{"id":178699,"date":"2018-09-15T04:56:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-15T09:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/09\/15\/linkage-115\/"},"modified":"2018-09-15T04:56:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T09:56:00","slug":"linkage-115","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/09\/15\/linkage-115\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-features\/financial-crisis-ten-year-anniversary-723798\/\">Matt Taibbi on the 10-Year Anniversary of the Crash<\/a> (<i>Rolling Stone<\/i>) From the guy who nicknamed Goldman Sachs the, &#8220;Vampire Squid&#8221;.&nbsp; Well worth the read.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/mark-zuckerberg-protecting-democracy-is-an-arms-race-heres-how-facebook-can-help-win-it\/2018\/09\/04\/53b3c8ee-b083-11e8-9a6a-565d92a3585d_story.html\">Mark Zuckerberg: Protecting democracy is an arms race. Here\u2019s how Facebook can help<\/a> (<i>Washington Post<\/i>) The very epitome of self-serving codswallop from the worst man on the Internet.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/politics.theonion.com\/obama-urges-young-voters-to-ignore-how-many-lousy-candi-1828941779\">Obama Urges Young Voters To Ignore How Many Lousy Candidates Democratic Party Runs<\/a> (<i>The Onion<\/i>) Truly America&#8217;s finest news source.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/sep\/10\/trump-neoliberal-democratic-party-america\">Yes, let&#8217;s wipe out Trump. But take neoliberal Democrats with him, too<\/a> (<i>The Guardian<\/i>) Dave Sirota gets what the DC Democrats do not.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.governing.com\/topics\/education\/gov-school-cheating-scandal.html\">How Education Reform Taught Teachers to Cheat<\/a> (<i>Governing<\/i>) Econ 101: If you pay people for it, they will cheat to get that thing.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/itep.org\/new-study-confirms-offshore-earnings-are-flowing-into-stock-buybacks-not-jobs-and-investments\/\">New Study Confirms Offshore Earnings are Flowing into Stock Buybacks, Not Jobs and Investments<\/a> (<i>Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy<\/i>) Not shocking at all. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/611948\/for-safetys-sake-we-must-slow-innovation-in-internet-connected-things\/\">For safety\u2019s sake, we must slow innovation in internet-connected things<\/a> (<i>MIT Technology Review<\/i>) There is a reason why it is called the internet of sh%$.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2018\/sep\/10\/tesla-workers-union-elon-musk\">Tesla workers speak out: &#8216;Anything pro-union is shut down really fast&#8217;<\/a> (<i>The Guardian<\/i>) Elon Musk is not just a nut job, he&#8217;s an evil motherf%$#er.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All RPGers have been here, sometimes as Leeroy Jenkins, and sometimes being hosed by Leeroy Jenkins.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s better to be Leeroy Jenkins.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mLyOj_QD4a4\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Taibbi on the 10-Year Anniversary of the Crash (Rolling Stone) From the guy who nicknamed Goldman Sachs the, &#8220;Vampire Squid&#8221;.&nbsp; Well worth the read. Mark Zuckerberg: Protecting democracy is an arms race. Here\u2019s how Facebook can help (Washington Post) The very epitome of self-serving codswallop from the worst man on the Internet. Obama Urges &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-178699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178699"}],"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=178699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}