Package labeled ‘Bag Full of Drugs’ leads to Florida arrests AP

At least three die after Boeing 737 breaks into three pieces before bursting into flames in Istanbul Daily Mail (J-LS)/

Some Thoughts On the Business Roundtable’s Statement of Corporate Purpose RealClearMarkets. UserFriendly: “Sigh”.

Limited Liability Is Causing Unlimited Harm Project Syndicate (David L).

Ocean currents are speeding up faster than scientists predicted The Week (David L)

More Than a Thousand Scientists Have Built the Most Detailed Picture of Cancer Ever BBC

#2019-nCoV

Brexit

How the Brexit deal can be done FT

German state gets new governor, with far-right votes AP (GP).

China?

Global shares rally after China pledges tariff cuts on US goods FT

Thailand scraps China-led project to blast open Mekong River Reuters. “And also China had no funding for it.”

India

Impeachment

New Cold War

Trump Transition

2020

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Acronym, the dark money group behind the Iowa caucuses app meltdown, explained Recode. Deathless quote from a Democratic strategist:

“I don’t think they’re evil, but in their thirst to take over the world using a bunch of short-term donor money, they leveraged their political connections to get contracts that they didn’t have the expertise to fulfill,” one Democratic strategist told me.

Leaving open the question, then, of what Democratic strategists do consider evil….

“Far and away the most disorganized place I’ve ever been a part of”: Inside Acronym’s disastrous foray into the Iowa caucuses The Outline

A note to supporters of ACRONYM Tara McGowan (CEO), Medium. “Supporters,” yet. Tenacious T: “I just called this press conference to let everyone know that I am indeed the happiest and most fulfilled human who ever lived. Thank you.”

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Iowa chaos highlights threat of domestic misinformation The Hill. Yeah, you know. Lilke a candidate giving a victory speech when the official count reads zero (0):

So let me get this straight, The DNC hires Hillary staffers to make an app, Buttigieg is one of the main contributors, it fucks up the Iowa caucus, and just days before the DNC is looking for the word rigged on Twitter to quote 'stop disinformation'? Are you fucking kidding me? pic.twitter.com/cd7R4IaQDp — beth, purity test enthusiast (@bourgeoisalien) February 5, 2020

Class Warfare

Google Releases a Tool To Spot Faked and Doctored Images MIT Technology Review. Let the arms race begin!

Welfare Surveillance System Violates Human Rights, Dutch Court Rules Guardian

Scientists built an AI to figure out what the universe is made of NextWeb (David L)

Revolt, Populism, and Reaction Mercatus Center. Resilc: “Gurri is the best CIA analyst ever.”

Antidote du jour (via):

And a bonus:

If at first you don’t succeed pic.twitter.com/EaU8IWF8pt — Happy Cat (@HappyCatCentral) February 6, 2020

See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.