Employers are increasingly turning their workers' computers and homes into a digital panopticon.

This article describes a museum's projection of the British home of 2050, recognizes it as dystopian, and displays displeasure only rather mildly.

Some of these automated features could respect your freedom if they are implemented in libre software and run on your own libre platforms. If we want that, we had better start rejecting the user-subjugating platforms now.

One suggestion: when you enter a house, ask whether there are listening devices such as Alexa, or video insecurity cameras, and as to unplug them. Even if you don't insist, at least people will learn that what they are doing is problematical and some people don't like it.

(satire) *Park Ranger Slips Fat Fish To Bear Before Gesturing Towards Littering Family.*

*Lukashenko is a handy villain to mask the cruelty of Fortress Europe.*

I disagree with one subtle point: the EU's actions and Lukashenko's actions are not parallel. Lukashenko actively lures migrants, so he can use them as weapons; the EU simply wants to keep them out.

*On trial for saving lives: the young refugee activist facing a Greek court.*

Americans who provided water and other humanitarian assistance to migrants in the desert a few years ago were likewise charged with aiding their entry.

*There has been progress at Cop26, but the planet’s fate is still in the balance.*

*From Nicaragua to China, reckless autocrats betray the promises of revolution.*