{"id":176112,"date":"2020-09-03T04:27:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T09:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/09\/03\/linkage-25\/"},"modified":"2020-09-03T04:27:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T09:27:00","slug":"linkage-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/09\/03\/linkage-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thecorrespondent.com\/655\/blockchain-the-amazing-solution-for-almost-nothing\/86649455475-f933fe63\">Blockchain, the amazing solution for almost nothing<\/a> (<i>The Correspondent<\/i>) Lots of hoopla, but nobody seems to doing anything with it, even on the down low, probably because it&#8217;s not really a solution for anything.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/v7gxy9\/the-broken-algorithm-that-poisoned-american-transportation-v27n3\">The Broken Algorithm That Poisoned American Transportation<\/a> (<i>Vice<\/i>) Travel Demand Modeling (TDM) appears to be snake oil, but everyone makes money off of new highways, so who cares?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2020\/08\/att-reportedly-trying-to-sell-directv-after-massive-customer-losses\/\">AT&amp;T reportedly trying to sell DirecTV after massive customer losses<\/a> (<i>Ars Technica<\/i>) AT&amp;T&#8217;s Underpants Gnome strategy, &#8220;Treat your customers poorly and raise their rates, ?????, profit,&#8221; did not work, and now they will sell at a loss.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/839d4ccf-269f-44fe-914b-544644a4c819?fbclid=IwAR1fohnSi0vP_Ab6KPuwOb-2dx25rQGUMOZx97V3TaZ-jEdbv0Ultyrf-8Y\">The architecture of heat: how we built before air-con<\/a> (<i>Financial Times<\/i>) We have abandoned the architectur that was used to deal with extreme heat.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/business\/article\/Pinterest-cancels-huge-SF-office-lease-in-unbuilt-15523170.php\">Pinterest cancels huge SF office lease in unbuilt project, citing work-from-home shift<\/a> (<i>SF Chronicle<\/i>) Commercial real estate is not even near close to seeing the bottom.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/economicsfromthetopdown.com\/2020\/07\/05\/why-isnt-modern-monetary-theory-common-knowledge\/\">Why Isn\u2019t Modern Monetary Theory Common Knowledge?<\/a> (<i>Economics from the Top Down<\/i>) Seriously, this sh%$ ain&#8217;t rocket science.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/brokenbottleboy.substack.com\/p\/andrew-sullivan-the-polite-fascist\">Andrew Sullivan: The &#8216;polite&#8217; fascist is a fascist nonetheless.<\/a> (<i>Conquest of the Useless<\/i>) And a bigot too, and honestly not to bright.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The making of Rush&#8217;s Wye, Wye, Zed.&nbsp; remarkable:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"332\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2ht8_3WYWzo\" width=\"498\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blockchain, the amazing solution for almost nothing (The Correspondent) Lots of hoopla, but nobody seems to doing anything with it, even on the down low, probably because it&#8217;s not really a solution for anything. The Broken Algorithm That Poisoned American Transportation (Vice) Travel Demand Modeling (TDM) appears to be snake oil, but everyone makes money &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-176112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176112"}],"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=176112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}