Nominations opened today for the 2026 Municipal Elections! I know what you're thinking - OH NO (or possibly OH YES), BILL'S GONNA RUN!!! Haha, no, no he is not . And neither is Angel Godsoe! (She's…

This week: The people's Labour Day Rally, promises to protect workers amid AI disruption, and repercussions for WhatsApp profile statuses.

Below is the text of an email I shared with some of my friends and family recently, sharing my thoughts on the dangerous situation humanity is in. Hi friends, Senator Bernie Sanders held a panel with…

A reading of András Lányi’s essay “Flight from the Camp of the Victors”, focusing on ecological politics, coercion, goodwill, the fragility of decentralization, and whether modern democracies are a…

May 1, 2026 Trump’s Iran War has turned into a frozen fiasco. American motorists face steadily rising costs of fuel. Many retail prices are also rising as the now closed Persian Gulf causes commodity…

Cops get a call: two people are sleeping in a parked car in Lakeland, Florida. The caller requests a welfare check. No crime was even suspected. Cops arrive and confirm, yep, just a young couple and…

On the 250th birthday of the founding of the United States of America, it's time for you to declare Independence...from China manufacturing. The post Best America 250 Gifts and Souvenirs Made in the…

I was invited to give testimony in front of this committee about S.71, An act relating to consumer data privacy and online surveillance. This is what I said

Persuasion is useless, it is the cities' responsibility to reduce car dependency and promote mobility alternatives. That is one takeaway among many others I learned from the podcast “The War on…

A replacement opinion affirms Netflix’s fair use of a one-minute funeral clip—and gives documentary filmmakers the post-Warhol roadmap they’ve been waiting for. The post Tenth Circuit Redeems Itself…

Post: 1 May 2026New blog post on my website:Gedling Borough has released its Council Tax address list as open data

What the Russmedia ruling means for ActivityPub and atproto.

Tepat hari ini adalah hari buruh internasional. Kebetulan, saya sedang pulang ke rumah di Serang, dan melihat beberapa tetangga saya (yang kerja di pabrik) sibuk dari pagi bersiap untuk ke kantor.…

The Iran War continues to drag on. I neglected to mention last week that Tim Cook announced he will step down as Apple’s CEO at the end of August. He will remain at Apple but instead take the…

Post: 1 May 2026New blog post on my website:North Tyneside Council has released its Council Tax address list as open data

uzun bir 1 mayıs gününün ardından eve döndüm. “ege saat daha üç, ne uzunu?” diyeceksiniz belki ama sabah 6’dan beri mecidiyeköy’deyim. açıkçası, bu 1 mayıs mecidiyeköy için…

In the Newsletter this weekAnalysis: Albania's shoddy new railwayBullshit Meter: Skopje commuter train service to start 1st SeptemberGood week: Hungary gets a good transport ministerBad week:…

Companies reach Unicorn size due to sheer ruthlessness; of their business practices and of the US idea of capitalism.

Is AI more like a train or a hot air balloon? Veronica Paternolli and Ryan Calo asked at this year’s We Robot. Nineteenth-century hot air balloons were notoriously uncontrollable. The US legal…

How a handful of American cybersecurity firms quietly became the world's unelected prosecutors, and why nobody's asking the right questions.

Happy May Day, workers. Let’s smash those looms that keep doing our weaving for us! And/or defeat fascism somewhat? I donno, seems like a thing that might get organized on a day like…

The Iran war has made visible what physics and geology had already set in motion

Well-regarded non-profit runs domestic intelligence agency; distributes intelligence product; achieves adoption in financial infrastructure; recruits agents and allies; intervenes against U.S.…

Unless you are living in an alternate reality you have certainly been exposed to the de Coubertin myth, a myth created by himself, peddled by a bunch of sycophants and sanctified by the multinational…

Meta is taking a page out of Big Tobacco's PR playbook, and legislators are responding.

Texas has executed James Broadnax based on his teenage rap lyrics even after the man whose DNA was on the weapon confessed to the crime.

I have been doing safe-streets, transit, and housing advocacy in San Mateo for about 6 years. Along the way I’ve written a fair amount about it, here and elsewhere . Most of what I’ve actually…

J.D. Vance and the rising pro-natalist right have an explanation for collapsing American birth rates: a values crisis . People are too selfish, too secular, too career-focused, too disconnected from…

Unlike Director Comey, I don't think anyone could make a passes-the-laugh-test argument that that is a true and credible threat directed against a living person. That the allegations against him…

Here is a slightly edited text of the conversation I had this afternoon on ChatGPT that began with a question about comparing how Hayek and Dworkin understand the legal meaning of discretion. 3:54 PM…

May Day Participation Guide One-day general strike, via Indivisible. You in?… [more]

I sent my postal vote off today. Anyone who turns up at my door or puts leaflets through my letterbox trying to persuade me to vote for them from now until next Thursday has missed out (apart from…

Here are two short pieces about political violence and sexual violence. The first I wrote yesterday as a social media post that I've revised and improved here. The second is an excerpt from my…

“What if changing the world looked more like care than like war,” asks writer Rebecca Solnit.

Benedetta Lobina * and Esther Martínez ** * re:constitution fellow and lecturer at the UCD Sutherland School of Law ** Co-founder and director of RECLAIM , a human rights NGO that campaigned for…

On Tuesday, the European Parliament presented the statutory review of the Digital Markets Act. So, naturally, I went to Strasbourg to tell politicians that as DMA has only really been in force for…

Last August, thanks to a column by Linda Greenhouse, I anticipated the voting rights decision that the Supreme Court just handed down, and said that I thought that it would in fact do some good--a…

A Brazilian tech firm that specializes in protecting networks from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks has been enabling a botnet responsible for an extended campaign of massive DDoS attacks…

To help address an “unprecedented” surge in power demand from AI, data centers, and industrial electrification, in October 2025, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) opened Docket…

In Western countries, the rise of the “post-liberal right” has ushered in renewed popularity of German political theorist Carl Schmitt, especially among younger generations. At the heart of Schmitt’s…

Photo: © Stan B. After I got over the initial shock of the rather startling and for all practical purposes, unknown bit of history contained in the previous post, I couldn't help but think what…

If you haven't seen Terminator, here's the quickest summary I can manage: Humanity in the future is fighting a war against robots. The robots send the Terminator back in time to find a woman (Sarah…

Are front flashing lights on your bike legal in Ontario? Find out why we think yes.

From war to the world, the new stage is climate extremism. Scientist Paul Beckwith covers worrying new science from failing food to wild weather changes. Can weather forecasting keep up? From…

Clarence Thomas recently gave a speech at the University of Texas--Austin that's attracted a lot of attention. Thomas said that a new philosophy of "progressivism," which rejected the principles of…