HP's CEO admits that the company wants to make printing a "subscription".

I am concerned about malware in printers. That includes malware inserted by third parties, and malware inserted by the printer manufacturer. Any software designed to snoop on, restrict or interfere with the user is malware.

One way to block malware from affecting anything outside the printer is to put the printer on a separate ethernet which talks only to a special computer which won't allow it to communicate with anything else.

*"No one should have more than [$10 million]": the author of Limitarianism on why the super-rich need to level down radically.*

An absolute limit on any person's wealth is roughly equivalent to a 100% marginal tax rate on income beyond a certain point. A 93% tax rate would give similar results, and we know it is feasible and works. So I think we should try that instead.

To fully implement that 93% marginal tax rate entails eliminating the deductions and manipulations currently used by the rich to shelter much of their wealth and income from it.

St Louis thugs crashed a car into a gay bar, then bullied and arrested the bar's owner. This while concealing video evidence of what happened.

Biden must press Israel to agree to recognize the state of Palestine and end the occupation.

Since Netanyahu says that "The prime minister needs to be capable of saying no to our friends," Biden must likewise be capable of saying no to America's traditional friends.

Seeing Israel in the context of European settler colonialism: it partly fits, and at the same time it doesn't.

The other colonial powers were looking mainly for profit and power, not for survival against murderous persecution. Morally that changes some things, but not everything: it does not entitle Zionists to oppress Palestinians, let alone to commit massive and repeated atrocities.

Keep in mind that colonization is not limited to European countries. Ancient empires practiced colonization — Rome, for instance. Nowadays, China is practicing settler colonialism in Tibet, and Indonesia in its half of New Guinea.

India's treatment of Muslims under its system of Hindu nationalism is not "colonization' in a territorial sense, but it has much in common.

[pol note or two about that]