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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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Monday links

Published November 6, 2017 2:17 am by Claire

Elderly small-town doctor who accepts mostly cash patients loses her medical license because she doesn’t have a computer to report to her state’s mandatory drug-monitoring program.

Where oh where have we heard stories like this before? And why do politicians never see the predictable end to the tale? California plans to slap monumental taxes on legal cannabis in hopes of filling up the state’s shaky treasury.

The paradise papers are shaking up some otherwise comfortable people.

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Friday links

Published November 3, 2017 1:44 am by Claire

Donna Brazile confirms what we all knew: that Debbie and the DNC allowed Clinton to control the party apparatus and budgets long before she even won the primaries.

For those concerned that Amazon wants to take over the world, here’s more ammo: their legal department just registered three domain names for cryptocurrencies.

Last week employees at two online NYC-based news ops cheered at winning the right to union representation. This week they all lost their jobs and the publications died.

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One of those weeks/random thoughts/much etcetera

Published November 1, 2017 11:24 am by Claire

It’s been one of those weeks. You know the kind. Nothing really terrible is happening, but the petty annoyances and small setbacks threaten to overwhelm all productivity. It started with Amazon’s sudden imposition of stupid security on vendor accounts, then went from there in a bruising week of itty-bitty pokes by Jokester Fate. I found a solution for the Amazon stupidity (thank you, parabarbarian), but getting it implemented involved hours of additional stupid. And so the days went, with my writer’s to-do list getting longer and my patience shortening by the hour. Yesterday I woke up to a tank-rental bill…

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Tuesday links

Published October 31, 2017 7:35 am by Claire

Former Baltimore gun squad member justifies himself by saying he and his pals committed crimes only while on duty. That’s so noble of them.

And here’s what it’s like to be a convicted gun criminal who did nothing wrong. The story of Brian Aitkin in his own words.

Inevitable: the liquor industry is getting in on cannabis.

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Monday links

Published October 30, 2017 2:10 am by Claire

I think it’s tongue-in-cheek, but how do you tell? It’s time to ban men from the workplace.

Dan Adams of the late, great Earthineer is now creating Steader: video courses in “skills for abundant living.”

Meet Sophie — who socially engineers herself into high-security buildings.

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The Oatmeal: Reaching people on the Internet

Published October 26, 2017 10:21 am by Claire

Matthew Inman nails it once again (click to embiggenate):

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Thursday links

Published October 26, 2017 10:17 am by Claire

The DoJ is trying to get personal data on five Twitter users (one or two of whom you may know) because they received a smiley from a security researcher the feds have it in for.

Black preacher claims he was banned from a health club for giving an interview supporting Donald Trump.

Via Wendy McElroy: Big data meets Big Brother. In China. But I’ve seen hundreds of people on credit forums who’d think this horror was a fabulous idea.

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Monday links

Published October 23, 2017 8:14 am by Claire

Muslim reformer Maajid Nawaz wins a defamation lawsuit against Thomson Reuters. Also suing the vile hate group, the Southern Poverty Law Center.

“She consented!” … despite being handcuffed and in the back seat of their squad car.

I am so totally losing track of this whole “Russians in U.S. elections” thing. Russian-backed green-energy group goes bust because they bet on a Hillary win. Or something.

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