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The saboteur-in-chief ordered the abolition of many scientific advisory bodies.

It's not clear which ones will be abolished, since the order is self-contradictory, but surely some will be abolished and that will lead to many bad decisions.

Maine has adopted a network privacy law. Plutocratists in Congress will surely try to stop states from having such laws.

This law stops ISPs from selling their records of individuals' internet contacts, but that is far from adequate. They should not be allowed to track anyone's internet contacts, except under a specific court order.

The law also applies to platforms such as Facebook, which sounds good, but I expect Facebook will negate the law by requiring its useds to explicitly opt-in for this as a condition of starting an account.

Hong Kong protesters trying to stop the puppet state from identifying them, but it is hard to block every system.

This demonstrates that we must demand all widely used systems be designed not to track people.

A discussion about how to aim for a post-scarcity society.

I don't think it will be easy for technological advances to make an abundance of _everything_ people commonly want. For instance, making meat abundant in a safe way will be difficult. However, since the alternative seems to be global disaster, we will have to live with less of it.