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Monday links

Published April 2, 2018 10:19 am by Claire

An interview with Erich Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America — the one national gun-rights group that has most earned our support.

Joyce Lee Malcolm: the “nice girl” who saved the Second Amendment.

Zuckerberg vs Tim Cook. Can Zuck really be that clueless? More likely disingenuous.

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Friday links

Published March 30, 2018 1:44 am by Claire

Free-range kids are now legal in Utah. Why should it ever have been otherwise? (H/T BD)

Hahaha. So much for biometrics. A group of researchers has created a wearable tool that enables you to fool facial recognition systems into thinking you’re somebody else. A specific somebody else of your choice, apparently.

What it’s going to be like, ordering from Facebook Pizza. (Via ILTim in comments)

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Not a post about leaving social networks

Published March 28, 2018 7:32 am by Claire

Source —– Cambridge Analytica is a red herring. Oh, look, F*c*b**k gave your data to eeeeeeeevil Trump people! Never mind that it gave five times as much to those wuuuuuuuuuderful Obama people in 2012! No matter. It’s still lovely to see people finally waking up to the fact that when you’re on FB, you’re the product, not the customer. I wonder how long this will last? Will the rage and revelations against FB begin an online privacy revolution? Or, more likely, will data-gobbling and stupid data-spilling go on unabated after a few token crony-gov regulations? It’s encouraging that even big…

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Tuesday links

Published March 27, 2018 11:11 am by Claire

Doesn’t it just figure? One of the entertainers from Saturday’s anti-gun rally in DC has a recent firearm conviction on his record. It’s one of those “offenses” that shouldn’t be. But still. Hypocrisy, thy name is gun control.

Here’s another rapper who’s no hypocrite; he’s adamantly pro-gun and wonders why so-called progressives want to turn black people back into slaves.

Do you really expect men to take this new birth-control pill?

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Weekend links

Published March 24, 2018 11:05 am by Claire

Time to dump your Citibank card.

Nope. Mass shootings never happen outside the U.S.. Anybody who says otherwise must be some sort of raving gun nut.

Every once in a while, Mother Jones gets it (mostly) right: the real reason the Japanese don’t buy American cars.

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Friday links

Published March 23, 2018 2:07 am by Claire

If I’d have had time to post yesterday (sorry), this would have been at the top of my list: YouTube shows its colors (again) by banning a range of gun-related videos. (Tip o’ hat to DB and others)

Hillary Clinton, not Donald Trump or Cambridge Analytica, is gaslighting America.

Yeah, and Cambridge Analytica is a red herring. Money quote from the Obama camp: “Facebook was ‘very candid that they allowed us to do things they wouldn’t have allowed someone else to do because they were on our side.’”

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Tuesday links

Published March 20, 2018 7:22 am by Claire

Cop randomly and repeatedly face-punches a 12-year-old girl playing with a puppy. (At least this one got arrested.) (H/T DB)

The ultimate bail reform: murder your client.

In Japan, lonely seniors (especially women) are committing petty crimes to earn the security and stability of prison.

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Monday links

Published March 19, 2018 2:10 am by Claire

Glenn Harlan Reynolds: If airlines were free to compete, your dog would have a better chance of safely reaching its destination.

Amazon deletes reviews for the works of conservative and libertarian authors without explanation.

Most Americans don’t (yet) fear Big Tech enough says Will Oremus at Slate.

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Weekend links

Published March 17, 2018 5:46 am by Claire

To “maintain and increase enrollment” a college considers dropping various liberal arts majors.

Scott Greenfield: End immunity for dirty prosecutors.

After leading a class discussion about the anti-gun school walkouts a teacher is put on leave, apparently for asking students to consider the “wrong” (conservative) question.

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Monday links

Published March 12, 2018 1:51 pm by Claire

Sometimes conspiracy theories turn out to be true. Like the one that said Broward county cops were deliberately letting juveniles like the Parkland murderer off the hook.

The western world isn’t becoming less religious. The fanatics are still with us; they’ve just adopted a new belief called intersectionality. (And before that … state worship, of which intersectionality is just one of the craziest sects.)

The government killed free checking. Can Amazon restore it?

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