“Is California Bailing Out Tesla through the Backdoor?” and other tweeted links…

Is California Bailing Out Tesla through the Backdoor? [wolfstreet.com]

Bank Profits Near Pre-Crisis Peak in U.S. Despite All the Rules [bloomberg.com]

Why Corrupt Bankers Avoid Jail [newyorker.com]

Jimmy Carter: The U.S. Is an “Oligarchy with Unlimited Political Bribery” [theintercept.com] » @breakingbrown

Towing illegally parked RVs is a challenge for local cities [abc7.com]

At Amazon, the Bathroom is an Extension of the Office (2015) [motherboard.vice.com] » @breakingbrown

Norway, where no salaries are secret [bbc.co.uk]

Why Capitalism Is Just Shitbag Science [medium.com]

Wisconsin company to offer microchip implants to its employees [kstp.com]

A world of free movement would be $78 trillion richer [economist.com]

My new 90 sec animated video on the Racial Wealth Gap [youtube.com] @tmshapiro @SandyDarity @inequalityorg @amandacox @MattBruenig

BBC - Capital - The gig economy of the 18th Century [bbc.com]

Accounts of the financial crisis leave out the dollar swap deals between banks [prospectmagazine.co.uk]

Monopoly [board game] was invented to demonstrate the evils of capitalism [aeon.co] » @breakingbrown

NASA is uploading hours of aerospace history on YouTube [theverge.com]

A Rare-Book Thief Who Looted College Libraries in the ’80s [atlasobscura.com]

Salacious Convent Exposés Were the Most Popular Books in Antebellum America [atlasobscura.com]

4 Radical Black British Social Movements You Should Know [okayafrica.com]

[]( "Africa Facts [affricanfacts]") "The biggest evil done to Africa was not the slave trade or colonization, but the systematic programming of the mental faculty of Africans."

Neuroscientist @DrCarlHart: People Are Dying in Opioid Crisis Because of Politicians’ Ignorance [democracynow.org] via @democracynow

young bruh, fitness and medical devices will also allow a whole new level of racism by measuring with precision genotypes

Why Brilliant Girls Tend to Favor Non-STEM Careers [psychologytoday.com]

Yet another round of flaring at refineries in Torrance and Wilmington [dailybreeze.com]

German energy company wants to build flow batteries in old natural gas caverns [arstechnica.com]

Archaeologists Discover the World’s First “Art Studio” Created in an Ethiopian Cave 43,000 Years Ago [openculture.com]

Nine lifestyle changes can reduce dementia risk, study says [bbc.com]

Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made [advances.sciencemag.org]

The Emerging Science of Computational Psychiatry [technologyreview.com]

I hacked my body for a future that never came [theverge.com]

The Illuminating Geometry of Viruses [quantamagazine.org]

Ways that language betrays character [bbc.com]

Many of the best Scrabble players are Thais who don't speak English (2014) [thestar.com.my]

China's Xinjiang Residents Are Being Forced to Install Surveillance App [globalvoices.org]

As California’s labor shortage grows, farmers replace workers with robots [latimes.com]

Photo of Weeping Police Officer Moves Kenyans: [allafrica.com] #Kenya [twitter.com]

[thevinylfactory.com]

Keith Wilder, founder of the band Heatwave, has passed away. 🙏🏾 #RIPKeithWilder [bit.ly] [twitter.com]

The Tyranny of Other People’s Vacation Photos (2016) [nytimes.com]

A New Kind of Adultery Novel [newyorker.com]

Discovering the Brilliance of Hélio Oiticica [newyorker.com]

One woman has stirred the pot at Ben’s Chili Bowl for 40 years. Her name is Peaches. [wapo.st] [twitter.com]

12 tiny house hotels to try out micro living - Curbed [curbed.com]

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