UK welfare cuts, supposedly meant to make more people work, end up crushing disabled people who couldn't possibly work.

Campaign donations from wealthy organizations have a noticeable effect on how congressional staff estimate public opinion.

If malls in Canada are doing face recognition and analysis, surely US malls are doing it too.

We need laws to regulate what kinds of analysis and recognition they are allowed to do — as well as any and all transmission of images of faces off site.

The US border thugs are worried more about right-wing extremists that might come to the border to "support" them, than about poor border-crossers from Central America.

The Pentagon refused to send troops to the Mexican border unless the bullshitter declares an emergency, because outside of that it is illegal to use soldiers for law enforcement.

The Fermi Paradox, considered in the light of what we now know, leads towards the conclusion that a technological civilization cannot last very long. The fact that ours seems on track to wipe itself out gives more support to that conclusion.

Nuclear war is not the only threat to our technological civilization. Resource exhaustion and global heating will stimulate various local wars which, even without nuclear weapons, could collapse the global manufacturing system. (Its very concentration and lack of redundancy makes it extra vulnerable.)

Humans are adaptable. I don't think an eco-catastrophe would wipe out our species, but we might never get another try at advanced technology on our exhausted planet.