The governor of Texas claims to have forbidden companies in Texas from exercising a vaccine mandate.

I suspect that the governor has no legal authority to impose this by executive order. Maybe companies can simply ignore it.

The world's main producers of cement have committed to eliminate their greenhouse gas contributions by 2050.

If they carry this out, it will make an important difference. I do wonder how they plan to achieve it. Also, I think they should commit to achieve a big fraction by 2035.

*The City of London Is Hiding the World’s Stolen Money.* Stated without hyperbole, Britain and its territories are operating tax-dodging schemes that hide a large fraction of the world's misappropriated wealth.

The UK will be required to allow victims of trafficking to stay and work, if and while they are making a claim for asylum.

Given the systemic incompetence of the agency responsible for such issues, I wonder if this ruling will be carried out, in practice. Based on previous experience, I suspect that the agency will require each individual to apply for these rights, and will forget to grant 20% of the requests.

Gaggle surveillance of students means an omniscient idiot is ready to get a student in trouble with the school system or the law at any time, based on details of what the student says.

Don't be a fool — don't talk when the school is listening!

The trouble is caused when alerts from the system trigger other systems that repress students in the name of "protecting" them.

Those other systems are generally intended to protect students from real dangers of life. If they could reliably tell when a real danger exists, and if they were designed to "at least do no harm", they might be helpful. But that's easier said than done. Perhaps we should fix these systems, and make sure they are not overprotective and harmful, before we impose them on all children and adolescents.