The Supreme Court has ruled that Muslims that the FBI tried to bully into spying, by putting them on the no-fly list, can sue for damages.

I am elated by this rebuke to government bullying.

Banning someone from flying is a form of punishment by the government, and under the US constitution it should not be allowed except under "due process of law", which ought to mean a criminal trial.

A thug shot Casey Goodson, Jr., in the back as he was opening the door of his house. The family called 911 and when other thugs arrived, they treated the whole family as criminals.

It is surely not a coincidence that Goodson was black.

Without a witness or a video, we cannot prove anything about what the killer thug did. Those who believe thugs by default will believe whatever that thug says.

It could be that the thug mistook Goodson for someone else and fired immediately without verifying that snap judgment. I think that would be a crime if you or I did it. It should be a crime if a thug does it, but I don't know whether it is.

I waited before posting about this, hoping to get a clearer picture of what happened. I think this is as clear as it's going to get in the near term, so I am posting now.

Cory Doctorow updates the issue of the danger of letting companies control your computers.

In 2002 I rejected the propaganda term "trusted computing". Based on what it does, we should call it "treacherous computing".

China is regulating the practice ofprofiling users and charging some users more.

By contrast, the US and most other countries don't even think of preventing this abusive treatment.

I say, let's stop companies from collecting enough data about us that they could even think about trying to profile people.

Biden named a planet-roaster congresscritter as "liaison" to environmentalists, but protests and lawsuits are persuading US banks to give up on some fossil fuel projects.

However, world-wide, planet-roaster projects are mostly not held back by this. Newly funded fossil fuel development plans would use up 3/4 of the carbon budget.

In Africa, China is offering lots of investment in planet-roaster projects.