{"id":177044,"date":"2020-01-13T05:53:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T10:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/01\/13\/linkage-51\/"},"modified":"2020-01-13T05:53:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T10:53:00","slug":"linkage-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/01\/13\/linkage-51\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2019\/12\/26\/rachel-maddow-rooted-steele-dossier-be-true-then-it-fell-apart\/\">Rachel Maddow rooted for the Steele dossier to be true. Then it fell apart.<\/a> (<i>Washington Post<\/i>) Seriously, her transition from happy warrior to tinfoil hat wearer is sad.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2019\/12\/driver-training-was-reportedly-too-much-of-a-bottleneck-for-amazon\/\">Driver training was reportedly too much of \u201ca bottleneck\u201d for Amazon<\/a> (<i>Ars Technica<\/i>) Safety, schmafety, we have another monopoly to create.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/california-gave-billions-in-taxpayer-dollars-to-improve-jails-but-thats-now-how-these-sheriffs-are-spending-it#174248\">California Gave Billions in Taxpayer Dollars to Improve Jails. But That\u2019s Not How These Sheriffs Are Spending It.<\/a> (<i>ProPublica<\/i>) This is the rule, rather than the exception, for law enforcement.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/independentpremium\/isis-islamic-state-palmrya-suicide-bomber-temple-bel-syria-a9240996.html\">Isis\u2019s destruction of an ancient civilisation mattered more to the west than human casualties<\/a> (<i>The Independent<\/i>) This is depressingly true.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacobinmag.com\/2019\/12\/nfl-cowboys-jerry-jones-football-owners-public-ownership\">Sports Teams Should Be Owned by the Public<\/a> (<i>Jacobin<\/i>) Certainly, taking down Jerry Jones and Dan Snyder is an unalloyed good.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kontrast.at\/portugal-economy-right-wing\/\">Portugal has found an antidote to right wing populism<\/a> (<i>Kontrast.at<\/i>) Portugal&#8217;s left of center government has eschewed austerity, and instead invested in social welfare programs.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2018\/01\/with-ingestible-pill-you-can-track-fart-development-in-real-time-on-your-phone\/?linkId=79221447\">With ingestible pill, you can track fart development in real time on your phone<\/a> (<i>Ars Technica<\/i>) This is a brave new world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Starwars Down Under (Fan Film)<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mhTn8cjm9ZM\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Maddow rooted for the Steele dossier to be true. Then it fell apart. (Washington Post) Seriously, her transition from happy warrior to tinfoil hat wearer is sad. Driver training was reportedly too much of \u201ca bottleneck\u201d for Amazon (Ars Technica) Safety, schmafety, we have another monopoly to create. California Gave Billions in Taxpayer Dollars &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-177044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177044"}],"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=177044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}