{"id":177645,"date":"2019-07-25T04:33:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T09:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/07\/25\/linkage-66\/"},"modified":"2019-07-25T04:33:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T09:33:00","slug":"linkage-66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/07\/25\/linkage-66\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20190711\/07244942566\/att-breaks-another-merger-promise-making-friends-exclusive.shtml\">AT&amp;T Breaks Another Merger Promise In Making &#8216;Friends&#8217; Exclusive<\/a> (<i>Techdirt<\/i>) Yes, it&#8217;s just &#8220;Friends&#8221;, but it underscores the point:&nbsp; These companies are monopolists, and relying on their good nature is idiotic.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-48989469\">New Zealand penguins drop in for sushi<\/a> (<i>BBC<\/i>) Too cute.&nbsp; Shades of the movie <i>Madagascar<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2019\/07\/banks-again-hoist-on-their-cost-cutting-petard-burgeoning-credit-card-fraud.html\">Banks Again Hoist on Their Cost-Cutting Petard: Burgeoning Credit Card Fraud<\/a> (<i>Naked Capitalism<\/i>) Penny wise, and pound foolish.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/blogs\/4385-failing-to-plan-how-ayn-rand-destroyed-sears\">Failing to Plan: How Ayn Rand Destroyed Sears<\/a> (<i>Verso<\/i>) Ayn Rand doesn&#8217;t work for capitalists either.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thebaffler.com\/latest\/this-is-going-to-get-worse-burmila\">This is Going to Get Worse<\/a> (<i>The Baffler<\/i>)  Money quote, &#8220;It will get worse because the leadership of the  Democratic Party is not built, temperamentally or constitutionally, for  this fight. It is built for 1996, ready to debate the V-chip or whether  the top tax bracket should be 36 percent or 39 percent. It is a party  built to negotiate, to concede, and to see \u201cgetting something done\u201d as  the value-neutral definition of victory.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/oilprice.com\/Energy\/Energy-General\/US-Shale-Is-Doomed-No-Matter-What-They-Do.html\">U.S. Shale Is Doomed No Matter What They Do<\/a> (<i>OilPrice.com<\/i>) It&#8217;s been obvious for years that the fracking boom was unsustainable from a business perspective.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tstubbs.net\/uploads\/4\/0\/5\/3\/40534697\/reinsbergbetal2019.pdf\">Bad governance: How privatization increases corruption in the developing world<\/a> (<i>Regulation and Governance<\/i>) Corruption in privatization is a feature, not a bug:&nbsp; It is private entities looting public assets. [PDF]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/07\/23\/health\/data-privacy-protection.html\">Your Data Were \u2018Anonymized\u2019? These Scientists Can Still Identify You<\/a> (<i>The New York Times<\/i>) This has been known for over a decade.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-019-02241-z\">How a data detective exposed suspicious medical trials<\/a> (<i>Nature<\/i>) Basic shoe leather journalism:&nbsp; He looks at the raw data and flags the studies when the samples have significant statistical anomalies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Movie version of Penguins and sushi:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UY4x0dvmWMI\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AT&amp;T Breaks Another Merger Promise In Making &#8216;Friends&#8217; Exclusive (Techdirt) Yes, it&#8217;s just &#8220;Friends&#8221;, but it underscores the point:&nbsp; These companies are monopolists, and relying on their good nature is idiotic. New Zealand penguins drop in for sushi (BBC) Too cute.&nbsp; Shades of the movie Madagascar. Banks Again Hoist on Their Cost-Cutting Petard: Burgeoning Credit &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-177645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177645"}],"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=177645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}