{"id":180201,"date":"2017-06-26T04:54:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T09:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/06\/26\/linkage-203\/"},"modified":"2017-06-26T04:54:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T09:54:00","slug":"linkage-203","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/06\/26\/linkage-203\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/06\/20\/attorney-general-jeff-sessions-hires-private-lawyer.html\">Attorney General Jeff Sessions hires private lawyer<\/a> (<i>CNBC<\/i>) Pass the popcorn.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2017\/06\/the-human-sacrifice-diet\/\">The human sacrifice diet<\/a> (<i>Ars Technica<\/i>) &#8220;Scientists explore the lives of ancient human sacrifice victims by analyzing what they ate.&#8221;  More historical geekwery.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2017\/06\/how-to-install-linux-on-a-chromebook\/\">How to install Linux on a Chromebook (and why you should)<\/a> (<i>Ars Technica<\/i>) One way to get a cheap Linux box.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2017\/06\/engineered-algae-puts-half-of-its-carbon-into-fats-for-biofuels\/\">Engineered algae puts half of its carbon into fats for biofuels<\/a> (<i>Ars Technica<\/i>) I was wondering when someone would look into this.&nbsp; Of particular note, this uses a salt water algae, which mitigates water demand issues.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/06\/21\/world\/middleeast\/israeli-woman-who-sued-el-al-for-sexism-wins-landmark-ruling.html\">Israeli Woman Who Sued El Al for Sexism Wins Landmark Ruling<\/a> (<i>New York Times<\/i>) This is notable because this was in an Israeli court.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2012\/09\/tax-cuts-dont-lead-to-economic-growth-a-new-65-year-study-finds\/262438\/\">Tax Cuts Don&#8217;t Lead to Economic Growth, a New 65-Year Study Finds<\/a> (<i>The Atlantic<\/i>) Unfortunately, the facts won&#8217;t matter to the Republicans <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/content.healthaffairs.org\/content\/early\/2017\/06\/16\/hlthaff.2016.1344.full\">Medicare Advantage Associated With More Racial Disparity Than Traditional Medicare For Hospital Readmissions<\/a> (<i>Health Affairs<\/i>) The reason that private insurers discriminate more than public insurers is because they <b>CAN<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2017\/06\/23\/democratic-lobbyists-donald-trump-mottur-podesta-comcast-prudential\/\">Prominent Democratic Fundraisers Realign to Lobby for Trump\u2019s Agenda<\/a> (<i>The Intercept<\/i>) These are not dedicated people working for the good of the party or society, they are snake oil salesmen.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/247wallst.com\/media\/2017\/06\/23\/3-6-billion-mobile-ad-clicks-are-fraudulent\/\">3.6 Billion Mobile Ad Clicks Are Fraudulent<\/a> (<i>24\/7 Wall St.<\/i>) A fraud rate of about 1 in 6.&nbsp; The question is whether online ads are more fraudulent, or if older ads had the same amount of fraud, but metrics were unavailable.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2017\/06\/23\/uber-sanctioned-for-ignoring-search-warrant-in-moraga-sexual-battery-case-judge-calls-companys-record-horrific\/\">Uber sanctioned for ignoring search warrant in Moraga sexual battery case, judge calls company&#8217;s record &#8220;horrific&#8221;<\/a> (<i>San Jose Mercury<\/i>) They are ignoring a subpoena, because even after the month from hell, Uber is still pond scum.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I cam across an interesting video talking about the <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2017\/04\/19\/great-video-essay-on-john-carp.html\">political context of the John Carpenter movie <i>They Live<\/i><\/a>.  The movie&#8217;s message is even more apropos today:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"281\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/209768155\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/209768155\">We Sleep: On the Enduring Propheticism of John Carpenter&#8217;s THEY LIVE<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/danielclarksonfisher\">Daniel Clarkson Fisher<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney General Jeff Sessions hires private lawyer (CNBC) Pass the popcorn. The human sacrifice diet (Ars Technica) &#8220;Scientists explore the lives of ancient human sacrifice victims by analyzing what they ate.&#8221; More historical geekwery. How to install Linux on a Chromebook (and why you should) (Ars Technica) One way to get a cheap Linux box. &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-180201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180201"}],"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=180201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}