Linkage

• Did I make it harder to sell your crappy, used crypto mining graphics card? Good (TechRadar) The crypto collapse has a lot of used and abused graphics cards for sale.
  
• Judicial Coup: Roberts Started A Revolution, Dems Enabled It (Lever News) John Roberts has been an unhinged radical his entire career, but he wears the right suits, and went to the right schools, so he's a "Statesman".  The only difference between Roberts and Alito is the former's concern for optics.
• U.S. Generals Have Been Wrong on Ukraine. We Shouldn't Be Shocked (19FortyFive) This is less of a commentary on the war in the Ukraine than it is about the fact that the Pentagon has been actively misleading civilian leadership about the facts on the ground since before the Tet Offensive. 
• The rule of nihilists (Branko Milanovic) An analysis of Xi Jinping’s 2013 speech to the Central Committee of CPC, and how it relates to Russia today.  Short version: The USSR and the CPSU collapsed because ideology had been driven out of the party by nihilists, and so it no longer competed in the market place of ideas.
• Experian, You Have Some Explaining to Do (Krebs on Security) It's trivial to hijack a user account at one of the big 3 credit rating agencies.
  

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