- The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill | WIRED — The details here are interesting, but the larger point —entrenched interests don’t like to listen— is as old as the species.
- eBay will enact a sex ban starting June 15th – The Verge — As sexual material continues to be culled from major social platforms, I don’t want to hear any complaining from Trumpists and anti-vaxxers and religious conservatives about being canceled or deplatformed… it’s been happening to those of us in the world of online sexuality for decades, and y’all never gave a whiff of a shit.
- Maryland car erupts in flames after driver smokes cigarette while using hand sanitizer, officials say | Fox News — This is the essence of Fox News, in its most innocuous form. A trash-news story with zero relevance to a nationwide audience with an aside —cigarettes are regulated but hand sanitizer isn’t, GASP!— inserted in the body of the article, turning something stupid into a dog-whistle.
- We Found Joe Biden’s Secret Venmo. Here’s Why That’s A Privacy Nightmare For Everyone — Gen Z will be the most exposed and exploited generation in human history. They’ll learn from the experience and protect their children from the same fate —and probably go overboard in the process, as latch-key Gen Xers did when they turned into helicopter parents— but that won’t make the next fifteen years any more pleasant.
