- Who is more dangerous: El Chapo or Carlos Slim? (The Guardian) I’ll pick the corrupt billionaire as being more dangerous. ……… Clear enough?
- “When You Get That Wealthy, You Start to Buy Your Own Bullsh%$”: The Miseducation of Sheryl Sandberg (Vanity Fair) The nature of wealth and power.
- Army’s long-awaited Iraq war study finds Iran was the only winner in a conflict that holds many lessons for future wars (Army Times) In related news, the sky is blue.
- Basecamp CEO Jason Fried says venture capital funding destroys startups (Recode) Venture capital is all about pump and dump.
- Greenland is approaching the threshold of an irreversible melt (Business Insider) We are f%$#ed.
- There Was Heavy Tech Lobbying On Article 13… From The Company Hoping To Sell Everyone The Filters (Techdirt) As always, “Cui bono.”
- Biden and Beto’s Aid to GOP Candidates Is Disqualifying (New York Magazine) They both effectively endorsed Republican Congressional candidates this cycle.
A horse in a hospital: