{"id":200430,"date":"2021-04-12T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/04\/12\/linkage-379\/"},"modified":"2021-04-12T04:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T09:30:00","slug":"linkage-379","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/04\/12\/linkage-379\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/news\/nation-world\/national\/article250510219.html\">Golfer\u2019s ball lands on top of alligator at SC golf course<\/a> (<i>Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/i>) Surprisingly, not Florida, and it turns out that he did not have to take a penalty for moving the ball.<\/li>\n<li>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2021\/04\/09\/facebook_algorithm_discriminating\/\">Facebook job ads algorithm still discriminates on gender, LinkedIn not so much<\/a> (<i>The Register<\/i>) This is deliberate, because Facebook knows its algorithms.&nbsp; Providing a beard for bigotry is a part of their business model.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/earther.gizmodo.com\/first-ever-observations-from-under-antarctica-s-doomsd-1846650385\">Antarctica\u2019s \u2018Doomsday Glacier\u2019 Is in Trouble, New Data Shows<\/a> (<i>Gizmodo<\/i>) The Thwaites Glacier, the most unstable ice field in Antarctica, is more unstable than previously thought.&nbsp; Its collapse could raise sea levels by nearly a meter.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2021\/apr\/09\/sea-rice-eelgrass-marine-grain-chef-angel-leon-marsh-climate-crisis\">The rice of the sea: how a tiny grain could change the way humanity eats<\/a> (<i>The Guardian<\/i>) A Spanish chef has discovered that the grain from the <i>Zostera marin<\/i> a sea grass is both edible and  tasty.&nbsp; It grows quickly, and does not require fresh water.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/antarctica-accent-isolation\">Prolonged Isolation Can Lead to the Creation of New Accents<\/a> (<i>Atlas Obscura<\/i>) The results of a study of language in Antarctica.&nbsp; Would apply to any isolated community.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jacobinmag.com\/2021\/04\/amazon-bessemer-alabama-union-vote-job-market-union-density-monopsony\/\">Amazon Can Only Claim Their Jobs Are Decent Because American Work Has Gotten So Miserable<\/a> (<i>Jacobin<\/i>)&nbsp; Clearly true.&nbsp; There has been a race to the bottom in working conditions for decades.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2021\/04\/10\/lil-nas-x-montero-satan-devil-politics-controversy-religion-480655\">How Lil Nas X Flipped Conservatives\u2019 Culture-War Playbook<\/a> (<i>POLITICO<\/i>) Short version:&nbsp; Conservatives live to, &#8220;Own the libs,&#8221; and Lil Naz X has flipped this in his latest song.&nbsp; I am amused.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov\/catalog\/PIA24291\">Swatch of Wright Brothers Flyer 1 Attached to Mars Helicopter<\/a> (<i>NASA<\/i>) I do not know if this is cool or pretentious.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if John Oliver realizes it, but he just not-so-inadvertently endorsed Modern Monetary Theory.&nbsp; Also, &#8220;Oh, yeah \u2014 the clock was put up by that Durst family. The bathroom murder burp Dursts.&#8221;<\/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\/yq_E3HquRJY\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Golfer\u2019s ball lands on top of alligator at SC golf course (Fort Worth Star-Telegram) Surprisingly, not Florida, and it turns out that he did not have to take a penalty for moving the ball. &nbsp;Facebook job ads algorithm still discriminates on gender, LinkedIn not so much (The Register) This is deliberate, because Facebook knows its &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-200430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200430"}],"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=200430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}