{"id":179009,"date":"2018-06-19T04:33:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T09:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/06\/19\/linkage-130\/"},"modified":"2018-06-19T04:33:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T09:33:00","slug":"linkage-130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/06\/19\/linkage-130\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2018\/06\/elizabeth-holmes-is-trying-to-start-a-new-company\">\u201cShe Absolutely Has Sociopathic Tendencies\u201d: Elizabeth Holmes, Somehow, Is Trying to Start a New Company!<\/a> (<i>Vanity Fair<\/i>) I think that the charges being filed may put a crimp in her plans.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duffelblog.com\/2018\/06\/army-to-issue-updated-chemical-protective-suits-for-toxic-command-climates\/\">Army to issue updated chemical protective suits for toxic command climates<\/a> (<i>Duffel Blog<\/i>) Parody, but only barely.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/dreher\/de-niro-broadway-trump-two-tonys-bourdain\/\">A Tale Of Two Tonys<\/a> (<i>American Conservative<\/i>) Anti-Trump conservative wingnut makes a cogent &#8220;Tallyrand&#8221; argument, &#8220;It was worse than a crime, it was a  mistake,&#8221; about De Niro dropping F-Bombs at the Tony awards.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/06\/13\/technology\/bitcoin-price-manipulation.html\">Bitcoin\u2019s Price Was Artificially Inflated Last Year, Researchers Say<\/a> (<i>New York Times<\/i>) File under, &#8220;Well, duh!!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-crypto-currencies-bis\/the-bigger-cryptocurrencies-get-the-worse-they-perform-bis-idUSKBN1JD0QF\">The bigger Cryptocurrencies get, the worse they perform: BIS<\/a> (<i>Reuters<\/i>) They talk about trust issues, but the show-stopper is that the vaunted block-chain does not scale.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2018\/06\/15\/for-the-biggest-group-of-american-workers-wages-arent-just-flat-theyre-falling\/\">For the biggest group of American workers, wages aren\u2019t just flat. They\u2019re falling.<\/a> (<i>Washington Post<\/i>) It&#8217;s workers in \u201cproduction and nonsupervisory\u201d positions who are getting the shaft.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1305718\/the-science-behind-the-mediterranean-diet-might-be-flawed-thanks-to-a-retraction-of-a-major-study\/\">The science behind the Mediterranean diet might be flawed thanks to a retraction of a major study<\/a> (<i>Quartz<\/i>)  I&#8217;ve been seeing crap like this regularly since it was claimed that chocolate mimicked a neurotransmitter that went away after the end of a romantic relationship. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I do not understand why people are losing their sh%$ over this video:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"496\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kbMqWXnpXcA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cShe Absolutely Has Sociopathic Tendencies\u201d: Elizabeth Holmes, Somehow, Is Trying to Start a New Company! (Vanity Fair) I think that the charges being filed may put a crimp in her plans. Army to issue updated chemical protective suits for toxic command climates (Duffel Blog) Parody, but only barely. A Tale Of Two Tonys (American Conservative) &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-179009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179009"}],"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=179009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}