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Wednesday links

Published May 23, 2018 1:49 am by Claire

In the wake of mass shootings, parents are now reconsidering mass schooling. Excellent article by Kerry McDonald.

A pioneer in the field of machine learning now says it’s gone all wrong.

While the woman’s contributions may be a detriment to the gene pool, her jailers are infinitely worse.

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Monday-Tuesday links

Published May 21, 2018 3:48 pm by Claire

Carl Bussjaeger at TZP on problems and solutions in school shootings. Damnfine piece, Bear.

Is it possible the Amish understand one aspect of technology better than the rest of us do?

Scott Greenfield asks, “Where did all the dads go?”

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Midweek links

Published May 16, 2018 7:15 am by Claire

Latest “progressive” intellectual psychobabble: You don’t have a right to believe whatever you want. (How the Thought Police are going to stop you is a question for another day.)

Facebook, Google, Twitter, and something called Brightcloud may believe they have the answer.

Tracking you without a warrant. (H/T JB)

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Book review: How You Got Screwed

Published May 15, 2018 2:00 am by Claire

How You Got Screwed: What Big Banks, Big Government, and Big Business Don’t Want You to Know — and What You Can Do About It
By Allen Marshall
Skyhorse Publishing, May 1, 2018
Paperback list price: $12.99, current Amazon price: $9.20
Kindle price: $7.80

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Do you have friends, relatives, neighbors, or co-workers who are just waking up, shaking their heads, and asking, “WTF happened?”

This is the book for them. This may be the book for you to buy by the dozen to give to them. That’s especially true if they’re Millennials or in the younger cohort of Gen-X.

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Monday links

Published May 14, 2018 8:20 am by Claire

Fight back against a brutal cop and be charged with a federal hate crime? Bad idea. Very bad.

A sex worker describes the harm the feds’ seizure of Backpage is doing to her.

Venmo is a peer-to-peer payments network. Venmo is also a social network. Why the hell would you want friends and casual strangers to see where you’re spending your money? Unless for some goofy reason you actually want them track and speculate about your activities.

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Weekend links

Published May 12, 2018 7:06 pm by Claire

The creepy goes up another notch. Yahoo and AOL are … well, just read it. The headline is slightly overblown, but the reality is damnable enough.

Inside the brotherhood of ad blockers. This is great!

Per jc2k in comments: Black gun-rights activist and founder of the Huey P. Newton Gun Club, Rakem Balogun, is arrested and financially ruined for criticizing police.

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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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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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