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The US food system

vendredi 16 avril 2021 à 02:00

The US food system lets big businesses exploit the people who actually produce food, while letting millions of Americans go hungry. It exhausts the land, too.

The loss of most black farmers' land parallels the loss of most white farmers' land. A lot of this happened under President Reagan, which inspired me to write a parody of Old MacDonald's Farm.

Democrats beware

vendredi 16 avril 2021 à 02:00

If big business takes its support away from the Republicans, Democrats must beware of accepting it.

FBI Crackers

vendredi 16 avril 2021 à 02:00

The FBI cracks servers to delete malware previously installed by crackers.

I think this action is legitimate and useful, but please don't use the word "hacking" to describe what the FBI are doing. That gives us hackers a bad name. Please distinguish between hacking, which is playful cleverness, and cracking, which is breaking security.

If I were an adherent of cancellationism, I'd say that your use of antihackerist language is an aggression against us hackers, doing us psychological harm, and that you're a bad person if you don't stop.

Capitol police force

vendredi 16 avril 2021 à 02:00

The Capitol police force was debilitated by many kinds of mismanagement.

I get the impression that everyone in the force expected it would never be put to a difficult test. It never had been before.

In addition, the leaders disregarded warnings of a coming violent attack.

Call to prohibit face recognition

vendredi 16 avril 2021 à 02:00

Several organizations for privacy have taken up the call to prohibit all use of face recognition, which I have advocated for many years.

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