{"id":176437,"date":"2020-06-17T04:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T09:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/06\/17\/linkage-37\/"},"modified":"2020-06-17T04:03:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T09:03:00","slug":"linkage-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/06\/17\/linkage-37\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2020\/06\/10\/racial-gap-vc-firms\/\">Venture capital firms such as SoftBank and Andreessen Horowitz launch funds for black start-ups<\/a> (<i>Washington Post<\/i>) It is, as the article hed notes, diversity theater.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com.au\/snapchat-evan-spiegel-employee-all-hands-meeting-diversity-report-2020-6?nojs=1\">Snap CEO says in internal meeting he won&#8217;t release diversity numbers because it would reinforce the perception that Silicon Valley isn&#8217;t diverse<\/a> (<i>Business Insider<\/i>) Sticking their fingers in their ears, and saying, &#8220;La, la, la, I can&#8217;t hear you.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2020\/06\/13\/ge_refrigerator_drm_keeps_turning\/\">Someone got so fed up with GE fridge DRM \u2013 yes, fridge DRM \u2013 they made a whole website on how to bypass it<\/a> (<i>The Register<\/i>) DRM law needs to be fixed.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/emails-reveal-chaos-as-meatpacking-companies-fought-health-agencies-over-covid-19-outbreaks-in-their-plants\">Emails Reveal Chaos as Meatpacking Companies Fought Health Agencies Over COVID-19 Outbreaks in Their Plants<\/a> (<i>ProPublica<\/i>) These folks are bad actors, and need to be pursued administratively and criminally.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-06-15\/prosecutors-strike-black-latino-jurors-report\">California prosecutors routinely strike Black and Latino people from juries, report says<\/a> (<i>Los Angeles Times<\/i>) Clearly there is no racism in the criminal justice system. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/earther.gizmodo.com\/why-expanding-highways-makes-traffic-worse-1842220595\">Why Expanding Highways Makes Traffic Worse<\/a> (<i>Gizmodo<\/i>) This is the common knowledge in transportation planning. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/elite-cia-unit-that-developed-hacking-tools-failed-to-secure-its-own-systems-allowing-massive-leak-an-internal-report-found\/2020\/06\/15\/502e3456-ae9d-11ea-8f56-63f38c990077_story.html\">Elite CIA hacking unit failed to protect its systems, allowing disclosure to WikiLeaks<\/a> (<i>Washington Post<\/i>) TheVault 7 guys literally did not know of the leak for over a year.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/money\/cars\/ford\/2020\/06\/15\/new-ford-bronco-july-9-oj-simpson-birthday\/3190996001\/\">All-new Ford Bronco debut July 9 falls on O.J. Simpson&#8217;s birthday<\/a> (<i>Detroit Free Press<\/i>) I&#8217;m not sure if this is an inspired branding choice, and awful branding choice, or an inside joke gone bad.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Paraphrasing Harry Belafonte, &#8220;That&#8217;s right, the Squirrels is, Smarter.&#8221;<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hFZFjoX2cGg\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venture capital firms such as SoftBank and Andreessen Horowitz launch funds for black start-ups (Washington Post) It is, as the article hed notes, diversity theater. Snap CEO says in internal meeting he won&#8217;t release diversity numbers because it would reinforce the perception that Silicon Valley isn&#8217;t diverse (Business Insider) Sticking their fingers in their ears, &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-176437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176437"}],"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=176437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}