California's proposed bitcoin license bill is full of bad decisions.

US citizens: call on Congress to pass the Financial Services Conflict of Interest Act.

Workers in the US sabotage robots that, they fear, will eliminate jobs.

I say Bravo!, although I agree that physical robots are a small threat to jobs compared with (for instance) sales terminals. Having robots do all the work would be great, if a sustainable human population all shared in what they produce. But robots as an excuse for spreading poverty ought to be destroyed.

Pongsak Sriboonpeng has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for saying something negative about the king of Thailand. The state refuses to tell us anything about what he said, so we should not suppose it was really harsh.

Not that it would be justified to imprison a person for a mere insult even if it were harsh.

I decided a couple of years ago not to go to Thailand ever again, mainly because I don't know whether I'd be imprisoned for this web site.

A giant new mine in Australia may have no market because India plans to mine coal domestically instead.

Moving mining from Australia to India will remove one local threat to the Great Barrier Reef, but won't reduce the CO2 emissions that are going to kill all coral over time.