Microsoft acquires Github -- what could possibly go wrong? Regardless, Sourceforge feels that congratulations are in order.
Good recap from Dave Winer on the essential sleaziness of G**gle's push to eliminate http (via cosmic)
VISA's "war on cash" suffers setback when VISA payment system fails. I didn't know that Visa "rolled out a new US initiative in the summer of 2017 that offered to award 50 eligible retail businesses...up to $10,000 each if they committed to refusing cash payments." That's disgusting.
Notes on Heartache and Chaos, James Howard Kunstler. Nothing "new" here but well written.