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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/07/federal-judge-reverses-trump-freeze-ny-nj-tunnel

A court quashed the bully's demand to have Penn Station renamed with his name.

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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/14/australia-exposed-iranian-asylum-seeker-to-torture-on-manus-un-says

The UN committee against torture has found Australia responsible for torture carried out in an immigration prison in Papua New Guinea on an immigrant that Australia paid Papua New Guinea to jail. Australia pioneered the idea of denying asylum to refugees who arrive by small boat, no matter how repressive the country they escaped.

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/30/antibiotics-spraying-farms-epa-bacteria-resistance

Use on crops of 8m pounds of antibiotics and antifungals a year leads to superbugs and damages human health, lawsuit claims.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/23/trump-payment-scheme-taxpayer-money
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#corrupter

*Top House Democrats accuse [the corrupter] of illegal scheme to pilfer $230m in taxpayer money. Lawmakers say [the corrupter] as president would decide whether [the corrupter] as claimant be paid for investigations into [the corrupter] as defendant.

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https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/415646/artificial-intelligencer-chatgpt-c

There are AI systems that can determine, from almost any photo, what place it was taken in. This leads to even more danger of tracking people.

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[1/2] https://cryptorank.io/news/feed/b4f5d-google-more-ai-overviews-health-queries

Google search allows its bullshit generator to summarize some web sites instead of just directing users to the site. When it does this for medical web sites, the summaries are often inaccurate, and this can be dangerous. It is a mistake to call these errors "hallucinations" because that presumes the LLM tries to understand the site's text and the supposed summary that it constructs. It does not understand

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https://www.theguardian.com/law/2024/nov/19/a-war-surgeons-perspective-on-crimes-in-gaza

A British surgeon who has worked as a volunteer in Gaza reports on what he saw there, including an apparent campaign by Israeli snipers to render men permanently disabled.

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[5/5] … were distributed to selected people with command or sensitive roles, not footsoldiers or fellow travelers. Thus, the pager attack was not an atrocity or a crime - it was simply war. That does not imply it was morally justifiable. Netanyahu is aiming to escalate the war between Israel and Hezbollah. and exploding the pagers was one among many attacks in the campaign of escalation. That aim is what he deserves condemnation for.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/israeli-abuse-of-jailed-palestinian-leader-marwan-barghouti-amounts-to-torture

Israel competes with HAMAS in regard to cruelty and violence towards prisoners. In effect, Israel is now using its political prisoners as hostages for revenge.