Voting machines made by ES&S conceal data against independent audits, so it is hard to investigate why some ethnic groups' votes sometimes mysteriously get dropped.

Automation in work is aimed at atomizing work, making workers fungible, and running them to exhaustion.

I think these practices ought to be prohibited, even if it requires imposing stiff, harsh penalties on employment systems. It is wrong to apply such laws to people, but an employment system is not a person, even if it is part of a business that belongs to a person.

The UK's plutocratist government will use the heavy spending on relief measures as an excuse to sell public assets to businesses very cheap.

The US is short-circuiting that process by giving away trillions to big businesses.

Opposition to face recognition has recognized that its racial problems go beyond being less accurate for blacks. Perfectly accurate face recognition makes it easy to implement policies of bigotry.

The extreme example is bigotry against Uygurs, in China.

Deepfake videos are starting to provide an extended opportunity for fake news.

David Brin predicted in 1998 that this would happen soon. Now, 22 years later, it has happened, and I wonder whether it will make a big difference, as was expected. Fake news is already widespread, and it does not need to be indistinguishable from truth because so many people are eager to believe it. The long-predicted new method of falsification may turn out to add little to the initially-surprising old method.