*The terrifying truth: Britain’s a hothouse, but one day 40C will seem cool.* The article explains the practical consequences that will certainly bring.

The article says "equitable", but the intended meaning belongs to the word "equable." What a big difference!

Please do not have children! Each additional birth will cause more than one additional death later this century. How much more than one, I am unable to estimate.

A UK union representing gig workers calls for a one-day boycott of Uber.

If only Uber's injustice against workers concerns you, that is a natural response. But if Uber's injustice against customers concerns you too, I suggest going on a permanent boycott, as I have.

The Tories arranged a business-supremacy treaty with the previous (planet-roaster) Australian government, and now want to ratify it without debate. Climate defenders are suing under another treaty to demand debate and examination of this agreement.

Why doesn't the new Australian government insist on renegotiation?

We must expect by default that any business-supremacy treaty is bad, but here's more about what's bad in this one.

The head of the Australian Medical Association calls for mask mandates to slow the spread of Covid-19.

The EU is considering the question of what activities to permit AIs to be used for.

Using AI to control people's fate creates two kinds of dangers: those that result when it doesn't do a job reliably but people assume it does, and those that result when it does do a job reliably.