New York State has adopted a right-to-repair law, though Governor Hochul imposed limits on the products it applies to.

Even for those products, the law is only a step towards giving users control over the devices they "own". The law won't stop manufacturers from designing devices so that they control what users can do with them and restrict what users can change.

Brazil has accused a businessman of ordering the murder of two environmental activists last year.

Several countries in Latin America are ineffective in preventing or prosecuting the murder of environmental activists. Under Bolsonaro's encouragement, Brazil was extremely ineffective.

Capitalizing the adjective "indigenous" is a way of symbolically placing indigenous people above other people -- in effect, designating them as the higher group. I think it is wrong to put any ethnic group over the others.

In this interview with Bill Maher, I found some noteworthy points:

• I define political correctness as the elevation of sensitivity over truth.
• Liberals protect people, and P.C. people protect feelings.
• When I was growing up, the most liberal thing you could do is not see color. Well, that’s wrong now. You see color, always, so you can register your white privilege. But I grew up in the Martin Luther King era: Judge by the content of their character, not the color of their skin. I still think that’s the best way to do it.
• Religions always talk about the one true religion. Now on the left we have the one true opinion. If you go against that, you do so at your peril. That’s why the air on the left is becoming stale. I railed for years against the Fox News bubble, and that is as strong as ever, but I didn’t think it would get this bad on the left.

*Shell to spend $450m on carbon offsetting as fears grow that [such carbon] credits may be worthless.*

Dozens of prisoners in Texas are on hunger strike to protest against protracted solitary confinement, in some cases lasting for decades.

The policy is that if a prisoner shows certain signs, that the state interprets as indicating a gang member, they put per in isolation permanently. Isolation is almost total -- for instance, one phone call per month, and exercise outdoors alone two days a month.