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Urgent: Rape and groping accusations

samedi 6 janvier 2018 à 01:00

US citizens: call for investigating all the rape and groping accusations against the bully.

I signed this despite the use of the harmfully vague term "sexual assault".

300,000 Dalits rally

samedi 6 janvier 2018 à 01:00

300,000 Dalits rallied to celebrate a battle where Dalits helped the British defeat an army of higher-caste Hindus, in 1817. Hindu-nationalists attacked the rally, after which Dalits protested in many cities. Thugs attacked some of the protests.

The British Empire

samedi 6 janvier 2018 à 01:00

Historians should investigate the actions and effects of the British Empire, not set out to whitewash them.

"Digital assistants"

samedi 6 janvier 2018 à 01:00

Patent applications show that Google and Amazon are interested in making "digital assistants" study people's activities to learn all about them.

AI programs would understand what people say to each other, observe what they wear including slogans on t-shirts, and track people's movements around the house including to the toilet or to bed.

It should be illegal to have such a device in your apartment without getting signed consent from the people that live in the other apartments in the building.

Troll's "election integrity" commission

samedi 6 janvier 2018 à 01:00

The troll has abolished his "election integrity" commission that was intended to prepare for disenfranchisement of non-Republican demographic groups.

Its abolition is a good thing, since the word "integrity" risks being tarnished when associated with a person who can't imagine what it means. But that doesn't mean the integrity of US elections is safe. Republicans have been scheming to bias elections for decades, and when one new attack is thwarted, their old methods don't stop.