{"id":175457,"date":"2021-02-11T05:42:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T10:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/02\/11\/linkage-2\/"},"modified":"2021-02-11T05:42:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T10:42:00","slug":"linkage-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/02\/11\/linkage-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/jgqk38\/the-right-to-repair-movement-is-poised-to-explode-in-2021\">The Right to Repair Movement Is Poised to Explode in 2021<\/a> (<i>Vice<\/i>)&nbsp; I certainly hope so.&nbsp; Vendor lock-in is a parasitic drag on the economy.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2021-02-01\/hollywood-sign-hollyboob-six-arrested\">Six arrested after changing Hollywood sign to &#8216;Hollyboob&#8217;<\/a> (<i>Los Angeles Times<\/i>) I love non-destructive pranks like this, but who is Holly?&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2021\/02\/warning-if-your-business-depends-on-a-platform-you-dont-have-a-business.html\">Warning: If Your Business Depends on a Platform, You Don&#8217;t Have a Business<\/a> (<i>naked capitalism<\/i>) Why the major platforms should be strictly regulated.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20210204\/03061046181\/microsoft-offers-to-break-web-desperate-attempt-to-get-somebody-to-use-widely-ignored-bing-search-engine.shtml\">Microsoft Offers To Break The Web In A Desperate Attempt To Get Somebody To Use Its Widely-Ignored Bing Search Engine<\/a> (<i>Techdirt<\/i>) Not entirely true.&nbsp; Bing is quite popular when looking for titty pictures. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tribunemag.co.uk\/2021\/02\/the-marxist-rupert-murdoch\">The Marxist Rupert Murdoch<\/a> (<i>Tribune Magazine<\/i>)&nbsp; About German publisher Willi M\u00fcnzenberg, who created a left wing media empire in the interwar years. (Spoiler, he hated Stalin)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.trust.org\/item\/20210206130955-iure3\">Cuba opens door to most small business initiatives<\/a> (<i>Trust.org<\/i>) It seems a positive step, so I expect the bull headed Cuban expats to find a way to throw a monkey wrench into the works.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordonthegrapevine.co.uk\/biodynamics-ecofascism-populism-nazis\/\">Biodynamics\u2019 dirty secret: ecofascism, karmic racism and the Nazis<\/a> (<i>Word on the Grapevine<\/i>)&nbsp; Always thought that the science was dodgy.&nbsp; It appears that the sociology is too.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.creditslips.org\/creditslips\/2021\/02\/nra-examiner-motion.html\">NRA Examiner Motion<\/a> (<i>Credit Slips<\/i>) It appears that the managers at the National Rifle Association never bothered to even tell the board about the bankruptcy filing, and so a board member wants an independent audit.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/feb\/09\/texas-lawyer-zoom-cat-filter-kitten\">Texas lawyer, trapped by cat filter on Zoom call, informs judge he is not a cat<\/a> (<i>The Guardian<\/i>) Video, released by the judge, below.&nbsp; I think that cat filters should be required on all Zoom calls.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is beautiful: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lGOofzZOyl8\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Right to Repair Movement Is Poised to Explode in 2021 (Vice)&nbsp; I certainly hope so.&nbsp; Vendor lock-in is a parasitic drag on the economy. Six arrested after changing Hollywood sign to &#8216;Hollyboob&#8217; (Los Angeles Times) I love non-destructive pranks like this, but who is Holly?&nbsp; Warning: If Your Business Depends on a Platform, You &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[376],"class_list":["post-175457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}