Linkage

• Technology, Patents, and Inequality: An Explanation that Even Economists Can Understand (Brave New Europe) Dean Baker explains hwo
• Google Maps Hacks (Simon Weckert)A performance artist puts a few dozen smart phones in a wagon, turns on Google Maps, and creates virtual traffic jams.
• Class Carpetbagger (The Baffler) It's a rousing takedown of Pete Buttigieg.
• Phantom of the ADAS (Ben Nassi) How self driving systems are inherently vulnerable to trivial hacks
• One of Amy Klobuchar’s Biggest Backers Is ‘the Worst Company in the World’ (Daily Beast) She has been a creature of Cargill during her time in the Senate.
• Goatf*ck or Ratf*ck (Medium) The goatf%$# (also clusterf%$#) is the product of incompetence, the ratf%$# is the product of malice.
• Beer Waste Helps Montana Town Save Money On Water Treatment (NPR) Behold the power of beer.

Australian 1960s SF show.  Note the accents, they are all speaking "Beeb" more than an what is thought of as an Australian accent today.   It's reminiscent of the original Dark Shadows: