George Monbiot explains how lobbies convince the public to vote to keep the level of disease-causing pollution high.

The UK is again pressuring Facebook and its allied messaging features to delay end-to-end encryption until they snoop for the state.

I sympathize with the goal of protecting children from pressure for sex, but snooping is the foundation of tyranny and that threatens everyone.

I would never use Facebook, because (1) it requires running nonfree software, which never deserves users' trust, and Facebook itself does lots of snooping.

Japan's summer is extending far longer than usual, surely due to global heating.

People around the world must wake up to start envisioning what this will do to their lives after a couple more decades of getting worse.

The UK questioned a British journalist at an airport, claiming he was suspected of "terrorism", and confiscated his phone and laptop.

He was suspected for his positive coverage of Rojava, the Kurdish state in Syria that stands for equality and unusual systems of democracy.

Rojava was an unofficial ally of the US during the fight against PISSI.

The most horrible thing about these law, and similar British law, is that the crime is not actual terrorism or whatever. It is being suspected of terrorism or whatever.

It is punishment on suspicion, with the bogus excuse that being suspected is itself a crime.

Google's search algorithm chose a generated fake image rather than the real photo of Tank Man as the response to a search for "tank man".

Google manually corrected this, but it shows the error-prone nature of its system as operating.