What I saw on the web on 2022.5.9

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1. The Platypus Conspiracy
   by Ze Frank
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9FRxokO2so
   those platypodes! so sneaky!
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2. The impotence of the long-distance trillionaire
   by Charlie Stross
   http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2022/05/the-impotence-of-the-long-dist.html
   asking what the utility of billionaires is. a fair quesiton.
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3. What's the Bisector of a Tesseract
   by Flying Colours Maths
   https://www.flyingcoloursmaths.co.uk/ask-uncle-colin-the-bisector-of-a-tesseract/
   a fun little four-dimensional geometry problem
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4. Does Zero Covid In China Work?
   by Ian Welsh
   https://www.ianwelsh.net/does-zero-covid-in-china-work/
   this is assuming information out of China is correct, which it might be!
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5. Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
   by Douglas Rushkoff
   https://rushkoff.medium.com/escape-fantasies-of-the-tech-billionaires-e99bba601418
   another book to read sometime
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6. You're not allowed in this cave. But there's a copy.
   by Tom Scott
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zJbi9YatcA
   when is a copy better than the original?
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