Linkage

• 'Advanced' Nuclear Reactors? Don't Hold Your Breath (Scientific American) A good examination of how all of the new radical reactor technologies are not new, and have been problematic for decades.
  
• The Insecurity Industry (Edward Snowden) Noting how the privatization of cyber spying by firms like NSO are at least as bad as the government.
  
• A Defunct Video Hosting Site Is Flooding Normal Websites With Hardcore Porn (Vice) First, the website is, "Vice," second a stimulating examination of the phenomenon of link rot.
  
• Union Hopes High as Chileans Rewrite Anti-Labor Constitution (Labor Notes) I guarantee you that the CIA and the rest of the US State Security Apparatus are hard at work to rat-f%$# this.
  
• Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty-Five: Didi’s IPO Illustrates Why Uber’s Business Model Was Always Hopeless (naked capitalism) Why are companies like SoftBank not being charged with fraud?
  
• Larry Summers Holds Positions With Numerous Financial Bottom-Feeders (The American Prospect) And these bottom feeders benefit from the austerity that Summers supports.  Funny how that works, huh?
  
• The Big Money Behind the Big Lie (The New Yorker) Jane Mayer connects the dots.
  
• The Stupid Time 'Where's Waldo' Ended Up On Libraries 'Most Challenged Books' List (Cracked) A nip slip that was even harder to find than Waldo.  When Did Cracked Magazine Become Cool?
  
• Social Network GETTR, Which Promised To Support 'Free Speech' Now Full Of Islamic State Jihadi Propaganda (Techdirt) Not a surprise.  The right wing sites have had a consistent problem with this, and both the MAGA crowd and Daesh are both right wing extremists.
  

John Oliver nails it on housing discrimination: