{"id":176289,"date":"2020-07-20T04:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T09:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/07\/20\/linkage-32\/"},"modified":"2020-07-20T04:01:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T09:01:00","slug":"linkage-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/07\/20\/linkage-32\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2020\/07\/this-device-keeps-alexa-and-other-voice-assistant-from-snooping-on-you\/\">This device keeps Alexa and other voice assistants from snooping on you<\/a> (<i>Ars Technica<\/i>) This is a useful technique to see how they spy on you.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2020\/07\/how-ancient-cats-lived-on-the-brink-of-domestication\/\">How ancient cats lived on the brink of domestication<\/a> (<i>Ars Technica<\/i>) I dunno.&nbsp; I think that they are still on the brink of domestication.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/scrubs-everywhere-arturo-holmes\/2020\/07\/10\/9e10b0e0-c095-11ea-b4f6-cb39cd8940fb_story.html\">I\u2019m a black doctor. I wear my scrubs everywhere now.<\/a> (<i>Washington Post<\/i>) He has to wear scrubs to avoid police harassment.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/shadowproof.com\/2020\/07\/14\/federal-asset-forfeiture-may-undermine-efforts-to-defund-police\/\">Defunding Police Requires Public Control Over External Revenue Sources<\/a> (<i>Shadow Proof<\/i>) Police get a lot of funding through asset forfeiture.&nbsp; That money creates corrupt behavior and needs to be redirected.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stephensemler.substack.com\/p\/how-much-does-the-f-35-actually-cost\">How much does the F-35 actually cost?<\/a> (<i>Speaking Security<\/i>) DoD Claims less than $80 million. Basic math shows more than&nbsp; $144 million for a weapon with an availability below 50%.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebellows.org\/the-double-horseshoe-theory\/\">The Double Horseshoe Theory of Class Politics<\/a> (<i>The Bellows<\/i>) I am not sure if I agree with everything here, but it&#8217;s still a thoughtful analysis of class politics that deserves consideration. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Steel being made.&nbsp; It gets my engineering geek on:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9AMbKpeJRoU\" width=\"477\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This device keeps Alexa and other voice assistants from snooping on you (Ars Technica) This is a useful technique to see how they spy on you. How ancient cats lived on the brink of domestication (Ars Technica) I dunno.&nbsp; I think that they are still on the brink of domestication. I\u2019m a black doctor. I &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-176289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176289"}],"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=176289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}