A new EU directive will make companies that use AI algorithms to decide how to treat individuals liable for damages if they cause harm to those individuals thereby.

I don't know the details; I can't judge the directive at that level. But I approve of the general idea, because innovation must not be our highest goal. Innovation can do good or harm. Treating people justly and helpfully is more important than innovation.

Freedom is also more important than innovation; the argument that nonfree software leads to "progress" is fallacious because using nonfree software is inherently a change for the worse.

Why the paradoxical claim of "trickle-down economics" continues to be taken seriously despite never achieving the claimed result.

One of the undercover British thugs that was detailed to infiltrate nonviolent dissident groups traveled outside the UK to infiltrate dissidents in other countries. A German court has ruled that this was illegal since it was not authorized by a German judge.

I wonder what consequences this will have, for the British state and for that thug.

Biden's Labor Department has proposed an employment rule that would classify the drivers of Uber and Lyft as employees.

This would be a big step forward for employee's rights, but it won't do anything about the injustice of Uber and Lyft to the passengers: making them nonfree software (an app) and identify themselves (enabling surveillance). This should be forbidden.

So I will continue to get into an Uber or Lyft car. I go out of my way to get a real taxi that I can board anonymously and pay with cash. Or I take a bus. Or I walk.

In some places, such as New York City, even taxis are part of a surveillance machine. A cab driver there told me that all NYC taxis are required to have cameras that transmit the passengers' face images immediately by radio to the city department of massive surveillance. Such surveillance is a bigger threat than terrorism, because tracking people threatens to subjugate everyone.

Several sensible US policies that won't hurt Ukraine but can reduce the danger of nuclear war, both now and for the long term.