AI is advancing rapidly, and the dangers that researchers and science fiction writers have imagined may hit us soon.

New Zealand is pressuring the people of the Tokelau Islands to vote for independence from New Zealand, but they keep voting to remain a colony.

The highest elevation in Tokelau is 5 meters above sea level. Maybe the people figure they will be forced to move to New Zealand later this century.

Frances Moore Lappé: *America's Killer Diet*.

California is considering a plan to make home solar power more expensive???

*Australia’s 2050 net zero emissions plan relies on ‘gross manipulation’ of data, experts say.*

I am not surprised. The leaders of Australia are planet roasters. After the big fires, they have been compelled to give lip service to climate defense, but getting more than lip service out of them will be difficult.