1400 Google employees signed a letter calling on management to reconsider the censored search engine for China.

(satire) Trump Locked Out Of White House After Accidentally Revoking Own Security Clearance.

The admiral that was in charge of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden asked the bullshitter to withdraw his security clearance, in solidarity with other officials that have been or will be punished in this way.

That raid was apparently intended to kill bin Laden rather than to arrest and try him for his crimes. That was wrong.

Nonetheless, this gesture of solidarity is admirable.

UK immigration authorities have taken over 20 years to decide on granting asylum to certain refugees. During that whole period, they could not work and lived in penury.

Nowadays they would also be required to pay for their medical treatment, which they could not possibly do. This could kill them.

Clearly, people waiting for a decision should not be left in penury in the meanwhile. However, why not simply grant asylum by default to anyone whose case takes several years to decide? The number of such cases must be small.

US companies focus too much on short term results and current stock price. Would a switch to twice-a-year financial reporting improve matters?

I cannot know the answer, but I tend to think that it is not a good change: it won't be enough change to fix the short-termism, and it could result in companies' getting deeper into trouble before the public notices.