US citizens: Phone certain key Republican senators to oppose the Dontcare bill.

The US government is leaving it up to big IT companies to decide the future of computing — to their advantage over us.

The article doesn't go far enough. We need to do more than just participate in the development of AI, through our democratic state (as it ought to be); we need to legislate to stop it from being used to subjugate people.

People in the US that don't have government ID are locked out of many aspects of life. Even visiting government offices to try to get replacement ID.

To require people to prove a permanent address to get ID is a direct and intolerable injustice to homeless people. But the injustice here is deeper and broader than that. The US is being converted, step by step, into a state where everyone must be identified. To fix this problem we must eliminate the ID requirements for many of these activities — starting with visiting government offices.

Oil and gas companies must stop burning the fossil fuel that isn't worth collecting.

We should require them to collect all the hydrocarbons that come out of the well, and if that makes the well too expensive to run, they should shut it.

Of course, we should charge them a lot more than that. We need a carbon tax.

Cambodia has charged Australian documentarist James Ricketson with spying.