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    Republicans sue Google to stop Gmail from marking campaign messages as spam

    If the RNC sends messages with a properly identifying domain in the return address, like “@rnc.org”, those messages should not be spam-filtered. If however, they come from updates@humblyasking.com updates@republicanidea.com updates@americaemails.com and the like, they should go straight to the...
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    Anti-vaccine groups avoid Facebook bans by using emojis

    Who is the arbiter of what constitutes misinformation?
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    How a Microsoft blunder opened millions of PCs to potent malware attacks

    I have a number of individual clients to whom I provide paid in-home technical support. Not sure, really how I should handle this. Shouldn’t Microsoft issue an update this coming Tuesday that will fix this without my resorting to running a script and constituting a make-works program for my...
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    Kids 5-11 can now get the bivalent, BA.5-targeting COVID booster

    Do we know what the risk of death or serious side effects is for kids who have received the shot, or better, as a function of how many boosters they have received? That’s the information that’s needed to weigh the risks.
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    Facebook admits to “error” banning Holocaust movie for violating race policy

    For years, the American Civil Liberties Union has taken the stance that Facebook shouldn’t censor any offensive speech—a policy that would ensure filmmakers like Newton never have to worry about how to promote their movies without Facebook. Oh, how fast offensive speech can become “speech...
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    FTC sues firm for selling location data that can track abortion clinic visits

    So, who is the source of Kochava’s data? Is it (a) Apple on iOS (b) Google on Android (c) the phone’s cell carrier ?
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    Record-short days could speed up debate on leap seconds

    If there is a software solution to this, we should employ the software solution. Aren’t we past making the physical world become a slave to avoiding the difficulty of such a solution? Leap seconds have been around for longer than NTP, I imagine.
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    FDA’s top tobacco scientist takes job at Marlboro-maker Philip Morris

    It’s the difference between what is legal and what is legitimate, between what positive law says and what natural law says. Legislators can make anything legal or illegal, if they have the necessary majorities. It does not make it right in an absolute sense.
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    FDA’s top tobacco scientist takes job at Marlboro-maker Philip Morris

    At least Condé Nast doesn’t take money from the government for telling their readers how good cigarettes are for their health and how safe and effective they are.
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    FDA’s top tobacco scientist takes job at Marlboro-maker Philip Morris

    Okay, now replace Philip Morris with Pfizer or Moderna. Or Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, Lilly, Johnson & Johnson. Do any of you smell a rat?
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    FDA’s top tobacco scientist takes job at Marlboro-maker Philip Morris

    This type of revolving door is common, too, between the FDA and CDC on the one hand and all of the pharmaceutical company on the other. With that going on, how are we supposed to be able to rely on those government agencies to regulate the industry in the interest of the people?