{"id":177510,"date":"2019-09-02T04:42:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T09:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/09\/02\/linkage-62\/"},"modified":"2019-09-02T04:42:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T09:42:00","slug":"linkage-62","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/09\/02\/linkage-62\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.googletransparencyproject.org\/articles\/the-curious-transformation-of-sen-mike-lee\">The Curious Transformation of Mike Lee<\/a> (<i>Google Transparency Project<\/i>) He went from a critic to a champion of Google because the &#8220;Chocolate Factory&#8221; bought him off.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ianwelsh.net\/our-leaders-kill-for-their-own-benefit\/\">Our Leaders Kill For Their Own Benefit<\/a> (<i>Ian Welsh<\/i>) A reminder that at rarified levels of power and wealth, ethics stop being a consideration.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2019\/08\/youtube-flags-robot-battle-videos-as-animal-fights\/\">YouTube flags robot battle videos as \u201canimal fights\u201d<\/a> (<i>Ars Technica<\/i>) Adventures in artificial stupidity.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/8000-year-old-boat-building-platform-found-coast-britain-180972989\/\">An 8,000-Year-Old Platform in Britain Could Be the Oldest Boat-Building Site Ever Discovered<\/a> (<i>Smithsonian<\/i>) Of course it was Britain.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/how-did-peasants-have-fun\">Between Plagues, Medieval Peasants Enjoyed Bawdiness and Brawling<\/a> (<i>Atlas Obscura<\/i>) Medieval peasants worked about 27 hours a week.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2019\/08\/24\/aung-san-suu-kyi-rohingya-genocide\/\">Indict Aung San Suu Kyi for War Crimes Against the Rohingya<\/a> (<i>The Intercept<\/i>) Yes.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/08\/31\/business\/tax-opportunity-zones.html\">How a Trump Tax Break to Help Poor Communities Became a Windfall for the Rich<\/a> (<i>New York Times<\/i>) This is a feature, not a bug, of tax incentives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My son doing his stand-up routine: <br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sTokw5-NOWI\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Curious Transformation of Mike Lee (Google Transparency Project) He went from a critic to a champion of Google because the &#8220;Chocolate Factory&#8221; bought him off. Our Leaders Kill For Their Own Benefit (Ian Welsh) A reminder that at rarified levels of power and wealth, ethics stop being a consideration. YouTube flags robot battle videos &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-177510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177510"}],"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=177510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}