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Social networks

lundi 11 février 2019 à 01:00

The UK is considering making social networks legally responsible for the specifics of users' postings. That requirement would shut them down.

Some requirements about certain algorithms might be feasible to implement, and then one could discuss whether they are good or bad.

Seattle's warning about Amazon

dimanche 10 février 2019 à 01:00

Seattle warns NYC: Amazon will do the city harm.

This is over and above the harm of the payment to Amazon to come and do that.

Climate defense

dimanche 10 février 2019 à 01:00

Climate defense: "the fight for what's left and the people who get left with it."

I think things are a little better than the article presents it. It is not quite true to say that the enemy "is us" — rather, it is a system, which we are part of, but which is effectively controlled by the plutocracy. So we have to fight them for the decision about whether governments should mobilize the world to save itself, or tread the non-rich down.

Canadian thugs arrest protesters

dimanche 10 février 2019 à 01:00

Canadian thugs have arrested indigenous protesters that were blocking pipeline construction teams from entering their land.

Under the principle of necessity, they would be justified in destroying the construction equipment, since it is being used to bring about mass murder.

Murder, per se, is not their immediate goal, but that changes nothing — building fossil fuel infrastructure will kill hundreds of millions, and any reasonable person should know that. How many of those millions would be due to this pipeline, if it is completed, is a question we don't need to answer.

High school inspires bullying

dimanche 10 février 2019 à 01:00

A high school in Arizona requires students that are missing credits needed to graduate wear a red badge so as to shame them. This is very effective in inspiring bullying against them. Probably less so in helping them do better.

It turns out to be an illegal violation of those students' privacy.