Linkage

• McDonald’s Let People Name Their Own Burger Creations and of Course It Backfired Hilariously (22 Words) Why do they keep trying this?
• Plantations Practiced Modern Management (Harvard Business Review) The point is not that plantations were like modern management, it is that modern management is like plantations.
• Humpback whales around the globe are mysteriously rescuing animals from orcas (Mother Nature Network) It's a good thing that Kirk, Spock, and McCoy saved them.
• Cities Need More Public Transit, Not More Uber and Self-Driving Cars (Truth Out) File this under, "Well, Duh!"
• Landlord installs Faraday cage to block phone signals because social media is ruining British pubs (The Telegraph) A few years back this was an April Fools joke, and now it is reality.
• India is abandoning Monsanto’s GM cotton for indigenous varieties (New Europe) The Monsanto crops are too expensive, and losing their effectiveness against pests.
• Best joint-roller in the world earns $1000s for his creations (Boing Boing) Smokable joint art, including "Smokemon Go". 

Have some climate change inaction figures:

H/t DC at the Stellar Parthenon BBS.