Samsung bought part of the debt of the proposed Adani coal mine; Australian activists call for boycott of the whole company.

You certainly should not accept Samsung's phones and TV's, since they are tracking devices; that is because they contain nonfree software that talks over a network. However, their competitors are no better. They are all unacceptable.

Florida's citizens voted to allow ex-cons to vote. The Supreme Court sustained Florida's Republican legislature in imposing a payment requirement that will cancel that for most of them.

The Republicans pivoted towards a policy of "reopen business fast" in the same week when it became news that Covid-19 was dis proportionally killing minority racial groups. Was this just a coincidence? Is it a coincidence also that Georgia's governor, Kemp, is stopping Atlanta from requiring face masks?

Reportedly Republicans want to punish school systems that don't physically reopen.

US citizens: Join Reporters Without Borders in calling on the UK not to extradite Julian Assange.

I could sign this, and I can post this, because I discovered recently that Reporters Without Borders changed its web site and it now works to sign that organization's petitions without running nonfree JavaScript code. I thank Reporters Without Borders for making this work.

There are several other organizations whose causes I support (at least usually), but whose petitions I cannot sign because they require nonfree JavaScript code: afsc.org, amazonwatch.org, change.org, coworker.org, defenders.org, democracyforamerica.com, earthjustice.org, freepress.net, moveon.org, pen.org, populationconnectionaction.org, publiccitizen.org, ran.org, splcenter.org, sumofus.org.

In addition, freedomunited.org appears to succeed but sends no confirmation, so I think it ignores signatures.

If you can convince any of those organizations to fix their sites so people can sign without running Javascript code, I would appreciate it, and it would help the free software cause too.

Or, alternatively, if you can publish a free Firefox extension that substitutes for the nonfree Javascript code which LibreJS blocks, that too would make signing possible.

By analyzing skeletons from ancient Egypt, archaeologists have discovered that the Hyksos, a group that ruled Egypt for a century, consisted of people who had arrived from various places in the Near East, over a period of time.

We could do similar studies on the territory of the United States if it were not for the NAGPRA law, which required reburying the collections of skeletons.

A corpse can serve two good purposes: organ transplantation and science. It is a shame to waste it. At least I have made sure — or as sure as is possible — that my corpse won't be wasted after I die.