- Google hit with €1.5bn fine from EU over advertising (BBC News) That whole “Don’t be evil,” thing? So last week.
- Gillum to launch Florida voter-registration campaign to trip up Trump (Politico) Good for him.
- 3-month-10-year Treasury yield curve inverted for first time since ’07 (Business Insider) It’s supposed to be the harbinger of a recession.
- Dashcam video shows Tesla steering toward lane divider—again (Ars Technica) Self-driving cars is really hard, and made even harder by a deranged megalomaniac making unrealistic promises.
- NASA Gets Response From Spacecraft 13 Billion Miles Away (Science Vibe) While we mourn the Mars Rover, Voyager 1 is still kicking ass.
- Kaigun Kare: Japanese Navy Curry (DefenceTalk) I was aware that the Brits brought curry to Japan, but I did not know that it was used to prevent beriberi in the Japanese navy. (It’s also very tasty)
- Volvo chief warns against ‘irresponsible’ self-driving roll-out (Financial Times) He thinks that it will be rolled out before it is ready. Given that Silicon Valley is at the core of these efforts, rolling out a beta with the inevitable carnage, seems very likely.
- Iowa Fashion Week Begins (The Onion) America’s finest news source.
- Jordan Peterson Is a Poor Researcher Whose Own Sources Contradict His Claims (Medium) What a surprise. A right-wing icon is a fraud.
- It’s official: Russiagate is this generation’s WMD (Matt Taibbi) Not a fine moment for the media.
I remember when this was a joke video from Funny or Die. Now it is real: