{"id":180803,"date":"2016-12-28T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/12\/28\/linkage-249\/"},"modified":"2016-12-28T06:30:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T11:30:00","slug":"linkage-249","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/12\/28\/linkage-249\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/this-deep-sea-fisherman-posts-his-discoveries-on-twitte-1790323479\">This Deep Sea Fisherman Posts His Discoveries on Twitter and <b>OH MY GOD KILL IT WITH FIRE<\/b><\/a> (<i>Gizmodo<\/i>) Nature in all its glory.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2016\/12\/how-barack-obama-failed-black-americans\/511358\/\">How Barack Obama Failed Black Americans<\/a> (<i>The Atlantic<\/i>) Because he sees &#8220;his people&#8221; as being Ivy League grads, not the hoi polloi.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2016\/12\/22\/china_em_drive_orbit\/\">Chinese boffins: We&#8217;re testing an &#8216;impossible&#8217; EM Drive IN SPAAAACE<\/a> (<i>The Register<\/i>) Reactionless thruster.&nbsp; I&#8217;d feel better if there was a theory on how it works.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2016\/12\/before-you-pay-that-ransomware-demand\/\">Before You Pay that Ransomware Demand\u2026<\/a> (<i>Krebs on Security<\/i>) You may be able to decrypt your drive on your own.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/warontherocks.com\/2016\/12\/spy-vs-spy-the-bay-of-pigs-and-the-battle-for-the-soul-of-the-cia\/\">Spy vs. Spy: The Bay of Pigs and the Battle for the Soul of the CIA<\/a> (<i>War on the Rocks<\/i>) I rather hope that the CIA is more functional now, but best evidence is that it is not.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/globalguerrillas.typepad.com\/globalguerrillas\/2016\/12\/-victimology-101-why-clinton-lost.html\">Why Clinton Lost: An exercise in victimology<\/a> (<i>Global Guerrillas<\/i>) Clinton and her Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup> continue to cast blame and avoid looking at how they f%$#ed up.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/12\/26\/opinion\/sorry-liberals-bigotry-didnt-elect-donald-trump.html\">Sorry, Liberals. Bigotry Didn\u2019t Elect Donald Trump<\/a>  (<i>New York Times<\/i>) Money quote, &#8220;Two decades later, we are reminded again that a vote for a  presidential candidate is not a vote for every aspect of him. We can  look for the worst in our opponents, but that doesn\u2019t always explain how  they got the best of us.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/baselinescenario.com\/2016\/12\/26\/the-curse-of-credentialism\/\">The Curse of Credentialism<\/a> (<i>The Baseline Scenario<\/i>) It&#8217;s a fascinating examination on how the students at Yale Law School, in the absence of conventional grades, manufactures rankings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Why Homer Simpson Might Be God:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ta3rjuAv9eA\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Deep Sea Fisherman Posts His Discoveries on Twitter and OH MY GOD KILL IT WITH FIRE (Gizmodo) Nature in all its glory. How Barack Obama Failed Black Americans (The Atlantic) Because he sees &#8220;his people&#8221; as being Ivy League grads, not the hoi polloi. Chinese boffins: We&#8217;re testing an &#8216;impossible&#8217; EM Drive IN SPAAAACE &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":[806],"class_list":["post-180803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180803"}],"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=180803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}