The TPP would (it appears) ban a simple legal change that would reduce the danger of republishing many copyrighted works.

The article ends with an absurd statement that this "might not be enough for me to want to throw out the whole deal" — as if there were something good in it! But the Treacherous Plutocratic Poison is nothing but bads. It is a collection of wrongs proposed by the big businesses that helped write it.

As for the orphan works, what we should do is legalize sharing copies of all published works, then let people go to work on them.

Wealthy countries pledged 10 billion dollars to help poor countries cope with the beginnings of climate mayhem, but almost 6 billion of the funds have not been provided.

Basically, spending money to cope with climate mayhem is a foolish approach. We can afford it now, but as mayhem gets worse the costs will double, and double again, and eventually it will be too much. The only approach we can afford is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Turning National Parks into Corporate Profit Centers.

I think it is a shame to sell naming rights for stadiums or other civic buildings. That act says, "Everything about us is for sale", and the only reason it happens is that we stopped taxing those companies enough.

It's easy to make an autonomous car stop — for any amount of time — by sending it a signal that it mistakes for a pedestrian.

This may not matter for most cars. After all, you can stop the subway system for ten or 15 minutes by standing in a door. Mostly, people are cooperative enough not to do this. But it might be dangerous in some special cases.

Mexico's official explanation for the 43 disappeared students is not just false, it's impossible.