23 Guantanamo prisoners have been "released" to the UAE, which said they would be free after some months, but every one has been kept in prison ever since. One may be sent to Russia for more torture and imprisonment.

As we pollute the sea and overcatch fish, we are driving the seas towards mainly jellyfish.

Large events in the UK require participants to (1) run nonfree software to get a ticket and (2) identify themselves.

There is no justification for requiring nonfree software — they could do the job with free software. Rather than run the nonfree software, I would choose not to go. It isn't the end of the world to stay away.

Identification is a more complex issue. I can't argue with the importance of contact tracing for beating Covid-19, if the country makes a serious attempt to do that. Some countries try to do that carefully, but I don't think the Tories have tried. They give the contracts to incompetent companies for political reasons. For the same reason, I feel safer staying away from those events. I wouldn't even think of going if I were not fully vaccinated. But even vaccinated people have a small but significant chance of catching the Delta variant.

(satire) *Rumsfeld Family Immediately Squabbling Over Who Will Inherit Mounted Heads Of Iraqi Civilians.*

(satire) *Donald Rumsfeld Survived By 1 Million Fewer Iraqis.*

*UN warns of worsening famine in Ethiopia's Tigray.* The famine is at least partly caused by the civil war.