{"id":175914,"date":"2020-10-26T04:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T09:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/10\/26\/linkage-17\/"},"modified":"2020-10-26T04:48:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T09:48:00","slug":"linkage-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/10\/26\/linkage-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/inside-the-fall-of-the-cdc\">Inside the Fall of the CDC<\/a> (<i>ProPublica<\/i>) How the Trump administration politicized the center into irrelevance.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-45753455?fbclid=IwAR1ZgNqnJESR1-BLnhlz7EYYP9oSSu0g73PMiauriZSKmua48xvbJWcANY0\">Girl, 8, pulls a 1,500-year-old sword from a lake in Sweden<\/a> (<i>BBC<\/i>) I think that means that she is queen of the Geats.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2020\/10\/is-mcdonalds-ice-cream-machine-working-near-you-theres-a-bot-for-that\/\">Bot orders $18,752 of McSundaes every 30 min. to find if machines are working<\/a> (<i>Ars Technica<\/i>) Seriously, if this is where our intellect is applied, we are doomed.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trade-a-plane.com\/search?category_level1=Jets&amp;make=MIKOYAN&amp;model=MIG%2029&amp;listing_id=2374614&amp;s-type=aircraft\">1986 MIKOYAN MIG 29 Jets for sale &#8211; 2374614<\/a> (<i>Trade-a-Plane<\/i>) Only $4,650,000.00.&nbsp; Such a deal.&nbsp; Hanukah is coming up, folks.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/health-agency-scraps-coronavirus-ad-campaign-leaving-santa-claus-in-the-cold-11603630802\">Health Agency Halts Coronavirus Ad Campaign, Leaving Santa Claus in the Cold<\/a> (<i>WSJ<\/i>) Yes, their magic bullet against Covid was \u2026\u2026\u2026 Santa Claus.&nbsp; The stupid, it burns.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/10\/21\/technology\/facial-recognition-police.html\">Activists Turn Facial Recognition Tools Against the Police<\/a> (<i>New York Times<\/i>) It&#8217;s a good thing when the watchmen are watched.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/how-one-teacher-s-black-lives-matter-lesson-divided-small-n1244566\">How one teacher&#8217;s Black Lives Matter lesson divided a small Wisconsin town<\/a> (<i>NBC News<\/i>) It&#8217;s really pretty simple.&nbsp; Bigots want to fire a teacher for discussing racism.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You may recall that <a href=\"https:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2020\/09\/this-is-batsh-insane.html\">I posted a rather long, and very amusing video about the abuse of DMCA in the wolf porn fanfic community<\/a>?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Well, the crazy-ass author Addison Cain goes after Lindsay Ellis with \u2026\u2026\u2026 <b>MORE<\/b> DMCA complaints.<\/p>\n<p>I do not know if there is a Nobel Prize for lameness, but her DMCA complaints were so lame that <b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Youtube<\/span><\/b> chose to disregard them.<\/p>\n<p>That is seriously lame.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, we get another long, and intensely amusing video from Ms. Ellis about this. (I want that hat)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K3v5wFMQRqs\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside the Fall of the CDC (ProPublica) How the Trump administration politicized the center into irrelevance. Girl, 8, pulls a 1,500-year-old sword from a lake in Sweden (BBC) I think that means that she is queen of the Geats. Bot orders $18,752 of McSundaes every 30 min. to find if machines are working (Ars Technica) &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-175914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175914"}],"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=175914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}