Featured Links - May 10, 2020

Links to things I found interesting but didn't want to do a full post about.

• LockBit, the new ransomware for hire: A sad and cautionary tale. You've probably never heard of LockBit, but that's likely to change.
• ‘A Bomb in the Center of the Climate Movement’: M. ichael Moore Damages Our Most Important Goal. Climate scientist Bill McKibben exposes the many failings of Michael Moore's latest movie. 
• How Self-Driving Telescopes Could Transform Astronomy. "Astronomers and physicists continue to pursue the answers to the universe’s deepest questions, but on many matters, including dark matter and dark energy, they are stymied. What if an autonomously operating telescope, free from human biases and complications, could find the solutions we’ve been missing?"
• Who Invented the Wheel? And How Did They Do It? The wagon—and the wagon wheel—could not have been put together in stages. Either it works, or it doesn’t. And it enabled humans to spread rapidly into huge parts of the world.
• All Hail Comet Swan, The ‘Best Comet In Years.’ It Could Soon Be Visible To The Naked Eye. Let's hope that it pans out; comets often don't.
• 7 Things I Liked About David Lynch's Dune (and 8 I Didn't). Pretty much on point. 
• 'We are living through the first economic crisis of the Anthropocene'. "Forget the butterfly effect, this is the bat effect – our stranglehold on nature has unleashed the coronavirus outbreak. And the pandemic is forcing us to rethink how to run our networked world."