*The UN-backed [107]Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), which certifies whether a company is on track to help limit global heating to under 1.5°C,* has bought into the idea that "carbon offsets" are valid methods for curbing global heating.

The organization's staff condemn the plan and say it is not in fact based on science.

I've said for many years that we cannot trust them to achieve the goal,

because it is easy to set up bogus offsets that won't really reduce emissions but only pretend to.

For similar reasons, a "carbon market" would be easy to game and therefore to render ineffective. It appeals to the worshipers of the Invisible Hand.

By contrast, a carbon tax really would pressure companies to emit less greenhouse gas.

*"What we’re seeing is not tele[medicine]": alarm over doctors using AI and prescribing without seeing patients.*

Medicine is intended to result in better health (better than it would otherwise have been), but it is misleading to refer to medicine as "health", and likewise to refer to telemedicine as "telehealth".

Ocean temperatures of 25°C lead to the premature death of octopus mothers, from heat stress, before their eggs have hatched.

The article is confused when it talks about "unborn offspring". Octopus eggs are not "born", any more than birds' chicks are "born" when they hatch. Baby octopuses do not develop inside their mother. However, the mother must circulate water for them constantly until they are ready to swim away.

It is too bad that the experiment did not report on the visual capabilities of octopuses that did hatch at 25°C. That is the only way to tell for certain whether that water high temperature will damage their vision.

It is possible that octopuses can evolve to adopt to warmer conditions, if the change is not terribly fast. Or they can survive farther from the equator.

Amazon's notorious checkout-less stores supposedly used secret scanning and AI systems to figure out what each shopper bought. Actually they used remote workers in low-wage countries to watch the shoppers.

What Amazon had invented was a new method of replacing workers in the US with outsourcing to low-wage workers. But if they ever succeed in really automating this, workers will lose even more.

Hong Kong's people have been silenced by China, which is using many different laws to disguise the extent of repression.

This repression is what China today means. This is why we must defend whatever targets China aims to conquer in the future.