Proposing April 9 as a national holiday for the military defeat of the forces of slavery.

I am in favor of having such a holiday, but April 9 is not the only candidate. Juneteenth, June 10, seems to have momentum. Either one is ok with me.

Iran is using facial recognition in public places to identify the dangerous criminals that don't wear required Islamic clothing.

They have been specifically banned from the Tehram Metro.

An IPCC publication comparing the effectiveness of various ways of reducing greenhouse gas emissions finds that the five most effective methods are:

• solar power
• wind power
• ending deforestation
• improving energy efficiency (what Amory Lovins called "negawatts")
• shutting off methane emissions

An autopsy found that Manuel Paez Terán did not fire a gun in the confrontation in which thugs killed him.

The thugs claimed that he had, but it was evidently bullshit.

Verisign has asked ICANN to give every government total power to seize or shut .net domains. If some government, such as Tuvalu or China or Beijing, seized your domain, you'd have to sue in the courts of Tuvalu or China, not your own country.

This is a very dangerous concentration of power. The fact that Verisign arranged for this shows it is far too powerful. The network's arrangements with it should be canceled and replaced with something quite different.

The fact that ICANN agreed to this suggests that there is corruption in ICANN that needs to be rooted out.