{"id":200481,"date":"2021-03-29T04:09:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T09:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/03\/29\/linkage-381\/"},"modified":"2021-03-29T04:09:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T09:09:00","slug":"linkage-381","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/03\/29\/linkage-381\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/xgzb4k\/venus-flytraps-have-magnetic-fields-like-the-human-brain\">Venus Flytraps Have Magnetic Fields Like the Human Brain<\/a> (<i>Vice<\/i>) I have to listen to the <i>Little Shop of Horrors<\/i> original cast album again.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jamesykwak.medium.com\/amazon-the-crappy-monopolist-9cb51915583f\">Amazon, the Crappy Monopolist.<\/a> (<i>Medium<\/i>) Notwithstanding their assertion of being laser focused on the customer, they deliver a crappy product.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mynewbandis.substack.com\/p\/my-new-band-is-teenage-mistake\">Teenage Mistake<\/a> (<i>Elizabeth Spiers<\/i>)&nbsp; The defenestration of, &#8220;27 year old political reporter Alexi McCammond,&#8221; as Editor-in-Chief of <i>Teen Vogue<\/i> was not about some anti-Asian tweets she made as a teen, it was about Anna Wintour taking someone who had no background in fashion, management, or editing, and wanting to put her in charge of an increasingly relevant magazine.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/171c92ec-0a44-4dc5-acab-81ee2620d3c1\">The bank effect and the big boat blocking the Suez<\/a> (<i>Financial Times<\/i>) An intesresting discussion of the hydrodynamics of big ships in small channels, and how it might have caused the incident.&nbsp; (There is now a Wikipedia entry for the &#8220;bank effect&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20210318\/11293946447\/connecticut-legislature-offers-up-bill-that-would-make-prison-phone-calls-free.shtml\">Connecticut Legislature Offers Up Bill That Would Make Prison Phone Calls Free<\/a> (<i>Techdirt<\/i>) About bloody time.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nautil.us\/issue\/98\/mind\/i-have-come-to-bury-ayn-rand\">I Have Come to Bury Ayn Rand<\/a> (<i>Nautilus<\/i>) An evolutionary biologist explains how natural selection actually favors groups that support each other.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2021\/03\/25\/pat-fallon-vfw-splc-satire\/\">GOP representative Pat Fallon cites Duffel Blog, satire site, as fact while questioning SPLC head<\/a> (<i>Washington Post<\/i>) The stoopid, it burns.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/mar\/27\/maryland-police-video-berating-child\">Maryland police video shows officers threatening, screaming at crying child<\/a> (<i>The Guardian<\/i>) A 5-year-old eloped from school, and police officers threatened to beat him.&nbsp; Support your local police.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_29878_the-rebecca-riots-when-welsh-farmers-dressed-in-drag-to-protest.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20CrackedRSS%20%28Cracked%3A%20All%20Posts%29\">The Rebecca Riots: When Welsh Farmers Dressed In Drag To Protest<\/a> (<i>Cracked<\/i>) Cross dressing tax protesters dismantling toll booths.&nbsp; I love history. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cloakinginequity.com\/2021\/03\/25\/more-than-1-billion-for-56-black-charter-graduates\/\">More than $1 billion for 56 Black charter graduates!?<\/a> (<i>Cloaking Inequity<\/i>) It&#8217;s Texas (where else?) and more evidence that much of the support of the charter school movement comes from people wanting to re-segregate education.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A specific example of how Amazon uses its monopoly position as a marketplace to crush competitors:<br \/><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\/HbxWGjQ2szQ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venus Flytraps Have Magnetic Fields Like the Human Brain (Vice) I have to listen to the Little Shop of Horrors original cast album again. Amazon, the Crappy Monopolist. (Medium) Notwithstanding their assertion of being laser focused on the customer, they deliver a crappy product. Teenage Mistake (Elizabeth Spiers)&nbsp; The defenestration of, &#8220;27 year old political &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-200481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200481"}],"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=200481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}