Google's search algorithm chose a generated fake image rather than the real photo of Tank Man as the response to a search for "tank man".

Google manually corrected this, but it shows the error-prone nature of its system as operating.

US citizens: call on the judge in the Google antitrust trial to provide a live video feed. It is a matter of showing that the public interest is sufficient to justify it.

*Wildfires turn Canada’s vast forests from carbon sink into super-emitter.* This years emissions amount to three times Canada's usual annual emissions, and the fires are not finished yet.

Further global heating is sure to increase the emissions from burning forest in further years — until it is all burned up. This is the sort of tipping point that can cause unstoppable disaster.

The article describes precautions that might be able to reduce the fires in future years.

The Tories have dropped the commitments for decarbonization they adopted some years ago.

It is a standard Tory pattern to make a commitment in response to public pressure backed by valid reasons, go slowly, drop it a few years later when conditions make it in convenient.

Thus they pretend to address national problems but don't really do so.

A UK minister said that Britain must give up on decarbonization rather than achieve it by "bankrupting the British people."

This choice is the result of a policy that will ensure suffering for most British people: the refusal to tax the rich. Britain has many grave problems, all caused by a lack of public spending. Schools, the NHS, housing for the non-rich, public transit, as well as avoiding global heating disaster.

Ceasing the policy of providing more and more of national income to the rich and the wealthy is necessary for all of them. Corbyn would do this; Tories and Starmer-Labour have surrendered to the rich and therefore can't do much about these problems.

I reject the term "net zero" for the way to formulate the goal of curbing greenhouse emissions. It provides an excuse to accept continuing emissions that might well be underestimated.

US citizens: call on the CFPB to stop forced arbitration now.