- The man controlling Russian media (for Putin)
- If you’re interested in “fair” water pricing, then read this paper [pdf] on Nairobi’s system: “we find that high-income residential and nonresidential customers receive a disproportionate share of subsidies and that subsidy targeting is poor even among households with a private metered connection.”
- “Why should migrants respect borders when we didn’t respect theirs?” Good question.
- GMO crops in Spain/Portugal increased profits, and lowered herbicide, insecticide and diesel use. Adopt!
- Google and Amazon allow you to opt out of spying — a little.
- George Orwell’s 1984 is ever more relevant: “The crucial issue was not that Trump might abolish democracy but that Americans had put him in a position to try. Unfreedom today is voluntary. It comes from the bottom up.”
- A fantastic hitjob on Uber, a company that’s taken $70 billion from gullible investors who bought the “Uber Technologies, Inc. operates as a technology platform for people and things mobility” lie.
- American rivers are too full (climate disruption!) for barges to move. Chaos in the Midwest. Will they vote for “Mr Coal Trump” again? (Don’t let USACE near this problem — they caused it with all the channeling, etc.)
- The mathematics of digital compression
- A Dutch researcher wins the “Borlaug food prize” for suppling better seeds to millions of small farmers.
H/T to DL