{"id":39666,"date":"2018-11-17T11:29:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T19:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=39666"},"modified":"2018-11-17T16:06:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T00:06:39","slug":"weekend-links-116","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/17\/weekend-links-116\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Job opportunity! The federal government is hiring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marijuanamoment.net\/the-feds-are-hiring-professional-marijuana-joint-rollers-kind-of\/\" target=\"_blank\">professional joint rollers<\/a>. As in blunts, doobies, pre-roll, and reefer. (Really. Although the job does entail a bit more than that.)\n<li>SAF and the NRA, who haven&#8217;t been fond of each other recently, have teamed up to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.joehuffman.org\/2018\/11\/15\/saf-nra-file-federal-lawsuit-challenging-initiative-1639\/\" target=\"_blank\">bring suit against I-1639<\/a>, Washington state&#8217;s evil, stupid, illegal, and draconian new gun law. Many more suits will follow.\n<li>In Mexico, two innocent men <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-46145986\" target=\"_blank\">are beaten and burned to death<\/a> on the basis of an unfounded rumor spread on WhatsApp.\n<li>And ICE and the DEA have begun to <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1458475\/the-dea-and-ice-are-hiding-surveillance-cameras-in-streetlights\/\" target=\"_blank\">hide cameras in streetlights<\/a> and traffic cones. No mention of warrants, probable cause, or properly targeted surveillance. (H\/T MJR)\n<li>Creepy or cool? You decide. Researchers grew mini-kidneys in a lab. The kidneys <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/64101-rogue-cells-in-mini-kidneys.html\" target=\"_blank\">went rogue<\/a> and also produced muscle and brain cells.\n<li>Definitely creepy: the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/thedaily.case.edu\/is-an-internet-of-ears-the-next-big-thing-for-smart-homes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Internet of ears<\/a>. (H\/T MJR)\n<li>Seven <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2018\/11\/7-tips-ernest-hemingway-write-fiction.html\" target=\"_blank\">tips from Ernest Hemingway<\/a> on how to write fiction. Unlike a lot of writing advice, these are actually quite good. That third one is killer, though. (Tip o&#8217; hat to Shel)\n<li>Wow. That&#8217;s one unbelievable magic trick. Or actually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CvzMqIQLiXE\" target=\"_blank\">a whole series of related tricks<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Job opportunity! The federal government is hiring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marijuanamoment.net\/the-feds-are-hiring-professional-marijuana-joint-rollers-kind-of\/\" target=\"_blank\">professional joint rollers<\/a>. As in blunts, doobies, pre-roll, and reefer. (Really. Although the job does entail a bit more than that.)\n<li>SAF and the NRA, who haven&#8217;t been fond of each other recently, have teamed up to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.joehuffman.org\/2018\/11\/15\/saf-nra-file-federal-lawsuit-challenging-initiative-1639\/\" target=\"_blank\">bring suit against I-1639<\/a>, Washington state&#8217;s evil, stupid, illegal, and draconian new gun law. Many more suits will follow.\n<li>In Mexico, two innocent men <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-46145986\" target=\"_blank\">are beaten and burned to death<\/a> on the basis of an unfounded rumor spread on WhatsApp.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/17\/weekend-links-116\/\">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":[4,5,6,7,12,13,19,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-cannabis-legalization","category-computers-and-technology","category-cultural-insanity","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","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\/39666","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=39666"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39685,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39666\/revisions\/39685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}