- This podcast on American supermarkets has an interesting (sad) discussion of how government farm programs have distorted what’s grown, what Americans eat, and their health problems.
- Around 95 percent of crypto currency trades are fake, which reveals that some “shitcoins” are really
shitfrauds and that markets are actually working more efficiently than incorrect data show. (Read the full analysis .) - 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.”
- Go to Coney Island to see humanity in all its glorious variations
- Scammers are buying old sites with inbound links from reliable sites (think NY Times to Aguanomics.com) b/c they can fill the old sites with spam.
- The eighteenth-century “reclamation” of Paris was brutal
- Norwegian territory of Svalbard allows anyone to live there, theoretically.
- A great podcast on reading books and learning
- Insights into Pakistan’s Imran Khan and Turkey’s pivot to its past
- The ethics and aesthetics of garbage