Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule (www.newyorker.com)
After seeing a different article about the muskrat’s dad whining about this New Yorker article, I went to find it. Didn’t appear that anyone had already posted it here. Long live the Striesand Effect....
Right to repair’s unlikely new adversary: Scientologists (arstechnica.com)
Wealthy Family Wants to Reopen Major Industrial Polluter in Alabama Despite Mounting Debts and Proposed Regulation (www.propublica.org)
UK says a supersonic Russian bomber likely to have been destroyed in drone attack (www.reuters.com)
Aug 22 (Reuters) - British military intelligence said on Tuesday that a weekend drone attack on an airfield deep inside Russia which Moscow blamed on Ukraine is highly likely to have destroyed a nuclear-capable TU-22M3 supersonic long-range bomber....
A Christian Crowdfunding Site Has a White-Power Problem (www.rollingstone.com)
The crowdfunding platform preferred by Trump’s alleged co-conspirators is also a hit with neo-Nazis
A California Wine Company Had to Destroy 2,000 Bottles of Wine After Illegally Aging Them at the Bottom of the Ocean (www.foodandwine.com)
The problem — and this is a significant one — was that the company’s owners never received the proper permits from the California Coastal Commission or the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which turned that “perfect environment” into an illegal one....
New Covid vaccines are on the way as 'Eris' variant rises (www.reuters.com)
The Nerdiest Game Ever (plbrault.com)
You’re an operating system.
S.Korean experts seek to verify room-temperature superconductor claim (www.reuters.com)
Doctors Emerge as Political Force in Battle Over Abortion Laws in Ohio and Elsewhere (www.propublica.org)
A jargon-free explanation of how AI large language models work (arstechnica.com)
Kamala Harris embraces new attack role, draws fresh Republican fire (www.reuters.com)
Android phones can now tell you if there’s an AirTag following you (arstechnica.com)
