Linkage

• Boston transit agency to try urine sensors on elevators (Texplore) How about better bathrooms in subways?
  
• White Nationalist Book Publishers Revealed (Southern Poverty Law Center) Antelope Hill Publishing is run by Vincent Cucchiara, Sarah Elizabeth Cucchiara (née Nahrgang), and Dmitri Anatolievich Loutsik.
  
• Troops suffer thoughts and prayers shortage in wake of mass shootings (Duffelblog) Savage parody.
  
• European vs US Salaries: Why You Get More In The US? (Russian Vagabond) When social welfare benefits are taken into account, US workers get less.
  
• Do you take us for a gang of brainless lizards? (Letters of Note) Scathing rejection letters from editors to literary giants like Kipline and Orwell.  Unsurprisingly, the title is from a Hunter S. Thompson rejection letter to Anthony Burgess.
  
• How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure (STAT) It turns out that avenues of research that did not involve amyloid plaques were ignored and belittled.  It also turns out that amyloid plaques are not the alpha and omega of Alzheimers.
  
• Do Ancient Coins Record the Supernova of 1054? (Universe Today) It was recorded in the East, but in the West, it was ignored, because noting it would be considered heretical.
  
• US Marshal Indicted For Abusing Access To Cell Location Data To Run Personal Searches (Techdirt) This is what happens when police are granted broad access to sensitive personal data.
  
• Lake Mead is less than 150 feet away from becoming a "dead pool," making much of the Southwestern U.S. uninhabitable (Citizens News) Dead pool = No water flowing through the turbines.
• Ridiculous: Gov’t Contractor Copies Open Source 3D Printing Concept… And Patents It (Techdirt) Our IP regime is completely broken.
  

I really wish that John Oliver had replaced Jon Stewart, and not Trevor Noah: