{"id":40784,"date":"2019-01-23T06:09:51","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T14:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=40784"},"modified":"2019-01-23T08:05:47","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T16:05:47","slug":"midweek-links-102","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/23\/midweek-links-102\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>John Wilder explains that <a href=\"https:\/\/wilderwealthywise.com\/the-worst-economic-idea-since-socialism-explained-using-bikini-girl-graphs\/\" target=\"_blank\">weird thing called Modern Monetary Theory<\/a> &#8212; using bikini-girl graphs. (Only John Wilder &#8230;)\n<li>Want to heal the Internet? <a href=\"https:\/\/charleshughsmith.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/want-to-heal-internet-ban-all.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ban all collection of user data<\/a>, says Charles Hugh Smith. (Philosophically I can&#8217;t agree, but I definitely understand the wish.)\n<li>The Internet is <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/23\/the-internet-is-making-us-less-free\" target=\"_blank\">now making us less free<\/a>.\n<li>Social media <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2019\/01\/social-media-can-predict-what-youll-say-even-if-you-dont-participate\/\" target=\"_blank\">knows what you&#8217;re going to say next<\/a> &#8212; even if you don&#8217;t participate in social media.\n<li>The Art of Manliness: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/articles\/9-ways-to-become-more-courageous\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nine ways<\/a> to become more courageous.\n<li>Will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/01\/test-acts-will-challenge-religious-freedom\/\" target=\"_blank\">religious tests<\/a> for public life become the next violation of freedom?\n<li>More hopeful: Spaghetti monsters, the Supreme Court, and <a href=\"https:\/\/notesonliberty.com\/2019\/01\/22\/spaghetti-monsters-and-free-exercise\/\" target=\"_blank\">the free exercise of religion<\/a>.\n<li>Yeah, I&#8217;m sure that new <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.simplejustice.us\/2019\/01\/22\/junk-science-is-dead-long-live-junk-science\/\" target=\"_blank\">DNA &#8220;magic box&#8221;<\/a> will be really good &#8212; for cops and prosecutors; not so much for freedom, science, or innocent folk.\n<li>The &#8220;justice&#8221; system already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/we-are-going-backward-how-justice-system-ignores-science-pursuit-n961256\" target=\"_blank\">has a dangerous dependence<\/a> on pseudoscience to gain convictions.\n<li>Contact sports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/espn\/story\/_\/id\/25776964\/insurance-market-football-evaporating-causing-major-threat-nfl-pop-warner-colleges-espn\" target=\"_blank\">are suddenly having trouble<\/a> getting insurance, threatening their future. (H\/T MJR)\n<li>Six <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_26144_6-amazing-facts-thatll-change-way-you-look-at-history.html\" target=\"_blank\">oddball aspects of history<\/a>.\n<li>Have a living will and <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2019\/01\/21\/doctors-ignore-living-will-prolong-suffering\/\" target=\"_blank\">place it in the hands<\/a> of somebody who will fight for it (and for you).\n<li>Humorist and Pulitzer Prize winner Russell Baker, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/22\/business\/media\/russell-baker-dead-pulitzer.html\" target=\"_blank\">RIP<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>John Wilder explains that <a href=\"https:\/\/wilderwealthywise.com\/the-worst-economic-idea-since-socialism-explained-using-bikini-girl-graphs\/\" target=\"_blank\">weird thing called Modern Monetary Theory<\/a> &#8212; using bikini-girl graphs. (Only John Wilder &#8230;)\n<li>Want to heal the Internet? <a href=\"https:\/\/charleshughsmith.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/want-to-heal-internet-ban-all.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ban all collection of user data<\/a>, says Charles Hugh Smith. (Philosophically I can&#8217;t agree, but I definitely understand the wish.)\n<li>The Internet is <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/23\/the-internet-is-making-us-less-free\" target=\"_blank\">now making us less free<\/a>.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/23\/midweek-links-102\/\">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":[6,7,13,18,19,20,23,28,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-cultural-insanity","category-health-and-science","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-religion","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40784","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=40784"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40805,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40784\/revisions\/40805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}