- Undemocratic, anachronistic, fantastic. How the City of London survives (Financial Times) Time for another London fire.
- Is it illegal to own a gun with a medical marijuana card? (KING 5) Yes.
- The ‘extraordinary’ record-breaking data that has climate change experts baffled (SBS News) It's called anthropogenic climate change. Here's a hint, we may now be in a positive feedback loop, where heating causes more changes leading to more heating.
- Saturn’s Ocean Moon Enceladus Is Able to Support Life (JSTOR Daily) I'd like to see a probe sent there in my lifetime.
- The Costco of Housing is…Costco? (Urban Proxima) They are constructing low cost housing to expedite construction of stores. Decent pre manufactured housing, if a bit odd looking.
- ECB flags euro risks from Russia as global forex reserves dip (Financial Times) The attempts to seize Russian reserves have led to other countries looking at other countries looking for alternative safe havens for their reserves. Hoocoocanode?
- Workers Deserve the Right to Frown on the Job (Jacobin) Places like call centers are now monitoring their employees smiles. There was a Dr. Who episode like this. The robots killed people who showed unhappiness.
- The Great AI Retrenchment has begun - by Gary Marcus About f%$#ing time for the bezzle to be acknowledged.
- The "Wayback Machine" and Rescuing Problem Banks - Angry Bear Money quote, "So, here we are again. Discussing the same damn issues with banks who are gambling and know full well they will be rescued in the end because the economy can not allow them to fail. Nobody goes to jail. These are our brightest financial people who simply can not be trusted."
How the East Germans invented Gorilla Glass in 1977:
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