Due to global heating effects, Europe's olive oil harvest has been badly damaged and its own production is exhausted for this year.

Richard Stallman will give some talks in Frankfurt in Czech Republic:

• "Free Software and Your Freedom", Oct 3^rd, 7pm
• "Artificial Intelligence vs Language Models" on Oct 4^th, 7pm

See talks for more info.

New pun: Le Concours Pyrenéen

À Lourdes, tous les pères sont maltraités par leur fils aínés. Ils ont donc organisé le Concours Pyrenéen.

The Armenian government of Nagorno-Karabakh has announced it will dissolve at the end of this year. Over half the Armenians there have already fled. I suppose the rest will flee soon.

This is how ethnic cleansing operates. Azerbaijan, which is a dictatorship and does not take human rights seriously, doesn't need an official policy saying "No Armenians allowed."

However, in the years when Armenians ruled the Azeri areas of Nagorno-Karabakh, ISTR that the Azeri population mostly fled from some of those areas.

US citizens: call on Congress to reject secret commissions designed to decide to cut Social Security and Medicare.

Also phone your representative to convey the same message. The Capitol Switchboard number is +1-202-224-3121.

If you phone, please spread the word!