This Saturday, Oct 23, Richard Stallman will be giving an online talk for the 8dot8 conference, titled Software libre, tu libertad, y tu ciberseguridad (Free software, your freedom, and your cybersecurity).

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*Factory farms of disease: how industrial chicken production is breeding the next pandemic.*

Vulture capitalists are buying US newspapers — some prestigious, some not — and converting them into bargain basement aggregators.

The migrants who drive boats across the Mediterranean are not part of the people-smuggling gangs that run the migration; they are passengers who do this work in lieu of paying the usual fee. But Italy prosecutes them as if they were part of the gang.

Everyone: call for protecting the shortfin mako shark.