A report on the status of inequality, in the US and internationally. With Javascript disabled, it looks a little weird, but I'm told that the information is all accessible.

Amazon is deploying a system for palm recognition.

As the article says, this is much better than other forms of biometric authentication. Another advantage is that people don't constantly leave palmprints wherever they go, as they leave fingerprints.

I have wondered whether the inside of the elbow might be a good choice.

An FBI report from 2006 warned that right wing extremists would try to infiltrate US thug departments.

We know that a large fraction of thugs are right-wing extremists. Whether this is the result of active infiltration, I don't know, but I don't think it matters much.

*Many fossil fuel workers like me want to transition to renewables — but we need support.*

In Thailand, you can be imprisoned for posting a negative review.

That is because defamation is a crime there, rather than a civil dispute. That is fundamentally unjust.

I have read that some US states make defamation a crime, but those crimes seem to rarely if ever be prosecuted.