{"id":38360,"date":"2018-08-25T07:49:27","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T14:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=38360"},"modified":"2018-08-25T08:32:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T15:32:15","slug":"weekend-links-110","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/25\/weekend-links-110\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The tech giants are secretly meeting to <del datetime=\"2018-08-25T14:12:09+00:00\">protect their platforms against political manipulation<\/del> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/kevincollier\/tech-companies-are-gathering-for-a-secret-meeting-to\" target=\"_blank\">collude in a joint electoral strategy<\/a>.\n<li>A rat is a rat is a rat is a rat, Scott Greenfield <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.simplejustice.us\/2018\/08\/25\/the-nature-of-rats\/\" target=\"_blank\">accurately notes<\/a>.\n<li>She frantically called cops twice for help <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/life\/allthemoms\/2018\/08\/24\/michigan-mom-said-911-refused-send-help-infant-locked-car-police-apologize\/1084104002\/\" target=\"_blank\">getting her baby out of a hot, locked car<\/a>. They blew her off. Both times. At least they later apologized, though. They didn&#8217;t come and taser her to death. That&#8217;s something.\n<li>Bigger airplanes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/why-no-personal-space-huge-airplanes#page-6\" target=\"_blank\">smaller seats<\/a>, weird proposals for change.\n<li>If an American cop had done this, it would probably be considered one of the rare cop-firing offenses. This Argentinian officer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/2965\/Police-Officer-Breastfeeds-and-039-Smelly-And-Dirtyand-039-Neglected-Baby-Gets-Promoted\" target=\"_blank\">got promoted<\/a> for her act of kindness.\n<li>Andrew Cuomo&#8217;s attempts to prevent banks from dealing with the NRA are so loathsome that even the ACLU &#8212; no friend to the Second Amendment &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/blog\/free-speech\/new-york-state-cant-be-allowed-stifle-nras-political-speech\" target=\"_blank\">enters the fight<\/a> on behalf of <del datetime=\"2018-08-25T14:44:40+00:00\">gun<\/del> free-speech rights.\n<li>What our brain and body do <a href=\"https:\/\/tonic.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/ywkeqv\/pet-health-benefits-brain\" target=\"_blank\">when we hang out with animals<\/a>. (H\/T Shel)\n<li>Stray dog begs for money; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W_5mEudUNoE\" target=\"_blank\">buys itself a hot dog<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tech giants are secretly meeting to protect their platforms against political manipulation collude in a joint electoral strategy. A rat is a rat is a rat is a rat, Scott Greenfield accurately notes. She frantically called cops twice for help getting her baby out of a hot, locked car. They blew her off. Both times. At least they later apologized, though. They didn&#8217;t come and taser her to death. That&#8217;s something. Bigger airplanes, smaller seats, weird proposals for change. If an American cop had done this, it would probably be considered one of the rare cop-firing offenses. This Argentinian&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/25\/weekend-links-110\/\">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":[6,8,9,18,19,23,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-dogs-and-cats","category-free-speech","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-poly-ticks","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38360","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=38360"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38371,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38360\/revisions\/38371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}