Some US thug departments give Amazon special access to 911 call data.

The decoy effect is a powerful way of manipulating people into making one choice rather than another.

I suspect that a policy of dismissing options that are clearly inferior and writing down a list of only the options you are really considering would help resist the decoy effect. It is worth doing this for many reasons if the choice is important.

And stay away from flight connections that are just 60 minutes, because that makes a significant risk of a missed connection. I would choose option B for those flights, by intentional policy, regardless of C. If I had seen only option A, I would have asked my travel agent, "Can you find a longer connection time?"

Temporal AI for marketing attempts to predict when you are in the mood for any given product. They rely on collecting and correlating the data collected by many surveillance systems.

If we prohibit the collection of data like these, systems like this will be entirely impossible. Otherwise, they will make a worse dystopia.

The US military has installed lots of Hikvision internet cameras. This is a problem for two reasons: Hikvision is Chinese, and the cameras have (reportedly) a universal back door.

Even if the company weren't Chinese, the universal back door should make people distrust these cameras.

The US had three mass shootings in one weekend.

Only a small fraction of US gun killings are part of mass shootings, but mass shootings seem to inspire more mass shootings, and they are often acts of terrorism inspired by hate movements.

The first of these two shootings, in Dallas, was an act of right-wing terrorism and so was one other.

These are clearly inspired by the bully's support of racism and violence.

He surely knew this would happen; it isn't the first time, after all. Therefore it must be intentional. Even people who already agreed with white supremacism are encouraged to leap into violence by their crowds of supporters.

He has converted the whole Republican party into supporters of racism and violence.

Some may not entirely like it, but they haven't the courage to resist the mob that boils around them.