Linkage

• Never Forgive Them (Where's Your Ed At?) A good essay on the Tech Bros enshittification of everything.
• Cutting Government Is Easy... If You Go After McKinsey (Big by Matt Stoller) His point is that we have hollowed out government by outsourcing to private business in the name of saving money, but it actually results in higher costs, because the foxes run the henhouse.
• In Waning Senate Days, Kyrsten Sinema Screwed Workers and Spent Campaign Cash on Stay at French Castle (The Intercept) Toxic narcissists gotta toxic narcissist, I guest.
• EU burns through gas storage at fastest rate since energy crisis (Financial Times) More fallout from the Ukraine conflict.
• The MAD Files (Tablet Magazine) A nice essay on Mad Magazine in its heyday.
• Ancient DNA sheds light on syphilis origins (Washington Post) It originated in the New World.
• Martin Niemöller was a not especially repentant anti-Semite (BlueSky) He had no problem with sending Jews to concentration camps, he had a problem with Jews who converted to Christianity being sent to the camps.
• Tortoise engraving suggests Middle Eastern religion from 37,000 years ago (Euronews) Far further back than I would have anticipated.
  

A very nice video about the drum line in various iconic '60s songs: