People in Arizona are harassing Waymo's not-yet-quite-driverless vans in an attempt to drive them away.

Bravo! We do not have to allow companies to automate millions of jobs; we do not have to allow them to drive camera platforms through the neighborhoods where we live, work, or travel. How about passing laws to stop them?

Please join me in refusing to use the automated cash registers that stores have set up. I reject them absolutely — once I left a store without buying what I had come for, because the automated cash register was the only way to pay. But even if you don't feel the moral determination to reject them every time, rejecting them most of the time still helps.

I also shout to the other customers, as I pass those machines: "If we use those machines, that puts other Americans out of work. When I realized that, I decided I would always go to the human sales agents, to help them stay employed. We don't have to let companies replace people with robots."

On three occasions, someone immediately responded that that was a good point. Interestingly, each one was a black woman. Maybe they are accustomed to the idea of solidarity.

The 1978 US copyright law dealt a horrible blow to the public domain. Here is a list of just a few of the highly appreciated books that would be in the public domain now if not for that law.

Copyright should last for ten years from the date of publication of a work.

Immigrants from Mexico don't seem to cause much crime — US cities near the border have low crime rates.

Chinese students in the Marxist Student Society met with fierce repression after they tried to support a strike in the name of Mao Zidong. They have been jailed (some of them incommunicado, as is common in China).

Mao Zidong is an ironic choice of icon for a movement to help workers against the power of the state, since he was as repressive as any ruler in history. Life and Death in Shanghai, by Nien Cheng, describes her experience in the Great Cultural Revolution; around ten years previously, Mao's policies causes a nationwide famine. But China's censorship has left these students little opportunity to learn about what Mao did.

Despite this irony, their hearts are in the right place. That is what China has jailed them for.

US citizens: call on the Senate to reject coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler as head of the EPA.

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