Here is a proposal for increased diplomatic discussion between the US and Russia which is worth considering. Agreement on the proposed areas could encourage Putin's withdrawal from Ukraine, and would in any case make the world a better place. The proposal carefully avoids undermining Ukraine's fight to repel the invasion.

*Climate activists storm Amsterdam airport and block private jets.*

This tactic makes a lot of sense, and is far better than gluing oneself to the glass protective cover over a painting.

First, because neither those jets, nor the private jet terminals, are precious. Expensive, yes, but that's not the same thing as precious.

Second, because the jets emit lots of CO2.

Third, because the people who fly in them and will be inconvenienced by the protest are rich, and are probably significantly to blame for the world's inadequate efforts for climate defense.

I used to fly more than most people Americans, back before Covid-19. Nonetheless, my overall global heating footprint is modest, because of my conscious decision to avoid the action that, for most people, adds the most: having children. One child produces many times as much greenhouse gas as all the flights I will take in my life.

Proposing we stop referring to machine learning as "AI", and saving that term for programs that really understand what they say and do.

Brazil, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) pledge to work together to protect their rain forests. The whole world depends on those forests they are all threatened.

The concept of "the OPEC of rainforests" seems like a misguided analogy to me, because oil and rainforests are not very similar in how they relate to the world. Rainforests provide an important service by living. By contrast, oil underground does nothing to the world; extracting it makes it harmful.

If we could make more rainforest, that would be good. If we could make more underground petroleum deposits, that would be disaster.

Attorney General Garland's policies to protect reporters from prosecution for their journalism are a big improvement, but an authoritarian president could twist them or simply replace them.