{"id":39489,"date":"2018-11-08T01:51:39","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T09:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=39489"},"modified":"2018-11-07T20:41:06","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T04:41:06","slug":"thursday-links-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/08\/thursday-links-98\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>What <a href=\"http:\/\/joelsgulch.com\/who-will-be-the-guardian\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joel (and Leslie Fish) wrote<\/a> was sadly moving, and we can know that willfully naive souls will repeat the same fatal mistakes, world without end, amen.\n<li>But thank G-d, some in the American Jewish community <a href=\"https:\/\/wheelgun.wordpress.com\/2018\/11\/07\/american-jewish-community-taking-up-guns-for-self-defense\/\" target=\"_blank\">are awakening and taking up arms<\/a> in defense of themselves and their faith.\n<li>Sigh. Dutch police decrypt hundreds of thousands of messages <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2018\/11\/police-decrypt-258000-messages-after-breaking-pricey-ironchat-crypto-app\/\" target=\"_blank\">from IronChat<\/a>, a supposedly rock-solid, end-to-end encrypted messaging app praised by Edward Snowden.\n<li>Six questions <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2018\/11\/07\/6-questions-huge-cia-blunder-allowed-enemies-kill-70-u-s-spies\/\" target=\"_blank\">about the sloppy and insecure CIA communications<\/a> that got 70 U.S. spies killed.\n<li>Meanwhile, as Sharyl Attkisson notes, <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/national-security\/414804-surveillance-state-is-alive-well-and-operating-against-us-all\" target=\"_blank\">the Central Lack-of-Intelligence Agency deepens its spying<\/a> on everybody who ever uses or communicates with government computers.\n<li>&#8220;Tough on crime&#8221; juvenile court judge loses his election <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/07\/glenn-devlin-juvenile-court-release-defe\" target=\"_blank\">and starts turning everybody loose<\/a>, grumping that that&#8217;s what the v*ters wanted.\n<li>Good riddance, Jeff Sessions &#8212; sez I &#8212; and <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/trending\/cannabis-industry-cheers-sessions-departure-at-doj\/\" target=\"_blank\">sez the cannabis industry<\/a>.\n<li>&#8220;My healthy diet is boring,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.menshealth.com\/nutrition\/a24268512\/healthy-diet-tips-foods\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Kita writes<\/a>. But he writes amusingly and with smarts.\n<li>The Girl Scouts sue the Boy Scouts &#8230; Oh, pardon me, I mean they sue the politically correct, generic, and wimped-out organization <em>formerly known as the Boy Scouts<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/415277-girl-scouts-in-lawsuit-claim-boy-scouts-will-marginalize-them-by\" target=\"_blank\">for infringing on their gig<\/a>. Or rather on their claim to words like &#8220;scouts&#8221; and &#8220;scouting.&#8221;\n<li>&#8220;World&#8217;s funniest flight attendant&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inspiremore.com\/hilarious-flight-attendant-frontier\/\" target=\"_blank\">gets cheers<\/a> for his rendition of the standard safety instructions. (But I wonder what Frontier thought of his performance.)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Joel (and Leslie Fish) wrote was sadly moving, and we can know that willfully naive souls will repeat the same fatal mistakes, world without end, amen. But thank G-d, some in the American Jewish community are awakening and taking up arms in defense of themselves and their faith. Sigh. Dutch police decrypt hundreds of thousands of messages from IronChat, a supposedly rock-solid, end-to-end encrypted messaging app praised by Edward Snowden. Six questions about the sloppy and insecure CIA communications that got 70 U.S. spies killed. Meanwhile, as Sharyl Attkisson notes, the Central Lack-of-Intelligence Agency deepens its spying on everybody&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/08\/thursday-links-98\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday 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":[5,6,12,13,16,19,23,25,28,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-legalization","category-computers-and-technology","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-poly-ticks","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-war-on-some-drugs","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39489","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=39489"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39504,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39489\/revisions\/39504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}