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Published October 4, 2017 11:10 am by Claire

But Nick Gillespe — despite professing a “visceral unease” around all guns — argues that this is the time for more gun freedoms, not more restrictions.

The good old IRS has awarded a $7+ million no-bid contract … to Equifax.

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Weekend links

Published October 1, 2017 10:40 am by Claire

The latest must-know development, if you want to be a proper social-justice pecksniff: Black people from Africa or the Caribbean … aren’t black.

Questions to ask the former Equifax CEO when he testifies before Congress this week. Aside from, “Would you like a last cigarette and a blindfold?”

In the future hotel rooms will know how you like to sleep. Hilton is already experimenting. Restful thought, eh?

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Friday links

Published September 29, 2017 11:02 am by Claire

No kidding. People who buy from legal cannabis stores make more visits to fast-food joints. (Is there anything somebody won’t conduct a study on?)

Yeah, tell us what we already know (but do it with graphs). The millions who feel left behind by the “recovery” were actually left behind by the “recovery.”

Using stored (treated) gas after five years? It’ll be interesting to learn the outcome of this experiment.

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Midweek links

Published September 26, 2017 7:12 pm by Claire

Cops across the land can celebrate this milestone. The “non-lethal” Taser has now been implicated in over 1,000 deaths. (Each and every one of them, of course, is an anomaly, nothing to do with tasing at all, and besides all the dead no doubt got what was coming to them.)

The madness of driverless cars. (Especially given the present state of “security.”)

Wonder if a notice like this one would give SWAT cops pause — or merely encourage them to come in with guns already blazing?

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Bad news, bad news, good news

Published September 26, 2017 1:44 am by Claire

The first bad news was when Peder Lund, owner of Paladin Press died suddenly in June. The second bad news — the second shoe dropping — came this weekend when I learned that Paladin would be closing its doors after 47 years. Their last day of operation will be December 31. I’m a Paladin author. They picked up my titles from Loompanics when Mike Hoy decided to close shop, and later Peder commissioned one more book from me (an election-season tome, mostly consisting of article reprints). It’s incredibly sad that Paladin and Loompanics, two of the country’s more daring, unconventional…

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Weekend links

Published September 23, 2017 2:56 pm by Claire

“Consumers” aren’t the only ones upset with Equifax. Looks as if banks might sue them, too. Anecdotally, I have also heard that some banks are no longer sharing information with Equifax until they learn the company’s security practices are actually security practices.

Cops. breaking into cars and trashing them … in the name of preventing vehicle break-ins.

Why flu shots so often fail. (I’m not anti-vaccine; I’m pro-research, pro-good judgment, and pro-honesty. The pabulum-for-the-public claim that “flu shots are 97 percent effective” has always ticked me off. This article is a refreshing look at the reality.)

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Thursday links

Published September 21, 2017 1:38 am by Claire

Equifax keeps digging itself a deeper and deeper hole. Turns out they’ve been directing people to a phishing site instead of their actual “find out if you’ve been affected” site. (Fortunately the phishing site is an honest one. It was set up by a security researcher to show how vulnerable Equifax’s actual hack-info site is.)

But don’t worry! When we’re all making purchases via finger-vein readers, all will be well forever after. Absolutely infallible security. (H/T ML)

Yeah, and this discreet wearable + phone app will make you feelz safe, too. As long as you’re not in any immediate, actual danger.

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Midweek links

Published September 20, 2017 1:48 am by Claire

Seems Obama’s following the Clinton retirement plan: absurdly paid speeches for Wall Streeters. But the Clintons were fixers with connections to offer. Big O haughtily held himself above tacky wheeling-dealing. So what’s the benefit?

Juggalos on the march.

Music lessons — at the right age — create better decision makers.

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Midweek links

Published September 13, 2017 6:58 pm by Claire

There’s blood in the water in Silicon Valley as the world wakes up to the private police states that have been created under our noses.

From the U.S. Virgin Islands where Authoritah ordered gun confiscation before Hurricane Irma hit.

The killed a helpless, trussed-up prisoner, but the DoJ won’t even give Freddie Gray’s killers a slap on the wrist.

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Tuesday links

Published September 12, 2017 2:57 pm by Claire

Equifax already faces at least 23 class-action lawsuits for its shameless handling of “cuckstomer” data. Even though I know lawyers are the chief beneficiaries of these things, in this case: more power to ’em.

Edward Snowden and Andrew “bunnie” Huang have designed a hardware device to monitor your iPhone against surveillance.

Could Father Mykal Judge become the first gay saint? (Well no. Odds are there have been gay saints who never got outed. But Mykal Judge was a good man and I hope he makes the grade. At the rate the last couple of popes have been churning out saints, several dogs I know should probably make the grade. And hey, St. Guinefort the Greyhound gets a mention in the linked article, though not by name.)

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