The world's entire insect population has decreased by a factor of 2 since 1980, apparently due to global heating.

Most of the decline has been in tropical forests, where the quantities have declined catastrophically, in some places by a factor of 60.

In Virginia, it is a felony to protect your anonymity by hiding your face.

We must demand such laws be abolished, so we can protect ourselves from face recognition surveillance.

Small steps towards gender equality, decreasing the advantages of being male, are interpreted as oppression by supporters of the bullshitter.

Small, cheap farming robots are being developed to pay attention to each individual plant, and to kill weeds without pesticides.

In growing wheat, they could be used to enable the same number of humans to do a far better job. However, the plans for broccoli would imply a big cut in employment, and that will harm people. Until we are ready to prevent efficiency from making millions of people starve in the midst of plenty, we should not allow robots to be used that way.

Meanwhile, when farmers use such robots, they deserve to run their robots with free software, and to process their data with free software too.

Everyone: Demand Justice in Police Taser Killing of Chinedu Okobi.

If you sign, please spread the word!