{"id":38971,"date":"2018-10-01T17:54:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T00:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=38971"},"modified":"2018-10-01T18:02:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T01:02:00","slug":"monday-tuesday-links-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/01\/monday-tuesday-links-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday-Tuesday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>A teenage girl uses a bow and arrow <a href=\"http:\/\/mynorthwest.com\/1121350\/eastern-washington-girl-cougar-bow-arrow\/\" target=\"_blank\"> to save her little brother<\/a> from a cougar. Naturally, the Internet hates her. (H\/T LA)\n<li>Bryan Caplan&#8217;s convincing <a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/bryan-caplan-s-convincing-case-against-education\/\" target=\"_blank\">case against education<\/a>. (Amazon link to Caplan&#8217;s book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Case-against-Education-System-Waste\/dp\/0691174652\/?tag=livifree07-20\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>)\n<li>Given the biased source (the <em>NYT<\/em>), I don&#8217;t know if this is accurate. If true, it&#8217;s barbaric. Undocumented immigrant kids are being rounded up in the middle of the night and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/30\/us\/migrant-children-tent-city-texas.html\" target=\"_blank\">transferred from private homes<\/a>, shelters, and relatively normal lives to an isolated tent city in Texas.\n<li>Researchers at the University of Washington <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/612212\/the-first-social-network-of-brains-lets-three-people-transmit-thoughts-to-each-others-heads\/\" target=\"_blank\">have formed a brain-to-brain network<\/a> that enables three people to transmit (so far rudimentary) thoughts to each other. Brave new world &#8230;\n<li>A family innocently drinking kombucha (fermented tea) in a park <a href=\"https:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/grandfather-and-grandsons-detained-by-officer-kicked-out-of-park-for-drinking-kombucha-tea\/\" target=\"_blank\">is harassed and has their beverage stolen<\/a> by an ignorant authoritarian with a badge.\n<li>At this no-cash coffee house <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thesalt\/2018\/09\/29\/643386327\/no-cash-needed-at-this-cafe-students-pay-the-tab-with-their-personal-data\" target=\"_blank\">students pay with personal data<\/a>. (H\/T Shel)\n<li>Worse, some damn fools are trying <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2018\/09\/30\/the-rise-of-dataism-a-threat-to-freedom-or-a-scientific-revolution\/#sm.001ssys3f1e15fpuzu61v4sq421qh\" target=\"_blank\">to make a philosophy and a religion<\/a> around making everyone&#8217;s data (read: the data of all us plebians) public.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/articles\/sources-of-existential-angst\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sources of existential angst<\/a>. Sigh. I have lots of those, don&#8217;t you?\n<li>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendymcelroy.com\/news.php\" target=\"_blank\">Wendy McElroy<\/a>: Jameson Lopp <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@lopp\/a-modest-privacy-protection-proposal-5b47631d7f4c\" target=\"_blank\">decided to remake his life<\/a> with privacy in mind &#8212; after he got SWATted last year.\n<li>Kevin of The Smallest Minority is a &#8220;small-a atheist&#8221; who <a href=\"https:\/\/smallestminority.blogspot.com\/2018\/09\/a-half-bubble-off-plumb.html\" target=\"_blank\">believes in the power of prayer<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>A teenage girl uses a bow and arrow <a href=\"http:\/\/mynorthwest.com\/1121350\/eastern-washington-girl-cougar-bow-arrow\/\" target=\"_blank\"> to save her little brother<\/a> from a cougar. Naturally, the Internet hates her. (H\/T LA)\n<li>Bryan Caplan&#8217;s convincing <a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/bryan-caplan-s-convincing-case-against-education\/\" target=\"_blank\">case against education<\/a>. (Amazon link to Caplan&#8217;s book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Case-against-Education-System-Waste\/dp\/0691174652\/?tag=livifree07-20\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>)\n<li>Given the biased source (the <em>NYT<\/em>), I don&#8217;t know if this is accurate. If true, it&#8217;s barbaric. Undocumented immigrant kids are being rounded up in the middle of the night and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/30\/us\/migrant-children-tent-city-texas.html\" target=\"_blank\">transferred from private homes<\/a>, shelters, and relatively normal lives to an isolated tent city in Texas.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/01\/monday-tuesday-links-3\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday-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":[6,12,13,15,18,19,23,28,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-homeschooling-and-free-families","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-religion","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38971","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=38971"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38986,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38971\/revisions\/38986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}