Purchases made with Bitcoin can be traced to you, even years later, unless you are very careful.

This is one of the ways GNU Taler would have an advantage. With Taler, your purchases are truly anonymous, unless you reveal your identity in some other way.

Merchants that don't accept Taler payments are intalerable.

The Grace/Ansari bad date is a lesson about the difference between a kind, caring dating man and a selfish, uncaring one.

It makes no sense to legislate kindness, but men should all try to learn it.

A former Facebook executive attributes Facebook's usefulness for fake news to its dependence on digital advertising. This leads Facebook to do whatever suits the advertisers best.

Israeli expansionists are suing two New Zealand activists for persuading a singer to cancel a planned concert in Israel.

They are using a law that was designed to bully Gush Shalom into dropping its campaign to boycott products of the Israeli colonies in occupied territory. It exposes boycott advocates to unlimited financial "damages" based on intentionally weak criteria.

Uri Avnery wrote that some leaders of Gush Shalom were willing to go to jail for peace, but didn't dare risk the punishment of imposed penury for the rest of their lives. Nowadays Gush Shalom does not advocate a boycott. It does still maintain a list of companies that operate in the colonies in Palestinian territory.

These expansionists are trying to extend that bullying internationally. We will see if Israeli courts dare to attempt world-wide repression of foreign criticism of Israel's policy.

Young Russians, at least some of them, learn to recognize and resist propaganda.

There is still the problem of how to figure out what the truth is when every side engages in propaganda more or less.