Welcome back to the Stove Top weekly newsletter. This one’s coming a bit late and I want to save my writing energy for some other blogs I want to write, so strictly links for this edition.

Enjoy.

Extras

• Chinese Bitcoin mines are drawing national security scrutiny.

• Americans really need more friends.

• It really shouldn’t be so hard to teach kids how to read.

• Stop helicopter parents 2023.

• The EU is a privacy advocate’s nightmare.

• The CIA occasionally does undemocratic things.

• Police tech surveillance is out of control.

• 80% of grades given at Harvard are A’s. You go to those schools not for a better education, but a title.

• The US wants you to stop paying hacker ransoms.

• NYC wants to embrace AI.

• No cartoonist should be getting sacked for shit like this. Cancel thee, not me.

• Our air is probably dirtier than you even thought.

• Inflation is just yuck.

• If you’re planning to commit a crime, wipe your Google search data first.

• Could economists be to blame for inequality?

• The chip wars continue.

• If you want to buy a house, you better have some family money.

• That nice Asian IT worker you hired might be funding North Korea’s weapons program.

Until next time, ✌️

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