The US National Weather Service has been using Twitter to receive reports from storm spotters. Due to recent Musk madness, that has started to fail.

Twitter is unsuitable for anything that really needs to work.

*US must urgently treat men tortured at Guantánamo, UN investigator says.*

Academis that study social change say that movements with high public support can use disruptive protests effectively to push for action.

An international conference about reducing greenhouse emissions from shipping did not agree on any concrete plan to do that — only a long-term target.

Long-term targets don't achieve anything unless followed by concrete short-term plans.

Migrant-smugglers typically recruit, or conscript, one of the migrants to run and direct the boat — so that the real smugglers can be far away if the boat is captured. After one boat fell apart and sank, its conscript faces charges for the death of some refugees.

The prosecutor said straight out that the fact the smugglers forced the conscript to do this, and beat him when he tried to refuse, was no excuse. This is an unusual form of a frequent prosecutor's excuse for treating someone as guilty who is manifestly innocent. The more usual form is "joint and several liability", where you can be convicted of murder that someone else committed.