{"id":179840,"date":"2017-10-09T04:24:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T09:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/10\/09\/linkage-174\/"},"modified":"2017-10-09T04:24:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T09:24:00","slug":"linkage-174","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/10\/09\/linkage-174\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/news\/taibbi-latest-fake-news-panic-appears-to-be-fake-news-w506396\">Latest Fake News Panic Appears to Be Fake News<\/a> (<i>Rolling Stone<\/i>) Matt Taibbi in fine form.&nbsp; It ain&#8217;t Russian meddling, it&#8217;s garden variety trolls and click bait.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.currentaffairs.org\/2017\/10\/undercover-at-the-bullshit-factory\">Undercover At the Bullsh%$ Factory<\/a> (<i>Current Affairs<\/i>) An interview with Dan Lyons who ended up at a spam factory startup called &#8220;Hubspot&#8221;, and turned it into a book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0316306088\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=40yeainthed0f-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=0316306088&amp;linkId=679283b1bd00b6955e89f663ad153642\" rel=\"nofollow\"><i>Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Startup Bubble<\/i><\/a>, which details the dishonesty and delusion that seems endemic in the industry.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2017\/10\/screwdriving-many-bluetooth-sex-toys-leave-users-vulnerable\/\">\u201cNSFW\u201d doesn\u2019t begin to describe Bluetooth security in sex toys<\/a> (<i>Ars Technica<\/i>) I would argue that the contents of your refrigerator, or your media consumption details are even more personal, but, &#8220;The internet of buzzing things,&#8221; does put the whole big brother thing in perspective.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-41528521\">Butterfly swarm shows up on Denver radar system<\/a> (<i>BBC<\/i>) Cute alert!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2017\/oct\/05\/over-half-of-new-cancer-drugs-show-no-benefits-for-survival-or-wellbeing\">Over half of new cancer drugs &#8216;show no benefits&#8217; for survival or wellbeingThe Guardian<\/a> (<i>The Guardian<\/i>)  Because drug companies are not in the business of curing or treating diseases, they are in the business of extending patent exclusivity to maximize profits.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fpif.org\/bernie-sanders-isnt-just-anti-capitalist-now-hes-a-voice-against-militarism-too\/\">Bernie Sanders Isn\u2019t Just Anti-Capitalist. Now He\u2019s a Voice Against Militarism, Too.<\/a> (<i>Foreign Policy In Focus<\/i>) Another way he was better than the relentlessly bellicose Hillary Clinton. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bespoke hand binding of a book.  It&#8217;s almost pornographic. <br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"281\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/70834074\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest Fake News Panic Appears to Be Fake News (Rolling Stone) Matt Taibbi in fine form.&nbsp; It ain&#8217;t Russian meddling, it&#8217;s garden variety trolls and click bait. Undercover At the Bullsh%$ Factory (Current Affairs) An interview with Dan Lyons who ended up at a spam factory startup called &#8220;Hubspot&#8221;, and turned it into a book, &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-179840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179840"}],"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=179840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}