{"id":33801,"date":"2017-11-08T09:39:45","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T17:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=33801"},"modified":"2017-11-08T09:40:45","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T17:40:45","slug":"midweek-links-63","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/08\/midweek-links-63\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Worried some disgruntled ex might post intimate images of you (known these days as revenge porn)? The simple solution is now available. Just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/news\/2017\/11\/08\/facebook-tests-fighting-revenge-porn-asking-users-file-nude-photos-first\/843364001\/\" target=\"_blank\">pre-emptively send F*c*b**k whichever of your most sensuous photos<\/a> you happen to be concerned about and &#8230; yeah, somebody thinks that actually makes sense.\n<li>Democrats hit their <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/11\/07\/democrats-hit-lowest-approval-rating-in-decades-poll-says\/\" target=\"_blank\">lowest approval rate<\/a> in decades. Then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/powerpost\/paloma\/daily-202\/2017\/11\/08\/daily-202-anti-trump-backlash-fuels-a-democratic-sweep-in-virginia-and-elections-across-the-country\/5a023fd230fb0468e76541b3\/\" target=\"_blank\">sweep yesterday&#8217;s elections<\/a>.\n<li>That 84-year-old doctor in New Hampshire <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2017\/11\/doctor-with-no-computer-skills-vows-to-battle-medical-board-in-court\/\" target=\"_blank\">continues to fight an uphill battle<\/a> to get her medical license back. The state keeps pushing the notion that she &#8220;voluntarily&#8221; surrendered it. (Sort of like we &#8220;volunteer&#8221; to pay income taxes. After we&#8217;ve been subjected to a high-pressure audit.)\n<li>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/agenda\/story\/2017\/11\/08\/virtual-hospital-mercy-st-louis-000573\" target=\"_blank\">hospital of the future<\/a> with no patients.\n<li>Yesterday was the 100th anniversary of the communist revolution. In its dubious honor, have: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libertylawsite.org\/2017\/11\/08\/when-susan-sontag-told-the-truth-about-communism\/\" target=\"_blank\">the day Susan Sontag told the truth<\/a> about communism and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/volokh-conspiracy\/wp\/2017\/11\/07\/lessons-from-a-century-of-communism\/\" target=\"_blank\">lessons from a century of communism<\/a>.\n<li>Be aware when ordering <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2017\/11\/study-nearly-70-of-online-cbd-marijuana-extracts-tested-were-mislabeled\/\" target=\"_blank\">CBD extracts online<\/a>. The dose you order may not be the dose you get; could be more or less or also contain THC.\n<li>Rand Paul apparently deserved to be tackled from behind and beaten up. Because he breaks HOA rules <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/08\/rand-paul-getting-attacked-is-whats-wron\" target=\"_blank\"><em>and he&#8217;s a libertarian<\/em><\/a> (sic) &#8230;\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Worried some disgruntled ex might post intimate images of you (known these days as revenge porn)? The simple solution is now available. Just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/news\/2017\/11\/08\/facebook-tests-fighting-revenge-porn-asking-users-file-nude-photos-first\/843364001\/\" target=\"_blank\">pre-emptively send F*c*b**k whichever of your most sensuous photos<\/a> you happen to be concerned about and &#8230; yeah, somebody thinks that actually makes sense.\n<li>Democrats hit their <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/11\/07\/democrats-hit-lowest-approval-rating-in-decades-poll-says\/\" target=\"_blank\">lowest approval rate<\/a> in decades. Then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/powerpost\/paloma\/daily-202\/2017\/11\/08\/daily-202-anti-trump-backlash-fuels-a-democratic-sweep-in-virginia-and-elections-across-the-country\/5a023fd230fb0468e76541b3\/\" target=\"_blank\">sweep yesterday&#8217;s elections<\/a>.\n<li>That 84-year-old doctor in New Hampshire <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2017\/11\/doctor-with-no-computer-skills-vows-to-battle-medical-board-in-court\/\" target=\"_blank\">continues to fight an uphill battle<\/a> to get her medical license back. The state keeps pushing the notion that she &#8220;voluntarily&#8221; surrendered it. (Sort of like we &#8220;volunteer&#8221; to pay income taxes. After we&#8217;ve been subjected to a high-pressure audit.)\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/08\/midweek-links-63\/\">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":[5,13,19,23,25,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-legalization","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\/33801","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=33801"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33810,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33801\/revisions\/33810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}