US citizens: phone your senators and urge them to pass the "trans bill of rights" now.

The Capitol Switchboard number is +1-202-224-3121.

If you call, please spread the word!

Cory Doctorow explains how the rootkit that attacks treacherous computing is a disaster for "security" in the usual sense.

It means that machines with the WHAT? can now have additional back doors other than the one that Microsoft designed into Windows.

However, since WHAT is what ensures we can't free our machines from Microsoft's control, the same vulnerability that this rootkit uses might give us a way to turn off treacherous computing and/or install our own free boot software.

The US government must fund "managed" retreat from housing that is doomed to be flooded or burnt.

The people who live in those homes can't afford to move or build elsewhere — the government must help them. But subsidizing rebuilding in place is an enormously inefficient way to do that.

I disagree with the statement that "managed retreat is not defeat." Of course it is! Global heating disaster will be one defeat after another. However, there are different kinds of defeats. When you can't win the battle, an orderly retreat is much less bad than a disorderly rout, and that's what will happen if we don't plan this.

*US drafts new speed limits on shipping to help save endangered whales.*

*Humanity faces ‘collective suicide’ over climate crisis, warns UN chief.*