{"id":27547,"date":"2016-10-12T06:48:15","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T13:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=27547"},"modified":"2016-10-12T07:09:53","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T14:09:53","slug":"midweek-links-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/12\/midweek-links-33\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Thinking like a government: Desperate Yahoo tries to <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/10\/10\/yahoo-makes-it-difficult-to-leave-its-service-by-disabling-email-forwarding\/\" target=\"_blank\">make it difficult<\/a> for its fed-up customers to leave. (H\/T ML)\n<li>There&#8217;s a new Wikipedia in town. It&#8217;s called <a href=\"http:\/\/infogalactic.com\/info\/Main_Page\" target=\"_blank\">InfoGalactic: The Planetary Knowledge Core<\/a>. It&#8217;s a fork from Wikipedia that claims not to try to define reality for the user. I&#8217;m not exactly sure what that means, but it&#8217;s clearly intended as another anti-secret-censorship move.\n<li>I am not prone to nostalgia. But there was a time, not long ago, when nation-states were actively discussing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/when-governments-wanted-to-get-rid-of-passports-2016-10\" target=\"_blank\">getting rid of passports<\/a> and restoring free travel.\n<li>Millennial women <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2016\/10\/10\/hillary-clinton-bill-affairs-coverup-katrina-trinko-column\/91855048\/\" target=\"_blank\">expect better than Clinton<\/a>.\n<li>Violent J of the Insane Clown Posse speaks out about <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4521464\/insane-clown-posse-killer-clowns\/\" target=\"_blank\">who the real creepy clowns are<\/a>.\n<li>Michelle Malkin&#8217;s family <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2016\/10\/12\/obama_lied_my_third_health_plan_just_died_132035.html\" target=\"_blank\">loses its <em>third<\/em> health insurance policy<\/a> to ObamaCare. (But you can <em>keep<\/em> your policy! You can <em>keep<\/em> your doctor! Obama said so.)\n<li>The FBI is (no surprise) <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/10\/10\/subpoena-to-encrypted-app-provider-highlights-overbroad-fbi-requests-for-information\/\" target=\"_blank\">still trying to get away<\/a> with privacy murder. <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2016\/10\/how-the-nsa-could-put-undetectable-trapdoors-in-millions-of-crypto-keys\/\" target=\"_blank\">The NSA, too<\/a>. (The latter article is way techie, so beware.)\n<li>Here. Have a <a href=\"http:\/\/cheezburger.com\/8982233344\/the-milk-mustache-of-shame\" target=\"_blank\">cute kitten<\/a> to take your mind of the pitiful state of governmental reality.\n<li>And remember: some things <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/10\/12\/497647134\/watch-arkansas-tries-to-blow-up-bridge-bridge-doesnt-cooperate\" target=\"_blank\">don&#8217;t fall as easily<\/a> as we imagine.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Thinking like a government: Desperate Yahoo tries to <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/10\/10\/yahoo-makes-it-difficult-to-leave-its-service-by-disabling-email-forwarding\/\" target=\"_blank\">make it difficult<\/a> for its fed-up customers to leave. (H\/T ML)\n<li>There&#8217;s a new Wikipedia in town. It&#8217;s called <a href=\"http:\/\/infogalactic.com\/info\/Main_Page\" target=\"_blank\">InfoGalactic: The Planetary Knowledge Core<\/a>. It&#8217;s a fork from Wikipedia that claims not to try to define reality for the user. I&#8217;m not exactly sure what that means, but it&#8217;s clearly intended as another anti-secret-censorship move.\n<li>I am not prone to nostalgia. But there was a time, not long ago, when nation-states were actively discussing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/when-governments-wanted-to-get-rid-of-passports-2016-10\" target=\"_blank\">getting rid of passports<\/a> and restoring free travel.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/12\/midweek-links-33\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Midweek 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":[8,13,19,23,25,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","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\/27547","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=27547"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27558,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27547\/revisions\/27558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}