{"id":31833,"date":"2017-07-18T06:56:43","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T13:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=31833"},"modified":"2017-07-18T07:49:29","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T14:49:29","slug":"tuesday-links-93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/18\/tuesday-links-93\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Uber and Lyft are not just disrupting longstanding &#8220;taxi control&#8221; in New York City. They&#8217;re disrupting lenders <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/07\/15\/uber-lyft-take-down-not-just-cab-drivers-but-also-lenders.html\" target=\"_blank\">who have profited<\/a> from the insane medallion fees.\n<li>Ha ha ha. You know all those well-heeled people who are always spouting about how everybody should pay higher taxes? Well <a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/this-is-what-happens-when-you-ask-pro-taxers-to-pay-more\/\" target=\"_blank\">guess what happens<\/a> when they&#8217;re invited to volunteer more of their own dough?\n<li>This planet&#8217;s a crazy place. When it&#8217;s time to leave, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/startswithabang\/2017\/07\/15\/ask-ethan-is-it-foolishness-to-dream-of-terraforming-mars\/#7e3232ba48c6\" target=\"_blank\">is it feasible<\/a> to terraform Mars?\n<li>Of all the people who &#8220;invented the Internet&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2017\/jul\/16\/book-review-a-mind-at-play-how-claude-shannon-inve\/\" target=\"_blank\">Claude Shannon<\/a> may have the best claim. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mind-Play-Shannon-Invented-Information\/dp\/1476766681\/?tag=livifree07-20\" target=\"_blank\">new book<\/a> looks at one of history&#8217;s forgotten geniuses.\n<li>And in the realm of geniuses who won&#8217;t let us forget them, John McAfee <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-07-17\/massive-spike-bitcoins-causes-john-mcafee-make-outrageous-prediction-promises-eat-hi\" target=\"_blank\">vows to eat his own<\/a> &#8230; well, you&#8217;ll have to go read. It&#8217;s not printable in a PG-rated blog.\n<li>O.J. Simpson: still living in Cloud Cuckoo Land, where he&#8217;s going to get right out of prison and go on playing golf and being loved, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/2017\/07\/17\/oj-simpson-faces-parole-hearing-thursday-nevada\/483653001\/\" target=\"_blank\">according to one of his friends<\/a>. This is exactly the attitude Simpson took after being found not guilty of murder.\n<li>Yet another case of <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2017\/07\/18\/astounding-didnt-minneapolis-police-officers-turn-body-cams-even-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\">police body cams being conveniently turned off<\/a>. (The woman the cops slaughtered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation-now\/2017\/07\/18\/australian-woman-shot-minneapolis\/487142001\/\" target=\"_blank\">was &#8220;guilty&#8221; of calling 911<\/a> to report a suspected crime. Her killer is currently enjoying the standard paid vacation.)\n<li>Just seven days after being released from prison, he skips a job interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/2303\/Ex-Con-Skips-Job-Interview-Jumps-Off-Bus-And-Saves-The-Life-Of-Car-Crash-Victim\" target=\"_blank\">to save a life<\/a>.\n<li>After declaring victory over ISIS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duffelblog.com\/2017\/07\/iraq-victory-mosul\/\" target=\"_blank\">Iraq returns to being paradise on earth<\/a>. \ud83d\ude09\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DogCookieMeme.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DogCookieMeme.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"469\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31849\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DogCookieMeme.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DogCookieMeme-450x330.jpeg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Uber and Lyft are not just disrupting longstanding &#8220;taxi control&#8221; in New York City. They&#8217;re disrupting lenders <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/07\/15\/uber-lyft-take-down-not-just-cab-drivers-but-also-lenders.html\" target=\"_blank\">who have profited<\/a> from the insane medallion fees.\n<li>Ha ha ha. You know all those well-heeled people who are always spouting about how everybody should pay higher taxes? Well <a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/this-is-what-happens-when-you-ask-pro-taxers-to-pay-more\/\" target=\"_blank\">guess what happens<\/a> when they&#8217;re invited to volunteer more of their own dough?\n<li>This planet&#8217;s a crazy place. When it&#8217;s time to leave, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/startswithabang\/2017\/07\/15\/ask-ethan-is-it-foolishness-to-dream-of-terraforming-mars\/#7e3232ba48c6\" target=\"_blank\">is it feasible<\/a> to terraform Mars?\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/18\/tuesday-links-93\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday 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":[4,6,10,11,16,18,19,20,22,23,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-computers-and-technology","category-gardening-heaven-forbid","category-government","category-humor","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-off-grid","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-offshore","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31833","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=31833"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31853,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31833\/revisions\/31853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}