Weekend reading

1. This is indeed what cyber warfare will look like. Stay tuned, but people may not know its happened until years after it’s too late.
2. “Transwomen are to women…” and an economist on how s/he transitioned and knew she “succeeded”: men ignored her ideas.
3. This Argentinian hitchhiked across 90+ countries to meet people and understand our common humanity.
4. Alcohol is not good for sleep and melatonin for sleeping.
5. A math-economist on markets and complexity.
6. Zuckerberg won’t fire himself on handling the world’s “social network utility.” It would be better if he did and Facebook was reorganized as a non-profit that served its users instead of its advertisers (and Russians).
7. “The brilliance of the Russian move is to make domestic failure into foreign policy success. No one in Russia thinks that Russia is a success in conventional terms. What their leaders want them to believe is that everyone else is also a failure.“
8. Manipulating Amazon’s book rankings (and revenues), a romance.
9. Rural Arizona flounders as its farmers pump aquifers dry and residents “cope,” unable to find consensus or pass a law on sustainable use.
10. The Dutch governing coalition says it “needs 2 years” to write a law for deposits on bottles and cans (as a means of reducing litter), in the meantime “hoping industry can fix this.” What a failure of public service.

H/T to DL