{"id":179565,"date":"2018-01-01T03:55:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T08:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/01\/01\/linkage-new-years-edition\/"},"modified":"2018-01-01T03:55:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T08:55:00","slug":"linkage-new-years-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/01\/01\/linkage-new-years-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage New Year&#8217;s Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hackernoon.com\/ten-years-in-nobody-has-come-up-with-a-use-case-for-blockchain-ee98c180100?gi=dceb90995498\">Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain<\/a> (<i>Hacker Noon<\/i>) &#8220;After years of tireless effort and billions of dollars invested, nobody has actually come up with a use for the blockchain\u2014besides currency speculation and illegal transactions.:<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/608580\/eliminating-the-human\/\">Eliminating the Human<\/a> (MIT Technology Review) Lansdowne High School alum and former Talking Heads front man David Bryne on technology.&nbsp; Money quote, &#8220;I have a theory that much recent tech development and innovation over the last decade or so has an unspoken overarching agenda. It has been about creating the possibility of a world with less human interaction. This tendency is, I suspect, not a bug\u2014it\u2019s a feature.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/12\/ayn-rand-helped-the-fbi-identify-its-a-wonderful-life-as-communist-propaganda.html\">Ayn Rand Helped the FBI Identify It&#8217;s A Wonderful Life as Communist Propaganda<\/a> (<i>Open Culture<\/i>) Yes, one more thing to hate that psychopath for, and I don&#8217;t even like the movie.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-north-dakota-pipeline\/u-s-judge-orders-oil-spill-response-plan-for-dakota-access-pipeline-idUSKBN1DY1R3\">U.S. judge orders oil-spill response plan for Dakota Access Pipeline<\/a> (<i>Reuters<\/i>) The Dakota Access pipeline has been put on hold, because they have no oil spill reponse plan.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thisislikesogay.blogspot.com\/2017\/12\/kicking-away-tiny-tims-crutch-because.html\">Kicking Away Tiny Tim&#8217;s Crutch Because His Father Voted for Trump<\/a> (<i>This is So Gay<\/i>) This is a common, and deplorable phenomenon of the left wing pundits, Eric Alterman in this case.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cjr.org\/the_lower_case\/bad-headlines-2017.php\">Worst headlines bloopers of 2017: The best of Lower Case<\/a> (<i>Columbia Journalism Review<\/i>) So funny.  Oh Man!  Oh God!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh Man! Oh God! <br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y9KyBdPeKHg\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain (Hacker Noon) &#8220;After years of tireless effort and billions of dollars invested, nobody has actually come up with a use for the blockchain\u2014besides currency speculation and illegal transactions.: Eliminating the Human (MIT Technology Review) Lansdowne High School alum and former Talking Heads front &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-179565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179565"}],"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=179565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}