The Tor Project says that the FBI-CMU "research" to identify Tor users was a fishing expedition, aimed at finding anyone they could accuse of anything.

Coal is not an effective way to extend access to energy, even ignoring that it could cause ecological disaster.

Just eliminating coal combustion isn't enough to avoid the disaster; it's just the first step.

The UK faces ecological derangement all over, as a result of the 1C of global heating we have already caused.

PISSI, the pirates of the desert.

Cole's point that it is impossible to "contain" PISSI can be literally correct, but not in the way he asserts. It may be that a stable situation in which PISSI exists for a long time under containment is impossible; if so, that suggests that containing PISSI would lead to its collapse, as it could no longer do profitable raids.

Accusing Saudi Arabia of poisoning the Muslim world with repressive Wahhabism.