*European Investment Bank to end all loans to oil and gas firms.*

It will no longer help oil companies develop wind farms, and that is a good thing, because those projects help the oil company greenwash its continued fossil fuel operations. The same funds could go to a wind farm project that is not connected with an oil company.

Facebook says it will build a "metaverse". (Or is that "made it worse"?) That buzzword is not very precise about its meaning, so if something does get built, we concretely know hardly anything about what it might do.

What rhymes with "meta"? "Data". That's what Facebook wants, and that's what we should refuse to give it. Don't be a zucker!

I won't prejudge it just because Facebook is doing it, but we must suspect it will mistreat its users. We should pose these questions about it:

*European Investment Bank to end all loans to oil and gas firms.*

It will no longer help oil companies develop wind farms, and that is a good thing, because those projects help the oil company greenwash its continued fossil fuel operations. The same funds could go to a wind farm project that is _not_ connected with an oil company.

Edtech companies are already developing great power over the students in the schools where they operate, and it will get worse. They use their surveillance power to manipulate students , and to direct students into tracks towards various levels of knowledge, power and prestige.

They also structure their relationships so that they are never held responsible for the consequences.

The article argues that these companies should need to have licenses to operate. I am not against that, but I would go further. I say that the data acquired in a school about any student must not leave the school's control: whatever computers it gets onto must belong to the school and run free software. That way the school district and/or parents can control what it does with those data.

* Oil and gas companies should be treated like the tobacco industry and denied routine meetings with EU officials. *