Maine has adopted a network privacy law. Plutocratists in Congress will surely try to stop states from having such laws.

This law stops ISPs from selling their records of individuals' internet contacts, but that is far from adequate. They should not be allowed to track anyone's internet contacts, except under a specific court order.

The law also applies to platforms such as Facebook, which sounds good, but I expect Facebook will negate the law by requiring its useds to explicitly opt-in for this as a condition of starting an account.

Hong Kong protesters trying to stop the puppet state from identifying them, but it is hard to block every system.

This demonstrates that we must demand all widely used systems be designed not to track people.

A discussion about how to aim for a post-scarcity society.

I don't think it will be easy for technological advances to make an abundance of _everything_ people commonly want. For instance, making meat abundant in a safe way will be difficult. However, since the alternative seems to be global disaster, we will have to live with less of it.

"Fast fashion", clothing meant to be thrown away after hardly any use, produces greenhouse emissions and plastic pollution. Let's put an end to it.

A girl imprisoned with her family in Australia was not allowed to receive her birthday cake for her second birthday.

Much worse, she has been kept indoors for 15 months, and developed a deficiency (of vitamin D?), which has damaged her jaw. Now she needs surgery.