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Spent all day calling #California #EDD a few dozen times to try to get my family leave processed (note: they haven’t paid me at all yet in the 4.5 weeks since I filed for PFL). Finally got onto the hold line (instead of just getting “the maximum number of callers has been reached, please call back later”) about 25 minutes ago. The hold music plays for 45 seconds, then a message tells me “all representatives are still busy, please continue to hold, expected wait time is 1 minute”. Every minute.
Why can’t I do this online? Why can’t they do a callback instead of a hold line? Why do they have a limit of how many people can be on hold at once, necessitating that I call them dozens of times? Why does it keep telling me the hold time is “1 minute”? California has 1737 FTEs working in this specific department; how many do you think it would take to make this actually work? 3000? 5000?
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Spent all day calling #California #EDD a few dozen times to try to get my family leave processed (note: they haven’t paid me at all yet in the 4.5 weeks since I filed for PFL). Finally got onto the hold line (instead of just getting “the maximum number of callers has been reached, please call back later”) about 25 minutes ago. The hold music plays for 45 seconds, then a message tells me “all representatives are still busy, please continue to hold, expected wait time is 1 minute”. Every minute.
Why can’t I do this online? Why can’t they do a callback instead of a hold line? Why do they have a limit of how many people can be on hold at once, necessitating that I call them dozens of times? Why does it keep telling me the hold time is “1 minute”? California has 1737 FTEs working in this specific department; how many do you think it would take to make this actually work? 3000? 5000?
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Spent all day calling #California #EDD a few dozen times to try to get my family leave processed (note: they haven’t paid me at all yet in the 4.5 weeks since I filed for PFL). Finally got onto the hold line (instead of just getting “the maximum number of callers has been reached, please call back later”) about 25 minutes ago. The hold music plays for 45 seconds, then a message tells me “all representatives are still busy, please continue to hold, expected wait time is 1 minute”. Every minute.
Why can’t I do this online? Why can’t they do a callback instead of a hold line? Why do they have a limit of how many people can be on hold at once, necessitating that I call them dozens of times? Why does it keep telling me the hold time is “1 minute”? California has 1737 FTEs working in this specific department; how many do you think it would take to make this actually work? 3000? 5000?
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Spent all day calling #California #EDD a few dozen times to try to get my family leave processed (note: they haven’t paid me at all yet in the 4.5 weeks since I filed for PFL). Finally got onto the hold line (instead of just getting “the maximum number of callers has been reached, please call back later”) about 25 minutes ago. The hold music plays for 45 seconds, then a message tells me “all representatives are still busy, please continue to hold, expected wait time is 1 minute”. Every minute.
Why can’t I do this online? Why can’t they do a callback instead of a hold line? Why do they have a limit of how many people can be on hold at once, necessitating that I call them dozens of times? Why does it keep telling me the hold time is “1 minute”? California has 1737 FTEs working in this specific department; how many do you think it would take to make this actually work? 3000? 5000?
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had two scamcalls on my phone from energy people and windows and doors sailes people within the last two days or so. this is for UK followers. watch out for bullshit callers. some guy from windows and doors limited today, and another fellow talking about being an energy expert. #Scamcalls #scamCompanies #StopScams #bullshitCallers.
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had two scamcalls on my phone from energy people and windows and doors sailes people within the last two days or so. this is for UK followers. watch out for bullshit callers. some guy from windows and doors limited today, and another fellow talking about being an energy expert. #Scamcalls #scamCompanies #StopScams #bullshitCallers.
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had two scamcalls on my phone from energy people and windows and doors sailes people within the last two days or so. this is for UK followers. watch out for bullshit callers. some guy from windows and doors limited today, and another fellow talking about being an energy expert. #Scamcalls #scamCompanies #StopScams #bullshitCallers.
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had two scamcalls on my phone from energy people and windows and doors sailes people within the last two days or so. this is for UK followers. watch out for bullshit callers. some guy from windows and doors limited today, and another fellow talking about being an energy expert. #Scamcalls #scamCompanies #StopScams #bullshitCallers.
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WATCH: Megamax Container Ship Ever Atop arrives at Felixstowe from Rotterdam, 6.50am, Thursday 6 July 2023.
Evergreen's latest A-class container ships have become regular callers at Felixstowe and other major Northern European ports.
You'll note that we are now recording Ever Atop's capacity at 23,888 TEU. She was originally specified at 24,004 TEU by builders Jiangnan Shipyard, but this figure has now been downgraded.
#Ship #containership #Evergreen #EverAtop #Felixstowe
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WATCH: Megamax Container Ship Ever Atop arrives at Felixstowe from Rotterdam, 6.50am, Thursday 6 July 2023.
Evergreen's latest A-class container ships have become regular callers at Felixstowe and other major Northern European ports.
You'll note that we are now recording Ever Atop's capacity at 23,888 TEU. She was originally specified at 24,004 TEU by builders Jiangnan Shipyard, but this figure has now been downgraded.
#Ship #containership #Evergreen #EverAtop #Felixstowe
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WATCH: Megamax Container Ship Ever Atop arrives at Felixstowe from Rotterdam, 6.50am, Thursday 6 July 2023.
Evergreen's latest A-class container ships have become regular callers at Felixstowe and other major Northern European ports.
You'll note that we are now recording Ever Atop's capacity at 23,888 TEU. She was originally specified at 24,004 TEU by builders Jiangnan Shipyard, but this figure has now been downgraded.
#Ship #containership #Evergreen #EverAtop #Felixstowe
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On my summer tour with Kingfisher the organizers of one dance told me that their group would tolerate Larks/Robins for role terms, but *preferred* Ladies/Gents. After talking it over with some other callers and dancers and weighing the factors (What will feel best for me? What will be best for the dancers? What will be good for contra dance in general?) I opted to call Larks/Robins.
https://chromamine.com/2024/07/calling-a-gendered-series-gender-free/
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On my summer tour with Kingfisher the organizers of one dance told me that their group would tolerate Larks/Robins for role terms, but *preferred* Ladies/Gents. After talking it over with some other callers and dancers and weighing the factors (What will feel best for me? What will be best for the dancers? What will be good for contra dance in general?) I opted to call Larks/Robins.
https://chromamine.com/2024/07/calling-a-gendered-series-gender-free/
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On my summer tour with Kingfisher the organizers of one dance told me that their group would tolerate Larks/Robins for role terms, but *preferred* Ladies/Gents. After talking it over with some other callers and dancers and weighing the factors (What will feel best for me? What will be best for the dancers? What will be good for contra dance in general?) I opted to call Larks/Robins.
https://chromamine.com/2024/07/calling-a-gendered-series-gender-free/
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On my summer tour with Kingfisher the organizers of one dance told me that their group would tolerate Larks/Robins for role terms, but *preferred* Ladies/Gents. After talking it over with some other callers and dancers and weighing the factors (What will feel best for me? What will be best for the dancers? What will be good for contra dance in general?) I opted to call Larks/Robins.
https://chromamine.com/2024/07/calling-a-gendered-series-gender-free/
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CW: crisis lines - non-consensual interventions in US - new data
New reporting from #RobWipond for #MadInAmerica.
"New national data shows, in 1 year, a stunning 400,000 people got police/EMS visits after calling the "confidential" 988 hotline --a 7.8% intervention rate on callers that's nearly four times higher than #Vibrant and #SAMHSA have ever publicly admitted."
https://www.madinamerica.com/2024/06/dramatic-rise-in-police-interventions-on-988-callers/
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CW: crisis lines - non-consensual interventions in US - new data
New reporting from #RobWipond for #MadInAmerica.
"New national data shows, in 1 year, a stunning 400,000 people got police/EMS visits after calling the "confidential" 988 hotline --a 7.8% intervention rate on callers that's nearly four times higher than #Vibrant and #SAMHSA have ever publicly admitted."
https://www.madinamerica.com/2024/06/dramatic-rise-in-police-interventions-on-988-callers/
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CW: crisis lines - non-consensual interventions in US - new data
New reporting from #RobWipond for #MadInAmerica.
"New national data shows, in 1 year, a stunning 400,000 people got police/EMS visits after calling the "confidential" 988 hotline --a 7.8% intervention rate on callers that's nearly four times higher than #Vibrant and #SAMHSA have ever publicly admitted."
https://www.madinamerica.com/2024/06/dramatic-rise-in-police-interventions-on-988-callers/
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CW: crisis lines - non-consensual interventions in US - new data
New reporting from #RobWipond for #MadInAmerica.
"New national data shows, in 1 year, a stunning 400,000 people got police/EMS visits after calling the "confidential" 988 hotline --a 7.8% intervention rate on callers that's nearly four times higher than #Vibrant and #SAMHSA have ever publicly admitted."
https://www.madinamerica.com/2024/06/dramatic-rise-in-police-interventions-on-988-callers/
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Ich bin ja eh für #asoziale #Gewaltmusik mit #Schreigesang. Für #Musik bei der sich andere oft fragen: was ist in seiner #Erziehung nur #falsch #gelaufen. Mich macht diese Musik #Glücklich, diese Musik #beruhigt mich. Ich stehe auf #BestialBlackMetal. Ich mag das. Mein absoluter #Lieblingsmusiker ist #CallerOfTheStorms von #Blasphemy. Wie #Stoisch kann man sein #Instrument #spielen? Caller of the Storms: #hold_my_beer!
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More evidence, should you need it of #Tory defunding of the #NHS;
At the same time private #healthcare is trumpeting instant access to health professionals, waiting times on #NHS111 have reached nearly half an hour (on average) with nearly a fifth of callers just giving up;
so now the service the Tories pretended would help deal with capacity issues in the main #healthservice is also under staffed;
the wreckers continue to laugh all the way to their backers' bank!
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/apr/10/tory-neglect-blamed-for-36m-abandoned-calls-to-nhs-111-in-england -
“We Are Striking a Blow at the State:” The Alabama Prisoners Work Strike
by Michael Kimble February 24, 2026When prisoners rebel and demand to be treated as human beings, we are not just fighting inhumane living conditions and shitty food. We are striking a blow at the state, which maintains the situation of slavery and super-exploitation—by which each of us are robbed of the fruits of our labor every day.
Work strikes or “shutdowns,” as we like to call them down here in Alabama, are also geared toward consciousness-raising of prisoners as an oppressed class; and by refusing to work for free (which is slavery), we are asserting our power as workers and as human beings, thereby challenging the view that prisoner labor is free and exploitable.
The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution made slavery and involuntary servitude illegal unless one has been duly convicted of a crime and ratified by Congress on December 6, 1865, which merely removed the ownership of slaves from the province of the individual citizen to that of the state, which then became the sole owner of other human beings (or slaves).
Alabama was the last state in the South to end convict leasing in 1928. Before ending convict leasing, the state hired out prisoner labor to the lumber yards, mines, and cotton mills. In 1883, about 10 percent of Alabama’s total revenue came from convict leasing. In 1898, almost 73 percent. In 1922-1926, net profits from leasing and state-run mines exceeded $3 million.
In order to continue to exploit Black prisoner labor and profit from it, Thomas E. Kilby, the governor of Alabama, ordered the construction of the Kilby prison and even named it after himself. This new prison was to be the most advanced prison in the South, with the exception of the federal prison in Atlanta, styled as an industrial prison.
It was intended to house prisoners from the lumber yards, mines, and cotton mills, which would all eventually be moved inside the prison itself. The prisoners manufactured cotton to make shirts that would then be sold on the market.
Just as slaves in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries challenged their dehumanization and exploitation via work stoppages and slowdowns, letting the crops rot in the fields, so too do prisoners in this day and time. Alabama has a long history of shutting shit down! In the 1970s, we had Inmates for Action (IFA), which organized a number of work stoppages to demand an improvement to their conditions.
We see work strikes as a weapon to be used to hit ’em where it hurts. There are many different strategies and tactics that prison rebels use, and work stoppages are just one of them. We organize around the knowledge that prison is slavery and super-exploitation of our labor power. Work stoppages are often violent due to the arena and conditions that prisoners are forced to maneuver in.
Prisons are, by nature, violent places. The guards are armed to the teeth with pepper spray, batons, sticks, knives, handcuffs, gas, and guns, and they use extreme violence as a mechanism of control. Moreover, organizers of work stoppages must navigate the different groups: gangs, shot-callers, influencers, and dope boys—and believe me, each of them has their own agendas.
Alabama has a long history of shutting shit down!
You have to get past the “pig thinking” in some of these guys who see any challenge to their captors as merely a provocation for the guards, riot squads, and CERT teams to search and confiscate their cell phones, drugs, and weapons—and to incite further harassment and beatings.
That’s how they ultimately control prisoners: through their fear of losing something. And it can get violent for those who attempt to break the strike and report to their slave jobs. These people are regarded as strike-breakers (scabs), and rightfully so.
For those out there in minimum custody, you can play a part by doing what’s in your capacity to do. You can make donations and phone calls demanding that slavery, the death penalty, and life without the possibility of parole be abolished. You can take to the streets. Or you can get creative and do what the George Jackson Brigades did in the mid-1970s in support of striking prisoners.
Check out the radical histories in the U.S. and you just may find yourself. Here in Alabama prisons, we are going on a work strike starting February 8, 2026, to protest forced labor (slavery), the Habitual Offender Act (three strikes law), Life Without the Possibility of Parole, and ultimately call for the total abolition of the system of caging people.
We are exercising our agency and our right to fight back. What’s wrong with that?
Donate to Michael Kimble here.
Follow Michael Kimble and get involved in supporting him here.
Print and distribute flyers uplifting the strike here, and access the list of demands, action items, and a syllabus on the history of resistance in Alabama here.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=28985 #alabama #AnarchistPrisoners #michaelKimble #northAmerica #PrisonAbolition #prisonStrike #prisonStruggle #slavery -
“We Are Striking a Blow at the State:” The Alabama Prisoners Work Strike
by Michael Kimble February 24, 2026When prisoners rebel and demand to be treated as human beings, we are not just fighting inhumane living conditions and shitty food. We are striking a blow at the state, which maintains the situation of slavery and super-exploitation—by which each of us are robbed of the fruits of our labor every day.
Work strikes or “shutdowns,” as we like to call them down here in Alabama, are also geared toward consciousness-raising of prisoners as an oppressed class; and by refusing to work for free (which is slavery), we are asserting our power as workers and as human beings, thereby challenging the view that prisoner labor is free and exploitable.
The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution made slavery and involuntary servitude illegal unless one has been duly convicted of a crime and ratified by Congress on December 6, 1865, which merely removed the ownership of slaves from the province of the individual citizen to that of the state, which then became the sole owner of other human beings (or slaves).
Alabama was the last state in the South to end convict leasing in 1928. Before ending convict leasing, the state hired out prisoner labor to the lumber yards, mines, and cotton mills. In 1883, about 10 percent of Alabama’s total revenue came from convict leasing. In 1898, almost 73 percent. In 1922-1926, net profits from leasing and state-run mines exceeded $3 million.
In order to continue to exploit Black prisoner labor and profit from it, Thomas E. Kilby, the governor of Alabama, ordered the construction of the Kilby prison and even named it after himself. This new prison was to be the most advanced prison in the South, with the exception of the federal prison in Atlanta, styled as an industrial prison.
It was intended to house prisoners from the lumber yards, mines, and cotton mills, which would all eventually be moved inside the prison itself. The prisoners manufactured cotton to make shirts that would then be sold on the market.
Just as slaves in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries challenged their dehumanization and exploitation via work stoppages and slowdowns, letting the crops rot in the fields, so too do prisoners in this day and time. Alabama has a long history of shutting shit down! In the 1970s, we had Inmates for Action (IFA), which organized a number of work stoppages to demand an improvement to their conditions.
We see work strikes as a weapon to be used to hit ’em where it hurts. There are many different strategies and tactics that prison rebels use, and work stoppages are just one of them. We organize around the knowledge that prison is slavery and super-exploitation of our labor power. Work stoppages are often violent due to the arena and conditions that prisoners are forced to maneuver in.
Prisons are, by nature, violent places. The guards are armed to the teeth with pepper spray, batons, sticks, knives, handcuffs, gas, and guns, and they use extreme violence as a mechanism of control. Moreover, organizers of work stoppages must navigate the different groups: gangs, shot-callers, influencers, and dope boys—and believe me, each of them has their own agendas.
Alabama has a long history of shutting shit down!
You have to get past the “pig thinking” in some of these guys who see any challenge to their captors as merely a provocation for the guards, riot squads, and CERT teams to search and confiscate their cell phones, drugs, and weapons—and to incite further harassment and beatings.
That’s how they ultimately control prisoners: through their fear of losing something. And it can get violent for those who attempt to break the strike and report to their slave jobs. These people are regarded as strike-breakers (scabs), and rightfully so.
For those out there in minimum custody, you can play a part by doing what’s in your capacity to do. You can make donations and phone calls demanding that slavery, the death penalty, and life without the possibility of parole be abolished. You can take to the streets. Or you can get creative and do what the George Jackson Brigades did in the mid-1970s in support of striking prisoners.
Check out the radical histories in the U.S. and you just may find yourself. Here in Alabama prisons, we are going on a work strike starting February 8, 2026, to protest forced labor (slavery), the Habitual Offender Act (three strikes law), Life Without the Possibility of Parole, and ultimately call for the total abolition of the system of caging people.
We are exercising our agency and our right to fight back. What’s wrong with that?
Donate to Michael Kimble here.
Follow Michael Kimble and get involved in supporting him here.
Print and distribute flyers uplifting the strike here, and access the list of demands, action items, and a syllabus on the history of resistance in Alabama here.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=28985 #alabama #AnarchistPrisoners #michaelKimble #northAmerica #PrisonAbolition #prisonStrike #prisonStruggle #slavery -
How would you suggest fighting robocalls and phone spam?
Friends in the US are reporting that over 45 of the past 50 calls they've received are robocalls, telemarketers, hang-ups, misleadingly-identified, or otherwise smell strongly of fraud.
STIR/SHAKEN was rolled out two years ago and has quite obviously failed. See: https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/30/22557539/t-mobile-verizon-carriers-fcc-stir-shaken-certification-deadline-spam-calls
I'm looking for systemic solutions here, not personal mitigations. "I've stopped using the phone and am now only communicating by Ansible" may suit you very well, but it doesn't address the billions of people who do have directly-addressable voice coms as mobile or landline service.
Examples of systemic solutions:
Think regulation, making global changes to software or hardware, changing switching and call handling systems, or market-based interventions, such as:
- Bonding callers and telcos. Spam calls would generate compensation from the telco to the subscriber. Telcos would bond for network interconnects, failure to maintain low-spam-call SLAs would forfeit bond.
- Direct reporting from all phone systems (mobile, VOIP, or landline) of spam calls.
- Expanded phone numbers. A sparsely-populated address space would make random war-dialing less viable, individuals might provide distinct numbers to each individual contact. (Organisations couldn't fully rely on this but might in part.)
Things of that nature.
NOT "I downloaded this app and use it on my pocket spy device."
Boosts very much welcomed.
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How would you suggest fighting robocalls and phone spam?
Friends in the US are reporting that over 45 of the past 50 calls they've received are robocalls, telemarketers, hang-ups, misleadingly-identified, or otherwise smell strongly of fraud.
STIR/SHAKEN was rolled out two years ago and has quite obviously failed. See: https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/30/22557539/t-mobile-verizon-carriers-fcc-stir-shaken-certification-deadline-spam-calls
I'm looking for systemic solutions here, not personal mitigations. "I've stopped using the phone and am now only communicating by Ansible" may suit you very well, but it doesn't address the billions of people who do have directly-addressable voice coms as mobile or landline service.
Examples of systemic solutions:
Think regulation, making global changes to software or hardware, changing switching and call handling systems, or market-based interventions, such as:
- Bonding callers and telcos. Spam calls would generate compensation from the telco to the subscriber. Telcos would bond for network interconnects, failure to maintain low-spam-call SLAs would forfeit bond.
- Direct reporting from all phone systems (mobile, VOIP, or landline) of spam calls.
- Expanded phone numbers. A sparsely-populated address space would make random war-dialing less viable, individuals might provide distinct numbers to each individual contact. (Organisations couldn't fully rely on this but might in part.)
Things of that nature.
NOT "I downloaded this app and use it on my pocket spy device."
Boosts very much welcomed.
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How would you suggest fighting robocalls and phone spam?
Friends in the US are reporting that over 45 of the past 50 calls they've received are robocalls, telemarketers, hang-ups, misleadingly-identified, or otherwise smell strongly of fraud.
STIR/SHAKEN was rolled out two years ago and has quite obviously failed. See: https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/30/22557539/t-mobile-verizon-carriers-fcc-stir-shaken-certification-deadline-spam-calls
I'm looking for systemic solutions here, not personal mitigations. "I've stopped using the phone and am now only communicating by Ansible" may suit you very well, but it doesn't address the billions of people who do have directly-addressable voice coms as mobile or landline service.
Examples of systemic solutions:
Think regulation, making global changes to software or hardware, changing switching and call handling systems, or market-based interventions, such as:
- Bonding callers and telcos. Spam calls would generate compensation from the telco to the subscriber. Telcos would bond for network interconnects, failure to maintain low-spam-call SLAs would forfeit bond.
- Direct reporting from all phone systems (mobile, VOIP, or landline) of spam calls.
- Expanded phone numbers. A sparsely-populated address space would make random war-dialing less viable, individuals might provide distinct numbers to each individual contact. (Organisations couldn't fully rely on this but might in part.)
Things of that nature.
NOT "I downloaded this app and use it on my pocket spy device."
Boosts very much welcomed.
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How would you suggest fighting robocalls and phone spam?
Friends in the US are reporting that over 45 of the past 50 calls they've received are robocalls, telemarketers, hang-ups, misleadingly-identified, or otherwise smell strongly of fraud.
STIR/SHAKEN was rolled out two years ago and has quite obviously failed. See: https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/30/22557539/t-mobile-verizon-carriers-fcc-stir-shaken-certification-deadline-spam-calls
I'm looking for systemic solutions here, not personal mitigations. "I've stopped using the phone and am now only communicating by Ansible" may suit you very well, but it doesn't address the billions of people who do have directly-addressable voice coms as mobile or landline service.
Examples of systemic solutions:
Think regulation, making global changes to software or hardware, changing switching and call handling systems, or market-based interventions, such as:
- Bonding callers and telcos. Spam calls would generate compensation from the telco to the subscriber. Telcos would bond for network interconnects, failure to maintain low-spam-call SLAs would forfeit bond.
- Direct reporting from all phone systems (mobile, VOIP, or landline) of spam calls.
- Expanded phone numbers. A sparsely-populated address space would make random war-dialing less viable, individuals might provide distinct numbers to each individual contact. (Organisations couldn't fully rely on this but might in part.)
Things of that nature.
NOT "I downloaded this app and use it on my pocket spy device."
Boosts very much welcomed.
-
How would you suggest fighting robocalls and phone spam?
Friends in the US are reporting that over 45 of the past 50 calls they've received are robocalls, telemarketers, hang-ups, misleadingly-identified, or otherwise smell strongly of fraud.
STIR/SHAKEN was rolled out two years ago and has quite obviously failed. See: https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/30/22557539/t-mobile-verizon-carriers-fcc-stir-shaken-certification-deadline-spam-calls
I'm looking for systemic solutions here, not personal mitigations. "I've stopped using the phone and am now only communicating by Ansible" may suit you very well, but it doesn't address the billions of people who do have directly-addressable voice coms as mobile or landline service.
Examples of systemic solutions:
Think regulation, making global changes to software or hardware, changing switching and call handling systems, or market-based interventions, such as:
- Bonding callers and telcos. Spam calls would generate compensation from the telco to the subscriber. Telcos would bond for network interconnects, failure to maintain low-spam-call SLAs would forfeit bond.
- Direct reporting from all phone systems (mobile, VOIP, or landline) of spam calls.
- Expanded phone numbers. A sparsely-populated address space would make random war-dialing less viable, individuals might provide distinct numbers to each individual contact. (Organisations couldn't fully rely on this but might in part.)
Things of that nature.
NOT "I downloaded this app and use it on my pocket spy device."
Boosts very much welcomed.
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As soon as I arrived on today's first summit the rain stopped: Quirl #POTA DE-0882, DE-0785 (#WWFF DLFF-1068, #GMA DA/SX-192) was followed by Pfaffenstein #POTA DE-0882, DE-0875 (#WWFF DLFF-0745, #GMA DA/SX-295). A big thank you to all the callers for the nice pileup on #40m #ssb while on Quirl - that is something I'm not really used to. And I liked it! #SaxonSwitzerland #Saxony #HamRadio #Amateurfunk #hiking #mountains #qrp #morsecode #20m #2m #70cm #fm #ParksOnTheAir #elecraftkx2 #efhw
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Disquiet Grows in US Military, Fueled by War on Iran
https://world-outlook.com/2026/04/21/disquiet-grows-in-u-s-military-fueled-by-war-on-iran/[article from #NPR with an intro by #WorldOutlook]
April 21, 2026The Center on Conscience and War, which helps run a 24-hour GI Rights Hotline, is set up to inform members of the #US armed forces about their options for #military discharge. The group has recently reported a spike in calls by active-duty servicemen and women asking how they can become conscientious objectors.
In the article that follows, Bill Galvin, the center’s counseling director, told NPR in early April that nearly all the callers he talks to mention the bombing of a girls’ school in #Iran on February 28, the first day of the US.- #Israel #war, which killed at least 165 civilians, most of them children.
“Since Trump began his second term, his administration’s legally questionable use of the armed forces...has left a growing number in the military unsettled and demoralized,” the NPR article reports.