Arrogant Christian prudes in Brazil pressured Santander Bank into cancelling an exhibit of queer art.

They wish to silence anything that provokes their prejudice.

The Only Safe Email Is Text-Only Email.

I've never stopped doing text-only email.

"Smart" appliances can be used by stalkers.

Do cameras and trackers endanger you, or protect you? That depends on who uses them. If you are the only one who can access them, they may help you and not hurt you. But if you access them through computers not under your control—for instance, computers with Windows, MacOS, Android or iOS—then there are others that can track you, and there is no way you can prevent it.

With autonomous farming robots, tens of millions of farmers will soon join the unemployed.

I don't want to be a farmer, and maybe you don't either. But if we don't provide those people another way to live, we will soon see millions of people starving on the street or trying to steal food made by the automated farms.

A large fraction of Bangladesh is under water due to a mammoth storm. I've read elsewhere that it has flooded 1/3 the land area.

Some of that land will be dry again soon, but some will have disappeared forever. A lot more will disappear in coming decades.

With the population still growing, and the land area shrinking, Bangladesh is on track to be crushed to death. The main help it needs is help reducing births.