A 28-year-old man, running for Congress, had to sleep on friends' couches at the end of the campaign. He won the election, and was rejected for an apartment in Washington because of his campaign debts.

Apple said it will implement end-to-end encryption for many purposes, including storing backups on Apple servers.

One can't really trust the security of this encryption, because it will be done by nonfree software running in a nonfree operating system. There would be nothing to stop Apple from making that software send Apple every encryption key the user uses.

Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics is influential in nutrition policy in the US. It also has financial relationshops with major companies that would like to influence that policy.

The FDA disregarded its rules to approve the super-expensive and questionable Alzheimer's preventative, Aduhelm.

Mastodon's founder, Eugen Rochko, has rejected offers to convert Mastodon into a business and give him lots of money. He says that accepting such investment would make Mastodon as bad as Twitter.

Bravo!