The beloved toy soda can.

I am looking for people to American Promise (americanpromise.net) is looking for a Boston area volunteer to help suggest and implement changes to their web site to reduce use of DropBox and nonfree JavaScript code. Ideally it would function properly even with JavaScript disabled.

To volunteer, please write to Johannes Epke, johannese@americanpromise.net, and to me at rms at gnu dot org.

Using the Facebook app on a portable phone tells Facebook about any phone calls and texts.

Greenhouse gas emissions increased in 2017 to a record level. Strong measures are needed to avoid global disaster — if that is even still possible.

A Texas thug shot and killed a possibly confused black man who was walking on the street with his pants around his ankles.

It's hard to threaten someone when you're in that state. The thug may have seen his black skin and assumed that he had a gun.