- Experience Surfside condo as it stood and as it collapsed (Miami Herald) An incredibly obnoxious web page design obscures the very useful description of the cascade of failures that brought down a building.
- GameChangers 2021: How IUU Fishing Plundered Latin America's Oceans (InSight Crime) Illegal fishing fleets, largely from China, are strip mining the oceans.
- To Boldly Explore the Jewish Roots of ‘Star Trek’ (New York Times) Jews in Space!
- New Report: Amazon’s Toll Road (Institute for Local Self-Reliance) The Amazon monopoly is extracting monopoly rents. Imagine that.
- The Token Disconnect (Stephen Diehl) Money quote, "With crypto we’ve decided to do the most American thing ever, to commoditize our rage at the financial system into a financial product."
- Plans to capture CO2 from coal plants wasted federal dollars, watchdog says (The Verge) This is a feature, not a bug.
- A cat was accidentally donated to a thrift store along with the chair he was hiding in (Boing Boing) The joys of a fur baby whose physical characteristics resemble a liquid.
- The Solar System belongs to us all – not just Jeff Bezos (The Conversation) The US is ignoring international treaties for the benefit of the worst of us.
- Jackpot watch Pluralistic, Corey Doctorow on The City of London as the world leader in money laundering and corruption.
- A Light in the Darkness (The American Conservative) A laudatory review of Dennis Kucinich's book and Dennis Kucinich from The American Conservative. A man bites dog story.
Stephen Colbert on the insurrection
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