Linkage

• Biotech firm creates fake rhino horn to reduce poaching (Digital Journal) Ebay did this to people who stole from archeological sites. There was a flood of counterfeits, and prices dropped, and the numbewr of counterfeits skyrocketed, and people got out of the business.
• Barack Obama Readies For Final TPP Push, Which Could Benefit Presidential Library Donors (International Business Times) Much like his policies, Obama's corruption is pedestrian and incrementalist.
• Luxembourg Puts Journalist and Whistleblowers On Trial for Ruining Its “Magical Fairyland” of Tax Avoidance (The Intercept) Luxemburg's only real industry is money laundering, so they are trying to throw people who reveal this fact in jail.
• Microsoft Windows 95 on Apple Watch (Business Insider) The award for the person having too much free time award goes to………
• Cracker Jack's Prize In The Box Will Now Be Digitized : The Two-Way (NPR)This sucks wet farts from dead pigeons
• How Big Data Harms Poor Communities (The Atlantic)  Big data is the surveillance state privatized, and the surveillance state is about keeping down the poor and minorities. QED.
• Paul Ryan Wants To Kill Me (Cognitive Dissidence) Author is in treatment for cancer, and notes that Ryan's desire to return to the bad old days of pre-existing conditions would have him dead.
• Wifi hotspot with 'threatening name' grounds flight in Australia (The Independent) Naming your WiFi network to tether your laptop to your phone, "Mobile Detonation Device," is not a smart thing if you intend to use it while at the airport.
• I tried Go Cubes chewable coffee, and I'm pretty sure this is what cocaine feels like (The Next Web) This will not end well .

This is still the creepiest music video that I've ever seen: