Accelerating global heating + Covid-19 + a violent provocation + homes with no air conditioning could lead to bigger and bigger riots.

In 30 years it will be much hotter than today — hot enough to kill people directly in some places. Instead of riots, that will provoke wars and failed states. Civilization could collapse and kill billions of people. Please don't make more children to be caught up in this!

A new breed of gun nuts: they point loaded guns at their nuts and post selfies to prove how macho and foolhardy they are.

Could their spouses and ex-spouses cite these photos in a custody dispute? "Don't let that lunatic have any influence over my children!" I wish I knew a divorce lawyer to discuss this idea with.

Microsoft has replaced human news editors with AIs. I have a hunch that right-wing trolls will trick them into publishing fake news.

While Bogus Johnson boasts about the UK's tip-top new contact tracing organization, the people newly hired to do the work are twiddling their thumbs waiting to get a chance to try the nonfree software that they have to install on their own computers. One of them wrote this article, after quitting.

It seems that Johnson deals with the mounting pile of consequences of his failures by making up a new lie each week.

Western Australia's laws allow mines to destroy precious archaeological sites.