A flurry of good pieces from The Intercept:
- Business is booming for U.K.’s spy tech industry
- Experts say keep Amazon’s Alexa away from your kids
- U.S. moves forward with multibillion-dollar “smart bomb” sale to Saudi Arabia and UAE despite Yemen civilian deaths
New York Times: Silicon Valley faces regulatory fight on its own turf
Seattle Times: ‘Smart’ meters in Washington state: convenience or potential invasion of privacy?
Nextgov: Boston Dynamics is going to start selling its creepy robots in 2019
Reason: In the U.S., there are 219,000 women behind bars
Washington Post: Parkland school officials refuse to release surveillance footage, continue lying to parents
The American Conservative: D.C. couldn’t beat Syria’s Assad, so it will punish his people
National Review: A powerful legal group changes the law while nobody’s looking
Cato: Immigrants consume less welfare than native-born Americans: Study
STEVE HORWITZ: The grocery store as an indicator of American progress
Big Think: Silicon Valley’s long obsession with LSD
VICE: What it’s like to take ayahuasca at a psychedelic healing retreat
