Local governments in the UK have apartments that they can rent out or sell, People who bought them now face bills for major renovations that are far more than they can possibly afford.

*The world's leading financial institutions — including major Wall Street banks such as Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, and Bank of America — are still pumping money into fossil fuel expansion.* If you have accounts there, you can move your money to a smaller bank which can't do harm like that. I did. You can also urge your city to do likewise.

The UK's new online identification requirement will effectively require all discussion platforms and search engines to verify the age of each user. The obvious way to do that is a repressive and tyrannical way: by making each user show government photo ID.

I reject commercial communications platforms, because they already deny users' freedom in various ways &msdash; instance, by demanding to identify the user and/or running their code in the user's computer. However, there are commercial search engines that currently do nothing wrong to the user. Will this law make them all engage in repression? Does the age verification requirement apply to search engines?

GNU Taler can be used to give people a way to verify their ages to a web site without giving the site any way to identify them. But this is not entirely finished yet.

The _goals_ of this bill mostly seem valid to me; indeed, they may not go far enough. For instance, TikTok's practices seem to reduce teenagers' attention spans; should those practices be banned? I am not sure. However, the internet is a threat to democracy if tracks what people do and where they go.

Not-quite-protester Cao Zhixin: *When you see this video I have been taken away by the police for a while, like my other friends.*

Blocked by lawsuits from forgiving student debt, Biden is trying another approach: to reduce the amount of payments for the loans.