{"id":200385,"date":"2021-04-26T04:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T09:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/04\/26\/linkage-378\/"},"modified":"2021-04-26T04:15:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T09:15:00","slug":"linkage-378","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/04\/26\/linkage-378\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2021\/04\/05\/ron-watkins-qanon-hbo\/\">HBO documentary on QAnon suggests Ron Watkins is QAnon prophet<\/a>  (<i>The Washington Post<\/i>) The hed is kind of weak.&nbsp; Ron Watkins   accidentally outed himself as &#8220;Q&#8221;. <\/li>\n<li>  <a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.substack.com\/p\/meditations-on-us-forces-firing-a\">Meditations On US Forces Firing A Howitzer Into The Empty Desert &#8220;Just To     Say We&#8217;re&nbsp;Here&#8221;<\/a>  (<i>Caitlin\u2019s Newsletter<\/i>) What we are doing, or more accurately, what we   are pretending to do, in Afghanistan. <\/li>\n<li>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/places\/encryption-lava-lamps\">Encryption Lava Lamps \u2013 San Francisco, California<\/a>  (<i>Atlas Obscura<\/i>) Cloudflare has a wall of lava lamps in its   headquarters, and it uses it to generate random numbers for its encryption. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2021\/04\/21\/minnesota_linux_flaws\/?td=keepreading-top\">University of Minnesota thought it would be cool to try to sneak bad code into Linux as an experiment. Of course, it backfired badly<\/a> (<i>The Register<\/i>) University of Minnesota contributors are banned from the Linux project until further notice.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dontcallthepolice.com\/\">Resources by city<\/a> (<i>Don&#8217;t Call The Police<\/i>) Very useful resource for avoiding getting people shot for minor problems.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2021\/04\/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-low-skill-worker\/618674\/\">Low-Skill Workers Aren\u2019t a Problem to Be Fixed<\/a> (<i>The Atlantic<\/i>) They are not low skill workers, they are just poorly paid ones. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.creditslips.org\/creditslips\/2021\/04\/abolish-the-occ.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20creditslips%2Ffeed%20%28Credit%20Slips%29\">Abolish the OCC?<\/a> (<i>Credit Slips<\/i>) Much like the Office of Thrift Supervision, it has been so thoroughly captured by the banks that it needs to be abolished.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/04\/21\/maine-defund-police-fusion-centers-mass-surveillance\/\">The Defund Police Movement Takes Aim at Fusion Centers and Mass Surveillance<\/a> (<i>The Intercept<\/i>) This is an excellent place to star.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/04\/24\/opinion\/covid-vaccines-poor-countries.html\">The World Needs Many More Coronavirus Vaccines<\/a> (<i>New York Times<\/i>) The editorial board calls to, &#8220;Suspend patents.&#8221;&nbsp; That is a big deal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> Our dysfunctional unemployment insurance, John Oliver counts the ways: <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"496\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jm9YKT0dItk\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HBO documentary on QAnon suggests Ron Watkins is QAnon prophet (The Washington Post) The hed is kind of weak.&nbsp; Ron Watkins accidentally outed himself as &#8220;Q&#8221;. Meditations On US Forces Firing A Howitzer Into The Empty Desert &#8220;Just To Say We&#8217;re&nbsp;Here&#8221; (Caitlin\u2019s Newsletter) What we are doing, or more accurately, what we are pretending to &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-200385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200385"}],"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=200385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}