{"id":180376,"date":"2017-05-08T04:24:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T09:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/05\/08\/linkage-217\/"},"modified":"2017-05-08T04:24:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T09:24:00","slug":"linkage-217","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/05\/08\/linkage-217\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/unchecked-surveillance-technology-leading-us-towards-totalitarianism-opinion-2535230\">Unchecked Surveillance Technology Is Leading Us Towards Totalitarianism<\/a> (<i>International Business Times<\/i>)  Cory Doctorow in a well justified rant.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/gadgets-and-tech\/news\/digital-economy-act-uk-police-disable-phones-before-crime-users-privacy-snooping-charter-a7717126.html\">Digital Economy Act: UK Police could soon disable phones, even if users don&#8217;t commit a crime<\/a> (<i>The Independent<\/i>) Live in obedient fear, citizen!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2017\/05\/lawyer-cops-deliberately-misled-judge-who-seemingly-signed-off-on-stingray\/\">Lawyer: Cops \u201cdeliberately misled\u201d judge who seemingly signed off on stingray<\/a> (<i>Ars Technica<\/i>) Live in \u2026\u2026\u2026 Well, you know.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/may\/05\/us-military-afghanistan-bomb-moab\">Questions for US military after doubt cast on efficiency of Afghan bombing<\/a> (<i>The Guardian<\/i>) As the Patriot is Gulf War I showed, the military lies about the efficacy of its weapons.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cepr.net\/blogs\/beat-the-press\/u-s-economy-can-t-even-match-the-sclerotic-statism-of-france\">U.S. Economy Can&#8217;t Even Match the &#8220;Sclerotic Statism&#8221; of France<\/a> (<i>The Center for Economic and Policy Research<\/i>) Dean Baker notes that Frances &#8220;Sclerotic&#8221; economy has a higher employment-population ratio than the US.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The SNL cold open re: Joe and Mika&#8217;s recently announced engagement:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mZXNqic_Zi8\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unchecked Surveillance Technology Is Leading Us Towards Totalitarianism (International Business Times) Cory Doctorow in a well justified rant. Digital Economy Act: UK Police could soon disable phones, even if users don&#8217;t commit a crime (The Independent) Live in obedient fear, citizen! Lawyer: Cops \u201cdeliberately misled\u201d judge who seemingly signed off on stingray (Ars Technica) Live &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-180376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180376"}],"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=180376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}