As political concern against face recognition builds, Facebook is campaigning and lobbying against regulation.

Managing nature as a theme park, or making a nature-themed theme park: spreading humanity leaves only those two choices for nature. That's population growth at work.

The disappearance of human ties with nature may have an economic effect. The more disconnected most people's lives are from nature, the more they are coupled to the fluctuations of human society, which means that those fluctuations can amplify themselves through feedback.

In the short term, foreigners working in the UK do not take jobs away from citizens. They do jobs that are so arduous, and so low-paid, that citizens won't take them.

In the long term, however, the reason industry is organized around making those jobs exploitative is that there is a ready supply of foreign workers to exploit. If that were changed, British workers and these businesses would converge on treating workers better.

This alone won't cure poverty. Achieving that will require taxing the rich a lot more and ending their subsidies.

PISSI is losing the ability to hold cities, but it might survive as a guerrilla group among people near the Euphrates river that support it ideologically.

Many Indians, supporters of the ruling right-wing Hindu party and its leader Modi, have praised the murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh.