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Midweek links

Published February 9, 2018 1:40 am by Claire

The (insouciantly charming) symbolism of launching a Tesla into space. (And before anybody goes objecting to Elon Musk and his very existence, you might want to read the comment by UnReconstructed, who happens to be a real rocket scientist, over at Joel’s place.)

Commander Zero on meeting folks: a real-world example.

Oh, yeah. This is what the country needs (she says rolling her eyes): ICE wants to become an intelligence (sic) agency.

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Thursday links

Published February 1, 2018 6:08 am by Claire

I never had any idea there were such things as Formula One “grid girls.” Now they’re losing their jobs (because feminism) and they’re not taking it lightly.

She asked for help with postpartum depression. The nurse called the cops instead. (Slate’s take on this is different than yours or mine might be.)

If Bezos and Buffett “lift the veil” on health-care prices, insurers are in trouble.

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So. Would you want to live in this neighborhood?

Published December 20, 2017 5:03 am by Claire

Despite predictions that Seasteading is dead, the project got a grand writeup in the Daily Mail this week and is moving ahead with plans for 2020. It seems Patri Friedman, Peter Thiel and company are sailing ever closer to conducting their experiment in liberating mankind from politicians. (Marvelous goal; to which I say with a touch of skepticism and an equal touch of joy in their monumental vision, “Good luck with that.”) Of course, it all begins with an agreement with government — in this case the government of French Polynesia. Not a bad neighborhood, Tahiti. Gorgeous concept drawings, too.…

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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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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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Tuesday links

Published July 18, 2017 6:56 am by Claire

Uber and Lyft are not just disrupting longstanding “taxi control” in New York City. They’re disrupting lenders who have profited from the insane medallion fees.

Ha ha ha. You know all those well-heeled people who are always spouting about how everybody should pay higher taxes? Well guess what happens when they’re invited to volunteer more of their own dough?

This planet’s a crazy place. When it’s time to leave, is it feasible to terraform Mars?

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Midweek links

Published May 31, 2017 10:11 am by Claire

In another triumph of automotive “security,” BMW’s new rental-car service manages to halt three Seattle ferries on a single evening.

Oh, such a relief. Apparently the cultural-appropriation pecksniffs are trying to find ways (however illogical) to “allow” writers to go on creating characters who aren’t exactly like their authors.

Looks as if Cleveland was looking for a reason to can the cop who murdered 12-year-old Tamir Rice. They found one, easily enough. Hardly a substitute for the prison sentence the creep deserved, though.

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Midweek links

Published May 10, 2017 11:45 am by Claire

This is cool. Amazon is building a fabulous new HQ in downtown Seattle. They’re going to reserve half of one of the new buildings for a homeless shelter for women and families. Rent free, utilities paid.

Per jc2k in comments: a superior court judge orders a San Diego DA to return seized assets to a medical marijuana dealer. The DA, Bonnie Dumanis, has been snatching millions from harmless people for a long time. In another sign of change, the phrase “policing for profit” has made it into the MSM.

Alas, in a sign of how things are still not changing in the war on drugs, there’s yet another New! More Deadly! illegal drug. You’ll die! from a single dose. Even touching it! is dangerous. (And the drug warriors still don’t grasp that these crazy drugs exist only because of their stupid WoD.)

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