12/31/17 Overnight links

The Intercept: Facebook says it is deleting accounts at the direction of the U.S. and Israeli governments

ABC News: Artificial intelligence is learning from our encounters with nature–and that’s a concern

Economic Times: The fight for privacy in this connected age

Sky News: Surveillance devices hidden in everyday items

The Nation: Russiagate is devolving into an effort to stigmatize dissent

Library of Economics and Liberty: Bombing makes people mad

Cato: Gasoline on a fire: why arms sales to the Ukraine are a really bad idea

The New Republic: The decline of debate on college campuses

Defense News: 2018 Pentagon priority: Speeding up foreign weapons sales

Reason: Three things to like about 2017

Forbes: Big Data: Back to the future

NY Mag: What the NYT UFO story actually reveals

The Guardian: E-cigs are definitely safer than smoking

Forbes: A trip to Alpha Centauri would change the world

Zero Hedge: Pot industry revitalizes entire Canadian town’s economy

The Sun: Psychedelic drug LSD set for comeback as workers turn to ‘microdosing’ to boost brainpower

NYT: Santa is a psychedelic mushroom Ed: Slightly dated but glorious

Author: S. Smith