Linkage

• Zuckermuskian solipsism (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow) Money quote, "Billionaires just don't think we're real."
• Top Democrat Calls for Congressional Probe Into Ties Between Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Thiel (Gizmodo) A literal vampire palling around with a child sex trafficker.  Hoocoodanode? 
• Vaccine to Curb Chlamydia Devastating Koalas Approved - Human Progress No, an Aussie did not f%$# a koala.
• E-Paper Display Refresh Rate Reaches New Heights (IEEE Spectrum linkage) 75 Hz, which means that it can play video.  E-Paper draws power only when the screen changes.
• Spotify peeved after 10,000 users sold data to build AI tools (Ars Technica) Spotify wants to be the only one profiting off of user data.
• 60 years after Gemini, newly processed images reveal incredible details (Ars Technica) These are magnificent photographs.  Check them out.
• The Ocean’s Most Abundant Life Form May Not Survive Global Warming (Sci Tech Daily) Prochlorococcus, a cyanobacteria which is responsible for 5% of Earth’s photosynthesis are much more susceptible to rising temperatures than previously thought.
• Scientists Prove Justinian's Plague, which Continued through the Rise of Islam, was Caused by Y. Pestis (Juan Cole) Yep, the Back Death slammed the world many times.

It was aboriginal Americans who mined copper, any suggestion otherwise are an attempted "Enwhitement" of history: