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Midweek links

Published May 9, 2018 2:16 am by Claire

Arizona passes a comprehensive campus free-speech law for government universities.

Will Rosie O’Donnell do prison time?

That deadly Uber vehicle saw the woman and her bike in time via its various sensors. Its programming told it to ignore her.

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Monday links

Published May 7, 2018 1:40 am by Claire

Shades of China’s new social-credit policy right here in the U.S.: Your browser history might be a better predictor of your financial behavior than your FICO score.

“Ruck it.” J.C. Dodge on carrying a heavy weight on your back on a bug-out scenario.

Am I actually seeing this on CNN??? Nancy Pelosi is screwing up by emphasizing identity politics.

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Friday links

Published May 4, 2018 1:36 am by Claire

Although things aren’t looking good for gun rights, gun owners are increasingly young and female — and that’s got to be a good sign. (H/T LA)

This, too: Students walk out of school in support of the Second Amendment. Though we should have heard a lot more about it than we did.

Simpsons creator Matt Groening is unapologetic about Apu and calls out those who gain attention by pretending to be offended.

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Midweek links

Published May 1, 2018 6:18 pm by Claire

Banks and credit card companies are colluding against gun owners and gun businesses.

Medical ethics should change its name to something else.

Should it be a crime to provide illegal immigrants with food and water?

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Weekend links too

Published April 29, 2018 11:45 am by Claire

Wow. Last night’s White House Correspondents Dinner must have been the fiasco of fiascos. Even the NYT and CNN are decrying the nasty attacks comedian Michelle Wolf made against Trump (who wasn’t there) and Sarah Huckabee Sanders (who was).

The inimitable Scott Greenfield slams it to those regressive fools who are cutting their own (and civilization’s) throat by dismissing free speech as nothing but a right-wing dog whistle.

Two on Alfie Evans: where is Jimmy Kimmel’s voice now; and Britain’s new Berlin Wall.

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Weekend links

Published April 28, 2018 1:28 am by Claire

Palantir knows everything about you. And they want more paying customers for their snoop system. (H/T JW)

Why humans are increasingly unaware of their own ignorance — and why that’s a big problem.

Court rules that a man can’t be denied his self-defense rights because of some stupid, harmless “felony” he committed nearly three decades ago.

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I finally saw The Book yesterday!

Published April 26, 2018 9:21 am by Claire

It’s definitely been a bit weird having a book on Amazon for nearly a month without ever having seen it. Of course I viewed the .pdf many times in many stages before co-author Kit Perez uploaded it. But that’s not the same. I don’t have a Kindle reader, I don’t like ebooks, and not holding a paper copy in my hands felt like something was missing. Because something was! Author copies have been pending, but Amazon’s been in no rush with them. (And that’s okay because they sell us our author copies at cost, rather than at the 50% rate…

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Weekend links

Published April 21, 2018 6:49 am by Claire

Maqgie McNeill lets loose on “…every yahoo endowed with a one-dimensional sense of ethics who brays that the current sorry state of the American empire is the fault of whichever ‘wing’ of the US Fascist Party he does not identify with.”

Joel Kotkin: American Jews should wake up and realize which side their most dangerous enemies are on. (Via Instapundit)

At Harvard, you can’t even say “free speech” if you want to hold an event there. Because, you know, free speech is such a right-wing thing.

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Weekend links

Published April 8, 2018 9:10 am by Claire

As a fire kills a man and injures six firefighters in Trump Tower, some “progressives” rejoice. (H/T M)

Don’t feel too bad about poor Mark Zuckerberg being grilled by congressional committes. They have hundreds of thousands of reasons to go light on him.

Technological Big Brother increasingly rules India. Alternatives: submit or starve; submit or be shut out of normal life.

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Friday links

Published April 6, 2018 3:33 am by Claire

Of all the scurvy deeds F*c*b**k has attempted, this may be the worst: trying to get hospital records so they could de-anonymize them and match them to specific FB users. (Via M in comments)

But of course, FB’s troubles all result from excess idealism. We should never doubt their deep, deep commitment to our privacy.

Seattle’s mayor wants to impose tolls on downtown streets.

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