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Weekend links

Published December 3, 2016 12:27 pm by Claire
  • Uber is now tracking customers after they’ve closed its app. But not to worry; it’s for your own good. (Close app, turn off phone, remove battery — if your battery is still a removable one.) (H/T MJR)
  • Can’t afford to rent your very own malicious botnet (per last links)? Well, there’s always this $50 USB killer. It’s not perfect; but for mere couch-cushion change, what do you expect?
  • It’s truly a human tragedy that this type of humane research on psychoactive drugs has been curtailed for so many decades. Thanks, War on Drugs.
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    • Thursday links

    Published November 17, 2016 9:03 am by Claire
  • More on the highly instructive government-caused chaos in India. A report from a freedomista on the scene (H/T BillT in comments). And will gold importation, as well as bills, be banned? India’s economy is lurching to a standstill. There is panic, despair, and real danger of death over an arbitrary decision whose consequences any sensible person could have seen. But now, with Modi having “broken Indians’ legs,” the government is helpfully offering a crutch.
  • American life expectancy is falling as Russia’s fell after the Soviet collapse — and for similar reasons. But the fedgov will not take one of the simplest, most rational steps to ease the suffering.
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    • Monday links

    Published September 26, 2016 1:38 am by Claire

    The economy slides closer to that black hole. Confirmation of that unlikely truth: pot users are thinner than contemporaries with similar lifestyles. And confirmation of an unsurprising truth: pot prohibitionists have as much respect for the law and for truth as anti-gunners. Second Amendment sanctuary cities. Imagine it; government actually serving the people and our rights for a change. “For the first time in a generation, Democrats are betting they’re on the winning side of the gun issue.” And they’re sending out Giffords and Kelly as their “majority” representatives to the swing states. There’s not a reason in the world…

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    Tuesday links

    Published August 30, 2016 3:34 am by Claire
  • Well, yeah. That does explain a lot. Glenn Harlan Reynolds says blame our caveperson ancestors for today’s politics.
  • Some good news for a change: a federal appeals court rules that cops can’t just pull you over because your vehicle is licensed in a state that’s legalized pot. (One would think that would be self-evidently true; pity that it has to be dictated by judges to Our Heroes in Blue.)
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    • Weekend links

    Published August 14, 2016 7:00 am by Claire
  • So, what do you think? Will the new corruption investigation of Hillary Clinton produce any more political courage or any better results than earlier attempts?
  • Although nobody is surprised that the DEA’s dumb decision on cannabis ignores medical reality, the linked Forbes article does a great job of showing just how far in political outerspace the DEA is.
  • Way, way, way too early to consider this news important to humans. Much more testing to be done. But an already common anti-inflammatory drug used to treat menstrual pain actually reversed Alzheimer’s symptoms in mice. Reportedly disappeared them.
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