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Wednesday links

Published December 6, 2017 7:46 am by Claire

Drones. They’re getting so creepy they’re grossing out data-visualization experts.

Mexican designers pointedly create Trump’s border wall.

Confirmation and more detail on the horror story of the Georgia cop who terrorized a man into beheading his own dog.

Thursday links

Published November 30, 2017 7:31 am by Claire

Of course it was a complete accident that Google “disappeared” Protonmail from its search results for months. How could anyone think otherwise?

It’s happened as we knew it must: a state has ordered medical cannabis users to turn in their guns. (Via Myself in comments)

Six things you learn after shooting a cop in self defense. (Yeah, you already knew; it’s the mainstreamness and millennialness of this source that’s interesting.)

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Tuesday links

Published November 28, 2017 11:12 am by Claire

That 84-year-old New Hampshire doctor won’t get her license back — on the thin excuse that she “surrendered it voluntarily.”

Is Chief Justice Roberts a secret liberal? If not, then why does he v*te so often in lockstep with Ruth Bader Ginsberg?

Oopsie. Project Veritas badly botches a sting and makes the WaPo look good.

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Monday links

Published November 27, 2017 7:34 am by Claire

George Will on another year of U.S. absurdity.

The Giffords branch of the victim-disarming lobby uses pressure to try to shut down two perfectly legal firearm sites.

Scott H. Greenfield on leaving (or trying to leave) Twitter. And being soooooo tired of the feelz replacing the thinkz.

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Midweek links

Published November 22, 2017 6:30 am by Claire

The death of critical thinking in the freedom movement, part II. Kit Perez is on a roll.

Among all the standard obits for ’70s teen idol David Cassidy, this one’s a little different. If you were ever in the seventh grade, you’ll understand.

David Kopel writes about the American Indian origins of U.S. gun culture.

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Midweek links

Published November 15, 2017 2:16 am by Claire

From Laird in comments and because this is very important, though unsurprising: A Pentagon study prescribes a “cure” for America’s falling emprire.

Survival Mom on prepping for winter.

So the MSM is finally facing up to the Bill Clinton sex scandals and their own reaction to them.

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Tuesday links

Published November 14, 2017 7:28 am by Claire

Ten-year-old unlocks his mom’s iPhoneX by facial recognition — without even trying. Hahaha. From Reason: Detroit cops posing as drug dealers get into a brawl with Detroit cops posing as drug buyers. It’s here as we predicted: the first drug with ingestion tracking. Also from Reason, J.D. Tuccille asks whether it’s occurred to anyone that tighter gun laws with stricter enforcement are likely to leave libertarians as the best armed people around. (But wait; aren’t we already?) Locating lost cities of the ancient world by analyzing records of their commerce. South African TV refuses to air an “authentic” miracle. (NSFW)…

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Monday links

Published November 13, 2017 7:01 am by Claire

How the NSA got got hacked and mocked.

Accusations =/= guilt. Too often they’re merely the mob testing its power.

Seasteading is coming ever closer to reality.

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Friday links

Published November 10, 2017 7:32 am by Claire

In news-of-the-creepy: the recently dead can now unlock smartphones with their fingers or eyes.

Speaking of creepy, Sean Parker accuses Mark Z and FB of exploiting vulnerabilities in human psychology. (No sh*t, Sherlock. That’s what FB exists to do.)

Electric cars: major polluters. (Yet another truth obvious to anyone who ever looked honestly at the question without being dazzled by the claims of clean urban air.)

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Midweek links

Published November 7, 2017 11:43 am by Claire

The The disappearing American grad student — engineering grad student, that is.

Massachusetts has a puzzling legal problem with its cannabis legalization: islands. Whose waters are governed by feds. Hm. Washington state seems to have solved that. There are plenty of pot shoppes in the San Juans.

In case you haven’t heard already, two civilians stopped the Texas church murderer — a fact most of the media is trying to downplay.

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