{"id":32217,"date":"2017-08-09T07:42:11","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T14:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=32217"},"modified":"2017-08-09T07:49:28","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T14:49:28","slug":"wednesday-links-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/09\/wednesday-links-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The guy who invented those annoying and ineffective paS5w0rd! rules <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/the-guy-who-invented-those-annoying-password-rules-now-1797643987\" target=\"_blank\">is now very, very sorry<\/a>.\n<li><em>Lies of Omission<\/em> is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ammoland.com\/2017\/08\/lies-omission-offers-millennials-perspectives-guns-freedom\/\" target=\"_blank\">now available on DVD<\/a>.\n<li>Brett Arends says he&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/im-firing-google-over-the-firing-of-the-author-of-that-controversial-memo-2017-08-08\" target=\"_blank\">firing Google<\/a> for firing that engineer. Robert Tracinski says the SJW\/Google mindset is <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2017\/08\/09\/hey-google-how-do-you-prepare-a-country-for-totalitarianism\/\" target=\"_blank\">laying the groundwork<\/a> for totalitarianism.\n<li>David French adds that if Google really wants more women coders, they&#8217;re going to need to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/450295\/google-firing-memo-shows-identity-politics-viciousness\" target=\"_blank\">change the minds<\/a> of 14-year-old girls (but that&#8217;s not really what they&#8217;re after).\n<li>And Google itself introduces an algorithm to <a href=\"http:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/new-google-technology-autocorrects-users-thoughts\/\" target=\"_blank\">autocorrect people&#8217;s thoughts<\/a>. (That one&#8217;s satire. For now.)\n<li>Policeman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/2334\/Police-Officer-Buys-Shirt-And-Tie-For-Shoplifter-Who-Needed-An-Outfit-For-A-Job-Interview\" target=\"_blank\">buys clothes<\/a> for a shoplifter who needed them for a job interview. Not in the U.S. of course.\n<li>Sleeping in your vehicle is now a tasering, beating, chest-crushing offense because <a href=\"http:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/graphic-video-shows-cops-repeatedly-taser-handcuffed-teen-sleeping-truck\/\" target=\"_blank\">you might put the vehicle in gear<\/a> even if you&#8217;re passed out. Or even when you&#8217;re lying handcuffed on the ground with a cop&#8217;s knee in your back. (And here&#8217;s another case of a citizen attempting to be helpful while not understanding what police do.)\n<li>Jeffrey Tucker on why Oscar Wilde&#8217;s <em>The Importance of Being Earnest<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/being-earnest-about-socialism\/\" target=\"_blank\">continues to be so hilarious,&#8221;<\/a> so relevant, and so politically astute more than 100 years later.\n<li>WWII <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/2017\/08\/04\/simple-sabotage-manual\/\" target=\"_blank\">Simple Sabotage Manual<\/a> is also surprisingly relevant in some ways.\n<li>Aaaaaaand &#8230; American&#8217;s revolving (credit card) debt has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/us-households-will-soon-have-as-much-debt-as-they-had-in-2008-2017-04-03\" target=\"_blank\">achieved levels<\/a> not seen since that glorious sprint of 2008. So far defaults are more in control &#8212; in some areas of debt.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>The guy who invented those annoying and ineffective paS5w0rd! rules <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/the-guy-who-invented-those-annoying-password-rules-now-1797643987\" target=\"_blank\">is now very, very sorry<\/a>.\n<li><em>Lies of Omission<\/em> is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ammoland.com\/2017\/08\/lies-omission-offers-millennials-perspectives-guns-freedom\/\" target=\"_blank\">now available on DVD<\/a>.\n<li>Brett Arends says he&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/im-firing-google-over-the-firing-of-the-author-of-that-controversial-memo-2017-08-08\" target=\"_blank\">firing Google<\/a> for firing that engineer. Robert Tracinski says the SJW\/Google mindset is <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2017\/08\/09\/hey-google-how-do-you-prepare-a-country-for-totalitarianism\/\" target=\"_blank\">laying the groundwork<\/a> for totalitarianism.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/09\/wednesday-links-50\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday 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":[4,6,19,20,23,28,30,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-computers-and-technology","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-resistance","category-stupid-security","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32217","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=32217"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32238,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32217\/revisions\/32238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}