Bernie Sanders: *I could not, in good conscience, vote for the debt ceiling bill.*

Sanders for President in 2024!

The mainstream US press is repeating right-wing propaganda about supposed "fetal heartbeat" detected long before the fetus has developed a heart at all.

If they can get the public talking about a supposed "fetal heartbeat" at 6 weeks of pregnancy, they have won a major propaganda battle that most people do not recognize is being fought.

Worrying about the danger of hypothetical superintelligent AI today is a distraction. AI programs already used by big companies and states, though far less sophisticated that what those worries fear, have been doing harm to some people for years.

They are used within social systems, and we may be able to prevent some of these harms by changing some other parts of social systems in a feasible way.

Internet delivery companies in the UK mark up supermarket products by as much as 1/3, then charge a delivery fee.

Does anyone know if they do this in the US too?

The conference to start drafting a global plastics treaty have not even produced a draft zero.

It did the initial steps, but I think that plastic manufacturers and oil companies will fight hard to prevent anything effective from being agreed.