20 years after No Logo warned against colonization of people's thoughts by brands, "The biggest change since… is that neoliberalism has created so much precarity that the commodification of the self is now seen as the only route to any kind of economic security."

I point out that I do very little that directly boosts Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple or Microsoft. It is not as hard as the article makes it out to be. Just reject services that mistreat you.

Why [the bully's] "Maximum Pressure" Foreign Policy Yields Minimum Results.

Arguing that "the intensity and polarization of the US gun debate makes much more sense when understood in the context of whiteness and white privilege."

Black men who carry guns lawfully are likely to get killed for it, because a thug will feel threatened by it and kill them, so in practice that is a privilege for white man only.

Ricardo Galvão, formerly in charge of protecting the Amazon, says that if Bolsonaro's attack continues, the forest will be ruined.

Foxconn hires workers 16 years old, then illegally has them working at night and in overtime.

Even worse, their work is to make spy devices intended to seduce users into leaving them on and listening. What Mata Hari only pretended to have done, these devices really do.

This is bad enough when presented without distortion, so let's avoid the exaggeration of calling 16-year-olds "schoolchildren".