{"id":180159,"date":"2017-07-06T05:01:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/07\/06\/linkage-200\/"},"modified":"2017-07-06T05:01:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T10:01:00","slug":"linkage-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/07\/06\/linkage-200\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2017\/06\/29\/saudi-arabias-crown-prince-trump-foreign-policy-215321\">Saudi Arabia\u2019s New Crown Prince Is a Bumbling Hothead. Trump Needs to Treat Him Like One.<\/a> (<i>POLITICO<\/i>) Significant, because it comes from Tiger Beat on the Potomac (Politico), which is the font of conventional inside the Beltway &#8220;thinking&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carbonbrief.org\/major-correction-to-satellite-data-shows-140-faster-warming-since-1998\">Major correction to satellite data shows 140% faster warming since 1998<\/a> (<i>Carbon Brief<\/i>) Applying the effects of orbital decay.  We are f%$#ed.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=35054\">Trump Ally Alex Jones Endorses Insane Conspiracy About NASA\u2019s Child Slave Colonies on Mars<\/a>  (<i>News Corpse<\/i>) No, this is not parody, unless Mr. Jones is some sort of long term performance art project.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2017\/07\/a-programmer-turned-wikipedia-into-a-classic-text-adventure\/\">A programmer turned Wikipedia into a classic text adventure<\/a>&nbsp; (<i>Ars Technica<\/i>) Reminds me of a computer game written in the macro language for Lotus 1-2-3 called Templates of Doom.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.emptywheel.net\/2017\/07\/03\/facilities-you-use-may-be-collected-under-section-702\/\">Did NSA Start Using Section 702 to Collect from VPNs in 2014?<\/a> (<i>Emptywheel<\/i>) Use a non US VPN.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wvusoldier.wordpress.com\/2017\/07\/03\/notpetya-so-easy-anyone-could-do-it\/\">NotPetya \u2013 So Easy Anyone Could Do It<\/a> (<i>Weapons Grade Shenanigans<\/i>) All the requisite components for this cyber attack were available online for a long time before the attack.  Anyone who knew where to look could have done this.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/silicon-valley-is-becoming-a-commercial-real-estate-disaster-2017-7\">Silicon Valley is becoming a commercial real estate disaster<\/a> (<i>Business Insider<\/i>) Less than 10 years after the financial meltdown, we are seeing this again.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This makes me want to learn to play the bass, and it&#8217;s just a promo.<\/p>\n<p>As I have said before, a symphony orchestra on just 4 strings:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ASJxApEz_YA\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia\u2019s New Crown Prince Is a Bumbling Hothead. Trump Needs to Treat Him Like One. (POLITICO) Significant, because it comes from Tiger Beat on the Potomac (Politico), which is the font of conventional inside the Beltway &#8220;thinking&#8221;. Major correction to satellite data shows 140% faster warming since 1998 (Carbon Brief) Applying the effects of &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-180159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180159"}],"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=180159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}