"Tips" to Doordash and Amazon food delivery workers go to the company rather than to the worker, they cancel out the whole of the worker's base pay.

The article seems to err in equating this to tipping of waiters. They are not the same system. Yes, the waiter's base pay is below minimum wage — but the restaurant does not claw back that base pay when the waiter gets a tip, as Doordash and Amazon do.

Sony has got a patent on the obvious idea that a computer system (specifically, a game console) might use a camera to recognize all users, so no one needs to explicitly log in.

This patent would give Sony a basis to sue any other company that implements this idea. It does not necessarily mean that Sony itself will implement this idea, or even that it knows how to implement it reliably, but perhaps it will.

Would you want every Sony-made game console to be able to recognize you using biometrics? I would not.

On the other hand, given a game console powered by free software, I might be willing to give my friend's console some biometrics to recognize me by. But I'd want to be sure that they wouldn't be usable for recognizing me when I pass by a camera in the street, and that might be difficult to implement.

The US government sent surveillance planes and snipers to George Floyd's funeral.

There were protests on Oct 2 against various banks that fund fossil fuels.

*With Focus on Assange, Belmarsh Tribunal Puts 'US War Crimes on Trial'.*

This is a private activity, modeled after the Russell Tribunal in 1966.