• Chris Christie’s Agonizing New Memoir (Rolling Stone) Matt Taibbi’s amusing essay on, “The inside story of the man who welcomed Donald Trump into the political mainstream and got nothing in return.”
• The government is using wrong data to make decisions about the internet (Recode) The FCC has consistently used, and presented, bad data in order to justify our dysfunctional for profit communications monopolies.
• President for the rich | The decline of Emmanuel Macron (Times Literary Supplement) I agree the characterizations, but that was clear from the start.  The question is, “How did he manage to put one over on the French public?”
• The company that promised a one-way ticket to Mars is bankrupt (The Verge) Not a surprise, Mars One Ventures was clearly a scam.
• Net Neutrality Oral Argument Highlights Problem For Pai: You Can’t Hide The Policy Implications Of Your Actions From Judges. (Wetmachine) Harold Feld, who was a part of the oral arguments in the net neutrality lawsuit, notes just how morally and legally vacuous FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s actions have been.
• NHTSA’s analysis of Tesla Autopilot safety was bad, but its coverup was worse. (The Drive) It turns out that the government analysis of Tesla’s Autopilot was flawed:  As opposed to a 40% reduction in crashes was actually a 2 fold increase in crashes.

An honest trailer for Star Trek: The Next Generation: