Attacking Iran could be an opportunity/excuse to reimpose the military draft in the US.

Young Americans should start organizing now, against the draft and against attacking Iran.

In the 1800s, British publishers armed with copyright made books into luxury goods, while German publishers with no copyright system made books available to all. Counter to what the copyright lobby pretends, this led to far more books' being published in Germany. This made education available in Germany to people that couldn't have afforded it in Britain.

Designing city streets primarily for cars leads to many kinds of problems for the city's inhabitants.

I mostly agree with the article, but I disagree on one point: lowering speed limits. Most people need a way to get around the city quickly. That can be cars, or it can be buses; but if all vehicles are required to move slowly, neither cars nor buses can do the job.

I don't mention metro trains because few cities have developed trains to the point where they are almost sufficient without buses. The only ones I know that come close are Paris and Tokyo. Most cities can't afford to try to develop a train network that can get everywhere buses go.

We Need to Save Ignorance From AI.

This is another reason to limit the design of systems so that they don't collect so much data about people.

Facebook answered senators' questions with 500 pages, but parts of it are doubletalk.