{"id":179872,"date":"2017-09-29T04:55:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T09:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/09\/29\/linkage-176\/"},"modified":"2017-09-29T04:55:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T09:55:00","slug":"linkage-176","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/09\/29\/linkage-176\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/doing-this-in-college-will-make-you-dumber-and-richer-2017-09-22\">College fraternities will make you dumber \u2014 and richer<\/a> (<i>MarketWatch<\/i>) Frats provide members social capital, which offsets the damage to the learning process<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2017\/09\/sears-predicts-amazon\/540888\/\">Sears&#8217;s History Predicts Almost Everything Amazon&#8217;s Doing<\/a> (<i>The Atlantic<\/i>) The parallels are striking.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theroot.com\/more-black-women-are-realizing-that-the-democratic-part-1818650231\/amp\">More Black Women Are Realizing That the Democratic Party Is Full of Sh%$, New Poll Finds<\/a> (<i>The Root<\/i>) Seriously, 30 years of sucking up to rich white guys.  What do they expect?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ianwelsh.net\/7-rules-for-running-a-real-left-wing-government\/\">Seven Rules for Running a Real Left-Wing Government<\/a> (<i>Ian Welsh<\/i>) Break up media conglomerates, understand that the bureaucracy will sabotage you as will the international financial establishment.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dealbreaker.com\/2017\/09\/mongodb-looking-to-create-unholy-trinity-of-terrible-nyc-tech-ipos\/\">MongoDB Looking To Create Unholy Trinity Of Terrible NYC Tech IPOs<\/a> (<i>Dealbreaker<\/i>) Reminds me of Steve Gilliard&#8217;s devastating takedowns of  dotcoms through their S-1&#8217;s in the 1990s. Good read.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/advances.sciencemag.org\/content\/3\/3\/e1601861.full\">Financialization impedes climate change mitigation: Evidence from the early American solar industry<\/a> (<i>Science Magazine<\/i>) There is nothing that finance cannot make worse.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/bill-gates-uses-android-phone\/\">Bill Gates now uses an Android phone<\/a>  (<i>CNET<\/i>) Fail.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcsweeneys.net\/articles\/our-open-plan-office-failed-so-were-moving-to-a-towering-panopticon\">Our Open-Plan Office Failed, So We\u2019re Moving to a Towering Panopticon<\/a> (<i>McSweeney\u2019s Internet Tendency<\/i>) Hilarious.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.laaclu.org\/en\/news\/aclu-louisiana-condemns-bossier-parishs-threats-students-first-amendment-rights\">ACLU of Louisiana Condemns Bossier Parish&#8217;s Threats to Students\u2019 First Amendment Rights<\/a> (<i>ACLU of Louisiana<\/i>) School district threatens kids who might take a knee.&nbsp; ACLU unamused.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Caption this picture: (H\/T <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2017\/09\/links-92717.html\">naked capitalism<\/a>)<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/Jro6ysH.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College fraternities will make you dumber \u2014 and richer (MarketWatch) Frats provide members social capital, which offsets the damage to the learning process Sears&#8217;s History Predicts Almost Everything Amazon&#8217;s Doing (The Atlantic) The parallels are striking. More Black Women Are Realizing That the Democratic Party Is Full of Sh%$, New Poll Finds (The Root) Seriously, &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-179872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179872"}],"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=179872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}