*How [defunct] Beloved Indie Blog "The Hairpin" Turned Into an AI Clickbait Farm.* The article reports that some businesses are systematically buying expired domain names of sites that were of value once, and doing this to them.

The copyright on the articles formerly posted on that blog site did not expire with the site's domain. What the site is described as doing to some of those articles sounds like copyright infringement to me. This article does not say who holds those copyrights, or how the clickbait farmer could have found those old articles.

You may have heard that I advocate major relaxation of copyright law. If the changes I propose there were carried out, that would not alter the legal situation of this issue.

Delays have made the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant so expensive that the main investor, EDF, looks to lose money on it.

Hinkley Point C should be canceled and the sunk costs written off.

Building nuclear power plants as a means of decarbonization is idiotic because renewable electric generation and battery storage are much cheaper and much faster to build. The decision to build that power reactor has to have been influenced by illegitimate goals.

Bernie Sanders: *The United States must make it clear to Netanyahu that we will not provide another dollar to support his inhumane, illegal war.*

I agree.

Proposing an international network of Green Cross organizations that would help the people struck by climate disasters beyond the ability of a national government to deal with.

Florida is considering a law that would ban people under 16 years old from making accounts on some sorts of platforms, if they have addictive design features.

The law says this applies if a social media platform "utilizes addictive, harmful, or deceptive design features, or any other feature that is designed to cause an account holder to have an excessive or compulsive need to use or engage with the social media platform."

It is going to be hard for courts to decide what sites that law does or doesn't apply to.

Such dis-services are unjust, and harmful to people of any age. I would suggest simply prohibiting such features.

Like many others, I am concerned that this law will result in a requirement for users to identify themselves, for age verification. There are systems which make it possible to verify someone's age without being able to learn per identity -- GNU Taler can be used that way. But we can't take for granted that the platforms will implement it that way.