Digital ankle shackles are not an alternative to imprisonment. They are a form of imprisonment.

They can be better or worse than being in a physical prison. They do offer advantages: you can live with your family — if you have a family. You can go to work, if you have a job and they don't fire you for this.

But if you have to pay through the nose to be imprisoned this way, that is an injustice.

If they monitor your movements, and listen to your conversations, prison might be better. Even worse, it might be the first step towards doing the same thing to all of us.

Right-wing extremists make a practice of manipulating people through the glories of each country's imperial past, amplified with exaggerations and distortions.

I expect we will find that the right-wing extremists of various countries will support each other even though the imperial glory of one country involved colonizing or murdering the people of the other country. Once people are sufficiently distracted from the present and from real issues, logic and sense cease to be relevant.

Some people are boycotting Amazon because of how it treats workers, and other wrongs to people other than its customers.

The article points out, correctly, that more people would need to join for the boycott to influence Amazon's practices. The article is written in a way that I think is intended to subtly discourage others from doing so. It repeatedly harps on how "convenient" Amazon is and presumes that the only thing customers could want for themselves is convenience.

I might boycott Amazon for those reasons, but the issue does not arise for me, because I reject Amazon due to the ways it mistreats its customers. It collects data about them and it requires running nonfree software. I value my freedom and privacy and I won't surrender them for convenience.

The Department of Harassment and Suspicion is developing AI software which is supposed to figure out who is a terrorist, the way companies figure out who is pregnant or who is gay. They plan to put these people automatically on blacklists, which could result in harassing them or ruining their lives.

The correlations fit millions of people, and at most hundreds of them are real terrorists. Whatever the software does, almost all the matches will be false matches.

The DHS is doing this as proprietary software through a private company, which could enable it to avoid accountability for the wrongs it will do.

Argentina's President Macri says that everyone in the country will soon adore the IMF, but they are already launching strikes against the IMF's dooH niboR.