A right-wing British billionaire has lost his libel suit against journalist Carole Cadwalladr. This slightly blunts the threat that UK libel law poses to journalism. But it's not enough.

The UK's deportation ministry plans to deport torture victims to Rwanda. Rwanda may have no particular interest in torturing those people, but you can't expect them to feel safe merely because of that.

The lack of competition in US manufacturing created the shortage of baby milk substitutes, the shortage of N95 masks, the shortage of home Covid tests, and shortages of hundreds of other medicines. Matt Stoller traces this to a lack of competition in purchasing.

Why the Google chatbot LaMDA is certainly not a person.

"Outing" people no longer has the power to cause scandal with today's youth. (Perhaps that is not true for people who belong to sexually repressed communities.) I agree that is a change for the better.

I repeat my suggestion that Instagram require every user to post a nude photo — after a few years, revenge porn will cease to be a problem, because the targets will simply shrug.