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Quitting Facebook etc.

lundi 27 novembre 2017 à 01:00

Increasing numbers of young adults are quitting Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat.

While I wish they had taken up the principles of the free software movement, and defending privacy on principle too, this is a big step towards reducing the technological subjugation and it might lead them towards recognizing those principles.

There are other ways to remember your friends' birthdays. For instance, put them in a text file in calendrical order.

Palace power struggle

lundi 27 novembre 2017 à 01:00

Salafi Arabia is experiencing a palace power struggle between different factions of the gigantic royal family, presented as a campaign against corruption.

Those targeted may indeed be corrupt, but not necessarily more than the others in the royal family.

Dag Hammarskjold

lundi 27 novembre 2017 à 01:00

Britain and US Urged to Release Papers on Dag Hammarskjöld's Death.

There have always been suspicions that his plane crash was no accident.

Helping refugees

lundi 27 novembre 2017 à 01:00

EU countries are prosecuting people for helping refugees travel — or even simply giving them food — using laws that were meant to punish people-smugglers.

Cuba sanctions

lundi 27 novembre 2017 à 01:00

The troll is tightening US sanctions against Cuba, while fawning on the equally communist China as it becomes ever more repressive. There is no way that can make ethical sense.