A thug gratuitously tased Bryce Masters 5 times in a row, causing him a heart attack (not usual at age 18) which led to permanent brain damage. To make things worse, the thug then dropped him on his face, breaking lots of his teeth.

Afterwards he falsified records to create an excuse.

That thug was sentened to 4 years in prison, but many others get away with it.

But there is another factor: thugs have been taught that tasers are so safe that they don't need to hesitate before using them.

The EFF campaigns for laws to restrain face recognition surveillance, but what we need is to ban systematic face recognition of people in public places, except under a specific court order.

Start School Day at 11am to Let Students Sleep In.

I sure wish they had done that when I was young.

The coming anthropogenic mass extinction will be different from the six previous mass extinctions.

If technological civilization survives the coming disaster, the human population will probably be less than half what it is now (the rest having perished). Humanity could allow half of today's farmland to become wild again. It will be possible to remove the excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere using solar energy.

It won't be possible to repair the extinction, or the effects of flooding the world's coastal cities, toxic factories, and archaeological sites.

Internet-connected mobile devices may be interfering with people's capacity for reflecting about what they are doing.