Linkage

• Why boa constrictors don’t suffocate when they squeeze their prey to death (AAAS) Long lungs.  Nature is amazing.
  
• Facebook paid Republican strategy firm to malign TikTok (Washington Post) Seriously, these guys are evil.
  
• HOW TO READ THE WAR IN REVERSE WITHOUT OUTSMARTING YOURSELF (Dances With Bears) A valuable theory of the Western long game in the Ukraine.
  
• The Dunning-Kruger Effect is Autocorrelation (Economics from the Top Down) Researchers discover that the math has a flaw, and that completely random data shows correlation.
  
• New York Times Issues Social Media Reset for Reporters' Twitter Use (Business Insider) The Gray Lady will stop pushing reporters to tweet incessantly, because, Twitter folks were mean to them.
  
• Big Tech Isn’t Stealing News Publishers’ Content (Cory Doctorow)  Advertising fraud and price fixing.
  
• The Secret Plot To Unleash Corporate Power (Matt Stoller) The Reagan Administration's very successful operation to emasculate antitrust enforcement.
  

How an aluminum can is made: (It's cool)