{"id":200345,"date":"2021-05-05T04:36:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T09:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/05\/05\/linkage-377\/"},"modified":"2021-05-05T04:36:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T09:36:00","slug":"linkage-377","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/05\/05\/linkage-377\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/161900\/austerity-hurricane-katrina-economic-inequality-adolph-reed\">How Austerity Destroyed the Public Good<\/a> (<i>The New Republic<\/i>) A 40 year program of austerity has destroyed the capabilities of government.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/the-war-zone\/40411\/the-air-force-parks-trucks-over-icbm-silos-during-non-launch-tests-just-in-case\">Trucks Get Parked Over Air Force Nuclear Missile Silos During Tests&#8230; Just In Case<\/a> (<i>The Drive<\/i>)&nbsp; In case a simulated launch results in an actual launch.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2021\/05\/04\/one_of_apples_monopoly_defenses\/\">Googler demolishes one of Apple&#8217;s monopoly defenses \u2013 that web apps are just as good as native iOS software<\/a> (<i>The Register<\/i>) Apple got its nose under the door by insisting that it would run web apps, and once it set up the web store, it removed web app capabilities.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20210427\/08341746685\/only-14-americans-think-communities-shouldnt-be-allowed-to-build-their-own-broadband-networks.shtml\">Only 14% Of Americans Think Communities Shouldn&#8217;t Be Allowed To Build Their Own Broadband Networks<\/a> (<i>Techdirt<\/i>) Banning community broadband is about as popular as having one&#8217;s daughter dating Matt Gaetz.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/cvs-and-walgreens-have-wasted-more-vaccine-doses-than-most-states-combined\/\">CVS and Walgreens Have Wasted More Vaccine Doses Than Most States Combined<\/a> (<i>Kaiser Health News<\/i>) One of the consequence of the US public health apparatus being hollowed out by austerity.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2021\/apr\/30\/antarctic-doomsday-glacier-may-be-melting-faster-than-was-thought\">Antarctic \u2018doomsday glacier\u2019 may be melting faster than was thought<\/a> (<i>The Guardian<\/i>) The Thwaites Glacier. Over 3 meters of sea level rise with follow-on effects.&nbsp; We are screwed. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> I did not realize that The Who released a protest song 2 years ago.  It&#8217;s a wonderful bluesy piece: <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\/h2IN8wYqQ6E\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Austerity Destroyed the Public Good (The New Republic) A 40 year program of austerity has destroyed the capabilities of government. Trucks Get Parked Over Air Force Nuclear Missile Silos During Tests&#8230; Just In Case (The Drive)&nbsp; In case a simulated launch results in an actual launch. Googler demolishes one of Apple&#8217;s monopoly defenses \u2013 &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-200345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200345"}],"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=200345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}