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This is the official Mastodon account for Richard Stallman.

I started the GNU operating system & founded the https://hostux.social/@fsf and with them launched the Free Software Movement. Please join or donate to the FSF: https://www.fsf.org

I use this mastodon account to mirror the political notes from my web site, stallman.org.

The views expressed here, as in stallman.org, are my personal views, not those of the Free Software Foundation or the GNU Project. #FSF #GNU #FreeSoftware

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[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/14/australian-man-says-border-force-made-him-hand-over-phone-passcode-by-threatening-to-keep-device-indefinitely
https://www.stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

Australian border thugs stretched the lax Australian law to demand the passwords to unlock travelers' phones. That they do this arbitrarily, without court orders, is an offense against the rule of law. That they pretend it is "random", which clearly it is not, is a …

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/16/palestinian-lorry-drivers-israeli-settlers-attack-gaza-aid-convoy

The aid convoy attacked by Israeli nationalist fanatics was escorted by Israeli soldiers. They did nothing to stop the attack.

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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-loathsomeness-of-trump-world

The corrupter's criminal trial is a tour through a world of pervasive corruption and immorality - the world he imposes on those around him.

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/14/europe-power-fear-ukraine-russia-migrants-gaza
https://stallman.org/archives/2015-sep-dec.html#20_September_2015_(Greek_puppet_government)

As Europe's power shrinks, its fear is growing - and the result is huge mistakes. I have strongly criticized the EU for giving power to banksters instead of to the people.

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Bayer Seeks Reapproval of Pesticide That Federal Courts Have Twice Banned for Causing Widespread Damage to Crops and Communities: https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/bayer-seeks-reapproval-of-pesticide-that-federal-courts-have-twice-banned-for-causing-widespread-damage-to-crops-and-communities

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It looks like the UK will weaken is greenhouse gas targets to "make them easier to meet." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/11/uk-carbon-targets-carryover-budget-climate-change-committee

That is absurd — like reducing the treatment for cancer to make it easier to take. That's what you get in a hospice. Is this hospice care for Planet Earth?

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[01/02] A review of the danger of antibiotic resistance: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/may/13/what-is-antimicrobial-resistance-and-how-big-a-problem-is-it-antibiotics

I've posted over the years about the need to stop farmers from giving antibiotics to entire herds in bulk. https://stallman.org/archives/2005-jul-oct.html#09%20October%202005(Drug-resistant%20E%20Coli)

We must restrict them to giving antibiotics specifically to animals that are sick.

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[02/02] As for the lack of new antibiotics, we should take this entirely out of the hands of drug companies and create an international organization for the job. We should give it funds to develop last-ditch antibiotics, and to make doses for the whole world — prohibit the use of those antibiotics except in animals that are entitled to human rights.

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[01/02] US courts have given cops immunity for any destruction of property that they cause in the course of their activity. https://reason.com/2024/05/10/a-swat-team-blew-up-this-innocent-couples-home-and-left-them-with-the-bill-was-that-constitutional/

I agree that the government should compensate those whose property government agents destroy except pursuant to a court order to do so.

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[01/03] Israel is fighting resurgent HAMAS in northern Gaza again. https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/12/fierce-battles-in-gaza-as-israeli-forces-attack-hamas-militants

As I've noted many times, it is impossible to defeat an underground guerrilla movement that has the popular support to recruit new members. HAMAS has that support.

Israel should recognize this and end the useless and deadly attempt to do the impossible. HAMAS is an evil group of terrorists, but there is no use in futile efforts to eradicate it, and the effort is no excuse for killing thousands...

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https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global%20heating
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/world-scientists-climate-failure-survey-global-temperature

World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5°C target. They expect a 2.5°C rise, which implies disaster.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/un-expert-human-rights-climate-crisis-economy

David Boyd, until recently UN special rapporteur on human rights and the environment, says that government plans to curb global heating are succumbing to the pressure to profit by exploiting people and nature.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/06/university-of-mississippi-palestine-counter-protest-investigation

At the University of Mississippi, a provocateur who harassed a protest on behalf of Palestine is being investigated over violence.

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https://stallman.org/talks.html#15may2024

Richard Stallman will give a talk, in French, Free Software and Freedom in a Digital Society at Centrale Supelec in Saclay, on May 15.

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[2/2] … cause. Even worse, they are sure to make it hotter in the future. People can't survive if farming does not work.

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[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/04/inside-an-oven-how-life-in-south-east-asia-is-a-struggle-amid-sweltering-heat
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global%20heating
https://stallman.org/archives/2021-jan-apr.html#3_April_2021_(Global_heating_hurting_farm_productivity)

A general heat wave in south-east Asia, stretching from Bangladesh to the Philippines, is killing people and destroying crops. It is clear that our global heating activities are part of the …

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https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/mar/24/us-election-journalism-crisis

Job losses in US journalism, declining circulations and local newspaper closures could mean spread of misinformation in pivotal election year.

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[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/04/uk-surgeon-who-described-gaza-massacre-denied-entry-to-france
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-mar-jun.html#24_April_2024_(Yanis_Varoufakis_censored,_banned,_DEU)

Surgeon Ghassan Abu-Sitta volunteered to work in Gaza, and has testified about Israeli attacks he has seen. French senators invited him to speak to them, but Germany has banned him from entering anywhere in the Schengen zone. Did Germany present any basis claimed to …

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/may/01/big-oil-danger-disinformation-fossil-fuels

Big oil spent decades sowing doubt about fossil fuel dangers, experts testify.

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https://www.commondreams.org/news/emory-protests-arrests
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug

Uniformed thugs let loose on protesters at Emory university went on a violent rampage against students and faculty — a gas-them-beat-them-and-frame-them operation. The thugs that mauled protesters ought to go to jail. The university presidents that invited them to do that should resign.

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[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/global/2024/mar/24/we-think-loneliness-is-in-our-heads-but-its-source-lies-in-the-ruin-of-civil-society

We think loneliness is in our heads, but its source lies in the ruin of civil society. In 2019, I found that the Tech Model Railroad Club (famously associated with early computer hackers) was almost dead. A few years before members had been vigorously developing it. I told Professor Sussman, and he told me that several years before, most incoming MIT …

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/30/big-oil-climate-crisis-us-senate-report

Big oil privately acknowledged efforts to downplay climate crisis, Senate report finds.

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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/26/robot-flamethrower-dog-thermonator

A four-legged robot with a flamethrower is now available for anyone to purchase in the US. Supposedly it is not intended for war. Maybe that means it is intended for criminal gangs?

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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/29/torres-strait-island-elders-climate-change-class-action

Torres Strait Islanders, who live on islands between Australia and New Guinea, are suing about the damage that sea-level rise will do to their homes if we don't curb global heating in 20 years.

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https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkadgm/man-dies-by-suicide-after-talking-with-ai-chatbot-widow-says

Chatbots can lead people to suicide. What should we make of that? It seems that chatbots can build, with susceptible people, various sorts of self-reinforcing loops of conversation, such that both get stuck in the loop together. Of course, this happens to people in interactions with other people. Getting out of them is a challenge.

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