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  • Has Wales found the solution to Autocracy?

    In stark contrast, Wales is implementing a legal solution so simple it’s almost shocking no one thought of it sooner:

    “Seven days to clarify, correct or retract a statement of fact if challenged. Or choose to defend it in court.”

    That’s it. No censorship. Just a legal obligation for politicians to correct the record—or stand by it, under legal scrutiny. This mechanism, currently moving through the legislative process in Wales, does something vital: it reintroduces consequence into political speech. Not for opinions, but for facts. The difference is crucial. Politicians remain free to argue, spin, and debate. But if they claim a hospital has closed, a crime rate has surged, or a rival is guilty of fraud, they must be prepared to prove it—or retract it.

    • "What is Truth?"

Obit

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

  • What If We Made Advertising Illegal?

    Think about what's happened since 2016: Populists exploit ad marketplaces, using them to bypass traditional media gatekeepers and deliver tailored messages to susceptible audiences. Foreign actors do the same, microtargeting divisive content to fracture our social fabric along existing fault lines. Outlawing advertising would help protect and reinvigorate our minds and democracy. Even as an advertiser (especially as an advertiser), I am convinced that outlawing advertising is the best thing we can do for our world now. More than gun control. More than tackling climate change. More than lowering the price of eggs. Removing these advanced manipulation tools would force everyone—politicians included—to snap back into reality. By outlawing advertising, the machinery of mass delusion would lose its most addictive and toxic fuel.

    When I say advertising, I also mean propaganda. Propaganda is advertising for the state, and advertising is propaganda for the private. Same thing.

  • Advertising Makes You Unhappy – By Design | naked capitalism

Musk

Electric / Self Driving cars

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

TechSuck / Geek Bait

  • What Happened to Procomm Plus

    Procomm started out in 1985 as a shareware program, initially called TERMULATOR, written to fill the gap left by the shareware program PC-Talk when its author, Andrew Fluegelman, died in 1985. Shareware Procomm featured a built in phone directory, file transfer protocols for uploading and downloading, and automatic redial. It became popular enough to grow into a commercial product, Procomm Plus. The commercial ProComm Plus included a scripting language, more terminal types, additional file transfer protocols, context sensitive help, support for 8 COM ports, and a professionally written manual.

    • It really could talk to almost anything that you'd find answering a phone. Several big companies stretched their core mainframe systems another decade with that ability, putting off upgrades until the early 90s.

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

Crypto con games

Economicon / Business / Finance

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

  • Miss. governor signs typo tax overhaul bill into law to phase out income tax

    Gov. Tate Reeves signed a bill to overhaul Mississippi’s tax system — one that many lawmakers inadvertently voted for because of typos — into law on Thursday. This sets Mississippi on a path to become the first state to eliminate an existing income tax, when the tax is phased out in about 14 years.

    House leaders have long pushed to eliminate the state personal income tax in relatively short order. The Senate had urged a longer-term approach, arguing it would be unwise to slash a third of the state’s revenue in uncertain economic times. Senators last week had conceded to eliminate the income tax, but only with economic growth “triggers” as safeguards — the tax wouldn’t phase out unless the state saw robust economic growth and controlled spending. It would have likely taken many years. Or so they thought. The Senate bill had typos that essentially nullified the growth triggers and would eliminate the income tax nearly as quickly as the House proposed. The House passed the flawed bill on to the governor, who signed it into law Thursday. In a social media post last week, Reeves, who did not mention the bizarre series of events that helped send the bill to his desk, said “liberal activists” were “making claims of errors, omissions, mistakes, and changes.” Since then, both House Speaker Jason White and Lt. Gov Delbert Hosemann, both Republicans, have acknowledged the legislation signed into law Thursday contained errors. Hosemann downplayed the typos at the ceremony.

  • A judge has blocked Arkansas' online age verification law for infringing on free speech and being overbroad.

  • Federal Judge Rejects FDA Power Grab

    …FDA’s asserted jurisdiction over laboratory-developed test services as “devices” under the FDCA defies bedrock principles of statutory interpretation, common sense, and longstanding industry practice.

  • Judge Ends Eric Adams Case, but Says U.S. Cannot Use Charges as Leverage - The New York Times

    A judge on Wednesday dismissed federal corruption charges against Eric Adams, ending the first criminal case against a New York City mayor in modern history and underscoring how prosecutorial power is being used to advance President Trump’s agenda. In his ruling, the judge, Dale E. Ho of Federal District Court in Manhattan, refused to allow the government to keep open the option of reinstating the charges, as the Justice Department had sought. Even so, the ruling underscores the remarkable power that Mr. Trump’s administration has to terminate cases, regardless of the rationale.

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Russia Bad / Ukraine War

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Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

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