{"id":178932,"date":"2018-07-16T05:10:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/07\/16\/linkage-125\/"},"modified":"2018-07-16T05:10:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T10:10:00","slug":"linkage-125","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/07\/16\/linkage-125\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2014\/01\/the-strange-story-of-ciscos-sort-of-beloved-hold-music\/283262\/\">The Strange Story of Cisco&#8217;s (Sort of) Beloved Hold Music<\/a> (<i>The Atlantic<\/i>) I always wondered where this came from.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-news\/d-b-cooper-investigators-claim-theyve-discovered-skyjackers-identity-693912\/\">D.B. Cooper: Investigators Claim They\u2019ve Discovered Skyjacker\u2019s Identity<\/a> (Rolling Stone) I went to high school in the Pacific Northwest, an obsession with the guy is a part of that.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/jewish-news-and-politics\/263933\/cultural-appropriation\">The Evils of Cultural Appropriation<\/a> (<i>Tablet Magazine<\/i>) A nice take-down of this exercise in moral masturbation.&nbsp; Draws an analogy to sumptuary laws.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/first-person\/2018\/7\/12\/17562648\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-tammy-duckworth-socialist-democrats-midwest\">I\u2019ve spoken to hundreds of voters in \u201cflyover country.\u201d Socialism is an easy sell.<\/a> (<i>Vox<\/i>) Illinois Socialists.&nbsp; I love Illinois Socialists.&nbsp; (Apologies to Jake and Elwood Blues)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/technology\/infrastructure\/a20722505\/history-of-steel\/?curator=LongformREDEF\">The Entire History of Steel<\/a> (<i>Scientific American<\/i>) Getting my history of technology geek on.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/flawed-legend-preet-bharara\/\">The Flawed Legend of Preet Bharara<\/a> (<i>The Nation<\/i>) &#8220;After  being fired by Trump, the former US Attorney wears a halo of martyrdom.  But he failed to prosecute the Wall Street banksters who brought us the financial crisis.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/evonomics.com\/how-maximizing-shareholder-value-turns-nice-people-into-psychopaths\/\">How the Dominant Business Paradigm Turns Nice People into Psychopaths<\/a> (<i>Evonomics<\/i>) The normalization of perversion.<\/li>\n<li><i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/why-its-so-hard-to-junk-bad-decisions-edging-closer-to-understanding-sunk-cost\/\">Why It&#8217;s So Hard to Junk Bad Decisions&#8211;Edging Closer to Understanding &#8220;Sunk Cost&#8221;<\/a><\/i> (<i>Scientific American<\/i>) Even rats suffer from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sunk_cost#Loss_aversion_and_the_sunk_cost_fallacy\">sunk cost fallacy<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is the hold music in question:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6g4dkBF5anU\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Strange Story of Cisco&#8217;s (Sort of) Beloved Hold Music (The Atlantic) I always wondered where this came from. D.B. Cooper: Investigators Claim They\u2019ve Discovered Skyjacker\u2019s Identity (Rolling Stone) I went to high school in the Pacific Northwest, an obsession with the guy is a part of that. The Evils of Cultural Appropriation (Tablet Magazine) &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-178932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178932"}],"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=178932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}