Linkage

• Beer-Drunk Raccoons Are Taking Over Germany (Food and Wine) Raccoons gotta raccoon.  They are an invasive species in Germany thought.
• Realms Of Ice And Snow (Now And Zen) Norse musings on cleaning out one's refrigerator and freezer. "Only 2 or 3 times did I snap my hand back after hearing a Howl and dark Growl. I could swear I saw black wolves dart to and fro between the frozen packages? of death. The battle commenced."
• Elon Musk's X follower count bloated by millions of new, inactive accounts (Mashable) So not a surprise.
• SPACs – The Implosion Continues. And... Where's the SEC? (On the Street) Yeah, the SEC learned nothing from the great recession.
• Scientists Witnessed The Birth Of A New Accent In Antarctica (IFLScience) Linguistic drift is an amazing tool for understanding ourselves.
• Special Report: The Curtain Closes On Yevgeny Prigozhin (Simplicius the Thinker) A deep dive by a Russia supporter.  Interesting if just to get a picture of that they are thinking.
• Most of My Instagram Ads Are for Drugs, Stolen Credit Cards, Hacked Accounts, Counterfeit Money, and Weapons (404 Media) Facebook is actively serving ads for criminal activity.  If they had enough ads from the overground economy, they would not be doing this.
• The Doomsday Prepper's Daughter (OK Doomer) Money quote, "Morgan did everything a prepper shouldn’t. Instead of cultivating ties with his neighbors and helping them build a sustainable community, he moved to a remote location on his own and tried to build a fortress to keep him safe from all the people he was screwing over."
• Signalling Theory, Twitter, and the Fake Blue Tick (The Garden of Forking Paths) How a useful, albeit imperfect, signal of authenticity became a signal of inauthenticity, "Elon Musk, I regret to inform you, has unleashed hordes of fiddler crabs and fangblennies on the internet."

A rather long form look at the Bronze Age Collapse. Maybe not the Sea Peoples: