Linkage

• US – Europe Productivity Gap Is Mostly a Statistical Illusion (CEPR) Lies, damn lies, and statistics.
• The DJI Romo robovac had security so poor, this man remotely accessed thousands of them (The Verge) The internet of sh%$.
• Hackers Expose The Massive Surveillance Stack Hiding Inside Your “Age Verification” Check (Techdirt) Hoocoocanode that, "Could I have your date of birth, mother's maiden name, and last 4 of your social security number," could be insecure?
• Crypto Bros Nauseated After Realizing Bitcoin Itself Was Funded by Jeffrey Epstein (Futurism) Much Schadenfreude
• Bill Gates Admits to Multiple Affairs in Epstein Fallout (Futurism) We already knew this.  It's not that Gates or the other Epstein fellow travelers were pedophiles, they were just people who wanted to demonstrate their wealth and power through transgressing.
• Is "MAHA" Revenge for Theranos? (Pandemic Accountability Index) Yeah, Elizabeth Holmes is a martyr to the antivaxx crowd.
• China has planted so many trees around the Taklamakan Desert that it's turned this 'biological void' into a carbon sink (Live Science) But in the US, we have the lead in obscure financial instruments.
• Tesla’s Wile E. Coyote Moment Is Here (American Prospect) How can I not share a Warner Brothers animation reference?
• Kentucky man covered in fur arrested after allegedly being caught having sex with deer (Local 12 News) I have never partied that hard.
• ‘A beaver blind date’: animals given freedom to repopulate Cornish rivers (The Guardian) It's about the reintroduction of the dam building rodents into the UK.  Whoever wrote the hed just has a dirty mind.

This is tin-foil hat stuff, but at least it's not AI: