Linkage

• Neanderthal adhesives were made through a complex synthesis process (Ars Technica) Sophisticated anaerobic synthesis of birch tar.
• The Pentagon’s $52,000 trash can (Responsible Statecraft) Our corrupt defense contractors have become far worse since the massive orgy of mergers in the late 1990s.
• You can't trust Google (David Heinemeier Hansson) Money quote, "Anything that reads "Made by Google" implicitly has the subscript "until we don't give a fuck any more" printed below."
• Sri Lanka, Iran bypass US sanctions through tea for oil barter (The Cradle) Behold, the power of tea.
• 5 people have acquired malaria in the US. They’re the first in 20 years. (Vox) Anthropogenic climate change is a harsh mistress.
• The multibillion-dollar lawsuits that could radically reshape how we buy and sell homes forever (Business Insider) The case argues that Multiple Listing Services are an illegal cartel that fixes commission rates.
• The Obscure NIH Official Blocking Lower Drug Prices (The American Prospect) Mark Rohrbaugh, Special Advisor for Technology Transfer to the NIH Deputy Director for Intramural Research, who has been in the pockets of big Pharma and their lobbyists for over a decade.
• ‘Freakonomics’ Was Neoliberal Bullsh%$ (Current Affairs) File under, well duh.  It is contrarianism as a substitute for thinking.
• Terrible People Are Still Using Forged Court Orders To Disappear Content They Don’t Like (Techdirt) Bad DMCA take-downs should have
• The Death Cult of the American Car (American Prospect) How we ended up with death mobile SUVs.  It involves regulatory capture and regulatory failure.
  
• We shouldn’t be cheering for state collapse in Russia (Responsible Statecraft) If one looks at US regime change and nation building activities, including the orgy of looting that was post-Soviet Russia, the only thing worse than a failed US regime change is a successful one.

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