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TIL about the UK’s 1833 Slavery Abolition Act: around 46,000 former slave owners were compensated by the government for lost “property” — a huge payout equivalent to billions today, making it one of Britain’s largest-ever state debts. No compensation was given to enslaved people themselves. [source, comments]
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TIL the 3.5% rule: 3.5% of a national population peacefully protesting on the streets at once will ALWAYS topple a Dictatorship or democratic government. Moreover peaceful movements succeed twice as often as violent ones. This surprised even the Harvard political scientist who discovered it. [source, comments]
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the Guardian
When billion-dollar AIs break down over puzzles a child can do, it's time to rethink the hype | Gary Marcus
The tech world is reeling from a paper that shows the powers of a new generation of AI have been wildly oversold, says cognitive scientist Gary Marcus
Trump uses ICE now as secret police to arrest US citizens. Just happened to Brad Lander, progressive candidate running for NYC mayor.
Trump already started this authoritarian behaviour during the BLM protests in 2020, when men pulled protesters into unmarked vans.
https://bsky.app/profile/gwynnefitz.bsky.social/post/3lrnoscriptpbt3k2v
Trump already started this authoritarian behaviour during the BLM protests in 2020, when men pulled protesters into unmarked vans.
https://bsky.app/profile/gwynnefitz.bsky.social/post/3lrnoscriptpbt3k2v
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Gwynne Hogan (@gwynnefitz.bsky.social)
Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.
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Billionaires could announce they're going to start hunting people for sport and some bootlickers would defend them: you're just mad because you can't run fast
https://news.1rj.ru/str/neomarksizm/8118
https://news.1rj.ru/str/neomarksizm/8118
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Australia doesn't mess around: Fines leading telecommunications provider $100m for selling 400 customers phone plans they couldn't afford
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-18/accc-optus-admit-unconscionable-conduct-100m-penalty/105430714
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-18/accc-optus-admit-unconscionable-conduct-100m-penalty/105430714
https://redd.it/1le87bz
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www.abc.net.au
Optus faces $100m penalty for unconscionable conduct
Optus admits to engaging in unconscionable conduct and agrees to a $100 million penalty for selling customers phones and contracts they did not want or need.
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