Government departments in the UK are using secret algorithms (implemented by nonfree software) to decide how to treat people.

This is inherently unjust regardless of the details. The mere fact that a decision was made this way should count as grounds to invalidate it.

*Salman Rushdie: allow writers to create characters outside of their own experience.* *"If we’re in a world where only women can write about women and only people from India can write about people from India and only straight people can write about straight people … then that’s the death of the art," the novelist said, according to the Times.* Or, at the very least, it means no story can have both men and women in it.

Oops, we just lost New York and dozens of other coastal cities. Their eventual flooding is inevitable as the West Antarctic ice shelf melts.

How long it will take for them to be inundated is not clear.

US citizens: call on Biden to keep his promise by decriminalizing marijuana.

If you phone, please spread the word! White House: +1-202-456-1111 and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213

US citizens: call on Congress to push for a cease fire in Gaza and for both sides to respect international humanitarian law

HAMAS has total contempt for international humanitarian law; for that, we condemn it. However, this does not excuse Israel for imitating HAMAS and sinking to that same level.

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