{"id":178514,"date":"2018-11-07T05:08:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/07\/linkage-in-celebration-of-the-end-of-the-mid-terms\/"},"modified":"2018-11-07T05:08:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T10:08:00","slug":"linkage-in-celebration-of-the-end-of-the-mid-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/07\/linkage-in-celebration-of-the-end-of-the-mid-terms\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage (In celebration of the end of the mid-terms)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/11\/02\/barack-obamas-great-tower-of-nothing-gentrification-on-a-presidential-level\/\">Barack Obama\u2019s Great Tower of Nothing: Gentrification on a Presidential Level<\/a> (<i>Counterpunch<\/i>) How Obama&#8217;s quest for legacy, and his Presidential center, will demolish some of Frederick Law Olmsted&#8217;s greatest work.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/science-tech\/technology\/2018\/10\/i-spent-day-amazon-fulfilment-centre-and-it-was-worse-i-ever\">I spent the day in an Amazon \u201cfulfilment centre\u201d, and it was worse than I ever imagined<\/a> (<i>New Statesman<\/i>)&nbsp; And this was a press junket, aka &#8220;Petting Zoo&#8221; tour.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/xenophobia-in-2018-748010\/\">Russia\u2019s Biggest Problem Will Soon Be Ours<\/a> (<i>Rolling Stone<\/i>) I profoundly disagree with Taibbi here:&nbsp; Population decline can make things better for people in the US, it just makes our informal empire less tenable.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/returntonow.net\/2018\/09\/04\/were-not-gluten-intolerant-were-glyphosate-intolerant\/\">We&#8217;re Not Gluten Intolerant, We&#8217;re Glyphosate Intolerant<\/a> (<i>Return to Now<\/i>) It turns out that reactions to Glyophosphate (Roundup<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>) are almost identical to gluten issues, and farmers drench their fields with the stuff a week before harvest so that they can harvest all at once.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/warisboring.com\/chinas-second-aircraft-carrier-gets-closer-to-joining-the-fleet\/\">China\u2019s Second Aircraft Carrier Sails Closer to Joining the Fleet<\/a> (<i>War Is Boring<\/i>) China&#8217;s first indigenous carrier starts sea trials, still STOBAR, but at 55,000 tons it&#8217;s about 20% larger than the Liaoning.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2018\/03\/the-making-of-skyknit-an-ai-yarn\/554894\/\">SkyKnit: How an AI Took Over an Adult Knitting Community<\/a> (<i>The Atlantic<\/i>)  Skyknit \u2026\u2026\u2026 heh.&nbsp; This pun must be shared.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/local-education\/high-school-halftime-show-included-racially-insensitive-term\/BWd8pNbiDtbj5T5G337W2M\/\">Racial slur spelled out at high school halftime<\/a> (<i>Atlanta Journal\u2014Constitution<\/i>) The team&#8217;s mascot is the &#8220;Broncos&#8221;.&nbsp; They spelled out the word with the middle 4 letters.&nbsp; Welcome to Trump world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some appropriate music for the end of the campaign season:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Uf4VL0mkn_0\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama\u2019s Great Tower of Nothing: Gentrification on a Presidential Level (Counterpunch) How Obama&#8217;s quest for legacy, and his Presidential center, will demolish some of Frederick Law Olmsted&#8217;s greatest work. I spent the day in an Amazon \u201cfulfilment centre\u201d, and it was worse than I ever imagined (New Statesman)&nbsp; And this was a press junket, &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-178514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178514"}],"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=178514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}