*Papers Owned by Oligarchs Unsurprisingly Oppose a Wealth Tax.*

A cafe chain announced a plan to eliminate the use of single-use containers and bags.

Does its connection with Nestle matter? Not very much. in my opinion. My view in general is that if a company has several activities, and they are effectively separable, we should judge each of them separately.

In 2019, the public became aware that always-listening computers are as malicious as you could possibly imagine.

An online t-shirt vendor stopped selling Techdirt's t-shirts and wouldn't say why, except to point at a long list of possibilities and say "you figure it out".

This is an example of a kind of runaround that has become standard with businesses that communicate with the public digitally. I deal with such businesses as little as possible — directly, never.

The article uses terminology that we should avoid. For instance, it refers to art works and slogans as "content". That term spreads a presupposition I think is misguided and harmful. I urge you to reject that term, as I do.

Even worse, the article talks about "intellectual property" as if that were a single coherent thing, and equates it to copyright. That is a grave confusion. To formulate any issue in terms of "intellectual property" is to confuse. For the sake of proper understanding, please join me in never using the term.

"If the livestock sector were to continue with business as usual," experts warn, "this sector alone would account for 49% of the emissions budget for 1.5°C by 2030." They call for "peak livestock" within 10 years.