Musk said that Twitter's support for Erdoğan's censorship is his choice.

In other words, he is using the power he gets from Twitter to support global fascism.

It's a reason to stop using Twitter.

*It's hard to get neo-Nazi cops fired. Too hard.*

We should not allow firing employees, even cops, for having a mere opinion we disapprove of. However, in the case of cops, who are given special forms of authority, we should be able to insist that they not have attitudes which are likely to result in unfairness to some demographic groups among the public.

UK thugs plan to use face recognition in the center of Cardiff to find people wanted for various reasons.

The supposed occasion for this is that Beyonce is giving a concert in a stadium in Cardiff. But the facial recognition won't be limited to the stadium and its entrances.

Nor do we know that the tracking and data collection will not extend to everyone else who passes by. In fact, UK ministers are considering running facial recognition on everyone who shows up in a thug's body camera.

The UK is full of cameras, and I suspect many of them are surveillance cameras (images transmitted to some network which can recognize faces later). Those cameras could become, or perhaps already are, the introduction of Chinese-sty;e surveillance in Britain.

That could be, or perhaps already is, part of the system of heightened repression in Britain. Do they use video tracking to figure out who to arrest for planning to walk slowly, or glue perself to the street?

There is no need for the software to gauge a person's ethnicity if it identifies each person against a database that record's per ethnicity.

*World likely to breach 1.5C climate threshold by 2027, scientists warn.*

A study estimates that the the US "war on terror" is responsible for at least 4.5 million deaths. 1 million seen to have been killed by fighting, but far more died from poverty and disruption of society caused by the fighting.