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A disturbing arrest, LAPD

mercredi 12 juillet 2023 à 15:02

A Los Angeles county thug attacked and tackled a woman for making a video of the arrest of her husband.

Thugs that unjustly attack people for upholding their rights and other people's rights should go to prison!

Chatbot regulation: hiring in NYC

mercredi 12 juillet 2023 à 15:02

*NYC will require businesses to prove A.I. employment software isn't racist or sexist.*

Bias in AI systems used to judge individual humans is a well-known problem, and I support this effort to prevent it. But it won't be trivial to check for bias.

Urgent: NO IRS deduction for dirty Hydrogen

mercredi 12 juillet 2023 à 15:02

US citizens: call on the IRS not to let dirty hydrogen (dirty because made from fossil fuels) get deductions for clean energy.

Heat-triggered deaths: 61K, Europe

mercredi 12 juillet 2023 à 15:02

*Heatwave last summer killed 61,000 people in Europe, research finds.*

This is surely just a small fraction of the people killed in 2022 by the increasing heat of global heating. People die from heat on every hot day, even normal summer days, and as normal summer days get hotter, more people die from the heat.

Global heating kills people in indirect ways, including due to food shortages caused by floods and droughts. I'd expect it to be millions per year. Can anyone find a plausible estimate?

Urgent: Pass Preemption of Real Property Discrimination Act

mercredi 12 juillet 2023 à 15:01

US citizens: call on Congress to pass the Preemption of Real Property Discrimination Act.

The campaign presents the state laws this would preempt as racist, but at least in the case of the Florida law, that is not so. That law seems to be a bogus response to an fabricated security threat.

Either way, these laws should not exist.