Should passengers return to cruise ships after the pandemic? No.

The article explains how cruise ships harm their passengers, their staff, and the environment.

Whole Foods workers plan to strike, demanding masks and training to protect them and customers.

It is surely not a coincidence that Whole Foods belongs to Bezos. Why buy from him?

Morozov: The tech ‘solutions’ for coronavirus will supercharge the surveillance state.

"Progressive solutionism", like "punitive solutionism", to use Morozov's terminology, both presuppose tracking people and having a system "manage" them. I'd say they are two ends of a spectrum Once the system is operating, it can easily be adjusted along that spectrum.

Whatever forms of repression and centralized power we accept today will continue to hurt people for a lot longer than Covid-19 does.

Here's an article that defends the importance of digital privacy, but starts by giving up on many fronts. It lauds online dis-services and their nonfree client software, and won't go further than to plead to avoid even more change in the same bad direction.

I'm not interested in whatever secondary benefits those dis-services might offer. I don't want to be distracted from making sure I don't have contact with them.

(satire) Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies have advised members of the public to maintain an interval of at least 6 feet from their own body.