Review of the book Hot Air, by climate scientist Peter Stott, which describes the battle against global heating denialism.

Everyone: call on GM, American Airlines, UPS and other companies not to fund the campaigns of Republicans that voted to overturn the election.

The natural inclination in responding to Facebook's amplification of hate and disinformation is to propose to censor specific forms of hate and disinformation. However, that is a bad approach, because it would bring the government into regulating which opinions are acceptable.

I suspect it would also fail to eliminate the opinions it is intended to eliminate. As long as Facebook continues with its business model which specifically favors provoking hostility, it will design its algorithm to promote hatred-provoking postings as much as it can get away with. It will encourage people to probe the official limits on how to present hate. They will find ways, just as they have in the past.

Frances Haugen's testimony confirms my earlier conclusion that the wrong of Facebook is not in specific nasty statements posted there, but in the algorithm that promotes statements for being nasty. That algorithm is what it is because of the fact that spreading nasty statements is profitable for Facebook.

So let's regulate that algorithm, not the kinds of points people can post on Facebook.

California has prohibited companies from using NDAs to stop employees from talking about harassment or discrimination at work.

Is this really limited to employees only? What about other workers, such as temps, gig workers, and other "independent contractors"?

The other unjust kind of NDA is that which covers generally useful technical information. My experience with MIT's Xerox laser printer taught me that it is wrong to sign a nondisclosure agreement covering generally useful technical information such as software. and I determined never to agree to them. I have never made an exception for any software or knowledge I have.

Occasionally I have agreed to a nondisclosure agreement for software knowing that I would never get a copy pf that software, so the agreement would be void. After all, it's nonfree software, so I do not want to run it!

*Only noisy protest makes politicians take action to avoid climate catastrophe. From the Suffragettes to the anti-apartheid movement, people taking disruptive action have been on the right side of history.*