Many university libraries are purging books — they will be available only digitally.

Since ebooks are typically distributed in an unjust way, I'm afraid some of those injustices will apply to these books.

The self-checkout machines that replace human sales clerks also encourage shoplifting.

Shoplifting in a supermarket is not uniformly wrong. Poor people are morally entitled to steal food to eat, if they can't afford to buy it, and the suffering imposed by the plutocratic state often puts them in that situation.

But I hope this convinces the stores to get rid of those machines and hire more human beings.

You can join me in helping to make that happen. When I enter the store I pass by those machines and tell the people using them, "If you use those machines, you are putting other Americans out of work. When I realized that I decided to go always to the human sales clerks so that they can stay employed." I do the same thing when I leave.

You can do it too.

A new EU data privacy directive will limit certain ways that companies intentionally abuse people's data.

Companies will still be able to misuse people's data, just not in all of the same ways. For instance, Facebook will still be able to sell targeted advertising aimed at its useds. That doesn't violate these new rules.

Also, this directive does nothing to protect people from Big Brother. The directive has no effect on how states in the EU forcibly take the data once companies have collected. The only benefit for dissidents will be if the directive convinces some companies to hold less data about people.

The family of Andrew Finch, killed by a SWAT thug, is suing the city and the thugs.

Sad to say, even if they win, the thug will probably lose nothing since the city will pay the damages. This system protects thugs so thoroughly from accountability that it will hardly ever get them to do anything better.

The US Federal Reserve has imposes punitive limits on Wells Fargo for swindling customers in several ways.

I fear that as soon as the the bully's saboteur replaces Janet Yellen, which may be soon, that saboteur will cancel these measures.