
I have a suspicion that these failures are the result of skimping. It is urgent for the UK to bring in new requirements about the minimum pay for the crew, which the Tories said they would bring in when P&O fired all the crew in order to use subcontracted workers instead.
Elon Musk said that if he buys Twitter, he would make its recommendation algorithm free software. More precisely, he said "open source", but it's almost the same in practice. There are a few programs which are open source but not free, as explained in https://gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html.
Two Floridians have pleaded guilty to voting twice in the 2020 presidential election. Both got a slap on the wrist.
One is a registered Republican; the other has no party affiliation but is probably a Republican, since they live in a suburb whose inhabitants are nearly all white and retired.
Republicans' outrage against voter fraud seems to be limited to the possibility of improper voting for Democrats.
Russian journalist Mikhail Afanasyev: * 11 members of the Russian National Guard from his home region of Khakassia had refused to fight in Ukraine, he said, and the military was hiding information about their unit’s casualties from the public.*
Now he is waiting for state censorship thugs to arrest him and accuse him for "fake news".