Starbucks: all members of the public that enter its stores in the US are now welcome to use the toilet, whether they buy anything or not.

This ought to be the law, everywhere, for all stores that have a toilet for customers.

'Jesus Never Charged a Leper a Co-Pay': Christian progressives in the US.

The energy consumption of Bitcoin mining has doubled in six months.

Please don't call those people "libertarians". They use that name to give the impression that defending human rights is their principal aim. In fact their principal aim is laissez-faire economics. They condemn the regulations that protect us from business as "socialism", so the right term for them is "antisocialists".

Shukri Abdull, Malaysian investigator whose job included investigating Najib Razak's corruption, talks about the threats and obstacles he received.

Tashi Wangchuk has been imprisoned for 5 years for teaching Tibetans in the Tibetan language, which China seeks to extinguish.

I speculate that Yushu is in the part of Tibet that China annexed several decades ago.