Daily Bafflements

• “Toys, and toys, and more and more toys.” – A small child, correctly answering the question “what does the government buy with your taxes?” Another good guess from the same video: “They spend it on toilet seats, on nice toilet seats.”

• In related government-toy news, the FBI is on schedule to have 52 million photos in its facial-recognition database by 2015, according to a FOIA lawsuit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation

• From Ann Friedman at the Columbia Journalism Review, a list of women who run publications online and who deserve just as much praise as (actually, much more praise than) the main guys behind Vox and FiveThirtyEight.

• Following last month’s National Labor Relations Board ruling that student athletes have the right to unionize, the NCAA is distributing a set of talking points to schools to help them discourage unions, reports the AP. The NCAA memo warns that “scholarships would be cut or eliminated. The number of championship experiences would be dramatically reduced. Smaller sports would lose funding.” And extra support for students like career counseling and tutoring programs may be “cut significantly or eliminated.”