• Barack Obama’s Great Tower of Nothing: Gentrification on a Presidential Level (Counterpunch) How Obama’s quest for legacy, and his Presidential center, will demolish some of Frederick Law Olmsted’s greatest work.
• I spent the day in an Amazon “fulfilment centre”, and it was worse than I ever imagined (New Statesman)  And this was a press junket, aka “Petting Zoo” tour.
• Russia’s Biggest Problem Will Soon Be Ours (Rolling Stone) I profoundly disagree with Taibbi here:  Population decline can make things better for people in the US, it just makes our informal empire less tenable.
• We’re Not Gluten Intolerant, We’re Glyphosate Intolerant (Return to Now) It turns out that reactions to Glyophosphate (Roundup^®) are almost identical to gluten issues, and farmers drench their fields with the stuff a week before harvest so that they can harvest all at once.
• China’s Second Aircraft Carrier Sails Closer to Joining the Fleet (War Is Boring) China’s first indigenous carrier starts sea trials, still STOBAR, but at 55,000 tons it’s about 20% larger than the Liaoning.
• SkyKnit: How an AI Took Over an Adult Knitting Community (The Atlantic) Skyknit ……… heh.  This pun must be shared.
• Racial slur spelled out at high school halftime (Atlanta Journal—Constitution) The team’s mascot is the “Broncos”.  They spelled out the word with the middle 4 letters.  Welcome to Trump world.

Some appropriate music for the end of the campaign season: