Reason: Republicans love federal snooping: “Although Trump and Republican allies like Rep. Devin Nunes (R–Calif.), chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, say the FBI broke the rules to engage in surveillance against members of Trump’s campaign, they resisted the chance to fix the underlying problem. In January, Nunes and 177 other GOP legislators voted against the bill to restrict domestic snooping, then advanced and passed a different bill to renew Section 702. Rather than scaling back domestic surveillance powers, the legislation expanded them, explicitly permitting the FBI to use foreign surveillance rules to fight domestic crimes.”
Activist Post: Military-Industrial complex stocks sent crashing as North and South Korea achieve peace
FEE: Billions have suffered ‘The Handmaid’s Tale” in reverse thanks to overpopulation myths Ed: Out of every delusional mass hysteria that totalitarianism and mass death could be built upon, the overpopulation fear stands out as by far the worst, because it seems the most reasonable, and most “reasonable” people appear to hold a view that there might be “too many people” already alive on this planet already. Hideously benign books, like the popular Ishmael have propagated the superstition that we could be reaching a scenario where “too many people” exist on Earth, that is constitutes a crisis which can only be solved by government. Guess what type of government is more than willing to “solve” just this type of “crisis”. Sterilization, the forced abortion of those seen as inferior, the resurgence of eugenic thinking similar to what has appeared recently in Iceland in regards to the abortion rate for babies with Down Syndrome. The population of the world doubled, from 3.5 to 7 billion, during the past 50 years. Yet during the past 50 years, poverty and hunger have plummeted across the globe. Living standards are constantly rising, in large part due to the unsung miracle that is comparative advantage, which basically states that everyone, no matter how “unskilled” has a place within a market economy to improve not only their own lives, but by doing so also improves the lives of everyone around them. The overpopulation myth is a vehicle for demonizing other races, nationalities, those of lower IQ or with other “defects”, and it’s terrifying to imagine to how great effect a skillful politician could use such a will o’ the wisp. We have nothing to fear as long as we preserve liberty.
The Intercept: It’s impossible to prove your laptop hasn’t been hacked. I spent two years finding out.
National Review: Don’t be mad at Wolf’s Sanders jokes if you’ve never been mad at Trump
The Nation: Sci-fi visions become reality in China’s AI use
