* More than 50 pro-democracy politicians and campaigners have been arrested in Hong Kong under the [so-called] national security law.*

The state of Wisconsin said there is no chance of convicting the cop that shot and paralyzed Jacob Blake. The events as he reported them would justify his plea to have fired in self defense. whether or not he was actually in immediate danger.

We can't take for granted that the state reached the correct conclusion. The officials may not have tried hard enough.

A question to ponder: if you are using one of those teledildos with bad security, and a cracker takes control of it, what could the cracker do to you with it?

If it were Durand Durand's sex machine, which he uses to try to kill Barbarella, that crack could be deadly (unless you're as innocent in your sexuality as Barbarella). But if it's only a vibrator, you could resist its effects until you take it off.

The one thing the toy could really do for the cracker is snoop on you for per. That would be in addition to snooping on you for the manufacturer — which is exactly what the manufacturer designed it to do.

So if you don't want to be snooped on, don't use that thing at all. Nearly all products in the Internet of Things are designed to snoop on the "owner", and worse.

Demand a teledildo run by free software so that you can control who, if anyone, can communicate with it.

A privately designed treaty uses the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty as a model to end the spread of fossil fuel extraction.

*Mexico's Lopez Obrador Wants to Give Asylum to Julian Assange.*