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Tell Congress: Oppose All Funding for ICE Without Systemic Reforms
ICE has operated for years with extraordinary power and almost no accountability. The result has been predictable and devastating: excessive force,...
Online Letter Campaign, no JavaScript
 US citizens: call on your elected officials to oppose all funding for the deportation thugs in the absence of systemic reforms. See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code-not trivial, but not hard. US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue. To phone your congresscritter about
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Ars Technica
Deny, deny, admit: UK police used Copilot AI “hallucination” when banning football fans
Police finally come clean about botched use of AI tools.
Words to Avoid (or Use with Care) Because They Are Loaded or Confusing - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
 A UK official banned the fans of an Israeli team from a football match, believing that they had got involved in fights with fans of another team in a previous match. It turns out that previous match had never taken
the Guardian
Excessive screen time could limit vocabulary of toddlers, experts warn
Children aged two with highest screen use can say significantly fewer words, UK government research finds
 *Children aged two with highest screen use can say significantly fewer words, UK government research finds.* This is adding to the evidence that using computers tends to be bad for young children.
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the Guardian
Rollout of AI may need to be slowed to ‘save society’, says JP Morgan boss
Jamie Dimon warns of civil unrest but Nvidia’s Jensen Huang argues tech will create rather than destroy jobs
Words to Avoid (or Use with Care) Because They Are Loaded or Confusing - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
 A megabankster concedes that the use of artificial "intelligence" may need to be slowed in order to reduce the rate of disruption. However, he continues to insist on the PR claim that those systems are "intelligence" and that they provide a benefit to society. The main "benefit" of Pretend
Tell the Media: Stop calling it a ceasefire. Report on what is really happening in Gaza and the West Bank
In Gaza, Palestinians remain under total siege. Food is restricted. Aid is blocked. Hospitals barely function. Families are starving. People are st...
Online Letter Campaign, no JavaScript
 US citizens: call on US mass media to Stop calling it a ceasefire. Report on what is really happening in Gaza and the West Bank. See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
Protect Kids From RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Rollback
For more than three decades, the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule has been built on science, expert review, and real-world evidence. That system has...
Online Letter Campaign, no JavaScript
 US citizens: call on your state's governor to protect kids from RFK jr's vaccine rollback. See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.
civicshout.com
Demand GoFundMe remove fundraisers for ICE agent
Right now, GoFundMe is hosting fundraisers for ICE agent Jonathan Ross, the federal officer who killed Renee Good in Minneapolis on January 7. Thes...
 US citizens: call on GoFundMe to follow its own rules against raising money for people who committed violent acts. I refuse to use GoFundMe for any purpose because it requires running nonfree JavaScript code. Nearly all web sites require nonfree JS to make a payment, the exception I know of being fsf.org.