*Across the UK, environmental protest is surging.*

From this article, it seems that most of it is against local development projects. In principle, such objections may be valid or they may be NIMBYism. The UK needs a lot more housing; the shortage especially hurts poor people. The questions are where and how.

Each project should be evaluated under the right criteria. What are the right criteria? That is a national political question which I would not trust the Tories about.

The evaluation must be carried out by an honest government body -- which is unlikely with Bogus Johnson in charge.

Thus, I would expect a lot of those objections ARE valid.

*Scientists create online games to show risks of AI emotion recognition.*

The article identifies various dangers of this technology, but does not mention the ones I think are worst.

If your boss can tell whether you are lying, and you can't tell whether your boss is lying, that magnifies the boss's power over you.

If the repression agencies can tell whether you are lying, and you can't tell whether agents are lying, that magnifies their repressive power over you.

Enslavement in the UK seems to have increased by 25% to 40% during Covid-19.

Teaching people to feel more empathy can have a good effect, with people that want to feel more empathy.

Regional heating in part of the Amazon rain forest, due to deforestation, is making it hard for the trees there to survive.

This could deforest the whole region.