"Improved" lampposts do various kinds of spying.

A heatwave in Brisbane will give G20 delegates a hint of what the fossil fuel companies want to do to the world.

The mere presence of a cell phone tends to make discussions about meaningful issues shallow.

On the other hand, if you do have a meaningful discussion about an important issue, such as how to resist plutocracy, carrying cell phones will pre-alert the NSA about who you are talking with.

Using text messages for a dispute is a recipe for escalating them. (We old-timers discovered this fact about email back around 1980.)

Walmart workers are holding a sit-down strike to protest repression against attempts to organize.

I am sad that this links to ustream.com, which can't be viewed without nonfree software. To develop a free front end for ustream would be a very useful project. In the mean time, please don't ustream, and please don't stream with ustream.

Relating devastation in the Philippines to corrupt debt, and the Ebola epidemic to economic colonization.