*Ugandan climate activists face charges after a month in maximum security jail.*

Thugs already brutalized them. Now they could be imprisoned for a year for a nonviolent protest.

The law being used to prosecute them was imposed by Britain when Uganda was a British colony. Ironically, Britain is on nonviolent climate defense protesters.

*Italy's far-right government submits plan to decriminalise abuse of office.*

I'd expect right-wing plans to include abusing various offices. But it is alarming that they openly propose changes in the law so they can get away with that.

Facebook and Instagram plan to label all images that were created with generative machine learning systems.

It is misleading to call generative machine learning "intelligence", but labeling its output is a good thing to do.

*U.S. immigration authorities locked thousands of people in solitary confinement in 2023 as the United States continues to flout international human rights standards in its sprawling network of immigration detention facilities.*

*Quitting smoking reduces cancer risk at any age, says study.*