Linkage

• Conspiracy Brokers: Understanding the Monetization of YouTube Conspiracy Theories (Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2022) Scams like colloidal silver, gold coins, etc.  This crap was a feature of the ads in the show for the late and unlamented Rush Limbaugh as well.
• Police identify man who spiked marathon runners with rum instead of water during gruelling race (Lad Bible) The perp was drunk.
• World's Largest Cruise Ship to Be Scrapped Before First Voyage  (Jalopnik) I guess that the market for floating Covid Super Spreader Events™ is limited.
• Afghanistan Commission identifies exact PowerPoint slide that lost War (Duffelblog) Satire, but the absolutely brutal truth too.
• When bitcoin plunges, Buttcoin cheers: the online community praying for the end of crypto (The Guardian) Why such a transparent fraud is allowed to continue is beyond me.
• A modest proposal: Fire all of the post 9/11 generals (Responsible Statecraft) Andrew Bracevich observes that the US General Officers corps has a 2+ decade long history of failure and incompetence, and some firings are in order.
  
• How Bill Gates and his partners took over the global Covid pandemic response (POLITICO) Bill Gates and his fixation on the supremacy of patent and copyright has killed more people than the war in the Ukraine.
• SMART-TD statement on the tentative agreement (Sept. 16, 2022) (SMART Union) A note from one of the unions involve in the potential railroad strike.  They are saying that they have yet to see anything remotely close to an actual contract.
• Russia’s underperforming military (and ours) (Responsible Statecraft) Andrew Bracevich asks, "Will we, in our turn, learn anything from Putin’s folly? Don’t count on it."
  

Taking the dumb phone to its logical conclusion, I give you the rotary cell phone, now on sale:
Yes, too much free time.