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60,000 African penguins starved to death after sardine numbers collapsed – study
Climate crisis and overfishing contributed to loss of 95% of penguins in two breeding colonies in South Africa, research finds
African penguin - Wikipedia
 A crash in the sardine population killed most of the African penguins population from 2004 to 2012. The species is now critically endangered.
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Google Faces Lawsuit Over Alleged Secret Data Tracking via Gemini AI
Google faces a lawsuit in California alleging it secretly activated Gemini AI to track private Gmail, Chat, and Meet communications without user co...
2024: November - February Political Notes
 A lawsuit accuses Google of activating its bullshit generator, Gemini, by default for various widely used apps, as a way of snooping on what users say in them. It's not impossible to deactivate Gemini, but Google has set up a "dark pattern" to make it so inconvenient that people will give
The Onion
Utah Bans Eye Contact During Sex
SALT LAKE CITY—With top lawmakers championing the measure as a restoration of Christian values currently under attack in mainstream America, the ...
 (satire) *Utah Bans Eye Contact During Sex.*
the Guardian
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I’ve met wonderful people here who make me feel that I belong – but there are now many who see asylum seekers as an easy political target, says...
 *I'm a legal refugee in Britain. So why am I always being treated like a criminal?.*
the Guardian
High levels of ‘forever chemical’ found in cereal products across Europe – study
Pesticide Action Network Europe study finds average concentrations 100 times higher than in tap water
 A PFAS is found in high concentrations in cereal products in Europe. It is a breakdown product of other PFAS that are used in pesticides.
the Guardian
US schools face big price swings for basics under Amazon’s ‘dynamic pricing’, report claims
Amazon calls the report ‘flawed and misleading’ and says it offers lower prices than competitors
 Some US schools buy supplies from Amazon, and get screwed by changing prices. States ought to prohibit public agencies and institutions (such as public schools) from buying from any company that requires sellers to commit not to charge less though other retailers. This would exclude Amazon, not by discrimination, but by rejecting its anti-competitive practice.
Google Aligns with Trump Deportation Policies, Sparks Ethical Debate
 Google takes a stand for the deportation thugs and against their victims. Is Google's political stand a matter of support for repression? Or is it a matter of surrendering to bullying? Either way, it shows the injustice of the nonfree software of Google's app store. At last for now you can load apps from elsewhere on Android. But Google is talking about making that harder.
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the Guardian
Detainees at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ facing ‘harrowing human right violations’, new report alleges
Amnesty International finds immigrants at Florida facility were shackled and left outside in metal cage for up to a day
 The thugs running the Everglades deportation prison leave a prisoner in a constricting cage outdoors for a day without water to drink. Even at this time of year, it is often rather hot for part of the day down there. Such a cage is torture, and the lack of water to drink risks doing harm.
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Home Office admits facial recognition tech issue with black and Asian subjects
Calls for review after technology found to return more false positives for ‘some demographic groups’ on certain settings
2025: September - December Political Notes
 How politicians that want to track everyone distract attention from the damage of doing that: by focusing public concern on the secondary danger that people of some minority groups will be tracked less accurately than most people. As if the
the Guardian
RSF massacres left Sudanese city ‘a slaughterhouse’, satellite images show
Up to 150,000 residents of El Fasher are missing since North Darfur capital fell to paramilitary Rapid Support Forces
 *Up to 150,000 residents of El Fasher are missing since North Darfur capital fell to paramilitary Rapid Support Forces,* which is one of the two warring factions. A large number of them seem to have been massacred, but investigators and reporters are not allowed in.