*Almost 6,000 Boko Haram fighters have surrendered, Nigerian army says.*

Cancellation as mob rule: the article compares it with the Puritans of old New England.

To me, it resembles the Red Guards that I read about in Life and Death in Shanghai (Nien Cheng).

Although people attempted to cancel me two years ago, what has happened to me is not as bad as what happened to those described in the article. I was fortunate.

Douglas Rushkoff analyzes QAnonsense as a kind of addiction.

Extinction Rebellion activists protested against British banks by nonviolently carrying signs near the Bank of England. A few dozen carried signs saying they were violating bail conditions imposed on them after they were arrested for other nonviolent protests.

A common technique for crushing protest movements to arrest protesters (maybe without there being any crime) and put them under pressure to agree to "I won't protest again" bail conditions.

A protester pointed out that global heating effects are obstructing roads around the world, and will do so with increasing frequency. Shouldn't the British government arrest global heating first?

Philadelphia-area cops seem to have killed an eight-year-old by firing into a crowd. They wounded three others.

Persons in or near that crowd were shooting, sometimes perhaps at the thugs. But if the cops could not identify the shooters and aim carefully at them, they were far more likely to hit bystanders than their targets. What they did may not have been evil, but it was spectacularly incompetent.

Fictional cops know not to shoot at someone in the middle of bystanders. Why didn't these real cops know it?