{"id":39697,"date":"2018-11-19T08:54:36","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T16:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=39697"},"modified":"2018-11-19T09:17:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T17:17:31","slug":"monday-links-142","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/19\/monday-links-142\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Limited time only: Get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/whole-genome-sequencing-cost-200-dollars\/\" target=\"_blank\">your entire genome sequenced<\/a> for $200. Today and tomorrow &#8212; and only for the first 1,000 to apply. This is not the same as a 23andMe screening. This is the whole enchilada. Billions and billions &#8230;\n<li>In that wonderful, sensible land of the UK, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6401779\/The-DOG-accused-hate-crime-fouling-outside-home-just-one-2-500-cases-probed.html\" target=\"_blank\">dogs have been accused of hate crimes<\/a> &#8212; along with opened envelopes, disputed tennis calls, and a man supporting Brexit. (H\/T MtK)\n<li>&#8220;Greater financial discipline&#8221; is needed, says deputy secretary of defense <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-pentagon-audit\/pentagon-fails-its-first-ever-audit-official-says-idUSKCN1NK2MC\" target=\"_blank\">after the Pentagon fails its first-ever audit<\/a>. From $600 toilet seats to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2018\/10\/22\/battle-over-air-forces-1300-coffee-cups-heats-up\/\" target=\"_blank\">$1,300 coffee cups<\/a> and you&#8217;re just figuring that out? Let&#8217;s all shout a joint &#8220;I told you so!&#8221; as nothing improves.\n<li>The gold standard didn&#8217;t disappear in 1971. It <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/nathanlewis\/2018\/11\/16\/the-gold-standard-didnt-disappear-in-1971-it-just-went-underground\/\" target=\"_blank\">just went underground<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/11\/13\/google-quayside-toronto-smart-city\/\" target\"_blank\">Resistance is building in Toronto<\/a> to the unsurprisingly un-transparant plan to have Google build a whole neighborhood &#8220;from the Internet up.&#8221; I fear these polite Canadians will merely settle for false reassurances: &#8220;Oh, noooooo. We&#8217;re Google. You know we wouldn&#8217;t do any eeeeevil.&#8221;\n<li>Another charming glimpse into the future, where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/ai-toilets-scan-your-poop-to-diagnose-medical-ailments\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;intelligent&#8221; toilets<\/a> diagnose medical conditions by reading your pee and poo. (You know, if this tech was <em>under your individual control<\/em> it would be great and useful. But do you dare imagine you&#8217;d be the only person (pardon the pun) privvy to the information?) (H\/T MJR)\n<li>Not worried about such a future? Okay. But you can worry right now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medscape.com\/viewarticle\/904962\" target=\"_blank\">about what doctors think of your gun rights<\/a>. (ditto)\n<li>A California congressthing wants our kindly and benevolent federal government to nuke any gun owners who resist his desired mandatory confiscation. Bear Bussjaeger <a href=\"http:\/\/zelmanpartisans.com\/?p=5643\" target=\"_blank\">asks current military and veterans<\/a> if the military really would fire upon (not necessarily nuke) fellow Americans who resisted. To me the bigger question, aside from &#8220;Is that Swalwell guy nutz?&#8221; is <em>how<\/em> Mr. Congressthing &#8212; who wants to be president, BTW &#8211;would nuke gun owners without <em>nuking everybody else<\/em>.\n<li>One more thing &#8220;Science Guy&#8221; Bill Nye doesn&#8217;t know cr*p about: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/science\/2018\/11\/19\/bill-nye-mars-were-not-going-live-there-make-like-earth\/1905447002\/\" target=\"_blank\">the prospects of humans living on Mars<\/a>.\n<li>Don&#8217;t ever say &#8220;men aren&#8217;t women&#8221; on Twitter. It&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/saying-men-arent-women-on-twitter-now-classified-as-hateful-conduct\/\" target=\"_blank\">It&#8217;s hateful conduct<\/a>.\n<li>I wish I had a cute dog video right about now. Or some incredibly heartwarming news story. But nope. As a closer, we&#8217;ll have to settle for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boredpanda.com\/english-kids-spelling-book-p-is-for-pterodactyl\/\" target=\"_blank\">the world&#8217;s worst alphabet book<\/a>. (Which you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Pterodactyl-Worst-Alphabet-Book-Ever\/dp\/1492674311\/?tag=livifree07-20\" target=\"_blank\">buy here<\/a>, should you be needing a gift for a precocious and perhaps somewhat strange child.)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Limited time only: Get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/whole-genome-sequencing-cost-200-dollars\/\" target=\"_blank\">your entire genome sequenced<\/a> for $200. Today and tomorrow &#8212; and only for the first 1,000 to apply. This is not the same as a 23andMe screening. This is the whole enchilada. Billions and billions &#8230;\n<li>In that wonderful, sensible land of the UK, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6401779\/The-DOG-accused-hate-crime-fouling-outside-home-just-one-2-500-cases-probed.html\" target=\"_blank\">dogs have been accused of hate crimes<\/a> &#8212; along with opened envelopes, disputed tennis calls, and a man supporting Brexit. (H\/T MtK)\n<li>&#8220;Greater financial discipline&#8221; is needed, says deputy secretary of defense <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-pentagon-audit\/pentagon-fails-its-first-ever-audit-official-says-idUSKCN1NK2MC\" target=\"_blank\">after the Pentagon fails its first-ever audit<\/a>. From $600 toilet seats to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2018\/10\/22\/battle-over-air-forces-1300-coffee-cups-heats-up\/\" target=\"_blank\">$1,300 coffee cups<\/a> and you&#8217;re just figuring that out? Let&#8217;s all shout a joint &#8220;I told you so!&#8221; as nothing improves.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/19\/monday-links-142\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday 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":[4,6,7,8,9,11,12,13,16,19,20,28,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-computers-and-technology","category-cultural-insanity","category-dogs-and-cats","category-free-speech","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-war","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39697","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=39697"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39720,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39697\/revisions\/39720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}