A new operating system for surveillance cameras makes it easy to sell proprietary add-on modules for additional kinds of AI for identification and monitoring.

In theory, this changes nothing about what sorts of video surveillance people and companies can do. In practice, it makes enforcement (by law, or by social pressure) of any rules whatsoever more difficult.

Democrat Gary Chambers, running for US Senate in Louisiana, showed his courage by burning the Confederate flag in an campaign ad.

In another ad, he smoked pot, to criticize the unjust effect of US drug laws. I wish I knew what he advocates for drug policy.

Off one part of the English North Sea coast, the usual sea life has died. Everything is gone. Seals and seabirds, too.

It is not clear what the cause is, but some suspect dredging a river has released industrial toxins from the sediment.

A year ago, Texas's power grid delivered far insufficient electricity because many gas-fueled power plants failed. If Texas had more home solar power, it would have avoided the problem.

US citizens: ask your state representative to oppose laws to impose censorship of "uncomfortable" moral issues, especially in US history.