Covid-19 is spreading through Singapore's 300,000 migrant workers, who are housed together up to 20 to a room. Now all of them are quarantined in those rooms all day.

Even before Covid-19, they were exploited and cheated.

The UK is considering ordering people over 70 to stay home for months.

I would not obey a rule like that. Since I do not wish to get sick, I go out only occasionally and take care when I do. But I will not live by an absurd zero-tolerance rule that demands I avoid even small risks, regardless of what that does to my freedom and privacy.

For instance, I buy groceries in the supermarket and I pay cash. I will not order them delivered or pay for them in a way that would identify me.

*New research finds 147 million will be hit by floods by the end of the decade.*

An additional dam on the Nile will create a competition over which country gets the water.

This indicates that the population of the region is hitting a resource limit. Whether or not that competition leads to an actual war, people will die as a result.

Showing that you can't overcome resource shortages with dams alone. You need birth control too.

Amazon is considering adding face recognition and license plate recognition to Ring surveillance cameras.

Setting up a system capable of systematic recognition of faces — or license plates — should be illegal, outside of very narrow circumstances.