Weather is not climate but ...

"... across Japan the skies are clear, and the mercury is stuck in the high 30s and has twice broken through 40C this week. And that's just the official temperature - out of the shade it's often much hotter. Even though summer has barely begun, 263 places across Japan have seen temperature records broken in the last six days, according to meteorologist Sayaka Mori."

rnz.co.nz/news/world/470151/li…

#RNZ #Japan #ClimateChange

Oh the irony. I'm reading an article about the pervasiveness of CCTV surveillance in public spaces, on a website run by a public broadcaster:

rnz.co.nz/programmes/in-depth-…

The page is trying to pull JS from no less than 12 third-party domains, at least 6 of which are owned by companies known to collect user data (Chartbeat, IMRworldwide, NewRelic, and 3 from Goggle). Even while blocking the known trackers with NoScript, the article is unreadable on my mobile.

#CCTV #surveillance #RNZ #PublicMedia

The streets have eyes

Million of dollars of ratepayers’ money has been spent installing and running CCTV systems, but do eyes in our streets actually make us safer? Farah Hancock reports

^{Farah Hancock (RNZ)}