• The Climate Solution Actually Adding Millions of Tons of CO2 Into the Atmosphere (ProPublica) This is a feature, not a bug.  Allowing Wall Street types to game the system is a the goal of all cap and trade and offset systems.  It’s how they get paid.
• Amazon Fake Reviews Scam Exposed in Data Breach (Safety Detectives)  With a company as sociopathically devoted to knowing everything about its vendors and customers, one can only conclude that this market for fake reviews proceeded with the tacit approval of Amazon.
• How Tech Loses Out over at Companies, Countries and Continents (Bert Hubert) How manufacturing and technology are displaced by sales and financialization in western businesses.
• FTC Report Finds Manufacturers’ Repair Restrictions Unwarranted (iFixit) Right to Repair now.
• Jeff Bezos’s $500 Million Yacht Comes With Its Own Yacht (The Cut) I want to go long on Guillotine futures.
• U.S. Tariffs Drive Drop in Chinese Imports – WSJ Econ 101.  It does not mean that the production moved back to the US, it moved to other import sources, so the costs, largely, though not entirely, fell on the Chinese.
• Autonomous Taxi Goes Rogue, Escapes From Rescue Crew (Futurism) Quite educational, particularly the references to other times they had to rescue the car with humans.

Here is said robot taxi going terminator (at about 26 minutes)