*First female judge nominated for Pakistan’s supreme court.*

Google is trying to intimidate the newly appointed head of the FTC's antitrust division.

Lightning, and thunderstorms, are increasing substantially in the high Arctic, a reflection of global heating.

Lightning is also increasing in parts of North America, and that tends to increase the amount of wildfire in the areas that are also becoming increasingly arid.

Monsanto developed some proprietary software to collect and analyze farmers' data about their own farms. I expect this would be used as part of a system which, by its design, would subject farmers to Monsanto's power.

A researcher who is a Chinese citizen and worked with Monsanto took a copy of this program with the intention to send it to some organization in China, that would very likely use it in a way that subjects farmers in China, and maybe elsewhere, to that organization's power.

We should not get distracted by focusing on Monsanto's interests. Nonfree software is the wrong solution for any computing need.

*Assault on American democracy has gained pace since US Capitol attack* (a year ago).