Academics with connections to tobacco and alcohol companies do not always talk about potential conflicts of interest when they publish papers about the effects of tobacco and alcohol.

* Protesters from Greenpeace, Stay Grounded, Extinction Rebellion and others chain themselves to aircraft in [Europe's biggest private jet fair].*

*Minnesota Enacts Landmark Protections for Amazon Warehouse Workers.*

Victoria (in Australia) wants to lead suckers to use phones and credit cards to pay for public transport. If they do this foolish thing, the system will track all their movements.

Will this system permit anonymous use, paying cash? Will it permit use by someone who has no snoop-phone, snoop-watch, or snoop-card? If so, how would that work? And what is possible with the existing system? If you know by experience, please email me.

* California, Arizona and Nevada strike deal with US government to take about 13% less water from drought-stricken [Colorado] river.*

This will surely slow the drying of the Colorado river. Will it be enough to prevent that? We don't know. It depends on whether the atmospheric rivers that now plague California bring enough water to the east side of the Sierra Nevada mountains to keep the Colorado flowing. If not, the trend of increased aridity in the region may continue.