The NOAA is planning to convert to publishing nautical charts only in digital form. In principle, that may not bad. But will people be able to access charts from the Free World?

If you are a mariner, please investigate the system of publication that NOAA used. Try accessing it with LibreJS active, and see what results you get.

And if it does not work, complain to NOAA.

Nearly all the principal supporters of democracy in Hong Kong are now facing charges, or at least arrested.

China's rulers make up bullshit to justify each instance of injustice, but they don't try to make the justification plausible to people outside their control. They consider it sufficient brainwashed supporters believe it, since almost everyone in China is a brainwashed supporter now, or pretends to be.

* A handful of rightwing “super-spreaders” on social media were responsible for the bulk of election misinformation in the run-up to the Capitol attack,*

They were not independent — they were working together.

Assad will confiscate the homes of Syrians who have fled his tyranny.

*WHO chief: waive Covid vaccine patents to put world on 'war footing'.*

Here are his actual words:

More precisely, he calls for allowing any manufacturer to make vaccine. Anyone doing so would still be required to pay a royalty. That cost by itself could slow vaccination.

I am disappointed that he used the ill-conceived concept of "intellectual property", since that overgeneralization spreads confusion and every use of it creates resistance to what he is trying to do.