{"id":179529,"date":"2018-01-12T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/01\/12\/linkage-in-seattle-for-nephews-bar-mitzvah-edition\/"},"modified":"2018-01-12T08:40:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T13:40:00","slug":"linkage-in-seattle-for-nephews-bar-mitzvah-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/01\/12\/linkage-in-seattle-for-nephews-bar-mitzvah-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage, In Seattle for Nephew&#8217;s Bar Mitzvah Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/places\/encryption-lava-lamps?utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_medium=atlas-page\">Encryption Lava Lamps \u2013 San Francisco, California<\/a> (<i>Atlas Obscura<\/i>) Cloud Flare uses a wall of lava lamps and a video camera to generate random numbers for its security services.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/one-hillary-clinton-supporters-rotten-political-empire\/2018\/01\/02\/ec207e7c-efe2-11e7-b390-a36dc3fa2842_story.html\">David Brock&#8217;s rotten political empire<\/a> (<i>Washington Post<\/i>) &#8220;I  would be unfair if I said that David Brock represents everything wrong  with politics. So let me say that David Brock represents almost  everything wrong with politics.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/oxrep\/article\/34\/1-2\/70\/4781816\">Where modern macroeconomics went wrong<\/a> (<i>Oxford Review of Economic Policy<\/i>)&nbsp; Joseph Stiglitz opens up a can of whup ass on modern economics.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018\/01\/05\/pirates-risk-being-left-in-the-cold\/\">Don\u2019t pirate or we\u2019ll mess with your Nest, warns East Coast ISP<\/a> (<i>Endgadget<\/i>) The juxtaposition of the internet of things and the end of net neutrality is not pretty.&nbsp; You probably want to avoid ISP Armstrong Zoom.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.emptywheel.net\/2018\/01\/08\/the-political-gift-economy\/\">The Political Gift Economy<\/a> (<i>emptywheel<\/i>) Marcy Wheeler&#8217;s perspective on what I call <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/search?q=back-loaded+bribery&amp;max-results=20&amp;by-date=true\">back loaded bribery<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-01-08\/-it-can-t-be-true-inside-the-semiconductor-industry-s-meltdown\">\u2018It Can\u2019t Be True.\u2019 Inside the Semiconductor Industry\u2019s Meltdown<\/a> (<i>Bloomberg<\/i>) The three &#8220;W&#8221;s of Meltdown and Spectre CPU bugs.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/la-oe-abrahms-glaser-isis-assad-20171210-story.html\">The pundits were wrong about Assad and the Islamic State. As usual, they&#8217;re not willing to admit it<\/a> (<i>LA Times<\/i>) Always wrong with no meaningful consequences.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I found this hysterically funny, Charlie found it disturbing:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"496\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BsCBsmChbEM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Encryption Lava Lamps \u2013 San Francisco, California (Atlas Obscura) Cloud Flare uses a wall of lava lamps and a video camera to generate random numbers for its security services. David Brock&#8217;s rotten political empire (Washington Post) &#8220;I would be unfair if I said that David Brock represents everything wrong with politics. So let me say &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-179529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179529"}],"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=179529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}