Uncontacted tribes of Brazil
samedi 26 janvier 2019 à 01:00The uncontacted tribes of Brazil could soon be wiped out by disease.
Site original : Richard Stallman's Political Notes
The uncontacted tribes of Brazil could soon be wiped out by disease.
Israel's blockade of Gaza has crippled medical care, which has led (among other things) to increase of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Hasan Minhaj made a comic video, published via Netflix, that mocked the official Salafi Arabian story about how Jamal Khashoggi disappeared. The acting king declared the story illegal, so Netflix banned access to the video from there.
Because Netflix is the only distribution site, the only way anyone in Salafi Arabia can see the program now is via unofficial redistribution, which is hampered by Netflix's use of DRM.
Netflix has the power to entirely terminate distribution of any video it made, and the video would essentially disappear because there is no other place to get it.
Join me and flick off Netflix!
It does other injustices too.
Relating the murder of women to the prohibition of abortion as two aspects of male domination.
People in Arizona are harassing Waymo's not-yet-quite-driverless vans in an attempt to drive them away.
Bravo! We do not have to allow companies to automate millions of jobs; we do not have to allow them to drive camera platforms through the neighborhoods where we live, work, or travel. How about passing laws to stop them?
Please join me in refusing to use the automated cash registers that stores have set up. I reject them absolutely — once I left a store without buying what I had come for, because the automated cash register was the only way to pay. But even if you don't feel the moral determination to reject them every time, rejecting them most of the time still helps.
I also shout to the other customers, as I pass those machines: "If we use those machines, that puts other Americans out of work. When I realized that, I decided I would always go to the human sales agents, to help them stay employed. We don't have to let companies replace people with robots."
On three occasions, someone immediately responded that that was a good point. Interestingly, each one was a black woman. Maybe they are accustomed to the idea of solidarity.