Tuesday links

In the middle of pantry building, but for the moment, it’s all on The Wandering Monk. So I’ll see if I can squeeze in a links post …

• The peasants are revolting.
• Surprise, surprise. The terrible, shocking, unfair, sexist, government-must-do-something-about-this gender pay gap is entirely do to the different choices men and women make. Even Harvard says so.
• Self interest builds both prosperity and community.
• Why is it that the outfits that want to know everything about us want us to know nothing about them? First the Deep State. Now Google and of course F*c*b**k. It’s always been FB.
• Egads. I hope not many makerspaces are run according to feelz. As Scott Greenfield says, that could mean choosing between her feelz and your life.
• Since you liked Jason Brennan’s writing the other day, here’s his blog about how political philosophy exists to rationalize evil. If that sounds pedantic, worry not: It has Vulcans! in it.
• A white-hat hacker speaks to a homeowner through his Nest “security” camera.
• Such a nice racket for cops. They get a defense attorney to rat on her own clients. No word on whether they had leverage against her or she was just a natural turncoat and liar.
• The science behind why we’re so easily outraged by fake news, propaganda, and other daily realities on Netland. (H/T MJR)
• What were nomadic herdspeople up to 4,000 years ago? Playing board games, apparently.
• Do Avengers fans really want NASA to rescue Tony Stark from certain death in outer space? Or do you sense a few tongues in a few cheeks here? (H/T MtK)