*Munich Philharmonic sacks conductor Valery Gergiev over failure to denounce Putin.*

We achieve nothing against Putin by scapegoating Russians that state their support for him. Cancelling them undermines freedom of opinion in our own countries. Gergiev has little influence in the west -- Trumputin is the Putin supporter that we should really be concerned about.

California will empower fast food workers to negotiate collectively about wages.

* People in Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Latvia, Estonia and Romania fear [that] Nato membership may not stop more Russian incursions.*

On the other hand, those westerners' dependence on Russian gas and oil is no one's fault except their own. Decarbonize!

Tigray is now fighting a local war with the neighboring part of the Afar region.

The people there are angry but also say that the hostility of Tigray, which they used to have close relations with, is confusing when seen from Afar.

Arguing against "disruption" as a desirable characteristic of business, and refuting supposed reasons to tolerate being disrupted.

That argument is valid as far as it goes; but the article, as usual in business-oriented writing, disregards entirely the danger of tracking people's movements.