{"id":180008,"date":"2017-08-09T04:31:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T09:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/08\/09\/linkage-187\/"},"modified":"2017-08-09T04:31:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T09:31:00","slug":"linkage-187","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/08\/09\/linkage-187\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/labor\/uber-democrats-workers-should-cooperate-not-compete\">There&#8217;s a Pernicious Economic Theory Creeping into the Heart of the Democratic Party | Alternet<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1041506\/new-data-on-h-1b-visas-show-how-it-outsourcers-are-short-changing-workers\/\">Tech companies outsourcing foreign workers via H-1B visas pay low wages \u2014 Quartz<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/toxic-waste-u-pot-farms-alarms-experts-100944016.html\">Toxic waste from U.S. pot farms alarms experts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/consumerist.com\/2017\/08\/07\/federal-court-confirms-patent-troll-doesnt-control-the-entire-idea-of-podcasting\/\">Federal Court Confirms: Patent Troll Doesn\u2019t Control The Entire Idea Of \u201cPodcasting\u201d \u2013 Consumerist<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2017\/08\/07\/sarcasm_detector_bot_mit\/\">A sarcasm detector bot? That sounds absolutely brilliant. Definitely \u2022 The Register<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20170803\/15283237918\/comcast-tries-fails-to-kill-lawsuit-over-hidden-bogus-fees.shtml\">Comcast Tries, Fails To Kill Lawsuit Over Its Hidden, Bogus Fees | Techdirt<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.refinery29.com\/2017\/07\/164920\/dick-pic-costume-party-clementine-ford\">Dick Pic Internet Costume Party Tweet &#8211; Clementine Ford<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/bayarea\/matier-ross\/article\/Rich-SF-residents-get-a-shock-Someone-bought-11738236.php?cmpid=fb-premium\">Rich SF residents get a shock: Someone bought their street &#8211; San Francisco Chronicle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlbeijer.com\/2017\/08\/bankers-and-big-pharma-lawyers-we-are.html\">Bankers and Big Pharma lawyers: We are the left!<\/a> (<i>Carl Beijer<\/i>) A good anecdote proving Upton Sinclair&#8217;s saying, &#8220;It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>John Oliver describes the cluterf%$# that is the US Border Patrol:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"496\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NnW5EjwtE2U\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a Pernicious Economic Theory Creeping into the Heart of the Democratic Party | Alternet Tech companies outsourcing foreign workers via H-1B visas pay low wages \u2014 Quartz Toxic waste from U.S. pot farms alarms experts Federal Court Confirms: Patent Troll Doesn\u2019t Control The Entire Idea Of \u201cPodcasting\u201d \u2013 Consumerist A sarcasm detector bot? That &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-180008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180008"}],"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=180008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}