{"id":178646,"date":"2018-10-04T04:13:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T09:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/10\/04\/linkage-112\/"},"modified":"2018-10-04T04:13:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T09:13:00","slug":"linkage-112","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/10\/04\/linkage-112\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/science\/science-news\/9912822\/DNA-ancestry-tests-branded-meaningless.html\">DNA ancestry tests branded &#8216;meaningless&#8217;<\/a> (<i>Telegraph<\/i>) I&#8217;ve worked with DNA test machines, doing this sh%$ properly and accurately is difficult and expensive.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/24\/opinion\/columnists\/kavanaugh-georgetown-supreme-court.html\">Pigs All the Way Down<\/a> (<i>New York Times<\/i>) It&#8217;s a pretty good description of our elites.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2018\/09\/after-century-of-removing-appendixes-docs-find-antibiotics-can-be-enough\/\">After century of removing appendixes, docs find antibiotics can be enough<\/a> (<i>Ars Technica<\/i>) Could save lives, if just because it avoids going under anesthesia.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/amazons-aggressive-anti-union-tactics-revealed-in-leake-1829305201\">Amazon&#8217;s Aggressive Anti-Union Tactics Revealed in Leaked 45-Minute Video<\/a> (<i>Gizmodo<\/i>) They describe the video, but do not include it, to avoid outing their source (Are you listening, <i>The Intercept<\/i>?) <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/resources\/idt-sh\/the_instant_noodle\">The Eternal Life of the Instant Noodle<\/a> (<i>BBC<\/i>) Bless his noodly goodness, and let us say, ramen.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sapiens.org\/culture\/religious-people-moral\/\">Religious People Moral &#8211; Are Religious People More Moral?<\/a> (<i>SAPIENS<\/i>) Surprise, the answer is, &#8220;No.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/oct\/02\/us-visas-same-sex-domestic-partners-diplomats-un-staff-denied\">US begins denying visas for same-sex domestic partners of diplomats<\/a> (<i>The Guardian<\/i>) Cruelty for its own sake.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/u-s-pirg\/right-to-repair-is-a-simple-way-to-cut-health-care-costs-84c889d6f957\">Right to Repair is a simple way to cut health care costs<\/a> (<i>Medium<\/i>) I understand the need for IP, but this is no longer encouraging innovation, it&#8217;s just another form of looting.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2018\/10\/thats-hell-act-call.html\">&#8220;That&#8217;s a hell of an act. What do you call it?&#8221;<\/a> (<i>naked capitalism<\/i>) Joan Baez fan goes to concert, and finds a massive security presence and a line down the street.&nbsp; It&#8217;s because Bill Clinton is in attendance, and, &#8220;F*cking Bill Clinton ruined my Joan Baez concert. Not only because of the security crap, but because I had to listen to Joan Baez say nice things about him.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Word is that Matt Damon nailed this in less than 24 hours:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VRJecfRxbr8\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNA ancestry tests branded &#8216;meaningless&#8217; (Telegraph) I&#8217;ve worked with DNA test machines, doing this sh%$ properly and accurately is difficult and expensive. Pigs All the Way Down (New York Times) It&#8217;s a pretty good description of our elites. After century of removing appendixes, docs find antibiotics can be enough (Ars Technica) Could save lives, if &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-178646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178646"}],"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=178646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}