An Illinois thug deputy has been charged with first degree murder for shooting dead a black woman he had been sent to help.

At least it is good to see the state authorities filed the appropriate charges without trying to avoid it.

The article linked to just above displays symbolic bigotry by capitalizing "black" but not "white". (To avoid endorsing bigotry, capitalize both words or neither one.) I denounce bigotry, and normally I will not link to articles that practice it. But I make exceptions for some articles because I consider them important -- and I label them like this.

Kamala Harris strongly called for reforms to stop the unjust violence of uniformed thugs.

Scientific surprise: metallic nodules (lump of mixed meals) that rest on some flat areas of ocean bottoms generate oxygen in a slow but steady way.

They may be crucial for some life on the bottom.

Scientists already warn that mining them could destroy sea-bottom life. This shows another way it could have that effect.

Forecasting what advanced bullshit generators will do to society under the control of antisocial media platforms financed by advertising.

It confuses the issue by calling them "AI".

*Developing countries face worst debt crisis in history, study shows. Spending on health and education being cut as nearly half of budgets are used to pay creditors, campaigners say.*

Side point: I dislike the euphemism of "developing countries." But that doesn't diminish the importance of the injustice.