Evgeny Morozov: "Breaking up the tech giants, having them pay a fair share of taxes, making better use of their data are all necessary but, alas, insufficient conditions for effective social — not just individual or institutional — transformation."

Morozov calls for "Rebel Tech" which would overturn the current dominion of technology, which locks the current plutocratic system in place. Free Software is the original Rebel Tech, and any effective solution has to start there.

The bully has ordered that the US will no longer say how many civilians it kills with drone bombings.

That will facilitate concealing the truth.

The UK, by contrast, has claims that the over 4,000 casualties of its air attacks against PISSI included just one civilian.

More precisely, it says that it has identified just one civilian. Any other civilian casualties are unidentified, so we are invited to pretend they did not exist.

The US needs to pass a law against using nuclear weapons except in retaliation for nuclear weapons.

This could indirectly discourage other countries from first use of nuclear weapons against the US.

The ACLU reports that students are over 3 times more likely to be arrested in school if a uniformed thug is stationed in the school.

This is not a controlled study; we cannot be sure that the assignment of a thug to the school is responsible for all of that disparity. We can be sure, though, that having a thug handy means more arrests, more students pushed into the school-to-prison pipeline.

It is also clear that having a thug to punish students even for little outbursts or indiscipline is no substitute for having nurses, social workers and psychologists to help them.

Picking up trash at home while black: Boulder thugs found a black college student sitting in front of his house, armed with a trash picker and a bucket, and called for backup to harass and menace him.

This incident did not go as far as some: they did not shoot him or arrest him. But he must have feared that they would. It was a clear example of racism, since they had no non-racist grounds to bother him at all.

Boulder deserves a thug chief who will recognize that racist thugs are a far bigger danger to the peace of the city than picking up trash around your home.

These smaller incidents are far more frequent than killings. That makes them a good opportunity to teach thugs to be less thuggish. Frequent small punishments for small wrongs have much more teaching effect than big punishments for the occasional big wrongs.