Using AI recognition systems on body cameras could be a powerful system for teaching thugs to be less brutal. However, it could also be a powerful system for repression of everyone that comes into range of the camera.

To make body cameras serve and protect the people, rather than repress the people, we need to make sure that they capture video and audio when they should, and not when they shouldn't. I've made a technical proposal for part of that, but we also need proper laws about publishing the videos.

As for the idea that live monitoring of the video could enable a deescalation specialist to intervene and prevent a killing, that might have saved George Floyd. But many killings by thugs occur when thugs react without taking even a second to think. There would be no time to intervene, either. Meanwhile, the live transmission would imply transmitting the video all the time, which is wrong because most of the time the video should not be saved at all.

*Thousands gather in Thailand for anti-government protest.*

The Environmental Poisoning Agency (formerly Environmental Protection Agency) races to demolish environmental protections.

Republicans are fighting on every level to keep the world moving steadily to a deadly 7C if heating.

Rebecca Solnit: Climate change, Covid – our hearts ache. But a new era is possible. We can do it.

The US deportation thugs extend their medical neglect for prisoners from the prisons to the deportation flights.

Warning Latin America not to end lockdowns too soon.

The US, and then Europe, have shown that this is likely to mean a new outbreak of Covid-19.

England has been trying to restrain the spread of Covid-19 with local restrictions, and being rather rigid about them, but it is not working.

I think the country needs nationwide measures. However, they don't need to be absolutely rigid. The UK's approach strikes me like measuring the distance between two people and fining them if is only 198 cm instead of 200 cm.