{"id":200327,"date":"2021-05-10T04:41:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T09:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/05\/10\/linkage-376\/"},"modified":"2021-05-10T04:41:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T09:41:00","slug":"linkage-376","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/05\/10\/linkage-376\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2021\/05\/what-cats-love-of-boxes-and-squares-can-tell-us-about-their-visual-perception\/\">What cats\u2019 love of boxes and squares can tell us about their visual perception<\/a> (<i>Ars Technica<\/i>) Kitteh!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lifehacker.com\/why-cats-knock-your-stuff-over-and-how-to-stop-them-1747609650\">Why Cats Knock Your Stuff Over\u2014and How to Stop Them<\/a> (<i>Lifehacker<\/i>) Moar Kitteh! <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/2021\/may\/07\/funeral-grace-cremation-startup-alex-kruger\">\u2018Like Uber, but for cremations\u2019: I created a $2m funeral startup \u2013 and became a monster<\/a> (<i>The Guardian<\/i>) Silicon Valley startup culture is a petri dish for sociopathy.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/heres-how-to-avoid-accidentally-showing-your-genitals-t-1845418261\">How to Avoid &#8216;Zoom Dick&#8217; Incidents During Zoom Calls at Work<\/a> (<i>Gizmodo<\/i>) We live in strange times.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg25033332-500-alien-plants-the-search-for-photosynthesis-on-other-worlds\/\">Alien plants: The search for photosynthesis on other worlds<\/a> (<i>New Scientist<\/i>) Photosynthesis polarizes light, and by detecting polarized light, we might be able to detect photosynthesis.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/removal-all-contractors-afghanistan-underway-pentagon-chief-2021-05-06\/\">Pentagon chief says removal of all contractors from Afghanistan under way<\/a> (<i>Reuters<\/i>) If they are removing the contractors, then getting out of Afghanistan is real.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2021\/05\/96-of-us-users-opt-out-of-app-tracking-in-ios-14-5-analytics-find\/\">96% of US users opt out of app tracking in iOS 14.5, analytics find<\/a> (<i>Ars Technica<\/i>) Why making tracking &#8220;opt-in&#8221; is so important.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2021\/05\/biggest-isps-paid-for-8-5-million-fake-fcc-comments-opposing-net-neutrality\/\">Biggest ISPs paid for 8.5 million fake FCC comments opposing net neutrality<\/a> (<i>Ars Technica<\/i>) And Ajit Pai knew about this. Frog march him out of his offices.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2021\/05\/03\/small-modular-nuclear-reactors-are-mostly-bad-policy\/\">Small Modular Nuclear Reactors Are Mostly Bad Policy<\/a>&nbsp; (<i>CleanTechnica)<\/i> They multiply the security costs, and the waste issues, and provide no meaningful economies of scale.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A nice primer on Stochastic Terrorism (14 min):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7aISa3bLv8s\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What cats\u2019 love of boxes and squares can tell us about their visual perception (Ars Technica) Kitteh! Why Cats Knock Your Stuff Over\u2014and How to Stop Them (Lifehacker) Moar Kitteh! \u2018Like Uber, but for cremations\u2019: I created a $2m funeral startup \u2013 and became a monster (The Guardian) Silicon Valley startup culture is a petri &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1014],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200327"}],"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=200327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}