*Head of Ukraine's supreme court held in anti-corruption investigation.*

Ukraine has a reputation for being very corrupt, but the US also has corruption in its supreme court, and the US is behind in trying to do something about it.

Important laws about reducing air pollution, both toxic and greenhouse, are among the laws the Tories plan to repeal. The Tories say these laws are "no longer applicable."

*Tunisian opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi sentenced to year in prison [for perhaps calling official thugs "tyrants"].

Ghannouchi used the word for "tyrant" but I don't think it was clear if he was referring to anyone in particular. The Tunisian dictator does not hesitate to act like a tyrant.

Speculation about what AI in reality might do to script-writing.

I can't believe this couldn't happen, if someday artificial intelligence can tell plausible stories. Speculation about this goes at least as far back as Asimov's story "Galley Slave". But be careful not to think of ChatGPT as artificial intelligence. It does not know anything, and does not understand anything.

It might be able to script a surrealist absurd movie, where lack of knowledge and understanding might be no problem. But I hesitate to assume even that. The great works of surrealism may well be less random than meets the eye; that may be what makes them great.

*Cambodia’s only major opposition party is barred from running in July elections.* The thugs came one day, years ago, and seized their registration papers.