- Barack Obama’s Great Tower of Nothing: Gentrification on a Presidential Level (Counterpunch) How Obama's quest for legacy, and his Presidential center, will demolish some of Frederick Law Olmsted's greatest work.
- I spent the day in an Amazon “fulfilment centre”, and it was worse than I ever imagined (New Statesman) And this was a press junket, aka "Petting Zoo" tour.
- Russia’s Biggest Problem Will Soon Be Ours (Rolling Stone) I profoundly disagree with Taibbi here: Population decline can make things better for people in the US, it just makes our informal empire less tenable.
- We're Not Gluten Intolerant, We're Glyphosate Intolerant (Return to Now) It turns out that reactions to Glyophosphate (Roundup®) are almost identical to gluten issues, and farmers drench their fields with the stuff a week before harvest so that they can harvest all at once.
- China’s Second Aircraft Carrier Sails Closer to Joining the Fleet (War Is Boring) China's first indigenous carrier starts sea trials, still STOBAR, but at 55,000 tons it's about 20% larger than the Liaoning.
- SkyKnit: How an AI Took Over an Adult Knitting Community (The Atlantic) Skyknit ……… heh. This pun must be shared.
- Racial slur spelled out at high school halftime (Atlanta Journal—Constitution) The team's mascot is the "Broncos". They spelled out the word with the middle 4 letters. Welcome to Trump world.
Some appropriate music for the end of the campaign season:
2 comments :
glyphosate link is broken, thanks.
huh link works for me
https://returntonow.net/2018/09/04/were-not-gluten-intolerant-were-glyphosate-intolerant/
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