{"id":36604,"date":"2018-05-14T08:20:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T15:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=36604"},"modified":"2018-05-14T08:33:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T15:33:03","slug":"monday-links-125","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/14\/monday-links-125\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Fight back against a brutal cop and be charged with a federal hate crime? <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.simplejustice.us\/2018\/05\/13\/the-immutable-characterisitc-of-blue\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bad idea. Very bad.<\/a>\n<li>A sex worker <a href=\"https:\/\/maggiemcneill.wordpress.com\/2018\/05\/14\/guest-columnist-skye\/\" target=\"_blank\">describes the harm<\/a> the feds&#8217; seizure of Backpage is doing to her.\n<li>Venmo is a peer-to-peer payments network. Venmo is also a <em>social<\/em> network. Why the hell would you want friends and casual strangers to see where you&#8217;re spending your money? Unless for some goofy reason you actually want them <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/venmo-stalkers-or-amateur-sleuths-they-out-cheating-boyfriends-spy-on-exes-and-see-who-buys-drugs-2018-05-11\" target=\"_blank\">track and speculate<\/a> about your activities.\n<li>Sure, that&#8217;ll do it. Solve the Illinois government pension crisis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-05-12\/audible-gasp-was-heard-when-chicago-fed-unveiled-its-solution-pension-problem\" target=\"_blank\">by putting more taxes on homeowners&#8217; backs<\/a>. The economic ignorance <em>from the Chicago Fed<\/em> is as stunning as the venality of their proposed &#8220;solution.&#8221; (Via Why in comments)\n<li>Rand Paul asks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2018\/05\/11\/gina-haspel-cia-rand-paul-218358\" target=\"_blank\">why Gina Haspel won&#8217;t come clean<\/a> on torture and coverup.\n<li>Abetted by some of the top foundations in science, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/html\/how-identity-politics-harming-sciences-15826.html\" target=\"_blank\">identity politics is damaging STEM fields<\/a>. (Why does it never occur to anybody that if you want more women and minorities in a tough field, you should better educate the individuals rather than corrupt the disciplines?)\n<li>Post-Sunday irreverence from Duffle Blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duffelblog.com\/2018\/05\/troops-you-just-prayed-for-are-currently-binge-drinking-having-pre-marital-sex\/\" target=\"_blank\">Those troops you prayed for yesterday<\/a> are up to all kinds of NSFW sinning today.\n<li>People share <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sadanduseless.com\/funny-job-photos\/\" target=\"_blank\">hilariously bad stock photos<\/a> of their professions.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Fight back against a brutal cop and be charged with a federal hate crime? <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.simplejustice.us\/2018\/05\/13\/the-immutable-characterisitc-of-blue\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bad idea. Very bad.<\/a>\n<li>A sex worker <a href=\"https:\/\/maggiemcneill.wordpress.com\/2018\/05\/14\/guest-columnist-skye\/\" target=\"_blank\">describes the harm<\/a> the feds&#8217; seizure of Backpage is doing to her.\n<li>Venmo is a peer-to-peer payments network. Venmo is also a <em>social<\/em> network. Why the hell would you want friends and casual strangers to see where you&#8217;re spending your money? Unless for some goofy reason you actually want them <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/venmo-stalkers-or-amateur-sleuths-they-out-cheating-boyfriends-spy-on-exes-and-see-who-buys-drugs-2018-05-11\" target=\"_blank\">track and speculate<\/a> about your activities.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/14\/monday-links-125\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday 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":[6,7,11,16,19,20,23,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-cultural-insanity","category-government","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","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\/36604","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=36604"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36614,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36604\/revisions\/36614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}