Linkage

• All That Twitters (The Baffler) Musk's investors in Twitter, "Who pitched in that much? Saudi Arabia, Qatar, a mysterious UAE-based venture capital firm, a lawless crypto exchange, and CIA contractor [Oracle Executive Chairman Larry] Ellison. I’m sure they’re happy with their access."
• Bots, so many Bots (WakaTime) An analysis showing how over half of all activity on the ProductHunt website.
• OpenAI Is A Bad Business (Where's Your Ed At) Ed Zitron shows that there is no credible path to profitability for OpenAI.
• New assessment suggests Anthropocene started in the 1950s (Phys.org) "A team of Earth scientists from the Center for Marine Environmental Studies, the University of Tokyo, The Australian National University, Matsuyama University, Kyoto University, and Shimane University, has found, via a new assessment, that the 1950s is the strongest candidate for the start of the Anthropocene."
• The Toxic Men Who Want to Control Federal Employees (Can We Still Govern?) The lede says it all about these blokes, "Imagine being an employee so toxic that you were fired by a guy who boasted to his co-workers about beating a dog to death with a shovel. Now imagine that you are still less sketchy than the guy using the dating app he started to solicit 18 year old girls, offering them free trips to LA to hook up."
• Study of 500,000 Medical Records Links Viruses With Alzheimer's Again And Again (ScienceAlert) Severe viral infections correlate with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
• US Senators Want DOJ To Hold Boeing Executives Accountable For 737 MAX Safety Issues (Simple Flying) Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal want the DoJ to prosecute aggressively.  I agree.
• Vietnam plans US$67 billion high-speed railway with no foreign capital (CNA) Hanoi has decided to go it alone.  This may slow development, but keeping foreign rent seekers out is probably worth it.
• Truth Social Users Are Losing Ridiculous Sums of Money to Scams (Gizmodo) This is a feature, not a bug. What part of "Donald Trump" don't you get?
• A National Movement to Organize Amazon Takes Off (Labor Notes) Your mouth to God's ear, but I am not optimistic.
  
• After Historic Chattanooga Win, the UAW Is Bargaining for Better Conditions at Volkswagen (In These Times) I have more optimism about this, if just because the VW plant unionized because the local plant managers went native, and used abusive US management strategies.  I expect VW to bring back German management back to the plant.
  

I've heard reports that the Israeli Air Force used sonic booms during a live speech by Hassan Nazrallah to triangulate his position.