Linkage

• The U.S. Can't Make Enough Plutonium Triggers for Its Nuclear Warheads (Vice) I am not sure if this is for real, or a ploy to get more funding. 
• Roomba testers feel misled after intimate images ended up on Facebook (MIT Technology Review) So what if Facebook has pictures of you on the toilet.
  
• Fluke Discovery of Ancient Farming Technique Could Stabilize Crop Yields (ScienceAlert) Planting mixes of grains, like wheat, rye, barley, and rice, it's called planting maslins. and it's not really a discovery, and I heard about it years ago.
  
• The Psychology of Veridos: A Study of Moral Heroism of the 5% or Less (Internationalist 360°) A deep dive on the characteristics of whistleblowers.
  
• Tiktok’s enshittification (Cory Doctorow) Money quote, "Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die."
  
• Study Pushes Back Smallpox' Origins Another 2,000 Years (HealthDay) Statistical genome analysis puts the origin of the virus at 3500 BCE.
  
• Larry Summers Advised A Possible Crypto Fraudster. Is Anyone Going To Ask Him About It? (Revolving Door Project) Of course not.  There are no consequences for people like him.
  
• New study finds libertarians tend to support reproductive autonomy for men but not for women (PsyPost) So not a surprise.
  
• Nick Bostrom, Longtermism, and the Eternal Return of Eugenics (Truthdig) More of the origins of Effective Altruism being racism and eugenics with an intellectual paint job.  
• The costly lesson from COVID: why elimination should be the default global strategy for future pandemics (The Conversation) We will be living with the consequences of half-assed public health policies for decades.

Have a documentary about the Russo-Japanese War: