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Diplomats fear growing power of Iranian factions that want nuclear weapons
Warnings that war in Gaza and Iran’s lack of cooperation on its nuclear programme are strengthening hand of hardliners
Glossary
 Concern that some factions in Iran want nuclear weapons. But there is nothing we can do to discourage that, not any more. The wrecker's aggression destroyed the non-nuclear deal and made it impossible to restart.
Foreign correspondents increasingly refused permits, visas, access in India
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on India’s administration to stop arbitrarily exploiting its procedures for issuing journalist visas and pe...
 RSF: Foreign correspondents increasingly refused permits, visas, access in India. This is part of the slow but steady move to eliminate democracy and human rights, which can be seen across the board in Modi's rule.
The Lever
Shadow Landlords Strike Back
Backed by real estate money, Gov. Kathy Hochul refused to make public the secret, problematic companies that own a wide swath of New York.
 New York Governor Hochul gets funds from big investors in Manhattan real estate, and modified a public records law to let them continue to conceal their identities from the public.
the Guardian
Tens of thousands of pro-Palestine protesters march through London
Attenders reiterate call for ceasefire in Gaza and condemn PM’s comments linking protests to ‘extremism’
 A large protest in London condemned the bombardment and siege of Gaza and demanded imposition of a cease fire. The speakers rebuked the Tories who had baselessly and arbitrarily claimed that protesters were "extremists", seeking to justify repression of these protests.
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Are dating apps fuelling addiction? Lawsuit against Tinder, Hinge and Match claims so
Platforms accused of encouraging compulsive use by gamifying users’ attention and romantic investment
 A lawsuit accuses Tinder and some other dating apps of only pretending to seek to find people good matches; instead, the plaintiff charge, they are designed to keep people on those apps for as long as possible through addictive design.
[2/2] … rather than how it is evaluated. In its list of real AI systems that really know something about some domain, the article perhaps includes bullshit generates as well in some points. The author doesn't distinguish.
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We must start preparing the US workforce for the effects of AI – now | Steven Greenhouse
Artificial intelligence can make companies more efficient and workers happier – or cause mass misery. The choice is ours
 AI systems already control many kinds of mistreatment of workers. This article starts with some examples. It ends with a number of recommendations, which seem wise to me. However, when the article discusses the use of AI to evaluate the continually monitored work of an employees, I think it focuses too much on the use of AI for the evaluation, and that the crucial wrong is in the monitoring itself …
[2/2] … impeachment.
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Sunak decries ‘intimidation’ by protesters amid row over chaotic Gaza vote
PM speaks out over MPs’ safety, saying it is ‘unacceptable’ for politicians to feel intimidated
2023: November - February Political Notes
 UK ministers accuse protesters of trying to intimidate MPs with threats. Indeed, a democracy must not tolerate that. Some senators reported that threats to their lives and their families' lives convinced them not to vote to convict the insurrectionist after his second …