{"id":28338,"date":"2016-11-26T08:46:27","date_gmt":"2016-11-26T15:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=28338"},"modified":"2016-11-27T08:19:08","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T15:19:08","slug":"weekend-links-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/26\/weekend-links-52\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Lots of media outlets are reporting on Jill Stein&#8217;s efforts to get recounts in the three &#8220;Hillary firewall&#8221; states that Trump won. How come so few are reporting on Stein&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-11-25\/mysterious-case-jill-steins-surging-recount-costs\" target=\"_blank\">comically scammish<\/a> and ever-escalating claims about the amount of money she needs?\n<li>The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports on <a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com\/onlinecensorship\/posts\/pdfs\/000\/000\/088\/original\/Censorship_in_Context_November_2016.pdf?2016\" target=\"_blank\">censorship in social media<\/a> (.pdf). (Very readable report, too.)\n<li>Where is Julian Assange and <a href=\"https:\/\/conservativedailypost.com\/compromised-cryptic-hashes-show-last-ditch-effort-by-assange-to-warn-us\/\" target=\"_blank\">what has happened to Wikileaks<\/a>?\n<li>Of the many barbaric acts for which ISIS will be forever damned, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/parallels\/2016\/11\/26\/503275429\/in-northern-iraq-isis-leaves-behind-an-archaeological-treasure-in-ruins\" target=\"_blank\">their deliberate destruction of historical sites<\/a> will certainly be one. Yes, it happens all the time in war, but seldom is it done with such sheer religious zeal, to stamp out imagined 3,000-year-old &#8220;heresy.&#8221;\n<li>So why did the federal Bureau of Prisons <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/11\/25\/newly-released-documents-confirm-bureau-of-prisons-visit-to-cia-torture-site-in-afghanistan\/\" target=\"_blank\">send representatives<\/a> to a notorious CIA torture site, proclaim it to be perfectly acceptable, then try to cover up the whole business?\n<li>Wonder what will happen now to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/article116267818.html\" target=\"_blank\">effort, however wussy, to curb arbitrary civil forfeiture<\/a> and the human tragedies that follow it?\n<li>Solving the mystery of Boston&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/26\/science\/boston-molasses-flood-science.html\" target=\"_blank\">great molasses disaster<\/a> a hundred years later. (An encouraging reminder that some American schools still teach something other than social-justice pecksniffery.)\n<li>OMG these photos are beautiful: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-3971110\/It-MUTT-love-Incredible-photo-series-shows-huge-dogs-gently-playing-tiny-toddler-pals.html\" target=\"_blank\">huge dogs and tiny toddlers<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Because it&#8217;s the time of year for having extra power &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\namzn_assoc_placement = \"adunit0\";\namzn_assoc_search_bar = \"true\";\namzn_assoc_tracking_id = \"livifree07-20\";\namzn_assoc_ad_mode = \"manual\";\namzn_assoc_ad_type = \"smart\";\namzn_assoc_marketplace = \"amazon\";\namzn_assoc_region = \"US\";\namzn_assoc_title = \"My Amazon picks in power\";\namzn_assoc_linkid = \"8afcc74f50e4a9a214c84c3f8edb88b6\";\namzn_assoc_asins = \"B00MNV8E0C,B00LH3DMUO,B00451Y26I,B002U4103K,B000IXCO8K,B004918MO2,B005ND19AE,B00CWBABRM\";\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"\/\/z-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/onejs?MarketPlace=US\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Lots of media outlets are reporting on Jill Stein&#8217;s efforts to get recounts in the three &#8220;Hillary firewall&#8221; states that Trump won. How come so few are reporting on Stein&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-11-25\/mysterious-case-jill-steins-surging-recount-costs\" target=\"_blank\">comically scammish<\/a> and ever-escalating claims about the amount of money she needs?\n<li>The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports on <a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com\/onlinecensorship\/posts\/pdfs\/000\/000\/088\/original\/Censorship_in_Context_November_2016.pdf?2016\" target=\"_blank\">censorship in social media<\/a> (.pdf). (Very readable report, too.)\n<li>Where is Julian Assange and <a href=\"https:\/\/conservativedailypost.com\/compromised-cryptic-hashes-show-last-ditch-effort-by-assange-to-warn-us\/\" target=\"_blank\">what has happened to Wikileaks<\/a>?\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/26\/weekend-links-52\/\">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":[2,7,8,9,19,20,23,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-cultural-insanity","category-dogs-and-cats","category-free-speech","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-poly-ticks","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28338","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=28338"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28354,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28338\/revisions\/28354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}