{"id":38775,"date":"2018-09-18T07:17:07","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T14:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=38775"},"modified":"2018-09-18T07:42:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T14:42:39","slug":"tuesday-links-126","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/18\/tuesday-links-126\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mostly on the lite and positive side today (mostly) &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New Mexico <a href=\"https:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/new-mexico-lawsuit-google-law\/\" target=\"_blank\">sues Google and Twitter<\/a> for exploiting children.\n<li>Interesting notion: The whole NFL\/Nike\/Kaepernick flap is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intellectualtakeout.org\/article\/colin-kaepernick-and-why-nfl-new-wwe\" target=\"_blank\">a bit of theater<\/a> to boost NFL ratings in &#8220;blue&#8221; markets.\n<li>Have you paid a traffic ticket, fine, or government fee online in the last few years? Chances are <a href=\"https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2018\/09\/govpaynow-com-leaks-14m-records\/\" target=\"_blank\">your data got hacked<\/a>.\n<li>Fed up with high drug prices and shortages <a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/fed-up-with-drug-shortages-this-hospital-decided-to-make-its-own-generics\/\" target=\"_blank\">another hospital decides<\/a> to make its own generic drugs.\n<li>Gimmick or good idea? Amazon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/news\/2018\/09\/17\/amazon-pitches-customers-buying-just-u-s-small-businesses\/1339039002\/\" target=\"_blank\">creates a &#8220;shopping center&#8221;<\/a> strictly for small and medium businesses.\n<li>The accusations against Kavanaugh <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investors.com\/politics\/editorials\/last-minute-attack-on-kavanaugh-is-meant-as-warning-to-all-conservatives\/\" target=\"_blank\">just get fuzzier and fuzzier<\/a>. (I don&#8217;t much care for Kavanaugh, a government-loving authoritarian who&#8217;s terrible on the Fourth Amendment; but what kind of society destroys a respectable person for something he may or may not have done in high school?)\n<li>They really shouldn&#8217;t have built the Death Star <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2018\/09\/the-math-of-why-its-so-hard-to-build-a-spherical-death-star-in-space\/\" target=\"_blank\">as a sphere<\/a>.\n<li>That wolf pup may have been dead for 50,000 years. But it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/63609-ice-age-wolf-mummy.html\" target=\"_blank\">still adorably cute<\/a>.\n<li>Free markets <a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/wire\/how-capitalism-makes-us-more-humane\" target=\"_blank\">help us be more humane<\/a> to animals.\n<li>They thought they&#8217;d left their pets on high ground. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/news\/local\/article218476620.html\" target=\"_blank\">Thank heaven for rescuers<\/a>.\n<li>Boy, I knew you could get a lot of things at the public library. But <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2018\/09\/17\/awesome-library-helped-smuggle-guns\" target=\"_blank\">guns<\/a>? J.D. Tuccille; love his Attitude.\n<li>Okay, okay. It&#8217;s just another food-and-health study, so take it FWIW. But this one says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/eating-cheese-and-butter-every-day-linked-living-longer-1115213\" target=\"_blank\">we can eat lots of cheese and butter<\/a>. And butter and cheese!\n<li>Alan Abel, hoaxer extraordinaire, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/17\/obituaries\/alan-abel-dies.html\" target=\"_blank\">has died<\/a>. (But can we be <em>sure<\/em>?)\n<li>Yet another <a href=\"https:\/\/cheezburger.com\/6755589\/guy-goes-down-strange-ancient-ruins-rabbit-hole-in-awesome-twitter-thread\" target=\"_blank\">trip down the rabbit hole<\/a> of peculiar religious practices.\n<li>Drawing: It helps us <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/quartzy\/1381916\/drawing-is-the-best-way-to-learn-even-if-youre-no-leonardo-da-vinci\/\" target=\"_blank\">think and solve problems<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>New Mexico <a href=\"https:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/new-mexico-lawsuit-google-law\/\" target=\"_blank\">sues Google and Twitter<\/a> for exploiting children.\n<li>Interesting notion: The whole NFL\/Nike\/Kaepernick flap is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intellectualtakeout.org\/article\/colin-kaepernick-and-why-nfl-new-wwe\" target=\"_blank\">a bit of conspiracy theater<\/a> to boost NFL ratings in &#8220;blue&#8221; markets.\n<li>Have you paid a traffic ticket, fine, or government fee online in the last few years? Chances are <a href=\"https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2018\/09\/govpaynow-com-leaks-14m-records\/\" target=\"_blank\">your data got hacked<\/a>.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/18\/tuesday-links-126\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday 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":[2,6,8,12,13,18,19,28,29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-computers-and-technology","category-dogs-and-cats","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-religion","category-resistance","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38775","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=38775"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38799,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38775\/revisions\/38799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}