Buying a loot box in a computer game is effectively a form of gambling, and gambling companies advertise in the games which sell loot boxes.

The article may be is using some specific legal definition of "gambling", which excludes loot boxes. I don't see any reason to allow governments to legislate for me what the word "gambling" means.

What governments can legislate is what kinds of gambling to allow. Loot boxes don't make games more fun, only more exploitative. So let's prohibit them.

A proposed AI doomsday machine would not even appear necessary if the conman hadn't rejected arms limitation.

Of all the ways to avoid a nuclear first strike attack, arms control treaties are the best. They reduce the danger of accidental nuclear war as well as intentional nuclear war. And they save a lot of money, too.

The giant planet-roaster companies have not slowed their construction of fossil fuel facilities.

Biggest Fossil Fuel Extractors Warned They Risk Wasting $2.2tn "in a Low-Carbon World."

That is to say, the money they put into planet-roasting facilities may win them no profit if governments wake up and prohibit or prevent actually using it for unlimited extraction.

Even worse, they might succeed in preventing governments from shutting off the extraction and the greenhouse gas emission. Eventually civilization will start teetering and their profits will not be worth very much.

We can't expect billionaires to donate to preserve the Amazon forest; many of them are profiting from destroying it. In effect, Bolsonaro is working with and for them.

This article goes too far in treating the Amazon forest solely as the property of the indigenous people that live in it, and hyping their authority. If they decided to sell their land, or accept royalties from farmers, that would not make it acceptable to cut the forest down. The reasons not to allow this are global.

Calling it "the lungs of the Earth" is basically correct (even though a little exaggerated, since the rest of the Earth's forest share in the role). The extinction of perhaps half a million species (counting microbes) that live only there would be a disaster even if the forest had no human inhabitants. The global heating effects would also be disaster.

"Discover, identify and interfere": the MUROS surveillance vans.

One use of these is to watch and listen to everyone at a protest or demonstration.