Elephants and cats

There are an estimated 1500 pygmy elephants still surviving in Borneo according to article.  The reason it's become news is because someone has decided it's a good idea to poison them.

On my side of the world, it seems that cats are killing millions of birds and small mammals. 

Meanwhile in Syria, the killings go on.

My point is that I don't really care that much about people murdering each other, but I do object to poisoning elephants.  In the San Francisco East Bay Hills where I live there are so many Feral cats that are killing lots of the local birds and mammals.  There's good news on this front, a resurgence in the coyote population seems to be cutting back on the cats and some species of birds are rebounding. 

So, you humans, please feel free to kill each other, but lay off the animals.  They were here first.

What the internet is really doing

So I was reading today about Facebook's latest attempt to accumulate more of our personal informations and allow more people to get at it. It's clear to me that the Internet is now just a collection device for information to be fed into advertising engines to be processed and spit out in front of my eyeballs. Like yesterday when I kind of randomly searched for a product and the rest of the day that was on the top of my google search results. Well, fuck you all. I'm not buying any of your products now or every. Regards.