• What cats’ love of boxes and squares can tell us about their visual perception (Ars Technica) Kitteh!
• Why Cats Knock Your Stuff Over—and How to Stop Them (Lifehacker) Moar Kitteh!
• ‘Like Uber, but for cremations’: I created a $2m funeral startup – and became a monster (The Guardian) Silicon Valley startup culture is a petri dish for sociopathy.
• How to Avoid ‘Zoom Dick’ Incidents During Zoom Calls at Work (Gizmodo) We live in strange times.
• Alien plants: The search for photosynthesis on other worlds (New Scientist) Photosynthesis polarizes light, and by detecting polarized light, we might be able to detect photosynthesis.
• Pentagon chief says removal of all contractors from Afghanistan under way (Reuters) If they are removing the contractors, then getting out of Afghanistan is real.
• 96% of US users opt out of app tracking in iOS 14.5, analytics find (Ars Technica) Why making tracking “opt-in” is so important.
• Biggest ISPs paid for 8.5 million fake FCC comments opposing net neutrality (Ars Technica) And Ajit Pai knew about this. Frog march him out of his offices.
• Small Modular Nuclear Reactors Are Mostly Bad Policy  (CleanTechnica) They multiply the security costs, and the waste issues, and provide no meaningful economies of scale.

A nice primer on Stochastic Terrorism (14 min):