Burning Man has changed, over the decades, from a reunion of hippies to a rich people's gathering where some fly in on private jets. So environmentalists protested by blocking the road.

They call on Burning Man to stop permitting private jets, as well as a few excessive forms of consumption of fossil fuels and single-use plastics.

It's sad how so many billionaires (and the far more numerous decibillionaires) distort our society. If Burning Man agrees to these demands, some decibillionaires might stay away.

Depending on online disservices to make your records or published works available over time is asking to lose.

The only thing you can trust is to have your own copy on your own equipment, and to keep multiple encrypted copies on various backup services that commit to keep them for you unless a disaster happens.

*Bavaria’s deputy leader faces accusations over antisemitic pamphlet* published 35 years ago when he was 17 years old. At the time, he was determined to be the author of it.

From the descriptions in the article, the pamphlet repeatedly mocked the holocaust, and that's undeniably antisemitic. But people's views often change from age 17 to age 52. He may not be antisemitic today.

As an official, in recent years, he has endorsed various far-right views. Even if he has dropped antisemitism, those other statements are enough to make him a bad person to have as an official.

*France to ban girls from wearing abayas in state schools.* Abayas are long dresses worn by many Muslim girls.

I was astounded to see kameez in the list of Muslim "sectarian" clothing. In India, lots of urban women (not necessarily Muslim) wear the salwar-kameez combination.

This gives me an idea for restoring laïcité without any ban: recruit couturiers to develop abayas as a fashion, for any and all women regardless of religion. If that style of dress catches on, you won't be able to determine a schoolgirl's religion from her abaya.

NHS doctors are now led to work in a gig economy system, without lasting relationships with patients or other personnel.

Labour has a plan to change this by applying financial incentives and disincentives to doctors. The insistence on making this change "cost neutral" forces the decision to make the disincentives equal the incentives. But we know the NHS personnel need raises. Labour is screwing itself with its decision to bow down to the rich by not taxing them more.