Linkage

• U.S. judge dismisses challenge to Seattle's Uber, Lyft union law (Business Insider) The Sociopaths at Uber lose in Court.
• I Peeked Into My Node_Modules Directory And You Won’t Believe What Happened Next (Medium)
• It’s true. Each installation of Babel includes a picture of Guy Fieri, and there is nothing you can do about it.
• Putin Calls Out Rigged US Democracy (Waking Times) Nice troll, Vladimir.
• A New Wireless Hack Can Unlock 100 Million Volkswagens (Wired) All while spewing out more pollution than is allowed.
• Jeremy Corbyn: I fear my cat is a Tory (The Telegraph) Cats tend to be politically conservative, because they genetically selfish and amoral.  It's why we love cats.  It's far less endearing when it comes from human beings.
• I Spent My Summer Tracking Down Government Records About the Red Cross (ProPublica) A very nice description of the effective application of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. It is also a very useful primer on the proper application of these requests.

A righteous rant on the absurd restrictions on Olympics Coverage


H/t TPM.