{"id":39075,"date":"2018-10-10T19:27:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T02:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=39075"},"modified":"2018-10-10T19:40:33","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T02:40:33","slug":"midweek-links-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/10\/midweek-links-91\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Global warming will be responsible for &#8230;. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/nation-world\/national\/article219717980.html\" target=\"_blank\">a colossal mental health catastrophe<\/a>. (Betcha thought they&#8217;d never be able to find a way to merge those two drummed-up modern crises.)\n<li>Google&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/googles-security-bug-dragonfly-and-maven-show-its-not-trustworthy-2018-10\" target=\"_blank\">recent behavior<\/a> shows a dark pattern for a company that once pledged not to be evil.\n<li>And here you thought a mere 1,000,000% inflation rate was bad. FEE sez Venezuela&#8217;s on track to <a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/venezuelas-inflation-rate-projected-to-hit-10-000-000-in-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\">hit 10,000,000% next year<\/a>.\n<li>Stocks drop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/10\/10\/us-markets-bond-yields-and-data-in-focus.html\" target=\"_blank\">over 800 points<\/a>, with the five big FAANG tech stocks getting kicked in the gonads.\n<li>&#8220;Alexa, should we trust you?&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2018\/11\/alexa-how-will-you-change-us\/570844\/\" target=\"_blank\">Um &#8230;. nope<\/a>.\n<li>Guess what bees do (or don&#8217;t do) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/total-solar-eclipse-bees-completely-stop-flying-cognition\" target=\"_blank\">during a total solar eclipse<\/a>.\n<li>If we can have a mental health catastrophe over global warming, then our cats and dogs can surely have <a href=\"http:\/\/nautil.us\/issue\/65\/in-plain-sight\/can-a-cat-have-an-existential-crisis-rp\" target=\"_blank\">existential crises<\/a> over &#8230; whatever. (H\/T Shel)\n<li>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oYPBvbU8ZPM\" target=_blank\">basketball playing dog<\/a> who seems to be quite well-adjusted despite the doleful state of the climate. (H\/T Shel)\n<li>And you know me; I don&#8217;t usually go in for posting people&#8217;s sentimental maternity or wedding shoots. But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boredpanda.com\/funny-maternity-photoshoot-alien-pumpkin-field-todd-cameron-li-carter\/\" target=\"_blank\">I trust even the cynics among you will enjoy this one<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/peanuts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/peanuts-600x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-39085\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/peanuts-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/peanuts-338x450.jpg 338w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/peanuts.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Global warming will be responsible for &#8230;. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/nation-world\/national\/article219717980.html\" target=\"_blank\">a colossal mental health catastrophe<\/a>. (Betcha thought they&#8217;d never be able to find a way to merge those two drummed-up modern crises.)\n<li>Google&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/googles-security-bug-dragonfly-and-maven-show-its-not-trustworthy-2018-10\" target=\"_blank\">recent behavior<\/a> shows a dark pattern for a company that once pledged not to be evil.\n<li>And here you thought a mere 1,000,000% inflation rate was bad. FEE sez Venezuela&#8217;s on track to <a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/venezuelas-inflation-rate-projected-to-hit-10-000-000-in-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\">hit 10,000,000% next year<\/a>.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/10\/midweek-links-91\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Midweek 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":[6,8,11,13,16,19,20,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-health-and-science","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39075","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=39075"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39089,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39075\/revisions\/39089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}