Narges Mohammadi has been imprisoned in Iran since 3 years ago. A year ago she received Nobel peace prize, and the screws made her imprisonment harsher.

*An Oil Giant Railroads Its SCOTUS Connection To Gut Environmental Law.*

Engineers are proposing a system for every car to communicate constantly with every other nearby car, as well as with nearby pedestrians (does that mean, their snoop-phones?) and local non-mobile surveillance systems.

The result would be total surveillance of everyone.

It may be possible to design such a system such that it doesn't identify any car or any person. That could be safe as well as beneficial. But we cannot expect the manufacturers of today's "connected cars" to value their customers' privacy.

If I were going to buy a "connected" car such as are made today, I would choose a model that people know how to disconnect. I expect that each antenna needs to be either removed or covered with a Faraday cage such that it cannot receive or transmit.

The contract for holding the COP29 conference in Azerbaijan does not protect the human rights of the participants from Azerbaijan's repressive state.

It also does not protect the conference's goal from Azerbaijan's planet-roasting state. Planet-roasters, including fossil fuel companies, dominate this series of conferences so completely that they are not fit for the purpose any more.

*UN peacekeepers in Lebanon say Israel has fired on their bases deliberately.*

It did this in two different places at around the same time. In one, a drone reconnaissance seems to have been preparation for the attack. Meanwhile, a number of Israeli tanks drove up to a UN peacekeepers' position, apparently to threaten the peacekeepers into pulling out.