"No matter what cause you feel most passionate about, ending America’s culture of militarism would benefit it." But young Americans tend to disregard the US's global war.

The US's global war is spread across many countries, low intensity in most of them, and often carried out via proxies such as Salafi Arabia. These things make it easier for Americans to ignore.

Thousands of Google staff demand the company respect the rights of employees that make accusations of sexual harassment.

I support this cause, but since the victims of this particular wrong are limited to Google's workers, I think that Google's injustices to its users (nonfree software, surveillance and tracking, soon perhaps censorship in China) are overridingly bigger wrongs.

The "solutions" Google promotes for surveillance and tracking, which include "transparency" ("We tell you roughly how much we track people for the state") and "security" ("We protect your data from some sorts of misuse by parties other than Google and the state"), are fundamentally inadequate. And Google does not even recognize nonfree software as an injustice, whether in web pages or in phones, and nearly all Google products and services offer no way to escape nonfree software except the one I use: reject them.

What Google needs to do, to avoid injustice to its users, is stop collecting data about individuals, stop asking users to run nonfree software, and refuse to censor for China or any other state.

Australia has been hit by a nationwide outage of digital payments and ATMs.

This is a superficial reason to carry cash and pay cash. It will presumably be temporary.

I hope people will see the deeper reason to carry cash and pay cash, since that is likely to be permanent unless we can get the world to adopt our anonymous digital purchase payment system, GNU Taler.

Islamist terrorists in Egypt attacked a bus and killed seven Christian pilgrims.

They have used a strained excuse to scapegoat Christians for the military coup — this reminds me of what the bully does to his preferred scapegoats.

A Swedish ISP, which has been ordered to block access to Sci-Hib, has blocked Elsevier.com as well, diverting it to a site that condemns Elsevier as a parasite on science.