• Saudi Arabia’s New Crown Prince Is a Bumbling Hothead. Trump Needs to Treat Him Like One. (POLITICO) Significant, because it comes from Tiger Beat on the Potomac (Politico), which is the font of conventional inside the Beltway “thinking”.
• Major correction to satellite data shows 140% faster warming since 1998 (Carbon Brief) Applying the effects of orbital decay. We are f%$#ed.
• Trump Ally Alex Jones Endorses Insane Conspiracy About NASA’s Child Slave Colonies on Mars (News Corpse) No, this is not parody, unless Mr. Jones is some sort of long term performance art project.
• A programmer turned Wikipedia into a classic text adventure  (Ars Technica) Reminds me of a computer game written in the macro language for Lotus 1-2-3 called Templates of Doom.
• Did NSA Start Using Section 702 to Collect from VPNs in 2014? (Emptywheel) Use a non US VPN.
• NotPetya – So Easy Anyone Could Do It (Weapons Grade Shenanigans) All the requisite components for this cyber attack were available online for a long time before the attack. Anyone who knew where to look could have done this.
• Silicon Valley is becoming a commercial real estate disaster (Business Insider) Less than 10 years after the financial meltdown, we are seeing this again.

This makes me want to learn to play the bass, and it’s just a promo.

As I have said before, a symphony orchestra on just 4 strings: