{"id":178192,"date":"2019-02-12T05:01:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/02\/12\/linkage-90\/"},"modified":"2019-02-12T05:01:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T10:01:00","slug":"linkage-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/02\/12\/linkage-90\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-features\/chris-christie-new-memoir-taibbi-791436\/\">Chris Christie\u2019s Agonizing New Memoir<\/a> (<i>Rolling Stone<\/i>) Matt Taibbi&#8217;s amusing essay on, &#8220;The inside story of the man who welcomed Donald Trump into the political mainstream and got nothing in return.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.recode.net\/2019\/2\/8\/18211794\/government-data-internet\">The government is using wrong data to make decisions about the internet<\/a> (<i>Recode<\/i>) The FCC has consistently used, and presented, bad data in order to justify our dysfunctional for profit communications monopolies.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-tls.co.uk\/articles\/public\/president-for-the-rich-emmanuel-macron\/\">President for the rich | The decline of Emmanuel Macron<\/a> (<i>Times Literary Supplement<\/i>) I agree the characterizations, but that was clear from the start.&nbsp; The question is, &#8220;How did he manage to put one over on the French public?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/2\/11\/18220153\/mars-one-bankruptcy-bas-lansdorp-human-settlement\">The company that promised a one-way ticket to Mars is bankrupt<\/a> (<i>The Verge<\/i>) Not a surprise, Mars One Ventures was clearly a scam.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wetmachine.com\/tales-of-the-sausage-factory\/net-neutrality-oral-argument-highlights-problem-for-pai-you-cant-hide-the-policy-implications-of-your-actions-from-judges\/\">Net Neutrality Oral Argument Highlights Problem For Pai: You Can\u2019t Hide The Policy Implications Of Your Actions From Judges.<\/a> (<i>Wetmachine<\/i>) Harold Feld, who was a part of the oral arguments in the net neutrality lawsuit, notes just how morally and legally vacuous FCC Chairman Ajit Pai&#8217;s actions have been.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/tech\/26455\/nhtsas-flawed-autopilot-safety-study-unmasked\">NHTSA&#8217;s analysis of Tesla Autopilot safety was bad, but its coverup was worse.<\/a> (<i>The Drive<\/i>) It turns out that the government analysis of Tesla&#8217;s Autopilot was flawed:&nbsp; As opposed to a 40% reduction in crashes was actually a 2 fold <b>increase<\/b> in crashes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An honest trailer for <i>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/i>:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-6Zc8Co2H3w\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Christie\u2019s Agonizing New Memoir (Rolling Stone) Matt Taibbi&#8217;s amusing essay on, &#8220;The inside story of the man who welcomed Donald Trump into the political mainstream and got nothing in return.&#8221; The government is using wrong data to make decisions about the internet (Recode) The FCC has consistently used, and presented, bad data in order &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-178192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178192"}],"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=178192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}