{"id":175542,"date":"2021-01-25T05:58:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T10:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/01\/25\/linkage-5\/"},"modified":"2021-01-25T05:58:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T10:58:00","slug":"linkage-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/01\/25\/linkage-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20210115\/11494946065\/reform-works-first-time-ever-newark-cops-go-entire-year-without-firing-their-guns-being-sued.shtml\">Reform Works: For The First Time EVER, Newark Cops Go An Entire Year Without Firing Their Guns, Being Sued<\/a> (<i>Techdirt<\/i>) Police reform saves money and lives.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2021\/01\/why-cats-are-crazy-catnip\">Why cats are crazy for catnip<\/a> (<i>AAAS<\/i>) Short version, it may have evolved to allow cats to apply the insect repellent chemicals present in the plants.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamaneurology\/fullarticle\/2775589\">Absent  Blood Oxygen Level\u2013Dependent Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging  Activation of the Orbitofrontal Cortex in a Patient With Persistent  Cacosmia and Cacogeusia After COVID-19 Infection<\/a> (<i>JAMA Neurology<\/i>) A mouthful, but the short version is that there is evidence of changes in brain function, not just something like effects on peripheral nerves.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/are-the-persian-gulf-city-states-slave-societies\">Are the Persian Gulf city-states slave societies?<\/a> (<i>Aeon<\/i>) This has been transparently obvious for years.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jacobinmag.com\/2021\/01\/hunts-point-workers-strike-victory-teamsters-local-202\/\">Hunts Point Workers Went on Strike and Won<\/a> (<i>Jacobin<\/i>) Employees at the largest food distribution operation went on strike and won.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_29460_peacocks-weird-method-streaming-the-office-drives-fans-back-to-dvds.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20CrackedRSS%20%28Cracked%3A%20All%20Posts%29\">&#8216;Peacock&#8217;s&#8217; Weird Method of Streaming &#8216;The Office&#8217; Drives Fans Back To DVD&#8217;s<\/a> (<i>Cracked<\/i>) The advent of easy and cheap streaming in the early 2000s led to a massive reduction of file sharing and the like.&nbsp; Studios trying to extract every single cent are bringing it back.&nbsp; (DVDs are a proxy for &#8220;piracy&#8221; in the story)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2021\/01\/22\/sen-tom-cotton-campaigned-on-his-experience-as-an-army-ranger--but-he-didnt-have-any\/\">Sen. Tom Cotton campaigned on his &#8220;experience as an Army Ranger&#8221; \u2014 but he didn&#8217;t have any<\/a> (<i>Salon.com<\/i>) Short version:&nbsp; He took a course available to everyone with the word &#8220;Ranger&#8221; in the title.&nbsp; Stolen valor is the technical term.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What crimes were committed when the Capitol was stormed?&nbsp; A lawyer has the answers:<br \/><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\/Ct3XOs7nQ38\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reform Works: For The First Time EVER, Newark Cops Go An Entire Year Without Firing Their Guns, Being Sued (Techdirt) Police reform saves money and lives. Why cats are crazy for catnip (AAAS) Short version, it may have evolved to allow cats to apply the insect repellent chemicals present in the plants.&nbsp; Absent Blood Oxygen &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-175542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175542"}],"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=175542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}