Linkage

• How to Quickly Get to the Important Truth Inside Any Privacy Policy (The Markup) A useful primer.
• Google Maps is an eyesore. 5 examples of how the app has lost its way (Fast Company) A good example of Cory Doctorow's ensh%$tification.
• Railroaded: Bring Back Thatcher and Reagan (Steve Keen) Less about Thatcher and Reagan and more about how railroad privatization produces higher costs and reduced safety.
• The world’s oldest living bond (Financial Times) The 1648 Dutch perpetual bond.
• Paying consumer debts is basically optional in the United States (Cory Doctorow) Know your rights.  Most debt collection agencies do not have the documentation to back up your claims.
• Is David Solomon Too Big a Jerk to Run Goldman Sachs? Inside a banking mutiny. (NY Mag) This concept buggers the mind.  The idea that someone is too a big a jerk to run, the "Vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money," is stunning.
• Russia Oil Revenue at Eight-Month High as Price Cap Breached, IEA Says (Bloomberg) Yeah, those sanctions are working out so well.
• A new gray wolf pack found in California (NPR) Furthest south in almost a century.  Good news.

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