Facebook admits having presented audio recordings of conversation between useds for purposes of improving its speech recognition.

I think this is a secondary issue. The job being done is not malicious in its own right.

What I find more worrisome is that Facebook (or Google, or Apple) could transcribe conversations automatically and use the results automatically for purposes such as surveillance capitalism, censorship, and repression.

US citizens: Tell ABC and Univision that we need a real health care debate.

US citizens: phone your congresscritter and say, "No vote on NAFTA 2.0 until it's fixed."

I think 1-855-973-4213 is a number you can use. Here are points you can mention.

• Big Pharma loves NAFTA 2.0 because it guarantees them monopoly powers to delay generic competition and lock in high drug prices.
• Big oil is lobbying for the deal because it lets them attack Mexican climate and environmental policies.
• Corporations that have used NAFTA to outsource hundreds of thousands of jobs to Mexico to pay workers pennies on the dollar are thrilled the revised deal's labor and environmental terms are too weak to stop more job outsourcing.
• US agribusiness has used NAFTA to ruin Mexican peasants. They can't produce as cheaply as machines in US factory farms, but Mexico had enough food.

If you sign, please spread the word!

A list of companies that some people are boycotting because of connections to the bullshitter.

They explain why they don't advocate boycotting Facebook. I also do not advocate boycotting Facebook. I advocate protecting yourself from Facebook (including Instagram and Whatsapp) by not letting them use you. Don't be a zucker!

A study of college football players' brain scans found most of them showed signs of brain injury after just one season.

I think schools should not promote football.