{"id":39291,"date":"2018-10-27T20:09:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T03:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=39291"},"modified":"2018-10-27T20:14:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T03:14:45","slug":"weekend-links-114","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/27\/weekend-links-114\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>You soon <em>may<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/xw9bwd\/1201-exemptions-right-to-repair\" target=\"_blank\">hack your DRM-locked software<\/a> to repair or upgrade it. Whether you <em>can<\/em> hack it is a different matter.\n<li>Should a self-driving car <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/612341\/a-global-ethics-study-aims-to-help-ai-solve-the-self-driving-trolley-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\">kill Grandma or a baby<\/a>? Choices, choices.\n<li>I&#8217;ve read, though haven&#8217;t confirmed, that poor Washington state is the only one with a big anti-gun measure on the ballot this year. Oregon, OTOH, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com\/2018\/10\/voters-in-oregon-have-the-opportunity-to-create-10-gun-sanctuary-counties\/\" targt=\"_blank\">has the opportunity to create<\/a> 10 gun-sanctuary counties where gun-grabbery will be thwarted.\n<li>And Free Staters <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com\/2018\/10\/new-hampshire-privacy-amendment-on-the-ballot\/\" target=\"_blank\">have privacy on their ballots<\/a>.\n<li>Canadian MJR points out (are you gloating, MJR?), that he can order this online and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canadaammo.com\/product\/detail\/da-kodiak-9-super-shorty-blued-shotgun-12g-holster-combo\/\" target=\"_blank\">get it delivered to his door<\/a> by government mail.\n<li>Oh, Amazon. Why? They pitched facial-recognition software to ICE and the only comfort is that <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2018\/10\/amazon-pitched-its-facial-recognition-to-ice-released-emails-show\/\" target=\"_blank\">facial recognition is still crap<\/a>.\n<li>Which doesn&#8217;t stop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/daveyalba\/amazon-facial-recognition-orlando-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">Orlando, Florida from already using it<\/a>. (H\/T Shel)\n<li>Alphabet &#8212; that is, Google (spit!) &#8212; and the city of Toronto have been working together to create an &#8220;improved&#8221; &#8212; that is, Total Big Brother &#8212; experimental neighborhood. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018\/10\/26\/sidewalk-labs-ann-cavoukian-smart-city\/\" target=\"_blank\">Their plans aren&#8217;t doing so well<\/a> just now.\n<li>Observing the <a href=\"https:\/\/tonic.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/evwwnp\/this-is-what-happens-to-your-body-if-you-dont-eat-for-three-days\" target=\"_blank\">effects of a three-day fast<\/a> on your body.\n<li>Heh. I think this politically correct study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/carbon-footprint-animal-dogs-cats-america-study-meat-vegetarian-a7878086.html\" target=\"_blank\">releases more gas<\/a> into the atmosphere than my dog does. (H\/T MJR)\n<li>Those recent not-a-bomb packages remind us of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/90257308\/suspicious-packages-spotlight-vast-postal-surveillance-system-mail-covers\" target=\"_blank\">vast and usually unheralded<\/a> surveillance the fedgov performs on <em>all<\/em> our mail.\n<li>Sorry for so much terrible privacy news today. Here, to make up for it, is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foldnfly.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">database of paper airplanes<\/a>, complete with instructions. Get together with your kids or grandkids and enjoy.\n<li>Enjoy a nice walk, too. Even a fairly relaxed 10-minute excursion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/24\/well\/move\/exercise-brain-memory-fitness-cognitive.html\" target=\"_blank\">may be good for your brain<\/a>.\n<li>But if you feel as if your brain wakes up more slowly than your body, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/50128-how-long-does-it-take-to-wake-up-the-brain\" target=\"_blank\">you may be right<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>You soon <em>may<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/xw9bwd\/1201-exemptions-right-to-repair\" target=\"_blank\">hack your DRM-locked software<\/a> to repair or upgrade it. Whether you <em>can<\/em> hack it is a different matter.\n<li>Should a self-driving car <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/612341\/a-global-ethics-study-aims-to-help-ai-solve-the-self-driving-trolley-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\">kill Grandma or a baby<\/a>? Choices, choices.\n<li>I&#8217;ve read, though haven&#8217;t confirmed, that poor Washington state is the only one with a big anti-gun measure on the ballot this year. Oregon, OTOH, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com\/2018\/10\/voters-in-oregon-have-the-opportunity-to-create-10-gun-sanctuary-counties\/\" targt=\"_blank\">has the opportunity to create<\/a> 10 gun-sanctuary counties where gun-grabbery will be thwarted.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/27\/weekend-links-114\/\">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":[6,7,8,12,13,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-cultural-insanity","category-dogs-and-cats","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39291","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=39291"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39309,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39291\/revisions\/39309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}