A potential legal disaster has been avoided: the EU has decided that the taste of a food cannot be copyrighted.

Some of the French protesters have turned to violence. In an interesting reversal, the state blames the violence on some right-wing infiltrators and defends the legitimacy of the rest.

A correspondent on CBC radio asked, on the air, why a public radio channel promotes Facebook instead of promoting democracy.

Birmingham University (in the UK) has set up a branch in Dubai. The teachers have voted not to do any work or provide any support for that branch.

Many UK universities have a big financial relationship with the fossil fuel companies. Imperial University held a "green innovation fair", but when students protested there against the university's legitimization of fossil fuel companies, "security" forced them to stop.

I occasionally hand out such leaflets at MIT, usually about massive surveillance and the danger of supposedly autonomous cars.