{"id":178567,"date":"2018-10-25T04:28:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T09:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/10\/25\/linkage-108\/"},"modified":"2018-10-25T04:28:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T09:28:00","slug":"linkage-108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/10\/25\/linkage-108\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theonion.com\/the-onion-s-guide-to-blockchain-technology-1829819640\">The Onion\u2019s Guide To Blockchain Technology<\/a> (<i>The Onion<\/i>) Best journalism on the blockchain I&#8217;ve seen.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wetmachine.com\/tales-of-the-sausage-factory\/hurricane-michael-a-wake-up-call-on-why-total-dereg-of-telecom-a-very-bad-idea\/\">Hurricane Michael A Wake Up Call On Why Total Dereg of Telecom A Very Bad Idea.<\/a> (<i>Wetmachine<\/i>) Ajit Pai a as Cornelius Fudge.  (Harry Potter metaphor)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/read.nxtbook.com\/tap\/theamericanprospect\/theamericanprospectfall2018\/private_equity_pillage_grocer.html\">Private Equity Pillage: Grocery Stores and Workers At Risk<\/a> (<i>American Prospect<\/i>) I might have made an article out of this, but it is only available in the awful Nxtbook format.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1430947\/canadas-legal-marijuana-boosted-a-girl-scouts-cookie-sales\/\">Canada&#8217;s legal marijuana boosted a girl scout&#8217;s cookie sales<\/a> (<i>Quartz<\/i>) Like I said, go long on Fig Newton Futures<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/earther.gizmodo.com\/this-weirdly-geometric-iceberg-is-freaking-us-out-1829917119\">This Weirdly Geometric Iceberg Is Freaking Us Out<\/a> (<i>Gizmodo<\/i>) The truly weird picture is below.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jacobinmag.com\/2018\/10\/mike-davis-late-victorian-holocausts-famine-mao-stalin\">Mike Davis on the Crimes of Socialism and Capitalism<\/a> (<i>Jacobin<\/i>) A quick count of the death toll of colonialism and capitalism.&nbsp; It makes Stalin look mild.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duffelblog.com\/2018\/10\/air-force-baptism-requirements\/\">Air Force removes baptism from basic training graduation requirements<\/a> (<i>Duffel Blog<\/i>) Satire, but only barely.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/inthesetimes.com\/article\/21522\/saudi-arabia-obama-ben-rhodes-samantha-power-jamal-khashoggi-yemen-war?fbclid=IwAR2iRlao6BK-omHxKC-jAc5UAKnT8u1AmBihI1M-sbRO7JLGnlYJqTktbNs\">When Will Obama Aides Come Clean About U.S.-Saudi War Crimes?<\/a> (<i>In These Times<\/i>) Samantha Powers and Ben Rhodes condem Saudi brutality in Yemen now that they no longer have the ability to make a difference.&nbsp; They supported it when they were in the White House.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Was it aliens?<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/c5ojYfC.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/c5ojYfC.png\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Onion\u2019s Guide To Blockchain Technology (The Onion) Best journalism on the blockchain I&#8217;ve seen. Hurricane Michael A Wake Up Call On Why Total Dereg of Telecom A Very Bad Idea. (Wetmachine) Ajit Pai a as Cornelius Fudge. (Harry Potter metaphor) Private Equity Pillage: Grocery Stores and Workers At Risk (American Prospect) I might have &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-178567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178567"}],"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=178567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}