The UK government is treating help for women facing domestic violence as it is treating renewable energy.

I am looking for people to help maintain and operate savannah.gnu.org.

Soda companies fund "health" organizations to corrupt them so that they won't take action to lead people to drink less soda. They also promote campaigns for people to exercise more, so as to deny space to campaigns to drink less soda.

Soda with sugar leads to obesity, but soda with sugar substitutes is not innocuous; they tend to confuse the brain.

An Indian singer faces possible life imprisonment for criticizing the chief minister of Tamil Nadu state.

The chief minister, in India, is the equivalent of a governor in the US.

I don't agree with the singer's position in favor of banning alcohol. I have no idea whether the chief minister profits from sales of alcohol. It is not clear whether the singer accused the chief minister personally, or the state government, of getting profits from alcohol.

What is important is that saying such things must not be a crime.

Australia's latest horrible idea: passports that are only data in a server.

They call them "cloud passports", using the standard buzzword. There is no "cloud" — only other people's computers.

The passport data would be stored in some computer, but whose? And how will that computer be run?

Storing passports as data in some server will eliminate the problem that tens of thousand of passports are lost or stolen (mostly lost) individually, and introduce the problem that millions could be stolen at once digitally.

I suspect this will also involve a lot more biometric data than now.