*Antarctic sea ice shrinks to lowest annual maximum level on record.*

Lionfish, with toxic barbs, are taking over the reefs of the Caribbean and nearby marine areas, and wiping out most other species.

Some fishermen now mainly catch lionfish, but it is hard to do that without getting stung.

Is it possible to design a trap that would open a door to a large chamber, then squeeze the water out leaving only the lionfish in the trap?

Are there any ideas for biological control? It is hard to mske sure that those systems don't get out of hand.

Global heating has eliminated most of the salmon population in northern Japan this year, and that has eliminated most bear cubs born there this year.

A UK thug has been charged with murder for shooting a man dead who was unarmed and caught in his car, which was blocked in and could not move. So the thugs that carry guns went on a sort of strike.

A former head of a thug department rebukes the demand of thugs to be above the law.

AI programs (real or pretend) often implement racial bias. California is considering a law that attempts to stop this -- by identity politics!

Identity politics is not a real solution to any problem. What's more, the problem of bias in algorithms is subtle. It is a mistake to assume that people know how to avoid it or even detect it as a consequence of their demographic background.

What California (and all polities) ought to do is require all software used to make decisions about individual people to be free software and its source code published, That way the public will be able to study whether its behavior is biased.