- Flaco the Famous New York City Owl Has Become a Peeping Tom (Wall Street Journal) Oh for f%$#'s sake, he's a f%$#ing owl.
- Will the Gävle Goat survive this Christmas? (Garden of Forking Paths) Many years, it has been burtned, this year, it is being attacked by birds, but the goat live stream shows that it still stands.
- The Insufferable Bros Who Run Corporate America (Matt Stoller) Monopolistic pharma data broker founded by Arthur Sackler (That one) being sued by the FTC.
- Silent and Deadly: Fatal Farts Immobilize Prey (WIRED) Shades of Paul Reubens' character "The Spleen" from the movie Mystery Men.
- Sam Altman’s Knack for Dodging Bullets—With a Little Help From Bigshot Friends (WSJ) Seriously, this guy has failed at every boss job that he has ever had, but he keeps failing up.
- Substack Turns On Its ‘Nazis Welcome!’ Sign (Techdirt) Don't write there, and if you want to pay an author, use some other way to get them money.
- Elimination of cash bail seems to be working (Illinois Times) This is not a surprise. The only people for whom cash bail worked were the, "The Cruelty is the Point," crowd, the profiteers like bail bondsmen, and prosecutors who used detention to coerce guilty pleas.
- It’s All Bullshit (The Baffler) About life at the big tech firms, and how little actual work is done. Dave Graeber was a prophet.
- Did the OCC hire a con artist to oversee fintech? (American Banker) I would be surprised if they didn't hire a con artist. The OCC is the most fraud friendly regulator in banking in the US.
How right wingers talk about power while never acknowledging that it is about power:
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