{"id":33811,"date":"2017-11-10T07:32:13","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T15:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=33811"},"modified":"2017-11-11T10:43:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T18:43:37","slug":"friday-links-93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/10\/friday-links-93\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>In news-of-the-creepy: the recently dead <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/2017\/11\/09\/dead-can-unlock-iphones-offering-possible-clues-killers-plan-after-memories-go\/847875001\/\" target=\"_blank\">can now unlock smartphones<\/a> with their fingers or eyes.\n<li>Speaking of creepy, Sean Parker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/sean-parker-on-mark-zuckerberg-and-facebook-youre-exploiting-vulnerability-in-human-psychology-2017-11-09\" target=\"_blank\">accuses Mark Z and FB<\/a> of exploiting vulnerabilities in human psychology. (No sh*t, Sherlock. That&#8217;s what FB exists to do.)\n<li>Electric cars: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investors.com\/politics\/editorials\/electric-cars-co2-emissions-global-warming\/\" target=\"_blank\">major polluters<\/a>. (Yet another truth obvious to anyone who ever looked honestly at the question without being dazzled by the claims of clean urban air.)\n<li>Police officers <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2017\/11\/09\/baltimore-police-deescalation-video\/\" target=\"_blank\">should learn conflict de-escalation<\/a>. Yes, it does seem to be the day for news of the obvious.\n<li>Gallup poll says a majority of Americans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/11\/09\/gun-control-gallup-poll-244759\" target=\"_blank\">now favor &#8220;gun control&#8221;<\/a>. Predictable. And changeable. (H\/T MJR)\n<li>The latest in sex scandals of the elite: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-journalism\/2017\/11\/08\/elite-media-scandal-expands-npr-chief-accused-covering-harassment-complaints\/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR&#8217;s chief editor<\/a>. And once again &#8220;everybody knew&#8221; while nobody did anything.\n<li>Of course, conservative Christian demagogues <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/453610\/roy-moore-sexual-misconduct-allegations-shouldnt-be-dismissed-conservatives\" target=\"_blank\">are hardly immune<\/a> from this sort of thing, either.\n<li>Author gets in trouble for <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/parenting\/liberal-author-says-shes-blackballed-warning-dangers-early-daycare\/\" target=\"_blank\">noting that infants and toddlers need their mothers<\/a> more than they need daycare.\n<li>There is a perfectly understandable reason why why <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/canine-corner\/201711\/why-people-sometimes-care-more-about-dogs-humans\" target=\"_blank\">many of us feel more empathy<\/a> with a victimized dog than a victimized adult human.\n<li>But real empathy <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2017\/11\/10\/men-guns-like-stephen-willeford-save-people-mockers-like-stephen-colbert\/\" target=\"_blank\">is a man with a gun<\/a> running toward a killer to stop him.\n<li>Saudi Arabia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duffelblog.com\/2017\/11\/saudi-arabia-beheads-first-female-robot-citizen\/\" target=\"_blank\">beheads first female robot<\/a> (to which it recently gave citizenship). Yep, satire. But the best is so close to reality.\n<li>When the photographer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sadanduseless.com\/2017\/11\/looking-hot\/\" target=\"_blank\">asks you to pose seductively<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>In news-of-the-creepy: the recently dead <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/2017\/11\/09\/dead-can-unlock-iphones-offering-possible-clues-killers-plan-after-memories-go\/847875001\/\" target=\"_blank\">can now unlock smartphones<\/a> with their fingers or eyes.\n<li>Speaking of creepy, Sean Parker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/sean-parker-on-mark-zuckerberg-and-facebook-youre-exploiting-vulnerability-in-human-psychology-2017-11-09\" target=\"_blank\">accuses Mark Z and FB<\/a> of exploiting vulnerabilities in human psychology. (No sh*t, Sherlock. That&#8217;s what FB exists to do.)\n<li>Electric cars: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investors.com\/politics\/editorials\/electric-cars-co2-emissions-global-warming\/\" target=\"_blank\">major polluters<\/a>. (Yet another truth obvious to anyone who ever looked honestly at the question without being dazzled by the claims of clean urban air.)\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/10\/friday-links-93\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday 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":[6,7,8,11,12,16,18,19,23,28,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-cultural-insanity","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-humor","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-resistance","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33811","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=33811"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33827,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33811\/revisions\/33827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}