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MortSinyxAssad decided to open the aid channel from Turkey to northern Syria, but it will be under his control instead of the UN's.
Original: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#15_July_2023_(Syrian_aid_restored)
Original: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#15_July_2023_(Syrian_aid_restored)
\*[Brazilian] Judges ban Bolsonaro from running for office for eight years over "appalling lies".\*
If only US judges had the good sense to do that.
Original: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#4_July_2023_(Bolsonaro_banned_from_office)
If only US judges had the good sense to do that.
Original: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#4_July_2023_(Bolsonaro_banned_from_office)
\*Scientists ponder if climate has entered a new erratic era.\*
Original: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#4_July_2023_(El_Nino_and_North_Atlantic)
Original: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#4_July_2023_(El_Nino_and_North_Atlantic)
On the ethics, practicality and sustainability of farming octopuses.
Octopuses are so remote from us evolutionarily that they give a sample of how strange alien life could be. That we can relate to them at all is amazing.
Literally alien life is likely to be toxic to us, and we to it. Octopuses don't think of eating humans because they don't generally eat anything bigger than their heads.
Original: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#1_July_2023_(Farming_octopuses)
Octopuses are so remote from us evolutionarily that they give a sample of how strange alien life could be. That we can relate to them at all is amazing.
Literally alien life is likely to be toxic to us, and we to it. Octopuses don't think of eating humans because they don't generally eat anything bigger than their heads.
Original: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#1_July_2023_(Farming_octopuses)
Sanders and Jayapal have reintroduced a bill to tax stock transactions, and pay the tuition fees of community college for those who can't afford it.
It will also pay tuition fees for students at four-year colleges that typically serve students from minority groups. I am in favor of this, since those groups have faced a lot of prejudice, but really this ought to be extended to cover people of any racial background.
Taxing stock transactions has the benefit of damping down speculation aside from the benefit of raising more funds from people who can spare it.
Original: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#16_June_2023_(College_for_All_Act)
It will also pay tuition fees for students at four-year colleges that typically serve students from minority groups. I am in favor of this, since those groups have faced a lot of prejudice, but really this ought to be extended to cover people of any racial background.
Taxing stock transactions has the benefit of damping down speculation aside from the benefit of raising more funds from people who can spare it.
Original: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#16_June_2023_(College_for_All_Act)
Fossil fuel company Santos owns "decommissioned" offshore fossil gas wells that are leaking bubbles of methane. It says that stopping these leaks is "not feasible."
Is that really true, or is it a bogus excuse not to seal them?
If it is true, this is all the more reason not to allow any more fossil gas wells to be made.
Original: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_June_2023_(Gas_wells_leaking_a_decade,_AU)
Is that really true, or is it a bogus excuse not to seal them?
If it is true, this is all the more reason not to allow any more fossil gas wells to be made.
Original: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_June_2023_(Gas_wells_leaking_a_decade,_AU)
The developer of ChatGPT is being sued for defamation because ChatGPT generated output that seems to defame the plaintiff.
In fact, ChatGPT is not really intelligent: it doesn't know anything and does not understand the text it generates. This ought to make it immune to accusations based on the meaning of the text it generates. But the company is trying to have it both ways, saying that the output should not be trusted while suggesting that it gives valid information. Perhaps because of that it should be found liable for defamation.
Original: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#13_June_2023_(ChatGPT_developer_sued)
In fact, ChatGPT is not really intelligent: it doesn't know anything and does not understand the text it generates. This ought to make it immune to accusations based on the meaning of the text it generates. But the company is trying to have it both ways, saying that the output should not be trusted while suggesting that it gives valid information. Perhaps because of that it should be found liable for defamation.
Original: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#13_June_2023_(ChatGPT_developer_sued)
The UK has an agency to monitor thuggish behavior by cops and recommend changes in policy. But mostly they just ignore these recommendations. The agency head has called for the power to require thug departments to adopt measures to control their violence and injustice.
Original: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#13_June_2023_(UK_agency_to_monitor_cops_behavior)
Original: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#13_June_2023_(UK_agency_to_monitor_cops_behavior)