The sun finally came out around 3:30 this afternoon, as a high overcast layer slid slowly southeast. Of course, the temperature has fallen to -11°C and will keep sliding to -18°C overnight, but at least the gloom has receded! January will still end as the gloomiest ever, however, with around 18% of possible sunshine all month, plus whatever we get tomorrow.
Meanwhile, I want to come back to these articles later:
- Radley Balko points out that giving hyper-aggressive cops less oversight and a testosterone-loaded team name has never worked, and will never work, if the goal is lowering crime.
- Michael Tomasky agrees, and suggests we might have better policing if traffic cops didn't have guns.
- British journalist Moya Lothian-McLean describes Rishi Sunak's government in ways that make me wonder whether Armando Iannucci wrote the script.
- Cruise AV, a San Francisco-based taxi service that uses self-driving cars, demonstrates what happens when the business wants to release before the software testing has finished.
Finally, looking back a little farther (about 13 billion years), the James Webb Space Telescope has picked out some of the oldest galaxies in the universe. And they're really weird.