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Talk in Milan, Italy
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#22_May_2025_(Talk_in_Milan,_Italy)
Published: May 22, 2025 20:38
I will speak at 17:15 on May 26 in the Politecnico di Milano, in Milan, Italy at Piazza Leonardo Da Vinci 32, Room 9.1.2. Topic: Computing freedom, software, and services We understand that the uses of computing can be unjust. Most do not realize that…
Labour disregarding torture practices by some countries
Published: May 22, 2025 14:38
Labour is reviewing "security" relations with other countries, but doing it by disregarding some countries' torture practices despite criticizing them while it was not in power. These countries include India, Pakistan, Libya, Sri Lanka, Bahrain, Salafi…
Safety of judge that ruled against the bully
Published: May 22, 2025 14:38
*Verbal attacks by [the bully] and allies are creating a hostile climate that endangers [safety of judge that ruled against him], experts say.*
Wrecker claims certain government grants for climate resilience was "fraud"
Published: May 22, 2025 14:38
The wrecker has declared, arbitrarily, that accepting certain government grants for climate resilience was "fraud". And he is trying to use that as an excuse to shut them down immediately by freezing their bank accounts, before any court decisions…
Young Britons would rather live in world with no internet
Published: May 22, 2025 14:38
Almost half of Britons age 16 to 21 would rather live in a world with no internet. Nonfree software which is designed to be malware plays a role in many of the things they find painful. By rejecting nonfree software and SaaSS, they could avoid the worst…
Putin-ization of party of cold war hawks
Published: May 22, 2025 14:38
How the perverter Putin-ized a party of cold war hawks.
List of threats to survival of bees
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(List_of_threats_to_survival_of_bees)
Published: May 22, 2025 14:38
Compiling a list of all the threats to the survival of bees.
Amnesty International declared 'undesirable organisation'
Published: May 22, 2025 14:38
*[Amnesty International] declared ‘undesirable organisation’ amid Kremlin crackdown on critics, journalists and activists.* It vows to continue its work anyway. This is what the would-be dictator wants to do in the US.
List of environmentally damaging budget cuts
Published: May 22, 2025 14:38
A list of environmentally damaging budget cuts in the Republicans' budget bill.
Attack on nonprofits removed from House dooH niboR bill
Published: May 22, 2025 14:38
The attack on nonprofit organizations has been removed from the House dooH niboR bill, which still imposes large and deadly cuts on medical and food aid for the poor and grants large tax cuts to the rich.
Britain, France and Canada attacked Israel's expansion of its war
Published: May 22, 2025 14:38
*Britain, France and Canada attacked Israel’s expansion of its war as disproportionate, described conditions in Gaza as "intolerable" and threatened a "concrete" response if Israel’s campaign continues.* This looks like the start of a gradual diplomatic…
CEO of CBS news is resigning
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(CEO_of_CBS_news_is_resigning)
Published: May 22, 2025 14:38
The CEO of CBS News is resigning. One must suspect that the corporation that owns CBS wants to let the corrupter censor CBS News.
New Orleans Thugs operating 200 real-time face recognition cameras
Published: May 22, 2025 14:38
New Orleans Thugs are operating 200 real-time face recognition cameras, violating local laws.
Proposed head of IRS accused of corruption
Published: May 22, 2025 14:38
The proposed head of the IRS is accused of corruption.
Burning now biggest cause of destruction of tropical forests
Published: May 22, 2025 14:38
*Burning, worsened by global heating, overtook farming and logging [in 2024] as biggest cause of destruction of tropical forests.*
Cash crucial for emergencies
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(Cash_crucial_for_emergencies)
Published: May 22, 2025 14:38
Sweden has recognized that cash is crucial in emergencies, and now encourages everyone to keep a supply of cash for emergency use and to use some regularly. This is a victory against the danger of mass surveillance. The central bank now urges the…
Confusion from failure of communication on safety issues
Published: May 22, 2025 14:38
When scientists talk about a "conservative" estimate of future change, they mean a low estimate of the amount of change. When safety engineers talk about a "conservative" estimate, they mean the largest plausible change, on which safety plans ought to be…
Ignoramus doesn't know answers to basic policy questions
Published: May 22, 2025 14:38
The ignoramus does not seem to know the answers to basic questions about his favorite policy initiatives.
Law to protect consumers under threat
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(Law_to_protect_consumers_under_threat)
Published: May 22, 2025 14:38
Republicans in Congress want to repeal the law that allows the FTC to punish companies from cheating you. This is on top of replacing the head of the FTC with someone who won't necessarily want to stop companies from cheating you.
Urgent: Privatization of Science
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(Urgent:_Privatization_of_Science)
Published: May 22, 2025 08:38
US citizens: call on NIH and NSF to stop cutting critical health research.
Urgent: Medical programs under RFK jr.
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(Urgent:_Medical_programs_under_RFK_jr.)
Published: May 22, 2025 08:38
US citizens: phone your congresscritter and urge per not to let RFK jr. decide which kinds of government medical programs to keep and which to cancel. If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
Urgent: Pam Bondi V reporters
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(Urgent:_Pam_Bondi_V_reporters)
Published: May 22, 2025 08:38
US citizens: phone your congresscritter and senators to urge them to put a stop to Attorney General Bondi's campaign to force reporters to rat on their sources. For information about that campaign, see here.
Urgent: Safe protesting
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#21_May_2025_(Urgent:_Safe_protesting)
Published: May 22, 2025 08:38
US citizens: Insist that Protesting Tesla is not domestic terrorism. Denounce any attempt to arrest and imprison nonviolent activists.
Urgent: Non-cooperation a City's freedom
Published: May 22, 2025 08:38
Everyone: call on Worcester City Council to stop city cops from brutalizing the city for the deportation thugs.
Another scientist jailed: Harvard Univ.
Published: May 21, 2025 14:38
An interview with Kseniia Petrova, jailed by the deportation thugs who falsely claimed she lied about the frog embryo samples she was bringing to the Harvard research lab where she works. The claim that she concealed the frog embryos is absurd. She not…
Special tribunal
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#20_May_2025_(vladimir_putin_court_west)
Published: May 21, 2025 08:38
*The US, UK and other [countries] routinely flout international law. That's why there’s scant hope for a new tribunal on crimes against Ukraine.*
Gaza conflict
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#20_May_2025_(israel_gaza_ethnic_cleansing)
Published: May 21, 2025 08:38
Israel has intensified the bombing of Gaza, but the famine that it is imposing will be even more deadly.
High school election curriculum
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#20_May_2025_(oklahoma_high_schools_election)
Published: May 21, 2025 08:38
Oklahoma's public schools will add explicit right-wing political indoctrination to the recently established Christian indoctrination. This is clearly unconstitutional, but it is not clear that we can trust the right-wing Supreme Court to vote to…
Gulf state deals
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#20_May_2025_(donald_trump_gulf_states_ai)
Published: May 21, 2025 08:38
*How [the corrupter]'s "historic" Gulf state deals benefit a handful of powerful men.*
Trump vs. the Supremes
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#20_May_2025_(trump_supreme_court_showdown)
Published: May 21, 2025 08:38
The wrecker and the Supreme Court seem to be heading for a showdown about whether he is a dictator. Will some of the wrecker's slavish sycophants in Congress are willing to put him in his place, as a mere president under a constitution living in a world…
Ukrainian filmmaker declares Stalinesque
Published: May 21, 2025 08:38
*Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa decries ‘nightmare’ of Putin-Trump alliance.* Things don't seem to be going in that direction just now, and the would-be emperor has been threatening Putin. But that could change if Putin gives him a certain minimum…
World acts hid by Pentagon and media, US
Published: May 21, 2025 08:38
Norman Solomon: the US government and news media have never dropped their pretense that the US intervention in Vietnam was moral and admirable. The US was not at all like that, and neither was the other side. Ironically, the North Vietnamese government…
Greenwashing funding carbon Biggies, EU
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#20_May_2025_(Green_investments_carbon_Biggies,_EU)
Published: May 21, 2025 08:38
*European "green" investments hold billions in fossil fuel majors.*
All LLM Chatbots do falsify citations
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#20_May_2025_(All_Chatbots_still_falsify_citations)
Published: May 21, 2025 08:38
A study found that erroneous citations are rife in the output of LLM-based search engines. Please don't describe them as "intelligence" — that term spreads propaganda that makes them seem more capable than they are.
(satire) Men with Girl names banned from combat
Published: May 20, 2025 14:38
(satire) *U.S. Military Bans Men With Girl Names From Combat.*
Global gulag for expelled immigrants
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Global_gulag_for_expelled_immigrants)
Published: May 20, 2025 14:38
*The [persecutor] appears to be laying the groundwork for a global gulag for expelled immigrants.*
Ralph Nader warns of threat to consumer rights
Published: May 20, 2025 14:38
Ralph Nader warns that the elimination of cash and unchecked credit card practices are threatening core consumer rights—including privacy, autonomy, and equal access to commerce. And tend to make living more expensive for poor people. In the last year…
Wrecker executive order against Supreme Court decisions
Published: May 20, 2025 14:38
The wrecker is trying by executive order to undo the Supreme Court decisions that ruled that unnecessary job requirements which have a discriminatory effect violate US civil rights law.
Government thugs using masks
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Government_thugs_using_masks)
Published: May 20, 2025 14:38
Just as the government increasingly punishes protesters for wearing masks, the deportation thugs that grab people off the street are wearing masks.
Labour proposes deregulation of construction
Published: May 20, 2025 14:38
Labour has gone so far to resemble the Tories that it now proposes deregulation of construction in much the same way that Tories did in 2021, It is even getting advice from the same lobbyists!
Amazon executive nominated for head of OSHA
Published: May 20, 2025 14:38
Another middle-finger nomination of an Amazon executive for head of OSHA. If he was happy at Amazon, whose warehouses are as deadly in reality as werewolves are in fiction, we can't expect him to try very hard to carry out OSHA's mission.
Corrupter's attitude towards many government policies
Published: May 20, 2025 14:38
The corrupter's attitude towards many government policies (those he doesn't personally care about) is that they are merchandise for sale.
Briton visiting Salafi Arabia gets 10 years in prison for tweet
Published: May 20, 2025 14:38
Salafi Arabia has sentenced visiting Briton Ahmed al-Doush to 10 years in prison for a tweet. (There is no information here about what that tweet said.) The article condemns the UK government for not doing enough to win freedom for him. I hesitate…
Argument for maximum wealth
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Argument_for_maximum_wealth)
Published: May 20, 2025 14:38
Arguing that every society should establish a maximum wealth, perhaps around 1,000 times the median wealth.
Antivaxer in charge proposes to eliminate updated Covid-19 vaccines
Published: May 20, 2025 14:38
The antivaxer in charge of vaccination in the US proposes to eliminate updated Covid-19 vaccines for the latest version. And maybe also for flu vaccine, which for years had been updated each year for the variants expected to be most widespread that…
India punished journalist Raphael Satter
Published: May 20, 2025 14:38
India punished journalist Raphael Satter for his writings by canceling his Indian residence permit, which he had by right due to being married to an Indian.
Bully's deals with Arab countries
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Bully's_deals_with_Arab_countries)
Published: May 20, 2025 14:38
The bully's deals with several Arab countries this week are a message to Netanyahu that US policy no longer focuses on him. This might lead to an end of the bombardment and siege.
El Salvador refuses to prove captives still alive
Published: May 20, 2025 14:38
El Salvador refuses to show Venezuelan lawyers proof that 250 Venezuelan captives are still alive.
Foreigners that joined Ukrainian army captured by Putin forces
Published: May 20, 2025 14:38
When the Putin forces capture foreigners who have joined the Ukrainian army, they label those prisoners as "mercenaries" and declare that to be a crime. An Australian volunteer who was captured last year has now been sentenced to 13 years of torture in…
Nova Kakhovka dam, ecological assessment
Published: May 20, 2025 08:38
Putin's destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam *caused ‘toxic timebomb’ of heavy metals.* The reservoir created by the dam was the basis of Ukraine's immense agricultural production. The world needs that production -- but even if the war ends, would this…
Starvation level near 300 million people
Published: May 20, 2025 08:38
*Almost 300m people at risk of death through starvation* (around the world). Cuts by the wrecker in USaid have contributed significantly to this. At the same time, the UK has also cut foreign aid.
Bruce Springsteen's onstage, Trump rant
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Bruce_Springsteen's_onstage_Trump_rant)
Published: May 20, 2025 08:38
Bruce Springsteen castigated the bully from the stage. This might do some good.
GPU backdoor congressional mandate
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(GPU_backdoor_congressional_mandate)
Published: May 20, 2025 08:38
A US bill would require a back door within high performance processors such as GPUs made by US companies. The back door would report the processor's geographical location to the manufacturer.
Regulations defanged in 15 states
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Regulations_defanged_in_15_states)
Published: May 20, 2025 08:38
15 states, evidently controlled by Republican officials, have cemented the power of businesses over citizens by passing a law encouraging judges to toss out regulations that limit businesses.
Corrupter charging for access
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Corrupter_charging_for_access)
Published: May 20, 2025 08:38
The corrupter is overtly charging for access to meet with him, using his private cryptocurrency. This conspicuous corruption is another way he can proclaim his power to spit on laws. This joins many other actions to undermine the laws that try to keep…
Congressional dooH niboR
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Congressional_dooH_niboR)
Published: May 20, 2025 08:38
*GOP House Ways and Means Committee Advances Bill to Give Billions Away to Billionaires, Paid for by Cuts to Medicaid and SNAP.*
Big ugly bill rewards pollution
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Big_ugly_bill_rewards_pollution)
Published: May 20, 2025 08:38
Republicans made their massive dooH niboR bill also a giveaway to polluters.
Corrupter's dealings with Qatar
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Corrupter's_dealings_with_Qatar)
Published: May 20, 2025 08:38
Qatar's flying bribe could cost a billion dollars to accept.
Pro-abortion voters ignored, MS
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Pro-abortion_voters_ignored,_MS)
Published: May 20, 2025 08:38
Mississippians voted to legalize abortion, but the Republican-dominated legislature has decided to ask them to vote again about limiting it.
Nuclear waste cleanup funds cut, WA
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Nuclear_waste_cleanup_funds_cut,_WA)
Published: May 20, 2025 08:38
*The US buried millions of gallons of wartime nuclear waste — [DOPE] cuts could wreck the cleanup.*
Large-scale neocolonial ecoside
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Large-scale_neocolonial_ecoside)
Published: May 20, 2025 08:38
*[Santander] has funneled $600m to firms clearing South America's fragile Gran Chaco ecosystem for beef, palm oil and soya, Global Witness says.
Business over citizens
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#19_May_2025_(Business_over_citizens)
Published: May 19, 2025 20:37
15 states, evidently controlled by Republican officials, have cemented the power of businesses over citizens by passing a law encouraging judges to toss out regulations that limit businesses.
Urgent: Prevent slasher attacks against federal agencies
Published: May 19, 2025 14:37
US citizens: phone your congresscritter to support two bills introduced by Representative Don Beyer to correct and prevent slasher attacks against federal agencies: * The REHIRE Act would give hiring preference to the career professionals…
Urgent: Increase taxes on rich
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(Urgent:_Increase_taxes_on_rich)
Published: May 19, 2025 14:37
US citizens: call on congresscritter to increase taxes on rich The bullshitter has lately been talking about increasing taxes on the non-billionaire rich. Phone your congresscritter (especially if perse is Republican) and call on per to do this, instead…
Urgent: Sign Amicus Brief: "DOGE" is Unconstitutional
Published: May 19, 2025 14:37
US citizens: Sign the Grassroots Amicus Brief: "DOGE" is Unconstitutional.
Urgent: Stop cutting critical medical research
Published: May 19, 2025 14:37
US citizens: call on NIH and NSF: Stop cutting critical medical research.
Urgent: Protect right of habeas corpus
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(Urgent:_Protect_right_of_habeas_corpus)
Published: May 19, 2025 14:37
US citizens: call on Congress to protect the right of habeas corpus. If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
Global heating impact on ability to grow bananas
Published: May 19, 2025 14:37
Global heating is projected to make tropical countries unable to grow bananas by 2080. Bananas are a large part of the food humans eat in those places.
Air pollution exposure affects health in adolescence
Published: May 19, 2025 14:37
*Early air pollution exposure [(ages 1-3)] affects health in adolescence, study finds.
Excuses for accepting gift airplane
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(Excuses_for_accepting_gift_airplane)
Published: May 19, 2025 14:37
The corrupter's lawyers argue loopholes to excuse his accepting a gift airplane from Qatar. Whatever those loopholes may be interpreted to say, it is clear that this is an act of bribery, and damaging to the United States. It would also endanger…
Chimpanzees use leaves to clean their bodies
Published: May 19, 2025 14:37
Chimpanzees use leaves to clean parts of their bodies (their own and others') and to treat wounds.
Wrecker giving Xi opportunity to increase China's power
Published: May 19, 2025 14:37
The wrecker may be giving Dictator Xi the best possible opportunity to increase China's power and influence.
Israel attacked multiple hospitals in Gaza
Published: May 19, 2025 14:37
Israel attacked multiple hospitals in Gaza. That can't be a coincidence of accidents — it must be an intentional attempt to attack medical personnel and their patients.
Oligarchy moving for total power
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(Oligarchy_moving_for_total_power)
Published: May 19, 2025 14:37
Robert Reich: The US has suffered from oligarchy before, but now it is moving for total power.
Republican plan to attack federal support for college students
Published: May 19, 2025 14:37
Republicans plan to attack federal support for college students so drastically that it would be nearly impossible for non-rich Americans to go to college. The icing on this force-fed poisonous cake is that students would have to repay the loans they got…
Why habeas corpus must apply to people threatened with deportation
Published: May 19, 2025 14:37
Why habeas corpus must apply to people threatened with deportation, what it says they are entitled to, and why the violation of eliminating it threatens US citizens too.
Repression against Newark Mayor Baraka
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(Repression_against_Newark_Mayor_Baraka)
Published: May 19, 2025 14:37
The bully's henchmen are twisting laws for repression against Newark Mayor Baraka.
NYU denying diploma's over "antisemitism"
Published: May 19, 2025 14:37
NYU bends over backwards to perceive "antisemitism" in criticism of Israel's war crimes, and presents the mere possibility of such perception as grounds to deny a student's diploma. Repression is the only term for this, and NYU has made that repression a…
Summary of wrecker's war on science
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(Summary_of_wrecker's_war_on_science)
Published: May 19, 2025 14:37
A summary of the wrecker's war on science, released by Bernie Sanders and with a link to the full report.
Afrikaner "refugee" invited to live in US
Published: May 19, 2025 14:37
Just as the persecutor and his henchmen cite supposed "antisemitism" as an excuse for repression around the US, he has invited to live in the US an Afrikaner "refugee" who is a real antisemite. I expect the persecutor will pretend this did not happen,…
Bird warnings on windows
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#18_May_2025_(Bird_warnings_on_windows)
Published: May 19, 2025 14:37
Bird warnings on windows, and lights off at night, can save a large fraction pf the million-or-so migrating birds that crash into tall buildings each year in the US.
(satire) Texas Bans
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_((satire)_Texas_Bans)
Published: May 18, 2025 08:37
(satire) *Texas Bans Being Different Around Children.*
UK to deny citizenship to refugees granted asylum
Published: May 18, 2025 08:37
The UK will henceforth permanently deny citizenship to refugees granted asylum. This policy will harm both the refugees and Britain.
UK citizen arrested in Salafi Arabia
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_(UK_citizen_arrested_in_Salafi_Arabia)
Published: May 18, 2025 08:37
Ahmed al-Doush, a UK citizen, went to visit relative in Salafi Arabia and was arrested while trying to leave. He still doesn't seem to know what he is accused of, and has not been allowed very little contact with his family in the UK or his lawyer in the…
Apple forced to stop demanding share of in-app payments
Published: May 18, 2025 08:37
A proprietary software company's lawsuit has forced Apple to stop demanding a share of in-app payments that users running them on iThings pay to companies other than Apple. So what? This does nothing to reduce the injustice of the iThings, their…
Influencer with no medical license as Surgeon General
Published: May 18, 2025 08:37
The saboteur in chief nominated an influencer with no medical license to be the Surgeon General of the US. She promotes medical disinformation ("snake oil") and I suppose her sales will increase. It is interesting to compare this with Stalin's favorite…
US Episcopal church not working with US to settle refugees
Published: May 18, 2025 08:37
The US Episcopal church canceled working with the US government to help resettle refugees, now that the bully has designated Afrikaners from South Africa as the favored group of refugees and blocked the others. Legal racist discrimination by Afrikaners…
Border thugs stopped Hasan Piker
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_(Border_thugs_stopped_Hasan_Piker)
Published: May 18, 2025 08:37
Border thugs stopped controversial commentator Hasan Piker as he tried to reenter the US, and interrogated him for two hours about his political views. According to a posting he made, they also asked him about someone he had interviewed in Yemen,…
Small tax raise on high income Americans
Published: May 18, 2025 08:37
The corrupter seems to be half/supporting a move to raise taxes a little on high income Americans. He seems to have sent mixed messages about this, which is making obedient magats confused and unsure what to do. I don't think this represents any…
Artificial Stupidity chatbots in finance
Published: May 18, 2025 08:37
Giving Artificial Stupidity chatbots control over anything involved in finances is an invitation to disaster.
Netanyahu as obstacle to doing business with Salafi Arabia
Published: May 18, 2025 08:37
Arguing that the bully has decided that Netanyahu is an obstacle to doing business with Salafi Arabia, and has decided to punish him until he stops being such. We cannot be sure it is true. His attitude may change again every week. If it is true, that…
(satire) Downloading stupid app just to bribe president
Published: May 18, 2025 08:37
(satire) *Man Can’t Believe He Has To Download Stupid App Just To Bribe President.*
Search warrant for searching student protesters
Published: May 18, 2025 08:37
The search warrant that the deportation thugs obtained to search the rooms of two student protesters has been seen and studied. It was based on false statements about law and about facts.
Musicians denied visas to perform in the US
Published: May 18, 2025 08:37
The US has denied several musicians visas to perform in the US, and have arrested a US-based permanent resident musician who was departing with a band to tour.
Effects of stopping weight loss drugs
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_(Effects_of_stopping_weight_loss_drugs)
Published: May 18, 2025 08:37
*People who stop weight loss drugs return to original weight within year, analysis finds.*
Labour in Britain cozying up to Big Tech companies
Published: May 18, 2025 08:37
Labour in Britain seems to be cozying up to the exploitative Big Tech companies.
Hungary considering law to shut down independent media
Published: May 18, 2025 08:37
Hungary is considering a law to shut down independent media and NGOs that have foreign support by labeling them as "threats to national security".
Drop in drug overdose death in the US
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_(Drop_in_drug_overdose_death_in_the_US)
Published: May 18, 2025 08:37
Drug overdose deaths in the US dropped by more than a quarter from 2023 to 2024. Part of this is due to successful efforts to prevent overdose and treat overdoses.
Badar Khan Suri released from jail by federal court
Published: May 18, 2025 08:37
One of the bully's targeted visiting academics, Badar Khan Suri, has been released from jail by a federal court, who ruled that there was no need to ask him to post bail. I wonder, though, whether he has a way to appeal to a real federal court about the…
Aiming to make humans obsolete
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-mar-jun.html#17_May_2025_(Aiming_to_make_humans_obsolete)
Published: May 18, 2025 08:37
Some technology investors already aim to make almost all humans obsolete. LLMs will never be capable of doing this — they play with text but don't understand what it means. That's why I call them "bullshit generators". But that doesn't mean it is…
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