Banksy auctioned a painting in a frame that shredded the painting shortly after.

I appreciate this as a bizarre hack. The person who had won the auction (but had not yet paid) could have been very disappointed, but was not in fact disappointed.

Famatta Massalay was handed by her parents to another family that promised her education in the US. Instead they made her a domestic slave, who was forced into sex as well. Now she heads a campaign against trafficking.

"No More Torture," Says France. Not So the United States.

The EU has a grand project to restore substantial parts of some vast forests that existed before modern times.

The project has a crucial prerequisite, not mentioned in the article, without which it will fail: to curb global heating soon. Without this, the ecosystem they are trying to preserve would not be able to survive where it used to exist, and perhaps not anywhere on Earth, not even unmolested. But it will surely be molested, by tropical pests, floods, drought, and/or fire. This project would fail, just as walling out the rising sea will fail.

Citizenship considered as a fob key, the first and least selective of a series of increasingly limited fob keys.