{"id":179057,"date":"2018-05-30T04:39:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T09:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/05\/30\/linkage-132\/"},"modified":"2018-05-30T04:39:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T09:39:00","slug":"linkage-132","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/05\/30\/linkage-132\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2018\/05\/20\/donald-trump-onion-stories-597809\">How Trump changed everything for The Onion<\/a> (<i>POLITICO<\/i>) Reality outstrips the imagination of satirists.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/may\/21\/big-tech-products-silicon-valley\">Ignore the hype over big tech. Its products are mostly useless<\/a> (<i>The Guardian<\/i>) I agree.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/astronomers-spot-potential-interstellar-asteroid-orbiting-backwards-around-the-sun1\/\">Astronomers Spot Potential &#8220;Interstellar&#8221; Asteroid Orbiting Backwards Around the Sun<\/a> (<i>Scientific American<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/graphics\/2018-payment-systems-china-usa\/\">Why China\u2019s Payment Apps Give U.S. Bankers Nightmares<\/a> (<i>Bloomberg<\/i>) Because the Banksters are not getting their vigorish.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1288699\/scientists-discovered-massive-hidden-canyons-in-antarctica-that-could-spell-bad-news-for-the-rest-of-the-planet\/\">Scientists discovered massive hidden canyons in Antarctica that could spell bad news for the rest of the planet<\/a> (<i>Quartz<\/i>) Yet another update saying that ice flow into the oceans will speed up more than predicted.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/05\/25\/nyregion\/harvey-weinstein-arrested.html\">Harvey Weinstein Arrested and Handcuffed on Rape Charges in New York<\/a> (<i>New York Times<\/i>) Your feel good story of the day.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/la-oe-dayen-musk-loop-20180527-story.html\">Enjoy the lines at Disneyland? You&#8217;ll love Elon Musk&#8217;s idea for transit<\/a> (<i>La Times<\/i>) Dave Dayen rightly points out that narcissism is mistaken for vision here.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is my dad in 1969, talking about municipal mergers in an interview.  He has since grown a beard and stopped wearing bow ties: <br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3TJXey9D00c\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Trump changed everything for The Onion (POLITICO) Reality outstrips the imagination of satirists. Ignore the hype over big tech. Its products are mostly useless (The Guardian) I agree. Astronomers Spot Potential &#8220;Interstellar&#8221; Asteroid Orbiting Backwards Around the Sun (Scientific American) Why China\u2019s Payment Apps Give U.S. Bankers Nightmares (Bloomberg) Because the Banksters are not &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-179057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179057"}],"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=179057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}