{"id":36788,"date":"2018-05-23T01:49:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T08:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=36788"},"modified":"2018-05-22T18:26:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T01:26:08","slug":"wednesday-links-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/23\/wednesday-links-54\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>In the wake of mass shootings, parents are now reconsidering mass schooling. <a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/in-the-wake-of-mass-shootings-parents-reconsider-mass-schooling\/\" target=\"_blank\">Excellent article<\/a> by Kerry McDonald.\n<li>A pioneer in the field of machine learning now says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2018\/05\/machine-learning-is-stuck-on-asking-why\/560675\/\" target=\"_blank\">it&#8217;s gone all wrong<\/a>.\n<li>While the woman&#8217;s contributions may be a detriment to the gene pool, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation-now\/2018\/05\/22\/woman-delivers-baby-jail-cell-without-help\/632285002\/\" target=\"_blank\">her jailers are infinitely worse<\/a>.\n<li>The Burning Platform <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theburningplatform.com\/2018\/05\/22\/final-excerpt-from-how-you-got-screwed-the-end-game\/\" target=\"_blank\">publishes its final excerpt<\/a> from <em>How You Got Screwed<\/em> by Allen Marshall. I reviewed the book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/15\/book-review-how-you-got-screwed\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and highly recommend it.\n<li>Looks as if the fedgov will finally &#8212; grudgingly &#8212; &#8220;allow&#8221; terminally ill patients <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/house-passes-right-to-try-bill-for-terminally-ill-patients\/\" target=\"_blank\">to have a shot a lifesaving medicines<\/a> that haven&#8217;t yet gotten full FDA approval.\n<li>Not your grandpa&#8217;s Boy Scouts. The newly minted Scouts BSA <a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.wnd.com\/2018\/05\/condoms-required-at-scouts-24th-world-jamboree\/\" target=\"_blank\">mandate that condoms be made available to all participants<\/a> at their world jamborees. (H\/T MtK)\n<li>Amazon&#8217;s facial-recognition system and law enforcement: Raising <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/05\/22\/amazon-facial-recognition-software-raises-privacy-concerns-with-the-aclu\/\" target=\"_blank\">serious privacy and constitutional questions<\/a>. (&#8220;Favorite&#8221; part: When Deputy Jeff Talbot says, \u201cIt is not mass surveillance or untargeted surveillance.\u201d Hahaha. So amusing, those cops.)\n<li>Mandatory E-Verify will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/blog\/mandatory-e-verify-will-increase-identity-theft\" target=\"_blank\">increase identity theft<\/a> (which, frankly, seems among the least of its evils).\n<li>In yet another sign of the decline of Western civilization, a Publix market <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2018\/05\/22\/publix-market-south-carolina-censors-grads-summa-cum-laude-cake\/631829002\/\" target=\"_blank\">censors a graduation cake<\/a> because both human employees and the store&#8217;s computer system think <em>summa cum laude<\/em> contains a bad word.\n<li>If you enjoyed insulting Germans the other day, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boredpanda.com\/funny-country-flag-color-jokes\/\" target=\"_blank\">you&#8217;ll really enjoy mocking<\/a> all these other nationalities.\n<li>Antidote to entitlement and cultural insanity: Teen sees old woman in wheelchair sitting in the blazing sun, gets an umbrella, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/2813\/Teen-Uses-Umbrella-To-Shade-Elderly-Woman-For-Nearly-2-Hours-At-Bus-Stop\" target=\"_blank\">spends nearly two hours shading her<\/a> until her bus arrives. (You have to wonder why no one else was looking out for her.)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>In the wake of mass shootings, parents are now reconsidering mass schooling. <a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/in-the-wake-of-mass-shootings-parents-reconsider-mass-schooling\/\" target=\"_blank\">Excellent article<\/a> by Kerry McDonald.\n<li>A pioneer in the field of machine learning now says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2018\/05\/machine-learning-is-stuck-on-asking-why\/560675\/\" target=\"_blank\">it&#8217;s gone all wrong<\/a>.\n<li>While the woman&#8217;s contributions may be a detriment to the gene pool, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation-now\/2018\/05\/22\/woman-delivers-baby-jail-cell-without-help\/632285002\/\" target=\"_blank\">her jailers are infinitely worse<\/a>.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/23\/wednesday-links-54\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday 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":[4,6,11,13,15,16,19,23,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-computers-and-technology","category-government","category-health-and-science","category-homeschooling-and-free-families","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","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\/36788","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=36788"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36809,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36788\/revisions\/36809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}