Jeremy Hance wrote a letter to his daughter, for her to understand when she is older, about the culpability of today's adults for the global disaster she will encounter in a few decades.

The letter is so moving, and so full of truth, that people are likely to take every littlest detail for correct. Thus, I have to point out that Hance erred when describing the troll as "our next commander-in-chief." American civilians have no commander-in-chief, and we must never have one.

It's just a minor detail, but we may as well not spread an error that favors the troll.

More importantly, I think the letter doesn't follow the argument to its conclusion: we should not bring more humans into a world in which we would owe them such an apology. Even more so, seeing as each additional human augments the disaster we will have to apologize for.

I would like to see a letter "To the child I might have had: How relieved I am not to have had you. That means I don't owe you an apology for bringing you into a developing disaster, and I don't owe everyone else an apology for making all the environmental strains one human being larger."

We can still work to reduce the disaster. We can do this by putting our time into activism rather than into raising children.

The root cause of our failure to curb global heating is plutocracy: the political power of the rich. That is what sort of political system empowers fossil fuel magnates to veto adequate measures to reduce emissions.

Plutocracy gets its strength from power over many fields of life, and computing is one of them. Nonfree software is one of those forms of power. The free software movement, though I did recognize this at first, is one aspect of the fight against plutocracy.

It's a good idea for us in the software field to fight against plutocracy in our own field, since that is where we can achieve the most against it.

Shannon Hurd was sentenced to life in prison for stealing 14 dollars, then killed in prison by officials that refused to believe he had cancer. This is not unusual in US prisons.

An astroturf group set up by Paul Ryan, with hardly any members except some rich donors, is getting lots of publicity campaigning for Ryan's medical care denial bill.

European countries want to make Google delete racist postings even when they are not threatening.

What David Duke said is false, and his racist attitude is despicable. However, freedom of speech means he has the right to say it. (European countries do not adequately recognize freedom of speech.)

I am more scared of companies that delete what they deem to be false, or despicable, than of David Duke's saying such things.

In Syria, attacking medical facilities became a standard tactic of war.