{"id":34456,"date":"2018-01-02T01:49:53","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T09:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=34456"},"modified":"2018-01-01T20:07:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T04:07:32","slug":"monday-on-a-tuesday-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/02\/monday-on-a-tuesday-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday on a Tuesday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>You&#8217;ve already heard about the vicious &#8220;swatting&#8221; (called a prank by some &#8230; but some prank!) that left an innocent young man dead. <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2017\/12\/after-swatting-death-in-kansas-25-year-old-arrested-in-los-angeles\/\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s more on how it came about<\/a>. I hope the two who arranged the swatting, plus the overly jumpy shooter, plus the authorities who failed to investigate the legitimacy of the call all pay for the evil they did &#8212; and change their ways. Fat chance, though.\n<li>Erica Garner, who fought for justice for her father, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/12\/30\/us\/erica-garner-eric-death\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">dead at 27<\/a>.\n<li>100 things that <a href=\"http:\/\/americandigest.org\/wp\/keeping-track-100-racist-things\/\" target=\"_blank\">became newly racist<\/a> in 2017, the year of the self-righteous jackass.\n<li>Another &#8220;smart&#8221; tech startup ignominiously <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/01\/01\/smart-lock-maker-otto-suspends-operations\/\" target=\"_blank\">bites the dust<\/a> just four months after announcing its first product. I had no idea that introducing a product but having no way to get it to market without someone else instantly buying your company was an actual business plan.\n<li>Michael Z. Williamson thinks it&#8217;s time to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelzwilliamson.com\/blog\/index.php?itemid=440\" target=\"_blank\">start shooting the bastards<\/a>. (Tip o&#8217; hat to R.)\n<li>Dozens of Wyomingites <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/2571\/Dozens-Of-Wyoming-Residents-Rescue-A-Herd-Of-Elk-That-Fell-Through-Ice\" target=\"_blank\">rescue an elk herd<\/a> that fell though ice.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-travel-briefcase-therapy-dogs-20171229-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Therapy dogs<\/a> are an increasing presence at airports. Good. Glad to see &#8217;em. But you know, guys, if airports and flying hadn&#8217;t been turned into such a horror show, we wouldn&#8217;t be driven to the dogs. (H\/T ML)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>You&#8217;ve already heard about the vicious &#8220;swatting&#8221; (called a prank by some &#8230; but some prank!) that left an innocent young man dead. <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2017\/12\/after-swatting-death-in-kansas-25-year-old-arrested-in-los-angeles\/\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s more on how it came about<\/a>. I hope the two who arranged the swatting, plus the overly jumpy shooter, plus the authorities who failed to investigate the legitimacy of the call all pay for the evil they did &#8212; and change their ways. Fat chance, though.\n<li>Erica Garner, who fought for justice for her father, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/12\/30\/us\/erica-garner-eric-death\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">dead at 27<\/a>.\n<li>100 things that <a href=\"http:\/\/americandigest.org\/wp\/keeping-track-100-racist-things\/\" target=\"_blank\">became newly racist<\/a> in 2017, the year of the self-righteous jackass.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/02\/monday-on-a-tuesday-links\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday on a 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":[6,7,8,19,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-cultural-insanity","category-dogs-and-cats","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34456","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=34456"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34477,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34456\/revisions\/34477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}