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Day two of Certified Scrum Master training starts in just a few minutes (more on that later), so I've queued up a bunch of articles to read this weekend:

• The climate prediction center forecasts a warm, dry fall for Illinois followed by a normal winter.
• Reactions to Trump dumping Russian stooge Paul Manfort in favor of right-wing nutjob Steve Bannon are pretty consistent: here's Fallows and Bloomberg, for starters, plus analysis from the Times and Marshall on how Trump's support is declining even among his key demographic group, angry old white men.
• Trump got his first intelligence briefing and concluded that he doesn't trust intelligence. We knew that already, but this is more pointed.
• Economist Joseph Stiglitz thinks the Euro is a failure. Krugman got there years ago.
• Asra Taylor, writing in New Republic, worries about the loss of the democratic urge. So do I.
• Pacific Standard has a new look at the Prisoner's Dilemma.
• A new AI is detecting depression on Instagram feeds.

Training begins again...