- 5 Times Charter School Founders Used Shady Real Estate Deals to Shamelessly Enrich Themselves (naked capitalism) More evidence that much of the charter school movement is looting.
- Inside the Academic Journal That Corporations Love (Pacific Standard) It's Elsevier, of course, the Borg of the for-profit academic journal world.
- Look: Oregon police respond to report of cat armed with gun-shaped stick (UPI) Cat terrorists.
- Report: Facebook helped advertisers target teens who feel “worthless” (Ars Technica) So, Zuckerberg and Co. determine when children are feeling "worthless, insecure, defeated, anxious, silly, useless, stupid, overwhelmed, stressed, and a failure," they allow advertisers to prey on them. And Zuckerberg is mulling a Presidential run.
- A 130,000-year-old archaeological site in southern California, USA (Nature) Humans in the Americas about 100,000 years earlier than previously thought.
- How Vestager took a bite out of Apple (Politico) A nice blow by blow of how the EU went after Irish subsidies via tax evasion with Apple. When do they go after Luxemberg?
- the three hot trends in Silicon Valley horsesh%$ (Medium) Freddie deBoer notes that much of what is "Hot" in the valley is basically snake oil.
- A Modest Proposal To Fix The World (Ian Welsh) It's not meant to be taken seriously, but taxing the hyper-rich back to merely very well off is a great idea.
I am so going to see the Kingsman Sequel:
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