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• DC Library holds taking forever? You're not alone. (51st News) Baker & Taylor, the largest book distributor to libraries in the United States, has gone bankrupt.
• Institutional Rot And The Death Rattle Of America (Off Message) Money quote, "Republican politics has become like Jackass, where degeneracy is a contest, and they applaud one another for new innovations in the field. They revel in vice. They go to the cameras, compete to tell the most outlandish lies, then pat each other on the back like players celebrating in the dugout." 
• No one wants a permanent gerontocracy (Cory Doctorow) The URL reads, "It's not OK, Boomer." :Public office should not be elder care.
• Real-life Snuffleupagus found swimming in the Great Barrier Reef  (Popular Science) The similarity is striking.
• CEO Receives Violent Threats After Kicking Off AI Layoffs (Futurism) Afflicting the comfortable is a good thing.
• Crypto Security Pioneer: 'I Now Consider All of DeFi Unsafe’ (Gizmodo) DeFi = decentralized finance, i.e. crypto and its bastard children.  There is a reason that it took over 1,000 years for our financial system to mature.  This is not easy stuff.
• Inference Is Unlikely to Ever Be a Low Marginal Cost Operational Node (Brad Delong) By, "Inference," Delong means large language model AI.
• github and the crime against software (Efron Licht) A good summary of the enshittification of Github as a result of Microsoft's neglect and efforts to add AI to everything.
• Elephant declines could trigger wider ecosystem losses in African savannas, 15-year test shows (Phys.org) much like beavers, they are a cornerstone to the ecologies of the areas where they live.
• If It Walks Like a Bubble and Quacks Like a Bubble, Then It’s Probably a Bubble (Barron's) On SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.  I think that they are wrong.  This is not a bubble, it is a bezzle, a yet unrecognized fraud.
• Free, Easy, Dead: The Difficult Birth And Predictable Death Of IRS Direct File (Defector) A good program that helped people, but the people that it helped did not have lobbyists.

Trump goes to game 3 of the NBA finals, gets booed:

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• Are Trump's critics guilty of treason? Here's what the law says. (Reason) The answer is no.  The answer is the same going the other way.  Treason is the only crime defined in the Constitution, and the definition is very restrictive.
• The American Missile Crisis (Contrary Research) In addition to all of the other bottlenecks, we have a shortage of ammonium perchlorate oxidizer used in all current solid fuel rocket motors.
• Meet the Communist Mayor Offering 50 Cents for Trump's Capture (Current Affairs) Unfortunately, this mayor is in Spain.  He's only offering 50¢ because he thinks that all Trump is worth.  I think that he is overpaying.
• DHS issued ‘be on the lookout’ alert for comedian Ben Palmer (Injustice Watch) Palmer created a spoof ICE tip line, and DHS is attempting punish him for this. I did Nazi see this coming.
• ICE Recruitment Tweets Are So Racist That Cops Feared They Could Incite Neo-Nazi Violence -  (The Intercept) This is a feature for ICE, not a bug.
• LLMs Are Revealing How Low the Bar Is (And Lowering It Even Further) (Counter Craft) The fact that they are winning awards for their slop is a mark of how low the state of the art of art.  Money quote, "If a story this poorly written can win an award, the issue isn’t AI."
• Scientists uncover Feynman’s formula for finding best holiday restaurant (The Guardian) I am not surprised that Richard Feynman did this, though I do wonder if he had his tongue firmly planted in his cheek when he did so.
• Why it took 65 years for L.A. to build its most important rail line (Los Angeles Times) Spoiler, it was mostly political bullsh%$

One of the old classics of YouTube:

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• Harvard Graduation Speaker Unloads on AI in Profanity-Loaded Tirade, Prompting Cheers From Students: "I'm Here to Tell You the Mission of Your Generation Is to Destroy AI" (Futurism) Ronny Chieng from The Daily Show.
• Dev Says He's Getting Threats After Leaving a Booby Trap for Vibe Coders  A(Gizmodo) I'd call this a good start.
• I Translated Völsa Þáttr for You (J.G. Harker) a 14th century story which may provide information on ancient Norse pagan practices.
• Tesla Insiders Admit Self-Driving Is a Complete Disaster (Futurism) You do not need to be an insider to know this.
• Woman With No Right Hand Is Pulled Over for Using Phone in Her Right Hand (New York Times) Ticket quotas don't fulfill themselves.
• Netflix wiz creates app to slash AI bills, then open sources it  (The Register) Optimizing the queries.
• Stablecoins Are Private Money. That’s Why They’re a Risk to the Economy (Wall Street Journal) Also, it's a numbers racket. 
• More Fed policymakers eye possible rate hike as inflation risks rise (Reuters) Yeah, that new Fed Chair is not going to do what Trump wants.

From the department of too much free time:

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• OpenAI Accused of Handing Over Your Intimate Personal Information to Meta and Google (Futurism) We've always known that Altman and his ilk were the scum of the earth.
• What Physical ‘Life Force’ Turns Biology’s Wheels? (Quanta Magazine) The wheel exists in nature, in the flagella of tiny single cell organisms.
• The Polarization Discourse Is Bad Faith Bullshit (Everything is Horrible) Money quote, "Anti-polarization masks a preference for fascist policies."
• People Who Are Blind from Birth Never Develop Schizophrenia. This Could Transform Treatment (ZME Science) The basic theory is one of sensory overload being a contributing factor, and blindness from birth avoids that.
• Why are some people mosquito magnets? Clues are emerging (Phys.org) Different body chemistries.  I am one of the lucky one, my eldest brother, and my eldest child, are not.
• Fisker went bankrupt and owners built open source car company from the ashes (Electrek) One of the things they neglect to mention here is that if the creditors were to invoke the DMCA, this could all be shut down.
• Your ISP Is Watching You. Here's How a VPN Can Help  (PC Magazine) Honestly, I think that we need to do more than hide, we should actively attempt to poison the data.(see below)
•  So Those Water Vapors on Europa Might Not Actually Be a Thing (Gizmodo) It might be a statistical anomaly. 
• U.S. employers spend more than $1.5 billion annually on union avoidance (Economic Policy Institute) Much of that money goes to illegal tactics.  Frog march the executives lout of their offices in handcuffs.

Going on offense would be a good thing:

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• Neanderthals drilled cavities to treat a toothache 59,000 years ago (Ars Technica) They seem more like this every day.
• What Makes a Great Bookshop? (Culture Dump) Nice read, if a bit subjective.
• The Strip Mall Where Clarence Thomas Hides His Wife's Money (Glass Empires) The subhed, "A consulting firm in a Virginia strip mall. A justice who votes on the firm's clients. A marriage that has run the same kickback for thirty years. Her name is Ginni Thomas," says it all.
• Charles Schulz Franklin Peanuts Harriet Glickman (Boing Boing) A nice history about how Franklin came to join peanuts.
• Yacht-wrecking young Orcas ‘not afraid of anything’ after being abandoned by relatives, say experts (The Independent) Short version, following a population drop of the community, adolescent Killer Whales were left without guidance and became delinquents. 
• This Ridiculously Simple Trick Might Stop Gulls From Nabbing Your Lunch (Gizmodo) It's googly eyes stuck on your food box.
• Combined Antibiotic and Herbicide Pollution Accelerates the Horizontal Transfer of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Coastal Microbial Communities (bioRxiv) The more we learn about agricultural chemicals, the worse the seem.

This song was recorded in 1993. It seems almost prophetic:

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• The “Messy” Plaintiffs Behind So Many Anti-Abortion Lawsuits (Mother Jones) By, "Messy," they mean plaintiffs with long histories of domestic abuse who should not be able to file under the Texas law.
• Once Again, Trump Looks To Get Out Of Paying E. Jean Carroll By Having The DOJ Substitute In For Himself (Techdirt) If there is any justice in the world, Donald Trump should spend the rest of his life in prison.
• To Trump voters with regrets, progressives should say 'you hurt yourself – don't do it again'  (The Editorial Board) It might be more productive than, "You arrogant ass, you killed us!" but I'm still gonna say the latter.
• Simulation Suggests Viking Sunstones of Legend Could Have Worked (Smithsonian Magazine) It appears that high purity calcite (Iceland spar) can polarize light, allowing the sun to be located through clouds for navigation.
• Study shows aluminum adjuvants in vaccines are safe (Skeptical Raptor) There are issues with aluminum and toxicity, just not at the levels used in vaccines.
• South Africa Used AI To Write Its Now Withdrawn AI Policy. The Citations Were Fake. (Techdirt) Of course it did.
• Study: Infrasound likely a key factor in alleged hauntings (Ars Technica) Ultra low frequency sounds create sensations akin to hauntings. (Not a surprise.  I read an lfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators book around 1970 where infrasound created a creepy feeling)
• New Wikipedia Clone Made Entirely of AI Hallucinations (Futurism) I know that this is a parody site, but Osama take me now! 

He is wrong. Palantir has ALWAYS been toxic:

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• Two tonnes of mascarpone and 19,000 eggs: chefs make world's longest tiramisu – video | Guinness World Records (The Guardian) To quote Styx, "Too much time on my hands."
• Homer’s "Iliad" Found Stuffed Into Egyptian Mummy’s Wrappings (Gizmodo) Nos there's a book lover.
• Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone (The Register) Some slightly less evil alternatives.
• Lost Copy of the Oldest-Known English Poem Discovered in a Rome Library (Gizmodo) For the history geek out there.
• Egyptian Archaeologists Find Perfectly Circular Temple Tied to Ancient Water Cult (Gizmodo) You know all those people who say that the ancients could not do things?  They are wrong, the ancients could do this.
• Lost Pages of a Medieval Manuscript Recovered, Revealing New Testament Text (Medievalists.net) Impressions of prior text on reused parchment.
• Scientists make breakthrough in solving mystery of volcanic lightning (The Guardian) Carbon, silicon, violent updrafts.

Sourdough or Shoggoth? (H/T JR at the SP BBS)

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• Does The New York Times Want to Eradicate Trans People? (Assigned) Yes, the New York Times policy is explicitly advocating for anti-trans bigotry.
• Archaeologists may have found the grave of the legendary "fourth musketeer" (Ars Technica) The bones of what might be the body of Charles de Batz de Castlemore, Count d’Artagnan was found under the floor of a church in the Netherlands.  Cool.
• A 'Freaky and Weird' New York TV Station Is Bringing Public Access Back (Hell Gate NYC) I wonder if they have a web page.
• Dragonberry Weed Could Help Scientists Extract Rare-Earth Metals From Polluted Soil (Gizmodo) Dragonberry is also known as Pokeweed.
• Want to Resist a Data Center? These Organizers Share How They Did It. (Truthout) News you can lose.
• Jaw fossils suggest a 60-foot octopus was the ‘kraken’ of the Cretaceous (National Geographic) Release the Kraken!
• Scorpions Are Literally Metal, Study Reveals (Gizmodo) Nature's Mecha.

Have a righteous and well deserved take-down of CS Lewis:

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Why Falling Cats Always Seem to Land on Their Feet (New York Times) They are wrong.  Cats do not land on their feet, they rotate the universe u to meet their feet.

Archaeologists May Have Found the Lost Iron City of the Silk Road in the Remote Highlands of Uzbekistan (Smithsonian Magazine) A major find at an unexpectedly high altitudes.

Lost Rembrandt painting verified by Dutch art experts (UPI) The 1633 painting Vision of Zacharias in the Temple/

Polling shows Ohio public libraries have vast voter support (Ohio Capital Journal) This is not surprising.

Samples From Distant Asteroid Contain All DNA and RNA Building Blocks (FuturismI) They have found all five primary nucleobases, which may point to extraterrestrial origins of life on earth.

This 2-pound dinosaur is rewriting what scientists know about evolution (ScienceDaily) Fossil finds of the smaller dinosaurs are rare, and this find is an almost complete skeleton.

Beavers can convert stream corridors to persistent carbon sinks (Communications Earth) Beavers seem to do an awful lot in an ecosystem.  They seem almost busy.

Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It. (Card Catalog) Tips and tricks for disenshittifying Google search.

Patrick Boyle explains how the SpaceX IPO is a con job. (I've made similar points about valuations and IPOs)

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• Companies Report Raging Inflation, Except in Wages (Wolf Street) This is a feature, not a bug.
• Ultraprocessed Food Consumption and Behavioral Outcomes in Canadian Children (Pediatrics | JAMA Network Open) Spoiler, our agricultural industrial complex is making us less well.
• There are key differences in long-term impacts of COVID and flu (Futurity) Covid is much worse.
• Pixar's Sexism Under John Lasseter Ruined My Dream Job (Guest Column) (Variety) Not sure if this should be filing under Tech Bro, Studio Bro, or just Douche Bro.
• We’re Training Students To Write Worse To Prove They’re Not Robots, And It’s Pushing Them To Use More AI (Techdirt) but Sam Altman will be rich, so it's all good.
• Political storm in Wyoming as far-right activist caught handing checks to lawmakers (The Guardian) Cue inspector Renault.
• Nearly blind refugee abandoned by US border patrol found dead in Buffalo (The Guardian) There need to be trials and incarcerations after all this is done.
• “AIPAC Is Toxic”: Illinois Races Expose a Shifting Democratic Landscape (Sheer Post) AIPAC has always been toxic, people are just recognizing it now.
• Pete Hegseth Trolled Over 'Unflattering' Photos Ban (Comic Sands) They really are just a bunch of delicate snowflakes.

The only submarine to be a ship, for a few days:

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• What Peter Thiel Saw in Jeffrey Epstein (The Nation) Money quote, "The difference between them wasn’t moral. It was tactical. Epstein may have preferred to talk about pussy, while Thiel stayed up late pondering philosopher Rene Girard’s concept of mimetic desire. But both were both asking the same question: How do we build a world where people like us have unlimited power and the rules don’t apply?"
• Huge Study Finds Living Near Nuclear Plants Linked With Cancer Deaths (Futurism) Not a surprise.My guess is that government operated plants do better.
• Gay Nazis (Or Why Liberal Identity Politics Must Die) (¡Do Not Panic!) When right wing assholes happen to be gay, their political success should not be celebrated.
• Jimi Hendrix's Analog Wizardry Explained (IEEE Spectrum) Kewl stuff.
• Bacteria Engineered to Eat Tumors From the Inside  (Futurism) I'm not expecting this to result in treatments in the foreseeable future, but it is cool.
• FTC Admits Age Verification Violates Children’s Privacy Law, Decides To Just Ignore That (Techdirt) Age verification is a gaping security hole.
• Vitamin K Shot Safety: More Parents Skip Injection That's Not Vaccine (Bloomberg) It's to improve clotting to prevent brain bleeds.  Refusing the injection can kill your kids.
• NYC's Most Sociopathic Motorists Will Pay $60K/Year to Drive Like Assholes  (HellgateNYC) There are no points associated with speed cameras in New York, so this guy is spending over $60K to keep speeding.
• The Battle Against Faux Discounts (Pat Garofalo) Many retailers raise prices then announce their return to normal as a discount.  New York Governor Kathy Hochul is doing the right thing (!) in proposing making this unlawful. 
• Yep, the NYPD Is Still Obsessed With Snowballs (HellgateNYC) Seriously, if you have this much butt hurt over this, get another job! 

I would argue that a proper music video is impossible for this song:

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• US – Europe Productivity Gap Is Mostly a Statistical Illusion (CEPR) Lies, damn lies, and statistics.
• The DJI Romo robovac had security so poor, this man remotely accessed thousands of them (The Verge) The internet of sh%$.
• Hackers Expose The Massive Surveillance Stack Hiding Inside Your “Age Verification” Check (Techdirt) Hoocoocanode that, "Could I have your date of birth, mother's maiden name, and last 4 of your social security number," could be insecure?
• Crypto Bros Nauseated After Realizing Bitcoin Itself Was Funded by Jeffrey Epstein (Futurism) Much Schadenfreude
• Bill Gates Admits to Multiple Affairs in Epstein Fallout (Futurism) We already knew this.  It's not that Gates or the other Epstein fellow travelers were pedophiles, they were just people who wanted to demonstrate their wealth and power through transgressing.
• Is "MAHA" Revenge for Theranos? (Pandemic Accountability Index) Yeah, Elizabeth Holmes is a martyr to the antivaxx crowd.
• China has planted so many trees around the Taklamakan Desert that it's turned this 'biological void' into a carbon sink (Live Science) But in the US, we have the lead in obscure financial instruments.
• Tesla’s Wile E. Coyote Moment Is Here (American Prospect) How can I not share a Warner Brothers animation reference?
• Kentucky man covered in fur arrested after allegedly being caught having sex with deer (Local 12 News) I have never partied that hard.
• ‘A beaver blind date’: animals given freedom to repopulate Cornish rivers (The Guardian) It's about the reintroduction of the dam building rodents into the UK.  Whoever wrote the hed just has a dirty mind.

This is tin-foil hat stuff, but at least it's not AI:

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• Ban Prediction Markets The subhed says it all, "They don’t produce knowledge, they can’t prevent insider trading, and they turn politics, war, and death into a cash-out."
• A cup of coffee for depression treatment has better results than microdosing (Ars Technica) Vive la bean!
• The Means-Testing Industrial Complex (LPE Project) Expansive means testing is not just cruel, it's a profit center.
• The Second Amendment Was Never for Black and Brown Americans (The Intercept) True dat.
• European Tech Giant Cuts Off U.S. Subsidiary After Multimillion Dollar ICE Contract (Gizmodo) The US has become toxic in Europe.
• "Million-year-old" fossil skulls from China are far older—and not Denisovans (Ars Technica) The fossils were Homo erectus, not Homo longi.
• Iron Age Surgeons Fixed a Woman's Shattered Jaw With Primitive Prosthetic—and She Survived (Gizmodo) Ancient medicine was far more sophisticated than the popular wisdom.
• There’s Only One Way to Eradicate Trumpism for Good (The New Republic) Accountability, meaning jail time.

If only this were fiction:

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• Florida deregulated nursing schools. Scam colleges and failing students followed (Orlando Sentinel) Self regulation is to regulation as self importance is to importance.
• Prisoners of Fortune (How Things Work) In interesting meditation on how wealth owns the billionaires rather than the other way around.
• AI insiders seek to poison the data that feeds them (The Register) They are fragging their superior officers, as enlisted men did in Vietnam.
• Developer writes script to throw AI out of Windows • The Register If you cannot read and understand this script, or do not know someone who can, I recommend that you do not run it.   Still, it's sweet.
• Microsoft CEO Laments Criticism Of “AI Slop,” Causing The Whole Internet To Double Down On Criticism Of “Microslop” (Techdirt) Sucks to be him.
• Love dark chocolate? 6 tips for choosing the healthiest type. (Washington Post) Theobromine is good for you according to a new study.  Expect a study debunking this in 2 weeks.
• Manual Transmission Thwarts Thieves' Attempt To Steal A Woman's (Kia) Soul (Jalopnik) I'm very disappointed in you.  I haven't driven a standard shift in decades, but I I know how to do this.
• Cybertruck Sales Show Stomach-Churning Drop (Fufurism) It appears that if you design a fragile vehicle that does not do what you promised it would do, people will not buy it.

What I do all day:

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• SecureDrop: Looking back at 2025 (Freedom of the Press Foundation)
• The Permian Is Drowning in Its Own Wastewater (OilPrice.com) Yeah, fracking, the gift that keeps on giving.
• Google brings back digital fingerprinting to track users for advertising (Mashable) Being evil.
• Anti-Aging Injection Regrows Knee Cartilage and Prevents Arthritis (Sci Tech Daily) I'd wait at least a decade before even trying to evaluate this.  There always seems to be a, "Yes, but,"moment with this sort of stuff.
• Code is a liability (not an asset) (Pluralistic) Cory Doctorow makes what should be the obvious point, computer code is not a desirable thing, computer code is twitchy, requires constant maintenance, and frequently breaks.  Code exists to create capabilities, and otherwise has negative value.
• The Psychology of People Who Love Cats (Laughing Squid) Think of dog people as King Arthur, and cat people as Denis.  (We are an anarchy-syndaclist commune) Video below.
• Washington National Opera to move out of Kennedy Center after Trump ‘takeover’ (The Guardian) They destroy everything.
• ‘Kill Switch’—Iran Shuts Down Starlink Internet For First Time (Forbes) But Elon promised that it was unjammable? Was he lying?

Yes, I love my little fuzz balls.

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• How safe is food in the U.S. after FoodNet, funding cuts? (Statnews) Much less safe than ti should be.
• UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered (The Register) V4 was the first Unix kernel written in C.
• Camus' life without illusion (Engelsberg ideas) A review of Albert Camus' recently republished notebooks. There is a lot of joy here,
• Status of the US Dollar as Global Reserve Currency: USD Share Drops to Lowest since 1994 (Wolf Street) I hope that this happening.  It would damage Wall Street, which IMHO is an independent good.
• Washington Post readers revolt against Bezos’s editorial board (Press Watch) The WaPo has had a lame OP/ED page for a very long time, but the, particularly when Frederick Samuel Hiatt ran the division, the editorial page has gotten even worse.
• Did Animals in Africa Always Migrate?  (Sapiens.org) There is evidence that these mass migrations only began after humans started impacting the environment around them.
• Declared extinct in 2025: A look back at some of the species we lost (Mongabay) Sad.
• More Student Loan Borrowers Are Shedding Debts in Bankruptcy (New York Times) A law change 3 years ago makes filing easier, particularly if the school fucks up the financial aid.

Yeah, Tolkien naming your company is a red flag.

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• Even In a Populist Moment, Democrats Are Split on the Problem of Corporate Power (The Big Newsletter) That's because the Democratic Party establishment (There is no Democratic Party establishment) is run by people who personally profit from people who stand for nothing but aggressive fundraising.
• Earliest evidence of making fire (Nature) Fire making, as opposed to fire use, is now confirmed to 400,00-0 years ago.
• UK stadiums swap beef burgers for wild venison to cut carbon emissions (Reuters) Finally, some British food that I approve of.
• Democrats think they’ve found their 2026 message — and Miami just backed it up (Politico) Another content and meaning free strategy being pushed by the Democratic Party establishment (There is no Democratic Party establishment)
• OpenAI Researcher Quits, Saying Company Is Hiding the Truth (Futurism) Of course they are.  Sam Altman's entire career has been self dealing..
• Sexual Abuse, Hazing, Intimidation: How the Sins of a Televangelist Power Couple Threatened to Destroy a Christian Media Empire (Esquire) TBN.  I am so not surprised. 
• Why Sam Altman is getting into the pornography business Because it allows them to pretend that they have a path to profitability.
• It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced  (The Guardian) Legal scholars | Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn assert that the court is beyond mere fixing.
• Donald Trump's Statue Removed in Texas Museum as Visitors Kept Hitting It (IBTimes UK) It's Tussaud's Waxworks, but the statue would likely survived if it were forged from a single ingot of Krupp Cemented Steel.

This is the sort of thing that I love to watch.  Ancient craftsmanship using ancient tools:

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• Nobel Peace Prize for Venezuela’s María Corina Machado Draws Criticism (New York Times) What?  A war-mongering CIA asset is being a war-mongering CIA asset?  Hoocoodanode?
• The dispersal of domestic cats from North Africa to Europe around 2000 years ago (Science) Interesting genetic study showing that domestic cats made it to Europe later than thought.
• Did Racial Capitalism Set the Bronx on Fire? (The New Yorker) Remember how there was a spate of arson fires in the early 1970s which allowed people like Daniel Patrick Moynihan to suggest, "Benoigh Neglect," for minorities in slums?  It turns out that it was the landlords paying the arsonists for the purpose of insurance fraud.
• How dating apps Tinder, Hinge and their corporate owner keep rape under wraps (19th News) The corporate parent is Match Group.  Stay away from them.
• Why Silicon Valley is bringing eugenics back (Disconnect) Short version: These guys are racists who want to preserve their privilege and that of their descendants.
• Silicon Valley’s Fake Christianity Enables Tech Genocide (Nerd Reich) It's the narcissism.
• Apple loses its appeal of a scathing contempt ruling in iOS payments case (Ars Technica) The judge wants the motherf%$#ing malicious compliance out of his motherf%$#ing courtroom.
• Russian Central Bank Sues Euroclear Over Frozen Assets; Will the EU Be Hoist on the Investor-State Settlement Disputes (ISDS) Petard? (naked capitalism) Cue Alanis Morissette.  The irony here is magnificent.

There's no place like Hoth for the Holidays: (On the bright side, this is not the Star Wars Christmas Special)

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• It’s Official: The Original Theatrical Cut of ‘Star Wars’ Is Coming Back to Theaters (Gizmodo) Han shoots first, no ring around the Death Star.  Someone finally pried George Lucas' finger from the original.  Sweet.
• Welcoming the Wolf at the Door (Barn Raiser) Wolves are good for the environment, as are all apex predators.
• “Burnt a Hole In Me”: Yarvin’s Nazi Origin Story (Mind War) How the tech bro's favorite philosopher learned to love Nazis.
• Suspect Arrested in Inquiry Into Pipe Bombs in D.C. Ahead of Jan. 6 Riot (New York Times) Surprising bit, he's black, unsurprising bit, he's a MAGAt.
• The trustbuster advising Mamdani who could bring aggressive approach to affordability (Gothamist) Lina Khan.  Hope that she kicks ass in New York.
• Elon Musk's Grok AI Is Doxxing Home Addresses of Everyday People (Futurism) What a surprise, yet another Musk project is complete crap.
• Game Theory Explains How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices (WIRED) This is a feature, not a bug.  Pricing algorithms are about looting.
• Science journal retracts study on safety of Monsanto’s Roundup: ‘Serious ethical concerns’ (The Guardian) The "Independent Study" was bought and paid for by Monsanto.

Have some Szechuan Dan Dan Noodles: (you can substitute veal for the pork)

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• Antarctica’s Fastest Glacier Collapse on Record Alarms Scientists (Sci Tech Daily) Nothing to worry about it's only a glacier about the size of Swansea losing half its volume in only a few months.
• Secret Third-Party Litigation Funding Threatens American Innovation (Techdirt) The patent troll model encompasses the whole legal process.
• Reintroduced carnivores’ impacts on ecosystems are still coming into focus (Ars Technica) Ecological impacts of reintroducing animals like wolves to ecosystems are more complex than previously thought.  Hoocoodanode?
• The collapse of Maya civilization: Drought doesn't explain everything (Phys.org) Some regions were not effected by the drought.  It turns out it was a highly interconnected society, and collapse spread following localized breakdowns.  Luckily, WE don't have this problem in OUR society.
• Premium: The Hater's Guide To NVIDIA (Where's Your Ed At?) Makes a pretty case that we are in the "Bezzle" stage of NVIDIA. (Bezzle is a neologism created by John Kenneth Galbraith describing the interval between embezzlement and when the crime is discovered by its victim)
• Companies Are Trying to Hide Their Ties to Larry Summers (The American Prospect) Overdue by about 30 years, but I'll take it.

It appears that the lack of safety in bicycling in the USA is due in large part to the strenuous, and extremely dishonest, efforts of one hardcore rider who thought that bicycle lanes were for punks: