Australia is thinking of demanding back doors to install different software into computers and phones, claiming this would be something other than a "security weakness".

Sanders and some Democratic senators have introduced a bill to explicitly disallow a US aggression against Iran.

The text of Christine Blasey Ford's statement.

"Evidence shows that privileged families will stop at nothing to prevent their children being overtaken [by anyone else's children]."

Society needs social mobility so that we don't end up with incompetent aristos in charge and so that people from poor families get heard. But social mobility is not a solution to the problem of poverty. The small chance of becoming wealthy is of no benefit to the poor children who don't become wealthy (which is most of them).

Growing up in poverty and hardship stunts children's growth, including their mental growth, so when judged on their "merits" later they will be consigned to poverty.

The solution to poverty is to redistribute the wealth and income. When no child grows up in hardship, no child will be stunted. Indirectly, this will help social mobility too.

Canadians, watch out! Canada might follow the EU and US in censoring the internet in the name of copyright.

The article gives undeserved support to the companies that want to impose these restrictions by calling music-sharing "piracy" and referring to it as a "sin". Sharing is virtuous! The first step in defeating the copyright industry is to refuse to spread its propaganda.

If Canada wants to punish the bullshitter, it should do so by legalizing sharing of all published works. Indeed, it should do that regardless of what the US government is doing.