Linkage

• Shocking study discovers bottlenose dolphins possess electric sixth sense (Study Finds) Not shocking at all. Sharks, electric eels, nonotremes (platypus, etc.), other whales, and bees all have some sort of electrorecption.
• On Algorithmic Wage Discrimination (Columbia Law Review) We need to stop treating this as a bug.  As has been shown time and time again, using computers to discriminate is a feature offered on the down low to employers, landlords, etc.
• The Same Extremists Target Both Muslims and Jews (Scientific American) Completely not shocked by this.
• McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine Hackers Say They Found the ‘Smoking Gun’ That Killed Their Startup (WIRED) What I do not understand is why McDonalds which is orders of magnitude larger than the maker of these dysfunctional, and widely derided ice cream machines, (Taylor Equipment) was colluding with them. 
• Elon Musk’s Grok Twitter AI Is Actually ‘Woke,’ Hilarity Ensues (Forbes) Not a surprise.  The team developing this is likely disinclined to spend any time or effort to pursue Elon's racist, antisemitic, and bigoted worldview, so they did not code it in.
• Meta in Myanmar (full series) (Erin Kissane's small internet website) Evidence that the criminal enterprise formerly known as Facebook™ knew of and actively supported genocidal propaganda against the Rohinga because it increased engagement and profits to the degree that "Stickers" applied to posts described as hate speech had the effect of increasing the likelihood of recommendation by the algorithm. I am not a fan of revoking section 230 of the DMCA, which provides a liability shield for user produced content, but this is a deliberate decision to promote genocide, and as such, it should NOT be covered by section 230.
• The Global Economy Is A Pandemic Factory (Nate Bear) True, but also irrelevant, because the titans of capitalism behind our current trade regime do not expect leopards to eat their faces.

This is a very good, if rather long, description of the Bronze Age Collapse, in part because it raises at least as many questions as it answers.