*Australia must set higher climate ambitions "to avert impending disaster," Pacific island leaders say.*

I agree completely, but it's even more important to say this to China. China's emissions dwarf Australia's. These Pacific island leaders now have influence there; I hope they use it.

The same is true of the United States, and we Americans have to keep badgering the government about this.

US citizens: call on MGM to cancel its TV program "Ring Nation", which would glorify and promote Amazon's surveillance device.

US citizens: call on your state legislators to adopt ranked-choice voting.

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John Deere puts locked-down nonfree software in its farm machines, arousing the right-to-repair movement among farmers. Nowadays it seems to be producing more de-tractors than tractors.

The Putin forces systematically took away Ukrainian military veterans that they found in Izium, especially veterans of previous fighting between Ukraine and Putin's Donbas proxies, No one in Izium knows what happened to them.

The Putin forces tortured some civilians, and some of those killed themselves afterward.