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Weekend links

Published November 5, 2016 6:36 am by Claire
  • Still maddeningly elusive, but the most damning new rumors about the Clinton Crime Family come closer to confirmation, as powerful forces try to keep them down. WikiLeaks and Anonymous, where are you?
  • Washington state may be reliably blue according to the pundits. But we just got an interesting reminder that it’s Bernie blue, not Hillary blue. One of the state’s 12 electors announced he ain’t v*ting for Hillary. No way, nohow, not ever.
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    • Midweek links

    Published October 5, 2016 1:41 am by Claire
  • Niall Ferguson on simplifiers vs complicators and how they can both be big problems in politics and government.
  • What the hell is a “security directive,” anyway? Sounds like something Ayn Rand would make up for her villains to impose. And why would any supposedly private company jump to comply with one? And furtherwhy, after the righteous drubbing the big ‘Net companies took for kissing the NSA’s butt (post Snowden) would Yahoo (and probably others) be so eager to continue osculating stinky feddie posterior?
  • Speaking of security, Bruce Schneier says, “Stop trying to fix the user” and fix the underlying systems. (I think he’s a lot right and a bit wrong, as spotted by his commentors.)
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    • Not too late for a debate meme

    Not too late for a debate meme

    Published September 28, 2016 11:59 am by Claire

    I stole this from “my” F*ce*b**k page. Now you know of course that I don’t have a FB page. But this morning I awoke to an email from a friend thanking me for “my” new FB meme (above) and saying she’d been spreading it to her family members who’d been spreading it to other family members. And of course I’m going, “Whut?” Turns out there’s a fan page. I knew about that. But it had been inactive for a year or so and is now in full swing again. So thanks for “my” FB meme, Dan McCall (who seems to…

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