Linkage

• Former Boeing Senior Manager Walks Off Alaska Airlines Flight After Realizing It Was A On 737 MAX 9 (Simple Flying) If it's Boeing, I ain't going.
• Flipper Zero's Co-Founder Says the Hacking Tool Is All About Exposing Big Tech's Shoddy Security (Gizmodo) An interview with the inventor of the tool.
• The Prophetic Academic Emmanuel Todd Now Foresees the West’s Defeat (The New York Times) He predicted the fall of the USSR in the 1970s, and now he is predicting this for the west.
• Capital Gains Hikes at Center of Biden’s Second-Term Tax Agenda (Bloomberg) Elections matter.
• RCMP All Pissed Off A Private Business Told It To Get A Warrant If It Wanted A Copy Of Parking Lot Camera Footage (Techdirt) A bar told the RCMP that their policy was to require a court order.  The RCMP responded by directing retaliation against their liquor license.
•  "Poor, poor pitiful me": Was Martin Kulldorff fired by Harvard? (RESPECTFUL INSOLENCE) Eugenicist co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration got fired by Brigam and Women's Hospital, which ended his participation in Harvard Med School programs.  So no, Harvard did not fire him, and good for his being fired.  He is directly responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands of people.
• An interview with someone who left Effective Altruism (mathbabe) Yes, EA is a cult, and a scam.

Interesting look at the erasure of Brythonic around 500 CE: (Spoiler, it's just the high status language displacing the low status one, not ethnic cleansing)