Hundreds of thousands of Russians have left the country, partly because of opposition to Putin's war, partly from fear of being conscripted into it.

Interview with Igor Pedin, who walked from Mariupol to Zaporizhzhia over 2-3 weeks.

*Planned EU rules to protect children online are attack on privacy, warn critics.*

The idea of scanning all messages for prohibited messages presumes that users are compelled to run a nonfree application. That's fundamentally unjust, and these nonfree programs will surely be designed to mistreat their users. (Nonfree programs generally are.)

I wonder if these applications will be designed to report you as an "abuser" if the text you send starts with --BEGIN PGP MESSAGE--.

Elon Musk's vision of a proper life for workers is that they spend all day working for someone like him, and the night too when he wants. They are effectively robots in a giga-sweatshop.

AMLO objected to Biden's plans to exclude Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela from the Summit of the Americas.

The dictator of Nicaragua is as repressive of dissidents as Putin, though not resembling Putin in military aggression. Cuba represses dissent too, though perhaps not as thoroughly. If any country deserved to be excluded from some international project, Nicaragua would.

But there is a value in inviting all the countries in the region.