When RSA installed key generation code that had been weakened by the NSA, it wasn't just ingenuous — it took money from the NSA to do so.

Business is the "enemy within" countries with plutocratic governments.

Centralized social networks can learn a lot about people that don't directly give them data, through what others say about them and even who knows them.

In other words, you should insist that your friends not mention you by name or email address in anything they post on centralized social networks.

I think this applies to gmail as well.

US citizens: call on the EPA to protect all waterways.

The Netherlands has renovated 300,000 apartments so that they don't need fossil fuel or external electricity, and 100,000 will be renovated in the UK.

This scheme is very good, but its scale is minuscule: 100,000 homes in a country of 64 million people is a drop in the bucket. Its significance is to show that humanity can still save itself from global heating disaster, if it can overcome plutocracy to do similar things on a large scale.