Congress is considering a bill to accelerate installation of internet fiber everywhere.

This practical boost would be very useful, but watch out for three points the article doesn't mention:

• If the "innovations in applications and services" are as malicious as the existing applications and services, then far from being beneficial, they will saddle us with a struggle to avoid using them.
• The networks that invite us to connect might, perhaps through sheer inattention, be designed so they require us to run nonfree software to get connected.
• Those networks may make ever user identify perself, as a so-called security measure.

Somerville, Mass, has given limited legal recognition to groups of any number of people that declare themselves to constitute a family.

Tim Bray recommends how to split up Google, taking account solely business questions and competition.

He doesn't address the issues of making users run nonfree software, and making them get accounts and identify themselves, which are the main reason I don't use Google services. But even in regard to competition, we need to go further. Gmail is too big; it should be split into several companies that compete.

The conman really did send troops to Washington armed with bayonets, as well as (of course) rifles to mount them on, with protesting Americans as the enemy.

Britons were prosecuted for "aiding terrorism" for helping their relative go to Syria to fight for Rojava. The judge just ended the trial by declaring them innocent.

Shame on Britain for trying to criminalize this.