• HBO documentary on QAnon suggests Ron Watkins is QAnon prophet (The Washington Post) The hed is kind of weak.  Ron Watkins accidentally outed himself as “Q”.
• Meditations On US Forces Firing A Howitzer Into The Empty Desert “Just To Say We’re Here” (Caitlin’s Newsletter) What we are doing, or more accurately, what we are pretending to do, in Afghanistan.
• Encryption Lava Lamps – San Francisco, California (Atlas Obscura) Cloudflare has a wall of lava lamps in its headquarters, and it uses it to generate random numbers for its encryption.
• University of Minnesota thought it would be cool to try to sneak bad code into Linux as an experiment. Of course, it backfired badly (The Register) University of Minnesota contributors are banned from the Linux project until further notice.
• Resources by city (Don’t Call The Police) Very useful resource for avoiding getting people shot for minor problems.
• Low-Skill Workers Aren’t a Problem to Be Fixed (The Atlantic) They are not low skill workers, they are just poorly paid ones.
• Abolish the OCC? (Credit Slips) Much like the Office of Thrift Supervision, it has been so thoroughly captured by the banks that it needs to be abolished.
• The Defund Police Movement Takes Aim at Fusion Centers and Mass Surveillance (The Intercept) This is an excellent place to star. 
• The World Needs Many More Coronavirus Vaccines (New York Times) The editorial board calls to, “Suspend patents.”  That is a big deal.

Our dysfunctional unemployment insurance, John Oliver counts the ways: