The term "selling out" has been mostly forgotten in regard to music, because data from online access enables the music factories to fine-tune their products so well to match audience taste that there is little room for anything very surprising.

As the article explains, selling out is not an all-or-nothing dichotomy. Everyone makes compromises in life. The question is whether you let these compromises dominate your life and push what you used to "really care about" into a small corner.

In the free software community, that philosophy typically flies the flag of "open source".

A bipartisan bill to ban stock trading by members of Congress and their families has some momentum.

How about including Supreme Court justices and their families, too.

(satire) *Congress Warns Shrimp Imported From China Could Be Spying On Americans.*

Hong Kong "security" thugs grabbed relatives of two exiled dissidents.

Threatening the relatives in China of oversees Chinese is standard practice for China. Sometimes it is aimed at frightening dissidents, as in this case. Sometimes the threats are potential and meant just to keep oversees Chinese in line. Sometimes they are pressured to join in campaigns aimed at influence or infiltration of their host countries.

US citizens: call on state election officials to Keep the insurrection leader off the 2024 ballot. He is disqualified by his insurrection under the 14th amendment.