(satire) *Trump Supporters Fighting Over Used Tissues President Tossed From SUV.*

The Los Angeles thug department makes massive use of face recognition. It tries to weasel out of this by saying it does not have a face recognition system. Which is true, strictly speaking, but does not change anything.

It is a strategic mistake to argue based on the absence of some photos from the database. Their most obvious reply would be, "So let us put everyone in it; then it will be unbiased." That is the opposite of what we want; we want limitations on who they can include in that database, and which captured faces they can search it for.

Two Republican disinformation operatives face criminal charges of trying to intimidate voters with frightening lies.

The Save Our Seas Act proposes funds to encourage research on removing plastic waste from the sea, and on ways to recycle it. It can be seen as an effort to avoid doing anything to reduce the production of plastic objects that are difficult to recycle.

*William Hanage, professor of epidemiology at Harvard, likens the [herd immunity] strategy to protecting antiques in a house fire by putting them all in one room, standing guard with a fire extinguisher, but simultaneously fanning the flames [in the rest of the house].*