US citizens: call on Congress to make Bezos testify about Amazon's union-busting.

The Capitol Switchboard numbers are +1-202-224-3121, +1-888-818-6641 and +1-888-355-3588.

If you phone, please spread the word!

*MEPs to vote on proposed ban on ‘Big Brother’ [so-called] AI facial recognition on streets.*

I applaud the EU for even considering this, and I hope it passes.

Whether facial recognition should be considered "AI" is a tricky question, which I think makes no difference to anything important. Such systems should be prohibited, but the prohibition should not be limited to facial recognition. It should cover identification of persons by any kind of sensing of personal characteristic.

Indeed, it should include collection of records from which it would be straightforward to identify people later.

*The west must be ready for this moment of opportunity and risk in Ukraine.* The article includes a theory of how Ukraine hopes to achieve a military victory sufficient to end the war.

It may be true that Putin is obsessed even more with Crimea than with Ukraine; I wouldn't know. But I don't see a rational military reason for him to feel that way. Moreover, I don't see why Ukraine should be especially concerned with Crimea in Putin's hands as a military threat. Russia has plenty of air bases from which to attack various parts of Ukraine, and it has made some attacks from airbases near Moscow, which Ukraine has attacked with drones.

E Jean Carroll won her lawsuit against the bullshitter, who was ordered to pay damages for grabbing her and trying to rape her, and later calling her a liar for saying he did that.

The result demonstrates that the bullshitter cannot always get away with "grabbing them by the pussy."

This defeat is not sufficient — he is still getting away with a far bigger and more egregious crime: leading a failed plot to overthrow the US government.

The "law and order" Tories have made big cuts in cops on the street. So landlords pay to replace them, in some local areas, with private security guards who enforce unpublished secret rules, and get away with violence just like official thugs.