Linkage

• Fred Hampton vs NeoC%$#s: the Former Sought Community-Empowerment, the Latter Care About Self-Enrichmen (Ghion Journal) Not comfortable using the "C-epithet" for Black people, even prefaced by "Neo" in my blog, but the article is well worth the read.
  
• Where Are The Robotic Bricklayers? (Construction Physics) Robots have not yet mastered the subtle adjustments that a bricklayer makes.  Same goes for a lot of tasks.
  
• Andrew Cuomo Didn’t Act Alone (NY Magazine) There are a whole coterie of people both in Cuomo's cabinet and in a constellation of non-profit and lobbying groups who are not just enablers, they are co-conspirators, and should be prosecuted as such. 
• Why whales in Alaska have been so happy (BBC News) Short version:  No cruise ships making noise, meaning happier, and more fecund, whales.
  
• Vasya the cat chases away a brown bear in the woods of Eastern Siberia (Siberian Times) All cats are lions.
• Massive ancient lake across prairies emptied quickly enough to set off an ice age, study suggests (Phys.org) An ice dam broke, and the equivalent of the Great Lakes flowed into toe ocean in about 9 months.
  
• New record set in China for oldest known coin-making facility (Phys.org) Takes the date of the first coin back about 200 more years.
  
• Tokyo Olympics: German pentathlon coach thrown out for punching horse (BBC) The horse refused to jump, so the coach went all Alex Karras on it.
  
• ‘People think you’re an idiot’: death metal Irish baron rewilds his estate (The Guardian) He's taken about half of his estate, and done his best to restore it to its natural state.  Feel good story of the day.
  

The Bloodhound Gang gets in touch with their feelings: