{"id":34645,"date":"2018-01-13T09:59:13","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T17:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=34645"},"modified":"2018-01-13T10:00:25","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T18:00:25","slug":"weekend-links-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/13\/weekend-links-88\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several of these links are from a very helpful private email list created by Friend-of-the-Blog, MJ. I&#8217;ll hat tip him upfront for providing so much interesting and useful information.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>From FiveGallonIdeas.com, a DIY <a href=\"http:\/\/fivegallonideas.com\/emergency-kit\/\" target=\"_blank\">emergency kit in a bucket<\/a>.\n<li>Kit Perez writes her first article on Medium. <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@audax0\/4-ways-the-surveillance-state-is-expanding-that-you-havent-thought-of-cdf6fc0eeced\" target=\"_blank\">Four ways the surveillance state is expanding<\/a> that most people don&#8217;t realize.\n<li>Is the medical &#8220;system&#8221; in the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/meaningness.com\/metablog\/post-apocalyptic-health-care\" target=\"_blank\">post-apocalyptic or pre-modern<\/a>? Both?\n<li>And speaking of post-apocalyptic, a Florida man was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation-now\/2018\/01\/13\/florida-man-attacked-bear-his-backyard-after-checking-see-what-scared-his-dog\/1031125001\/\" target=\"_blank\">mauled by a bear<\/a> in his own backyard.\n<li>Mike Rowe of <em>How the Universe Works<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/01\/12\/mike-rowe-destroys-woman-who-wants-him-fired-for-being-ultra-right-wing-conservative\/\" target=\"_blank\">shows how debate should be done<\/a>.\n<li>Google&#8217;s new &#8220;fact-checker&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2018\/01\/10\/googles-new-factchecker-is-partisan-garbage\/\" target=\"_blank\">shows how fact checking shouldn&#8217;t be done<\/a>.\n<li>More places\/ways in which facial recognition <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/future_tense\/2017\/12\/22\/facial_recognition_software_is_coming_to_industries_like_fast_food_and_luxury.html\" target=\"_blank\">is coming to retail<\/a>.\n<li>And speaking of life in prison, New York state is experimenting with a system <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/01\/11\/nyregion\/new-york-prisons-packages-books.html\" target=\"_blank\">that forces family members and friends<\/a> to send items (often overpriced, always limited) only via a handful of approved vendors. Can you spell kickbacks, corruption, abuse of the poor, and completely ineffective security?\n<li>Did you know that the entire world has (pretty much) <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1176962\/map-how-the-word-tea-spread-over-land-and-sea-to-conquer-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\">only two words for tea<\/a>? The interesting part is why.\n<li>The sad story of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.messynessychic.com\/2015\/07\/02\/the-radium-girls-and-the-generation-that-brushed-its-teeth-with-radioactive-toothepaste\/\" target=\"_blank\">the radium girls<\/a> of New Jersey and how they changed workplace safety.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/524921\/11-smells-are-slowly-disappearing\" target=\"_blank\">Eleven smells<\/a> that are slowly disappearing over time.\n<li>Everybody should have one. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Asilda-Store-Delegate-Thinking-Embroidered\/dp\/B07468H3GP\/?tag=livifree07-20\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;You can&#8217;t delegate thinking&#8221;<\/a> embroidered morale patch.\n<li>XKCD <a href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/1934\/\" target=\"_blank\">proposes a new menu of security options<\/a> for smart phones.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>From FiveGallonIdeas.com, a DIY <a href=\"http:\/\/fivegallonideas.com\/emergency-kit\/\" target=\"_blank\">emergency kit in a bucket<\/a>.\n<li>Kit Perez writes her first article on Medium. <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@audax0\/4-ways-the-surveillance-state-is-expanding-that-you-havent-thought-of-cdf6fc0eeced\" target=\"_blank\">Four ways the surveillance state is expanding<\/a> that most people don&#8217;t realize.\n<li>Is the medical &#8220;system&#8221; in the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/meaningness.com\/metablog\/post-apocalyptic-health-care\" target=\"_blank\">post-apocalyptic or pre-modern<\/a>? Both?\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/13\/weekend-links-88\/\">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":[9,11,13,18,19,27,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-speech","category-government","category-health-and-science","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-preparedness","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\/34645","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=34645"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34668,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34645\/revisions\/34668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}