*Amazon, Google parent Alphabet and Microsoft are being sued over images used to train their facial recognition technologies.*

Antibiotic resistance is spreading into the bacteria found on a wide range of animal species.

Right-wing censorship pressure is extremely powerful in the US. More powerful than left-wing pressure, in its own way.

One important difference is that right-wing censorship does not affect many areas of life. Its greatest power is in the mainstream media, and it has some power over candidates for office (but now many candidates defy some aspects of it). For someone like me, who had only a tangential presence in the mainstream media and didn't intend to run for office, it had little effect.

Thus, we should not think of left-wing censorship pressure as "more of the same" merely because right-wing censorship pressure is so strong and harmful.

Pompeo is pulling back official US support for all human rights except property rights and religion.

I guess he won't call it wrong if you break his neck with your knee, as long as his property is distributed as specified in his will.

200 Democratic Convention delegates called for cutting aid to Israel if it goes ahead with Netanyahu's intention to annex part of Palestine.

People have pointed out that Israel's occupation policies are in many ways similar to annexation. Nonetheless, formal annexation would be a challenge to the world: either break with Israel now or permanently legitimize those policies. It would be a more serious violation of the laws of war than the ones Israel already commits.

I don't think those 200 are a majority, but they are enough to be significant.