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Richard Stallman's Political Notes

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False murder convictions

lundi 28 mai 2018 à 02:00

Roughly 4% of murder convictions are false. There are false convictions for other crimes too. It's partly due to officials that disregard the truth in order to convict someone, but the bail system also pressures lots of non-rich people into pleading guilty when they know they are not.

Amazon face-recognition surveillance

lundi 28 mai 2018 à 02:00

Amazon is ready to supply face-recognition surveillance to any government.

Files destroyed by UK

lundi 28 mai 2018 à 02:00

The UK destroyed files which may have described advising Sri Lanka on torture and disappearance.

We don't know what they said, but we have to presume they were culpable.

Las Vegas casino workers to strike

lundi 28 mai 2018 à 02:00

Las Vegas Casino Workers Vote for First Mass Strike in More Than 30 Years.

Cost of global heating

lundi 28 mai 2018 à 02:00

Limiting global heating to 1.5C would avoid 30 trillion dollars in damages compared with letting things go on as now.

That is a minimum, since we don't know how much positive feedback will make the consequences even worse.