Linkage

• It’s no surprise that the Kansas tax cut experiment failed to create jobs (Equitable Growth) The Austerity Fairy once more fails to deliver.
• Australia announces plan to ban working cryptography at home and in the US, UK, New Zealand, and Canada (Boing Boing) Morons.
• Why Wall Street Isn't Useful for the Real Economy (Evonomics) My point for a while, and given the explosion of interconnected networks, probably more true today than it was yesterday.
• Judges refuse to order fix for court software that put people in jail by mistake (Ars Technica) Live in obedient fear, citizen.
• Solving the heroin overdose mystery: how small doses can kill (Aeon Ideas) Basically, even small doses in a novel environment (for example going from a private to a public setting) increases the chance of opioid overdose.
• Meet Rare Sea Wolves Who Live Off The Ocean And Can Swim For Hours (Bored Panda) Nature in all its glory.
• Testimony: Shkreli’s plans to fleece patients is what hooked big investors (Ars Technica) This is not about Martin Shkreli.  It's about business, and particularly finance, in the United States basing their entire business of immorality, rent seeking, and deception.
• Pando: The State of Pando 2017: Dropping the paywall on stories from the Silicon Valley Swamp (Pando) This is a big deal. They are, "Dropping our paywall on all stories that involve harassment, discrimination and any of the other swampy behavior plaguing Silicon Valley." Here's hoping that their revenue stream remains intact.

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