{"id":32263,"date":"2017-08-13T07:33:22","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T14:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=32263"},"modified":"2017-08-13T09:53:57","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T16:53:57","slug":"weekend-links-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/13\/weekend-links-74\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Can DNA <a href=\"http:\/\/newatlas.com\/dna-malware-computer-hack\/50861\/\" target=\"_blank\">be used to hack<\/a> a computer? Proof of concept now exists. (H\/T MJR)\n<li>Brad R. over at Wendy&#8217;s place on <a href=\"http:\/\/wendymcelroy.com\/news.php?extend.8252\" target=\"_blank\">ways to de-Google<\/a> your online life.\n<li>As you watch the Perseids this month, remember with good cheer: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/startswithabang\/2017\/08\/11\/the-comet-that-created-the-perseids-might-bring-an-end-to-humanity\/#673c62112029\" target=\"_blank\">they may eventually kill us all<\/a>. But not any time soon.\n<li>The <em>New Yorker<\/em> notices <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/news-desk\/the-uncomfortable-truth-about-affirmative-action-and-asian-americans\" target=\"_blank\">the uncomfortable (and unsurprising) truth<\/a> about affirmative action and Asian-hyphen-Americans. UPDATE: And <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.simplejustice.us\/2017\/08\/12\/the-euphemism-of-the-uncomfortable-truth\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Greenfield answers<\/a>.\n<li>Jim Bovard says, &#8220;Hey, guess what. Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2017\/08\/10\/end-democracy-promotion-balderdash-james-bovard-column\/543442001\/\" target=\"_blank\">has a good foreign policy idea<\/a>.&#8221;\n<li>Roomba, Bose headphones, Alexa &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/news\/nation-world\/national\/national-security\/article166488597.html\" target=\"_blank\">something must be done<\/a> about all the domestic spying. (Tip o&#8217; hat to FH)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cheezburger.com\/3035141\/off-duty-cop-destroys-douchebag-for-threatening-a-girl-in-the-middle-of-a-restaurant-and-gives-him-a\" target=\"_blank\">Good cop diplomacy<\/a>.\n<li>&#8220;What we are seeing, and what we haven&#8217;t seen for four centuries, is not religion as accommodation, but religion as resistance. It&#8217;s not religion making its peace with the world, but religion opposing the world, challenging the world or simply withdrawing from the world.&#8221; And this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmatt.net\/columns\/2017\/8\/2\/rabbi-lord-sacks-religious-believers-face-harrowing-choices-in-these-tense-times\" target=\"_blank\">brings harrowing choices<\/a>.\n<li>Outraged veteran <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duffelblog.com\/2017\/08\/outraged-veteran-outraged-by-outraged-student-activists\/\" target=\"_blank\">is outraged<\/a> over snowflake students being outraged over everything. \ud83d\ude42\n<li>How to make a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sadanduseless.com\/2017\/08\/caesar-salad-recipe\/\" target=\"_blank\">Caesar salad<\/a>. \ud83d\ude42\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Can DNA <a href=\"http:\/\/newatlas.com\/dna-malware-computer-hack\/50861\/\" target=\"_blank\">be used to hack<\/a> a computer? Proof of concept now exists. (H\/T MJR)\n<li>Brad R. over at Wendy&#8217;s place on <a href=\"http:\/\/wendymcelroy.com\/news.php?extend.8252\" target=\"_blank\">ways to de-Google<\/a> your online life.\n<li>As you watch the Perseids this month, remember with good cheer: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/startswithabang\/2017\/08\/11\/the-comet-that-created-the-perseids-might-bring-an-end-to-humanity\/#673c62112029\" target=\"_blank\">they may eventually kill us all<\/a>. But not any time soon.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/13\/weekend-links-74\/\">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":[6,7,16,19,25,28,29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-cultural-insanity","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-poly-ticks","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-religion","category-resistance","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32263","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=32263"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32276,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32263\/revisions\/32276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}