{"id":39842,"date":"2018-11-28T10:01:06","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T18:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=39842"},"modified":"2018-11-28T10:28:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T18:28:05","slug":"midweek-links-97","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/28\/midweek-links-97\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>You&#8217;ve probably heard that a New York state legislator has introduced a bill to allow Authoritah to search your online history before you can be &#8220;allowed&#8221; to buy a gun. You may not have realized <a href=\"http:\/\/zelmanpartisans.com\/?p=5664\" target=\"_blank\">how dangerously deep that rabbit hole goes<\/a>. And have you heard that Kevin Parker, the pol who wants to inflict this, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ammoland.com\/2018\/11\/politician-social-media-history-past-violence-unpaid-taxes\/\" target=\"_blank\">is himself a violent criminal<\/a>, as well as a major financial deadbeat?\n<li>From Shel in comments: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neilstrauss.com\/survival\/evacuation-advice\/\" target=\"_blank\">evacuation advice<\/a> from a survival maven, Kevin Reeve.\n<li>The UK moves into the creepy territory of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2186512-exclusive-uk-police-wants-ai-to-stop-violent-crime-before-it-happens\/\" target=\"_blank\">using AI to detect pre-crime<\/a>. (H\/T MJR)\n<li>A new book by a doctor with impeccable credentials and 50 years of experience <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com\/2018\/11\/new-book-shatters-our-misplaced-faith-in-the-federal-vaccine-narrative\/\" target=\"_blank\">blows away the federal vaccine narrative<\/a> and accompanying federal policy. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Vaccines-Reappraisal-Richard-Moskowitz-MD\/dp\/1510722564\/?tag=livifree07-20\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon link to <em>Vaccines: A Reappraisal<\/em>, which looks like a very important addition to the discussion<\/a>)\n<li>With GM closing factories and making major layoffs a mere 10 years after it&#8217;s too-big-to-fail bailout, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/11\/general-motors-restructuring-bailouts-dont-work\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin D. Williamson reams bailouts<\/a>, crony capitalism, and the mad practice of propping up failing business models.\n<li>And Ilya Somin reminds us that one of those soon-to-be-defunct factories <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/volokh\/2018\/11\/27\/gm-shuts-down-factory-built-on-land-seiz\" target=\"_blank\">was built on land stolen from 4,000 households<\/a> in one of the nation&#8217;s most controversial eminent domain grabs.\n<li>Even in prosperous Silicon Valley <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2018\/11\/18\/silicon-valley-wages-have-dropped-for-all-except-highest-paying-jobs-report\/\" target=\"_blank\">wages have dropped<\/a> for nine out of 10 workers.\n<li>Sex-change logic: If insurance companies cover the cost of cosmetic surgery for men who want to become women, then aren&#8217;t they practicing sexual discrimination by <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2018\/11\/28\/sex-change-logic-requires-doctors-perform-every-plastic-surgery-imaginable\/\" target=\"_blank\">not covering most plastic surgery<\/a> for biological females?\n<li>Should we desire a society <a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/library\/small-better-review-human-scale-revisited\" target=\"_blank\">that&#8217;s more &#8220;human scale&#8221;<\/a>? (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Human-Scale-Revisited-Classic-Decentralist\/dp\/1603587128\/?tag=livifree07-20\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon book link<\/a>)\n<li>Uh oh: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2018\/11\/distributing_ma.html\" target=\"_blank\">Distributing malware by becoming an admin<\/a> on an open-source project.\n<li>America&#8217;s churches are emptying fast. An outfit called Missional Wisdom <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2018\/11\/what-should-america-do-its-empty-church-buildings\/576592\/\" target=\"_blank\">helps congregations repurpose their buildings<\/a> so they can survive rather than sell.\n<li>When I first saw <a href=\"https:\/\/drudgenow.com\/article\/?n=0&#038;s=2&#038;c=1&#038;u=https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/7839028\/is-this-the-worlds-biggest-cow-aussies-marvel-at-6ft-4in-tall-beast-that-weighs-more-than-a-car\/\" target=\"_blank\">this giant steer<\/a>, I suspected Photoshop. But apparently it really is that much meat on the hoof. (H\/T MtK)\n<li>In the people are good department: A stranger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/3105\/Stranger-Returns-Lost-Wallet-And-Adds-Extra-Cash\" target=\"_blank\">returns a lost wallet<\/a>, with a bonus.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>You&#8217;ve probably heard that a New York state legislator has introduced a bill to allow Authoritah to search your online history before you can be &#8220;allowed&#8221; to buy a gun. You may not have realized <a href=\"http:\/\/zelmanpartisans.com\/?p=5664\" target=\"_blank\">how dangerously deep that rabbit hole goes<\/a>. And have you heard that Kevin Parker, the pol who wants to inflict this, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ammoland.com\/2018\/11\/politician-social-media-history-past-violence-unpaid-taxes\/\" target=\"_blank\">is himself a violent criminal<\/a>, as well as a major financial deadbeat?\n<li>From Shel in comments: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neilstrauss.com\/survival\/evacuation-advice\/\" target=\"_blank\">evacuation advice<\/a> from a survival maven, Kevin Reeve.\n<li>The UK moves into the creepy territory of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2186512-exclusive-uk-police-wants-ai-to-stop-violent-crime-before-it-happens\/\" target=\"_blank\">using AI to detect pre-crime<\/a>. (H\/T MJR)\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/28\/midweek-links-97\/\">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":[4,6,7,12,13,18,19,20,23,27,28,29,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-computers-and-technology","category-cultural-insanity","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-preparedness","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-religion","category-rural-and-small-town-living","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39842","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=39842"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39863,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39842\/revisions\/39863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}