*Australian government must protect young people from climate crisis harm, court declares.*

Australia's government consists of planet roasters, and they will do their damnedest to reverse the decision. But if they fail at that, it may do some good.

An incoherent article celebrates the forthcoming inability to obtain, in Australia, specialized genetic variant strains of mice and rats to use for biological experiments.

The article seems to presume that these mice and rats are used in superfluous, redundant, required product tests that are not really necessary, so if they are not available, the problem will be addressed by removing the requirements for them.

Redundant product tests used to be required, and maybe sometimes still are, but I don't think such tests are where specialized genetic variants are used. Those are often used for experiments to figure out unknown biology — and you can't do that with models.

Australia and other countries should maintain their capacity to elucidate biological systems with experiments on mice and rats. If you wish to die for a mouse, go ahead, but don't pressure others to do likewise.

* Politicians must respond to the latest warnings that climate science has underestimated risks.*

I expect they will respond to the newly discovered risk as half-heartedly as they are responding to the previously known risks.

The federal government made an unjust website to let poor families sign up for the increased child tax credit. That was developed Intuit, which may have been trying to ensure poor families did not have a way to do without Intuit's services. Aside from being made very hard to use, it was also designed to treat users unjustly: it won't work unless you run nonfree software while you use it.

A group of activists developed a convenient site to do the same job. Alas, it is equally unjust, and for the same reason: it won't work unless you run nonfree software while you use it.

Filling out forms is generally fairly easy to do in a non-Javascript web site. How easy it would have been to make a new site that would have been both convenient and just! But they did not think about the latter.

If you're a good web developer, maybe you'd like to do it. Perhaps the People's Policy Project will tell you what you need to know to design a sample web site that doesn't require Javascript code.

Underwater fracking in the Gulf of Mexico releases large quantities of liquid chemicals into the water. What effect the chemicals have on wildlife, or humans that eat the wildlife, is unknown.

Since we need to cut down fossil fuel extraction anyway, let's start with the particularly dangerous methods, including this one.