{"id":38567,"date":"2018-09-07T01:30:43","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T08:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=38567"},"modified":"2018-09-06T19:47:37","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T02:47:37","slug":"friday-links-117","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/07\/friday-links-117\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>A rural town banded together to build a hospital. A larger hospital &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/05\/us\/rural-florida-hospital.html\" target=\"_blank\">and the government<\/a> &#8212; stopped them.\n<li>Social media&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2018\/09\/04\/social_medias_opaque_response_to_conservative-bias_charges_137975.html\" target=\"_blank\">opaque response<\/a> to evidence of bias.\n<li>Theranos, the multi-billion unicorn that billed itself as a revolutionary blood-testing company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2018\/sep\/05\/theranos-closing-blood-testing-startup-report\" target=\"_blank\">is closing its doors<\/a>, valued at nearly nothing. (You want to read a really good book about how easy it is to fool lots of smart people? Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bad-Blood-Secrets-Silicon-Startup-ebook\/dp\/B078VW3VM7\/?tag=livifree07-20\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup<\/em><\/a> by John Carreyrou, the WJS reporter who exposed Theranos and its cultish leader, Elizabeth Holmes.)\n<li>One percenters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/features\/2018-rich-new-zealand-doomsday-preppers\/\" target=\"_blank\">plan to ride out their doomsday<\/a> in New Zealand. (Amusing that one of the scenarios of dread for rich Silicon Valleyites is &#8220;a French Revolution-style uprising targeting the 1 percent.&#8221;) (H\/T MJR)\n<li>There is much talk about the absurd luxuries and indulgences produced by late-stage capitalism. But what about the absurdities produced by <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/05\/era-of-late-socialism-late-capitalism\" target=\"_blank\">late-stage socialism<\/a>?\n<li>Let&#8217;s hope the <a href=\"https:\/\/whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com\/2018\/09\/05\/new-book-by-lukianoff-and-haidt-on-the-fragility-of-the-young\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new book by Lukianoff and Haidt<\/a> wakes people up before we become so fragile we shatter. (Here&#8217;s an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Coddling-American-Mind-Intentions-Generation\/dp\/0735224897\/?tag=livifree07-20\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon link<\/a> for it.)\n<li>Desserts you <a href=\"https:\/\/designyoutrust.com\/2018\/08\/confectioner-makes-creepy-desserts-and-it-will-take-courage-to-cut-into-them\/\" target=\"_blank\">might not want to cut into<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoutdoorwire.com\/features\/f12901e3-9b6e-46df-af4a-066f6cee9d5f\" target=\"_blank\">Expert camouflage<\/a> (H\/T LA)\n<li>Ten historical figures <a href=\"https:\/\/listverse.com\/2018\/09\/02\/10-historical-figures-remembered-for-the-wrong-thing\/\" target=\"_blank\">remembered for the wrong thing<\/a>.\n<li>Lessee. It&#8217;s illegal in Oregon to drive while cellphoning. So the Oregon State Patrol has just devised a new number that cellphone users on the highway can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kezi.com\/content\/news\/Oregon-State-Police-Create-New-Dial-Number--492394611.html\" target=\"_blank\">call to report other drivers&#8217; unsafe behaviors<\/a>. Yeah, that makes sense. Sure. (Tip o&#8217; hat to BD)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/theoatmeal.com\/comics\/battery_drain\" target=\"_blank\">Battery drain<\/a> from The Oatmeal.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>A rural town banded together to build a hospital. A larger hospital &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/05\/us\/rural-florida-hospital.html\" target=\"_blank\">and the government<\/a> &#8212; stopped them.\n<li>Social media&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2018\/09\/04\/social_medias_opaque_response_to_conservative-bias_charges_137975.html\" target=\"_blank\">opaque response<\/a> to evidence of bias.\n<li>Theranos, the multi-billion unicorn that billed itself as a revolutionary blood-testing company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2018\/sep\/05\/theranos-closing-blood-testing-startup-report\" target=\"_blank\">is closing its doors<\/a>, valued at nearly nothing. (You want to read a really good book about how easy it is to fool lots of smart people? Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bad-Blood-Secrets-Silicon-Startup-ebook\/dp\/B078VW3VM7\/?tag=livifree07-20\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup<\/em><\/a> by John Carreyrou, the WJS reporter who exposed Theranos and its cultish leader, Elizabeth Holmes.)\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/07\/friday-links-117\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday 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":[2,4,6,11,13,19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-books-and-movies","category-computers-and-technology","category-government","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","category-money","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38567","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=38567"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38584,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38567\/revisions\/38584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}