Linkage

• Private Schools Are Bad for Society (Hamilton Nolan) A cogent argument that private schools are a major contributor to numerous societal ills.
• Queen Elizabeth I Owned Two Thousand Dresses. Only a Scrap of One Remains (Vanity Fair) (Archive.is link) It's a wonderful piece of embroidery.
• AI: EU Member States plan “digital expropriation” of Europeans in the interest of AI companies Attempting to sell out consumer data protections.
• Volkswagen ejected from European blue-chip index in blow to crisis-hit carmaker (Financial Times) Yeah, Germany is finally suffering what inflicted on other EU members. (Archive.is link)
• Network science reveals the structure and lasting impact of the Roman road system (Nature Communications) An interesting analysis of the Roman road network from the perspective of networks,
• Navy's shipyard revamp could cost more than $200 billion: GAO (Breaking Defense) A 10-fold increase.  And we wonder why the Chinese navy is catching up.
• Scientists Found a Deep-Sea ‘Death Pool’ That Vanished. It May Show How Earth's First Life Survived (Gizmodo) Pre oxygen life on earth is reflected in these oxygen free pools.
• New York Sues Polymarket, Accuses It of Running an "Illegal Gambling" Operation (Futurism) They have already sued Kalshi, so this is welcome but not surprising.
• Los Angeles Has a Flea Problem—and It's Fueling Typhus Outbreaks (Gizmodo) Typhus?  Welcome to the 3rd world.
• The anthropogenic fingerprint on emerging infectious diseases (Nature) Climate change is finding another way to kill us.
• Oracle credit default swaps hit record high as AI debt worries mount (Seeking Alpha) The banksters are now betting against Oracle.  Sweet!
• Private List Warns Woman of "Over a Hundred" Allegedly Predatory Men in Silicon Valley (Futurism) They really are the worst of us.

This is a fascinating look at Kubrick's use of light in Barry Lyndon