The UK's plan to "encourage creativity" is rote memorization.

To make sense of this apparent idiocy, first recall that the only thing the government really wants in regard to schools is to cut expenditure, and whatever it says is an excuse. An idiotic excuse is fine if people accept it. I suspect that somehow or other this will provide an excuse for cuts.

Russian technology for mass surveillance is in use in the US.

"Telecom companies that rush into Burma before rights protections are in place risk complicity in illegal surveillance, censorship, and other repression."

It bothers me that these things happen in Burma, but as a patriotic American, it bothers me more that they happen in the US.

The ACLU and others are suing a recruiting company that lied to recruit Indian guest workers.

Isn't this fraud? Can't it be prosecuted as a crime? I guess the "Jusrice" department has its hands full prosecuting so many whistleblowers and journalists.

Confronting the prospect of massive unemployment, as robots replace human workers while doing a worse job.