No fool is to end the week and start the month in the morning WFH wrote:

• War gets weird: Half a century of IT innovation is now being used to disrupt. Technology has fundamentally changed the human experience of life in unintelligible and unexpected ways. Technology has made the world weird. Unfortunately, military technology is part of that. If you give humans new abilities, some of them will use those abilities to try to kill each other. (Noapignon)

• Robotic subscription service lets companies automate cheaply: This program is only $8 an hour and helps small businesses avoid high wages and labor shortages. (Work Week)

• Spam as a Service. If you’re curious about all these software-as-a-service startups spending billions of dollars in VC and IPO capital, I’ve figured it out. The answer is in my inbox. They take all that money, pay sales students a year post-college salaries, let them hit small business owners on LinkedIn, or guess the email addresses of people like me. It’s cold calling, but more lazy. (reform broker)

• Can house prices and interest rates skyrocket at the same time? Rising mortgage rates should lower house prices. But this time may be different. (New York Times)

• Did Sweden beat the epidemic by rejecting the lockdown?No, its record is disastrousA new study by European scientific researchers buries all of these claims in the ground. The study, published in the journal Nature, paints a devastating picture of Swedish policy and its impact. “Sweden’s response to the pandemic is unique, characterized by a laissez-faire approach that is morally, ethically and scientifically questionable,” the researchers report. (los angeles times) see also Covid success to covid disaster: what happened in Hong Kong? For two years, Hong Kong has been known for its relative success in containing the coronavirus. Strict measures, 3-week quarantines for travelers, lockdowns and curfews are part of the effort, even after much of the world has begun to coexist with the virus. But starting in February, Hong Kong’s defenses have faltered. (grid)

• How high energy prices can help the climate and America With Russian production shutting down, U.S. producers could gain market share even as the world accelerates toward renewable energy. (Wall Street Journal)

• Is geometry a language only humans know? Neuroscientists are exploring whether shapes like squares and rectangles—and our ability to recognize them—are part of what makes our species unique. (New York Times)

• terror balance A Cold War-era theorist argued that the only way to reduce the worst-case scenario is to know that the worst-case scenario is possible. (real life)

• How to choose your fragrance: We met in a high-rise building on Chicago’s South Loop. This is an airy glass space with views of Lake Michigan and the south side from multiple directions. We took our swimsuits for a swim in her building’s rooftop pool. But first we spread out the small bottle of perfume on her kitchen table and spritzed and smelled it for a long time. (paris review)

• Sex censorship in Silicon Valley hurts everyone: The post-FOSTA internet has often silenced sex workers, queer users and artists, thereby fueling puritanical ideas about sex. (wired)

Be sure to check out our Master of Business interview This weekend with Bill Gross, co-founder of PIMCO who manages the Total Return Fund, the largest mutual fund in the world at $293B. Gross advised the Treasury on the role of subprime mortgage bonds and was named Morningstar’s ten-year fund manager in 2010.

Renewable energy becomes the second most popular source of electricity in the U.S. in 2020

resource: U.S. Energy Information Administration

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