{"id":27506,"date":"2016-10-09T10:32:37","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T17:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=27506"},"modified":"2016-10-09T10:32:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T17:32:37","slug":"weekend-links-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/09\/weekend-links-47\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Another example of <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/750636\/modern-america-and-depression-era-america-have-a-lot-in-common\/\" target=\"_blank\">history rhyming<\/a>.\n<li>Until new polls come out, we can&#8217;t know (and actually we can&#8217;t know until the v*tes are counted, assuming &#8212; yeah, big assumption &#8212; that they&#8217;re counted honestly), but the very smart Nate Silver examines whether <a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/the-bottom-could-fall-out-for-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trump is really torpedoed<\/a> this time. Unlike all the other times the media predicted his electoral demise.\n<li>OTOH, Clinton, Comey and company <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2016\/10\/08\/fbi-agents-reportedly-close-revolt-comeys-friendly-treatment-clinton\/\" target=\"_blank\">would be in far worse trouble<\/a> in a just world.\n<li>Five times <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/2016\/10\/reverse-evolution-explained-hagfish-penguins-snakes-science\/\" target=\"_blank\">evolution &#8220;ran backward.&#8221;<\/a>\n<li>This is only one small example of <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/cars\/2016\/10\/a-company-called-nauto-has-partnered-with-toyota-bmw-to-log-driver-habits\/\" target=\"_blank\">how self-driving cars will spy on their occupants<\/a>.\n<li>But in the good news department, a decentralized WWW <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/10\/09\/a-decentralized-web-would-give-power-back-to-the-people-online\/\" target=\"_blank\">will restore power to the people<\/a> and take it away from the new generation of media gatekeepers.\n<li>And in the good news\/bad news department: the links between <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/10\/08\/the-importance-of-science-fiction-to-entrepreneurship\/\" target=\"_blank\">science fiction and entrepreneurship<\/a>.\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/cheezburger.com\/8981401088\/smiling-pup-photobombs-the-pope-like-only-a-dog-could\" target=\"_blank\">pup photobombs a pope<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another example of history rhyming. Until new polls come out, we can&#8217;t know (and actually we can&#8217;t know until the v*tes are counted, assuming &#8212; yeah, big assumption &#8212; that they&#8217;re counted honestly), but the very smart Nate Silver examines whether Trump is really torpedoed this time. Unlike all the other times the media predicted his electoral demise. OTOH, Clinton, Comey and company would be in far worse trouble in a just world. Five times evolution &#8220;ran backward.&#8221; This is only one small example of how self-driving cars will spy on their occupants. But in the good news department, a&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/09\/weekend-links-47\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekend links<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,8,11,18,19,25,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-cultural-insanity","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-poly-ticks","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27506"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27513,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27506\/revisions\/27513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}