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Republicans are trying to use the killing of Charles Kirk to spread fear of informants. This article compares that with what the Assad dynasty did in Syria.
[1/2] (satire) *New Uber Feature Allows Women To Request Nonthreatening Eunuch Driver.* (satire) To make this work, Uber contracted to Google the development of an app to recognize automatically whether a driver is a eunuch. Reports say that it got confused when first used by women drivers, because it had not encountered any in its training. (serious) Why not to do
[1/2] Do you go to a clinic which urges you to sign up for Mychart? If so, it is already mistreating you by making you run nonfree software. But the developer, Epic, wants to do worse: lead users to sign away their right to sue if Epic misuses or leaks their personal medical data. The old terms and conditions were already unacceptable in my view, and so was running nonfree software, so I never did sign up. But
[1/2] MSNBC is applying a ridiculously strict standard to staff that post criticizing Charles Kirk for his politics. I have a suspicion that MSNBC is not applying the same strictness to statements that support the bully. But I don't watch MSNBC (I don't have a cable hookup since they use DRM and track people), so I don't
*The consensus is clear: it’s genocide. Now will international law die in Gaza too?* I am sure that is what right-wing dictators hope for. Some don't care particularly about Gaza or Israel, but they want to get rid of anything that might restrain their own violence, regardless of what purpose they do it for.
Psychotherapists are invited to give recordings of therapy sessions to a bullshit generator service to summarize them. They must agree to give the company a "non-exclusive, transferable, assignable, perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide license" to patients’ anonymized therapy sessions. With so much data to work with, I expect that these recordings will often be deanonymized.
*Judges rule against Trump administration on deporting Guatemalan [minors] and Venezuelans.* Using the word "children" to describe the Guatemalans protected by this decision fails to express its full scope. It protects Guatemalan minors who are adolescents as well as Guatemalan minors who are children.
*More than a quarter of a million people displaced from Gaza City in past month, UN figures show.* This is, in itself, an enormous atrocity.