Toronto commissioned Google to make one neighborhood a "smart city". Privacy expert Ann Cavoukian resigned from the project, saying she hoped it would be a "smart city of privacy", but in fact it is becoming a "smart city of surveillance".

A data base of personal data, once collected will be misused. So the only way to make a "smart city" respect privacy is to make it not collect personal data about where people go, what they do, and who they communicate with.

If instead the project aims to "protect" the personal data, it has already gone astray.

Uber drivers in Australia frequently face violent attacks and theft.

I don't know whether this relates directly to the other injustices of Uber. If it does, I am very interested to know how.

New Hampshire passed a law to suppress the votes of college students.

Toxicologists call for banning all organophosphate pesticides because they damage the health of fetuses.

I refuse to refer to fetuses as "prenatal children" — that term will tend to help the theocratic campaign to ban abortions. Causing damage to a fetus that then develops into a human being is wrong because that human being will suffer the damage. We need not try to support this conclusion by equating the fetus to a child.

Sanders and Varoufakis will launch an international progressive movement.