- Redditors Launch A ‘Rescue Mission’ For Embattled Sci-Hub, With The Ultimate Aim Of Building A Decentralized Version (Techdirt) Good move. If Elsevier gets its claws into the Russian government, it’s game over for open science publications.
- Facial Recognition Technology: How to Opt Out at the Airport (Condé Nast Traveler) News you can use.
- Biden admin wants to bring sexy back with dating app vaccination statuses (Ars Technica) Filed under, “Not The Onion.”
- Desire paths: the illicit trails that defy the urban planners (The Guardian) “When cities lack the paths pedestrians need, people vote with their feet.”
- It Is Unconscionable That The Gay Community Has Ostracized Me Simply Because I Was Born A Cop (Defector) This is both world class snark, and an accurate description of the snowflakes in the “Blue Lives Matter” movement.
- De-Ratting Rat Island Brought Silent Ecosystem Back to Life (Scientific American) Removing rats from Alaskan islands completely restored the ecosystem over a decade.
- Employers court metro Atlanta workers with higher wages, hiring bonuses. (Atlanta Journal and Constitution) Imagine that.
- In Nod to Dystopian Fiction, Citizen Wants to Send Private Security Teams to Your Neighborhood (Gizmodo) These are the folks who put out a bounty on an innocent homeless man for a fire in California. Not Good
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