- Latest Fake News Panic Appears to Be Fake News (Rolling Stone) Matt Taibbi in fine form. It ain’t Russian meddling, it’s garden variety trolls and click bait.
- Undercover At the Bullsh%$ Factory (Current Affairs) An interview with Dan Lyons who ended up at a spam factory startup called “Hubspot”, and turned it into a book, Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Startup Bubble, which details the dishonesty and delusion that seems endemic in the industry.
- “NSFW” doesn’t begin to describe Bluetooth security in sex toys (Ars Technica) I would argue that the contents of your refrigerator, or your media consumption details are even more personal, but, “The internet of buzzing things,” does put the whole big brother thing in perspective.
- Butterfly swarm shows up on Denver radar system (BBC) Cute alert!
- Over half of new cancer drugs ‘show no benefits’ for survival or wellbeingThe Guardian (The Guardian) Because drug companies are not in the business of curing or treating diseases, they are in the business of extending patent exclusivity to maximize profits.
- Bernie Sanders Isn’t Just Anti-Capitalist. Now He’s a Voice Against Militarism, Too. (Foreign Policy In Focus) Another way he was better than the relentlessly bellicose Hillary Clinton.
Bespoke hand binding of a book. It’s almost pornographic.