{"id":177559,"date":"2019-08-19T05:11:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T10:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/08\/19\/linkage-63\/"},"modified":"2019-08-19T05:11:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T10:11:00","slug":"linkage-63","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/08\/19\/linkage-63\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/state\/north-carolina\/article233763212.html\">Racist letter spawns restaurant support in Siler City, NC<\/a> (<i>Raleigh News &amp; Observer<\/i>) They were the target of a racist letter, the the support from the community in response that had them run out of food.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/august\/the-case-against-obama?utm_source=LRB+blog+email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=20190813+blog&amp;utm_content=ukrw_nonsubs_blog\">The Case against Obama<\/a> (<i>London Review of Books<\/i>)&nbsp; A nice summary of the crimes and misdemeanors of the Obama administration.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/threadreaderapp.com\/thread\/1162011727992483840.html\">today&#8217;s topic: why $TSLA FSD is a complete fiction, why the architecture is a fraud<\/a> (<i>Twitter<\/i>, as aggregated by Thread Reader) Makes an excellent case that Tesla&#8217;s full driving mode is a transparent fraud.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/voices\/putin-20-years-vladimir-russia-kgb-boris-yeltsin-a9061266.html\">The west has spent 20 years getting Putin wrong, and now it may be too late to get it right<\/a> (The Independent) The thesis is that Putin is not a Bond villain, but simply acting in support of Russian interests.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/securityledger.com\/2019\/08\/huge-survey-of-firmware-finds-no-security-gains-in-15-years\/\">Huge Survey of Firmware Finds No Security Gains in 15 Years<\/a> (<i>The Security Ledger<\/i>) Of course not, there is no money in security.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/opinion\/commentary\/2019\/08\/15\/israel-thousands-young-men-carry-assault-rifles-dont-commit-mass-shootings\">Israel has thousands of young men who carry assault rifles. Why don&#8217;t they commit mass shootings?<\/a> (<i>Dallas Morning News<\/i>) Good question, though I find the answer the author gives to be a incomplete.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2019\/08\/wind-power-prices-now-lower-than-the-cost-of-natural-gas\/\">Wind power prices now lower than the cost of natural gas<\/a>  (<i>Ars Technica<\/i>) Solar is heading for a similar inflection point.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pretty Much: <br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j6Ia02L1qQo\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Racist letter spawns restaurant support in Siler City, NC (Raleigh News &amp; Observer) They were the target of a racist letter, the the support from the community in response that had them run out of food. The Case against Obama (London Review of Books)&nbsp; A nice summary of the crimes and misdemeanors of the Obama &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-177559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177559"}],"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=177559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}