Chris Christie closed lanes to punish Democrats, but Israel closes roads entirely to punish Palestinians.

Israeli colonists attacked Palestinians as they tried to harvest their olive trees.

Elsewhere colonists stole olives after Palestinians harvested them.

In El Araqib, Israel state agents don't just destroy houses and tents, they also steal anything movable.

Many children are becoming addicted to proprietary software games.

The games are designed to make users keep playing — and, in many cases, keep paying. Unlike the games of 30 years ago, you don't just buy a copy once and use it as much as you like. In many games, players are pressured to pay to advance.

The fact that the games are proprietary, not free (libre) software, is a crucial part of the problem, because that enables the designers to maximize the amount they draw out of people, and gives them an incentive to make the games addictive.

The technology-industrial complex shows a general dynamic of designing things to be increasingly addictive.

The fictional Net of a Million Lies has become real, and the filter bubble has made serious political discourse almost ineffective.

The WiFi systems of portable phones make it easy to get the phone's unique number or IMSI.

I think the root of this problem is that the phone transmits a unique number that the user cannot change. When I connect to WiFi or ethernet, I change my MAC address each time I use a different network. Machines that won't let you do this are mistreating you.