Australia's minister in charge persistently lies about a violent attack on refugees that Australia has dumped on Manus Island.

Some decades ago, it was the Stalinists that stuck to official the lie no matter how absurd it became. Now it's the capitalists.

Congress is considering a law to reauthorize vague and abstract patents on computing activities.

California has a chance to put strict limits on the surveillance capabilities of thugs.

The House of Representatives passed an even worse version of the SCROTUS medical disinsurance bill.

It seems they papered over the denial of coverage to people with preexisting medical conditions with a limited amount of funds to cover some of them.

Then they rushed it through to deny the opportunity for informed public criticism. There was no emergency here. Any legislator who rushes a controversial change for no urgent reason is trying to screw the public.

It is foolish and misleading to call that bill "Trumpcare". The troll tries to shock us, but in some ways he is totally predictable: he will never care about Americans in general.

I have decided to call that bill "Dontcare".

Many intellectuals think about the future of humanity based solely on their own fields of thoughty, ignoring and thus implicitly denying the ecological and climate disasters that humanity is building up.

I wish the author would reconsider the name "Anthropocene" for the new geological epoch that is the result of human activity.

Meanwhile, the oil companies pay attention to the coming disaster — but only how to profit from it.

They too underestimate the consequences that would result from 4C of global heating.

Preventing an ice age in 50,000 years would be a good thing, if it were not a side effect of an even bigger disaster in a few decades from now. The avoided ice age would imply 4C of global cooling. The Thermocene epoch could ultimately involve more than 4C of heating.