50 countries have signed the UN treaty to ban nuclear weapons, making the treaty officially valid.

If Democrats win, they should quickly rebalance the Senate by splitting the populous states.

Dare I suggest merging some of the states of low population?

The RIAA, which represents the unjust power of the three big record companies, has made Github delete the source of youtube-dl.

They won't be able to wipe it out, though.

I think this takedown notice was invalid, because youtube-dl is not mainly used to do forbidden copying. It downloads things that are publicly available on youtube, and the benefit it provides is to do that without running the unjust nonfree software that youtube tries to send to the user's browser.

The company Dataminr tries to scan all posted tweets to find anything suggestive of possible violent intent, and report it to the thugs.

Contrary to its name, the company doesn't seem to do this by data mining. Instead it hires a lot of people to make off-the-cuff judgments, which naturally reflect racist presuppositions and generate biased results. (I call this phenomenon BIBO, for "Bias In, Bias Out.")

Identifying "gang members" by questionable criteria has a long and horrible history in California prisons.

Fikile Ntshangase, an activist campaigning against extension of a coal mine in South Africa, was assassinated by a team of four killers.