Adjunct professors at Oxford University will sue the university for treating them like gig workers.

I hope they win. Nobody who works a substantial amount of time for a platform should be treated as a gig worker.

We observe nowadays a tendency to invent verbal circumlocutions, and pressure people to use these circumlocutions instead of the simpler everyday words. In particular, every noun that describes a category of persons is liable to get this treatment. The circumlocution typically consists of some adjective followed by "person".

The newest target is the word "mummy". The campaign pressures us to say "mummified person" instead.

I object to that, and not only because there is no good reason for the inconvenience of the change. A corpse (mummified or not) is not any type of person; it is not a person. Death ends a person's existence; a corpse is what a person's body becomes after the person dies. I will continue to use the noun, "mummy."

Speaking of which, I have a hunch that sooner or later a similar demand will target the word "corpse".

I think persons deserve certain respect, but that is no reason to pressure people to perform a ceremony to demonstrate it, every time we use a noun which refers to a set of persons. Doing so a nuisance.

A second far-right plan to assassinate a German minister has been caught and stopped.

Their stated goal is to restore the German empire under the Prussian dynasty, but perhaps omitting the limited democracy it implemented in its last few decades.

They hate the minister of health for ordering measures to stop the spread of Covid-19 and protect the people in general. Ironically, I expect Bismarck would not have hesitated to use quarantine and mandatory vaccination, and anything else necessary, in a totally authoritarian way, to protect the strength of the reich.

*Pentagon No Match for Biggest China Threat: Massive Carbon Emissions.*

Arguing that Biden's retention of a few secret documents has diminished his chances of victory in 2024, so he should step down for someone else.

Who could that be, though? Sanders is the only person that occurs to me, the only one I am confident would struggle persistently for most of the causes I believe in. But he too is old now.