More concern about how online photo-editing dis-services make use of the photos people send them.

The deeper problem with these "apps", which send photos to a remote server to edit it, is that they send photos to a remote server to edit it. We call that "service as a software substitute" because the job ought to be done by a program you install on your own computer — a free program, in order to respect your freedom and autonomy — and never sent anywhere.

Fair Bluff, North Carolina, was half wiped out by rain from two recent hurricanes. If another hurricane hits there, it could finish the job.

Global heating tends to make storms drop more rain.

Plastic manufacturers are buying state laws to make sure nothing gets in the way of selling lots of plastic bags (and plastic everything else).

"Private" and "incognito" modes of browsers are no protection against being tracked by Google and Oracle (and to a lesser extent Facebook).

Tracking people's porn browsing could cause trouble for some people who pretend to be prudes, but there are much more damaging things they could track.

Using levees to contain flooding rivers makes for bigger floods downstream. Cities need to leave space along the river for floods to spread out.