US citizens: call on Congress to raise taxes on the ultra-wealthy and corporations.

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The coast of Scotland near Montrose is eroding around 3 meters per year. It has eroded 70 meters in the past 30 years, but this is sure to accelerate.

In a few years, the town will be flooded.

A portable digital product now offers to be your "friend".

When these "services" are implemented on servers that a user communicates with, they create a dangerous vulnerability in society. A change in one server could convert all the "friends" based there into marketing "influencers", right-wing extremists, antivaxxers or Putinites. In other words, the sort of propagation that sometimes happen, over months, to a collection of real people could be activated on commend.

If the system is implemented in a product that communicates with no one except its user, that danger is avoided, unless it has other communication channels. The article does not make it clear whether the "Fried" box has a back channel to the manufacturer. If this model doesn't, the Apple model surely will.

As the Great Salt Lake shrinks, it releases the carbon it has stored over the ages.

For-profit colleges fund the right-wing extremists in Congress that ignited the persecution of students protesting atrocities in Gaza.

For-profit colleges are often predatory, and some were shut down for this a few years ago.

I've recommended prohibiting them in general, to avoid the need to prove wrongdoing case by case, because that situation tends to encourage predatory behavior.