The UK's Minister of Cruelty has been dismissed and replaced. The new minister is a Tory too, and may be expected to be more or less cruel, but won't necessarily base his career on showing how cruel he can be.

Philippine Senator de Lima, jailed for investigating President Do-Dirty's murderous "war on drugs", has been released from jail.

She was never actually convicted on any of the charges, but spent six years in jail anyway.

*Drivers for Amazon unionized, were fired and are now picketing around US.* This illustrates how outsourcing of workers facilitates mistreating them.

We need laws to limit outsourcing, or perhaps instead to make the ultimate beneficial employer (to borrow a term from the field of wealth-hiding) responsible for respecting workers' rights notwithstanding the outsourcing.

China has recently increased investment in renewable electricity, and its greenhouse emissions could fall starting next year.

This is a relief and a good example for the world. The rest of the world needs to overcome the power of the planet roasters so we can make other countries do likewise.

We should not overgeneralize. China remains an expansionist repressive dictatorship; there is no sign of a change in that.

*White faces generated by [generative learning models] are more convincing than [real] photos, finds survey.*

Does the capability to generate very credible unreal faces count as knowing or understanding something? If it does, I would have to say this system qualifies as "artificial intelligence". But I don't think it does.