France ordered web sites to delete anything the state labels as "terrorist" with just one hour's notice. This gives no time to discuss whether the material really is "terrorist".

This adds up to arbitrary censorship power, as well as an excuse to shut down any web site that can't afford staff to watch for such requests 24 hours a day.

The saboteur in chief is speeding up sale of public land so that businesses can despoil more and sooner.

Israel tracks all car travel using license plate cameras.

The UK does the same thing, and has used it to sabotage protests. Democracy in Israel is in danger from the top, and law enforcement is totally biased, so every surveillance system is likely to be used for repression of Palestinians, as well as its supposed intended purpose.

The shallowness of machine learning was exposed when it couldn't make sense of changed patterns of purchasing when most people stopped travelling and started working at home.

This is an inherent consequence of the modern approach to AI, which abandons all effort to understand anything.

In parts of Australia, forest fires are now so frequent (due to global heating) that they will stop new trees from growing and eliminate the forest entirely.