• Golfer’s ball lands on top of alligator at SC golf course (Fort Worth Star-Telegram) Surprisingly, not Florida, and it turns out that he did not have to take a penalty for moving the ball.
•  Facebook job ads algorithm still discriminates on gender, LinkedIn not so much (The Register) This is deliberate, because Facebook knows its algorithms.  Providing a beard for bigotry is a part of their business model.
• Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier’ Is in Trouble, New Data Shows (Gizmodo) The Thwaites Glacier, the most unstable ice field in Antarctica, is more unstable than previously thought.  Its collapse could raise sea levels by nearly a meter.
• The rice of the sea: how a tiny grain could change the way humanity eats (The Guardian) A Spanish chef has discovered that the grain from the Zostera marin a sea grass is both edible and tasty.  It grows quickly, and does not require fresh water.
• Prolonged Isolation Can Lead to the Creation of New Accents (Atlas Obscura) The results of a study of language in Antarctica.  Would apply to any isolated community.
• Amazon Can Only Claim Their Jobs Are Decent Because American Work Has Gotten So Miserable (Jacobin)  Clearly true.  There has been a race to the bottom in working conditions for decades.
• How Lil Nas X Flipped Conservatives’ Culture-War Playbook (POLITICO) Short version:  Conservatives live to, “Own the libs,” and Lil Naz X has flipped this in his latest song.  I am amused. 
• Swatch of Wright Brothers Flyer 1 Attached to Mars Helicopter (NASA) I do not know if this is cool or pretentious.

 

I don’t know if John Oliver realizes it, but he just not-so-inadvertently endorsed Modern Monetary Theory.  Also, “Oh, yeah — the clock was put up by that Durst family. The bathroom murder burp Dursts.”