Robots are being developed for many farm tasks.

These jobs are done inefficiently by humans, often at very low pay and in bad conditions. If new the robots are able to do the jobs, it will be good that people don't have to live like that. On the other hand, it will not be good if they starve instead.

At a meeting in Cambridge, some 15 years ago, a man said, "If robots make it, we've gotta take it." We must not let the owners of the robots own what the robots produce, leaving most people with only trickle-down.

If you're a farmer, watch out for nonfree software in these robots!

The NSA's capabilities for breaking security of specific systems are an argument against "need" for massive surveillance of everyone.

When Wisconsin's anti-worker Governor Walker was facing recall, the Koch brothers bought TV ads invoking a peculiar principle that it's unfair to recall an official merely to stop him from pushing horrible laws.

New modeling concludes that global heating won't limit itself by causing more clouds.

Senator Rubio's "reforms" for US help for the poor have hidden dangers.