{"id":180388,"date":"2017-05-03T05:09:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T10:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/05\/03\/linkage-219\/"},"modified":"2017-05-03T05:09:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T10:09:00","slug":"linkage-219","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/05\/03\/linkage-219\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2017\/04\/5-times-charter-school-founders-used-shady-real-estate-deals-shamelessly-enrich.html\">5 Times Charter School Founders Used Shady Real Estate Deals to Shamelessly Enrich Themselves<\/a> (<i>naked capitalism<\/i>) More evidence that much of the charter school movement is looting.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/psmag.com\/inside-the-academic-journal-that-corporations-love-a1dbe48cca1c?gi=96c94332b28f\">Inside the Academic Journal That Corporations Love<\/a> (Pacific Standard) It&#8217;s Elsevier, of course, the Borg of the for-profit academic journal world.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Odd_News\/2017\/04\/27\/Oregon-police-respond-to-report-of-cat-armed-with-gun-shaped-stick\/9501493315958\/\">Look: Oregon police respond to report of cat armed with gun-shaped stick<\/a> (<i>UPI<\/i>) Cat terrorists.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/business\/2017\/05\/facebook-helped-advertisers-target-teens-who-feel-worthless\/\">Report: Facebook helped advertisers target teens who feel \u201cworthless\u201d<\/a> (<i>Ars Technica<\/i>) So, Zuckerberg and Co. determine when children are feeling &#8220;worthless, insecure, defeated, anxious, silly, useless, stupid, overwhelmed, stressed, and a failure,&#8221; they allow advertisers to prey on them. And Zuckerberg is mulling a Presidential run.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v544\/n7651\/full\/nature22065.html\">A 130,000-year-old archaeological site in southern California, USA<\/a> (<i>Nature<\/i>) Humans in the Americas about 100,000 years earlier than previously thought.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/how-vestager-took-a-bite-out-of-apple\/\">How Vestager took a bite out of Apple<\/a> (<i>Politico<\/i>) A nice blow by blow of how the EU went after Irish subsidies via tax evasion with Apple.  When do they go after Luxemberg?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@freddiedeboer\/the-three-hot-trends-in-silicon-valley-horseshit-95cc5a85e8a4\">the three hot trends in Silicon Valley horsesh%$<\/a> (<i>Medium<\/i>) Freddie deBoer notes that much of what is &#8220;Hot&#8221; in the valley is basically snake oil.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ianwelsh.net\/a-modest-proposal-to-fix-the-world\/\">A Modest Proposal To Fix The World<\/a> (<i>Ian Welsh<\/i>) It&#8217;s not meant to be taken seriously, but taxing the hyper-rich back to merely very well off is a great idea.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am so going to see the Kingsman Sequel:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6Nxc-3WpMbg\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 Times Charter School Founders Used Shady Real Estate Deals to Shamelessly Enrich Themselves (naked capitalism) More evidence that much of the charter school movement is looting. Inside the Academic Journal That Corporations Love (Pacific Standard) It&#8217;s Elsevier, of course, the Borg of the for-profit academic journal world. Look: Oregon police respond to report 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-180388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180388"}],"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=180388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}