Linkage

• U.S. states allege broad generic drug price-fixing collusion (Reuters) Best health care system in the world, my ass.
• Brexit: why are these lying bastards lying to us? (EUreferendum.) I love British snark.
• The world's biggest grave robbery: Asia’s disappearing WWII shipwrecks (The Guardian) Scrap hunters.  Most importantly, "low background steel," low radiation pre-nuclear age refined steel which is needed for some scientific applications.
• New Code Offers a 100-Fold Speed Increase (Futurism) It's called Taco, for tensor algebra compiler. Basically sparse matrix database handling. I'd wait for real world applications.
• Angry About the DNC Scandal? Thank Obama. (The Intercept) Obama let the party establishment wither on the vine, and he did his level best to emasculate any political organization independent of the Obama apparatus. (aka Veal Pen)
• America – The Grim Truth (Escape from America) "Americans, I have some bad news for you: You have the worst quality of life in the developed world – by a wide margin."
  

Thor Ragnarok 4D: (May contain some spoilers for the actual movie)