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• Employment was Considerably Weaker than We Thought Last Year - Angry Bear The Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages numbers are not good.
• Occasional paper: The interesting home life of the Blue-Ringed Octopus (Crooked Timber) The female Blue-Ringed Octopus would eat a male if she had the chance, so the male bites her and paralyzes her so that he can escape after mating.  It's the evolutionary equivalent of a roofie,
• Monopoly Round-Up: The Week Everyone Realized Apple Is Decaying (The Big Newsletter) Everyone's favorite monopolist is over-promising and under-delivering on AI.
• US government blocks Canadian access to border-straddling library (Reuters) This is incredibly petty, but not in any way a surprise.
• Archivists Recreate Pre-Trump CDC Website, Are Hosting It in Europe (404 Media) The website is http://restoredcdc.org/.
• States try to limit private equity in health care (Axios) Because PE destroys everything that it touches.
• How to Evade Taxes in Ancient Rome? A 1,900-Year-Old Papyrus Offers a Guide (New York Times) I love the use of tax records for archeology.  Nothing is truer than them.
• Inside My Year-Long Attempt to Date Conservative Men (Cosmopolitan) Reporter goes undercover and dates men she contacted on right wing dating sites. Finds lonliness, insecurity, and pathos.
• A 108-Million-Year-Old Bone Just Rewrote Our Understanding of the World’s Strangest Mammal (Sci Tech Daily) The echidnas, the platypus's weird cousin evolutionary cousin, appears to have developed from an aquatic egg laying mammal as well.

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