[BLOG] Some Saturday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Charlie Stross at Antipope looks at the catastrophe that a United Kingdom bent on Brexit despite itself is heading for.


• Crooked Timber takes a look at the collapse in Bitcoin prices and sees what this might mean for financial markets and speculation more generally.


• D-Brief looks at the discovery of tools made by ancient humans in China.


• L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing considers the consequences--the prices to be paid--as technology transforms the way we see the world, into a collection of manipulable entities.


• JSTOR Daily considers how the mutilated veterans of the First World War, and their masks, changed the culture of the post-war world.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money suggests trying to cater to white racism in the United States based on a misunderstanding of class structure is mistaken, in multiple ways.


• The Map Room Blog links to a site tracking in detail the many different wildfires of California.


• Marginal Revolution, looking at the remarkable power of artificial intelligence to discover unknown relationships, considers it as an alien intelligence. What might it do?


• The NYR Daily, inspired by the horrors in Xinjiang being inflicted on the Uighurs, looks at the relationship in China more generally between that country and Islam.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why quantum mechanics are necessary to explain the sun's fusion.


• Arnold Zwicky, noting a recent news report mistakenly claiming the death of Spike Lee, examines the mechanics of misremembering names.