{"id":37164,"date":"2018-06-09T17:16:50","date_gmt":"2018-06-10T00:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=37164"},"modified":"2018-06-09T17:14:16","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T00:14:16","slug":"weekend-links-103","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/09\/weekend-links-103\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Can a wandering mind <a href=\"http:\/\/newsround.io\/family\/can-a-wandering-mind-make-you-neurotic-facts-so-romantic\/3560149\" target=\"_blank\">make you neurotic<\/a>? Hell, yes!*\n<li>One more way for the left to eat its own. When biological males who identify as females are allowed to compete in sports against biological women and girls <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weaselzippers.us\/387422-watch-two-transgenders-blow-out-girls-in-state-meet\/\" target=\"_blank\">the predictable happens<\/a>.\n<li>When the content police <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/when-the-content-police-came-for-the-babylon-bee\/\" target=\"_blank\">came for the (satirical) Babylon Bee<\/a>.\n<li>Wendy McElroy (and Noam Chomsky) on the tactics of those <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendymcelroy.com\/news.php?item.8753.1\" target=\"_blank\">who&#8217;d force us to speak and think<\/a> as they&#8217;d like on &#8220;gender&#8221; issues.\n<li>An R and a D in the U.S. Senate introduce a bill to <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/volokh\/2018\/06\/07\/cory-gardner-and-elizabeth-warren-introd\" target=\"_blank\">end federal pot prohibition<\/a> in states that have legalized cannabis. A halfway measure but better than nothing.\n<li>Trump &#8212; who you might recall just imposed a bunch of monster tariffs &#8212; advocates <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/trump-suggests-dropping-all-tariffs-trade-barriers-at-g7-summit-2018-6\" target=\"_blank\">dropping all tariffs and trade barriers<\/a>. (And <em>subsidies<\/em>; I think that&#8217;s where method enters the madness, and that&#8217;s the bit the media&#8217;s not grasping.)\n<li>Look at all the movies and music that <a href=\"https:\/\/lifehacker.com\/these-1923-copyrighted-works-enter-the-public-domain-in-1825241296\" target=\"_blank\">finally come off copyright<\/a> and enter the public domain next year.\n<li>How did hacker\/betrayer Adrian Lamo die? After weeks of investigation, <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2018\/06\/months-later-famed-hacker-adrian-lamos-cause-of-death-remains-a-mystery\/\" target=\"_blank\">it&#8217;s still a mystery<\/a>. He did have some very exotic drugs in his system, though. And a history of seizures.\n<li>J.D. Tuccille adds his $0.02 to <em>Reason&#8217;s<\/em> &#8220;Burn After Reading&#8221; issue: <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2018\/05\/31\/off-grid-survival-for-you-and\" target=\"_blank\">Off-grid survival<\/a>.\n<li>One (of many) reasons Mr. Rogers was so effective at communicating with children: He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/family\/archive\/2018\/06\/mr-rogers-neighborhood-talking-to-kids\/562352\/\" target=\"_blank\">spoke Freddish<\/a> and expected staff to do the same.\n<li>Brains <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/brain-computer-interfaces-show-that-neural-networks-learn-by-recycling-20180327\/\" target=\"_blank\">cling to old habits<\/a> when learning new tricks.\n<li>Sometimes one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.littlethings.com\/kind-stranger-changes-girls-life\/\" target=\"_blank\">one kind remark from a stranger<\/a> can change a life.\n<li>More in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/2845\/Teen-Learns-Why-Elderly-Man-Is-Buying-A-Shovel-And-Goes-Straight-To-His-House-After-Work\" target=\"_blank\">people are good<\/a> department. The kid&#8217;s a bit cocky about himself, but in this case he has every right to be.\n<li>A blind woman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boredpanda.com\/after-eight-years-a-blind-woman-with-the-help-of-special-glasses-sees-her-guide-dog-for-the-first-time\/\" target=\"_blank\">sees her beloved guide dog<\/a> for the first time, thanks to special glasses.\n<\/ul>\n<p>* This and a number of today&#8217;s other links are courtesy of Shel, who&#8217;s been very busy surfing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Can a wandering mind <a href=\"http:\/\/newsround.io\/family\/can-a-wandering-mind-make-you-neurotic-facts-so-romantic\/3560149\" target=\"_blank\">make you neurotic<\/a>? Hell, yes!*\n<li>One more way for the left to eat its own. When biological males who identify as females are allowed to compete in sports against biological women and girls <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weaselzippers.us\/387422-watch-two-transgenders-blow-out-girls-in-state-meet\/\" target=\"_blank\">the predictable happens<\/a>.\n<li>When the content police <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/when-the-content-police-came-for-the-babylon-bee\/\" target=\"_blank\">came for the (satirical) Babylon Bee<\/a>.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/09\/weekend-links-103\/\">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":[2,4,5,7,8,13,18,19,22,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-books-and-movies","category-cannabis-legalization","category-cultural-insanity","category-dogs-and-cats","category-health-and-science","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-off-grid","category-preparedness","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37164","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=37164"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37181,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37164\/revisions\/37181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}