*FTC to address industry greenwashing complaints.*

Petrochemical industry in Louisiana have set up a "sustainability council" to help sustain their business model. They increase profits by skimping on the safety of people living in the region.

*Worried Your Child is Already a Screen Addict? There’s Hope!!!*

The "pervasive design" addictive features that the article naively attributes to "screens" are implemented by software: partly in the operating system and partly in some apps. They can be designed to do nasty things because they are non-free software: their code is controlled by some "owner", in this case a powerful company, rather than by the users. If they were free programs, the user community could reprogram them so as to be less addictive.

We must free ourselves from the idea that giant companies have the "right" to require users' connection to their "services" to go through software under their control. We should have the right to use our free software to do that.

Legal advice received by the European Commission suggests that the "chat control" censorship plan is illegal.

The plan assumes that an encrypted communication service _includes_ nonfree software to run on your machine to send and receive messages. That implies that the service can make that software snoop on your communications before it encrypts them.

That design, where the service imposes specific software on users, is fundamentally unjust and insecure, precisely because the service imposes nonfree software on users and users can never rationally trust such software.

In effect, the "chat control" plan demonstrates that we were right. A service that makes users run nonfree software to talk with it is inherently insecure and untrustworthy.

Biden broke a commitment that the US would stop financing fossil fuel development in other countries.

It is silly to claim that Indonesia will refine fuel in the expanded Balikpapan refinery instead of refining fuel elsewhere and importing the results. The owners of the other refineries will try to sell their output somewhere else.