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Counter climate summit

mardi 9 novembre 2021 à 17:30

In the "counter climate summit", activists will present climate defense proposals that COP26 is not seriously considering.

Measure of mental state

mardi 9 novembre 2021 à 17:30

Rssearch is trying to use snoop phone sensors to measure a person's mental state. If this ever works, it will enable manipulation/marketing companies to determine which ads work for each person specific who sees them, and to brainwash people ad lib.

Out of jail

lundi 8 novembre 2021 à 17:30

When Americans get out of jail, many of them owe more than $10,000 to the court, an amount than a poor person in America can't pay.

Then there is the debt for probation, owed to the private company that runs probation and charges the not-quite-ex-con a lot of money.

It should be forbidden to privatize any aspect of prisons, courts, or the justice system.

I was disappointed that this campaign uses an app. It is almost surely nonfree. Can someone find out if it is possible to deal with the campaign by phone call?

Cameras in every home

lundi 8 novembre 2021 à 17:30

Dave Eggers warns that there will be a campaign to put cameras in every home. The stated purpose will be to stamp out domestic violence.

Ability to manufacture vaccines

lundi 8 novembre 2021 à 17:30

Pfizer and Moderna claim that non-rich countries have no ability to manufacture mRNA vaccines — but that is false.

Of course, it would be easy to put this to the test. Tell them what they need to know, and we will soon see whether they succeed in making the vaccine.

The article's authors have fallen into the fundamental confusion spread by the term "intellectual property". If you use that pseudo-concept, what you say about patents will be false because lots of things that describe various other laws will be mixed into the mishmash.