{"id":40951,"date":"2019-02-09T11:08:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T19:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=40951"},"modified":"2019-02-09T11:24:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T19:24:36","slug":"weekend-links-122","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/09\/weekend-links-122\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I still (however involuntarily) have Comcast &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>That weird SWAT raid in Houston that left a couple and their dog dead, several cops wounded, and no evidence of heroin dealing found &#8212; the one where a police official threatened they were tracking anybody who criticized cops &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/RespectableLaw\/status\/1093727281141501952\" target=\"_blank\">is looking more and more<\/a> like the work of lazy, lying thugs. (H\/T DT)\n<li>Data <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/business\/business-news\/why-data-not-privacy-real-danger-n966621\" target=\"_blank\">is a worse problem<\/a> than the privacy invasions used to collect it.\n<li>The country&#8217;s largest grocery chain already gives customers who foolishly make themselves identifiable a &#8220;health score&#8221; based on their food purchases. Now they aim to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/kroger-health-president-colleen-lindholz-on-grocers-health-strategy-2019-2\" target=\"_blank\">match that score<\/a> to purchases those same customers make in their pharmacies so random pharmacists and clerks can act like doctors. Little Brother becomes a mini nanny state.\n<li>And how our completely made up and untested &#8220;health risk scores&#8221; are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/02\/03\/health-risk-scores-opioid-abuse-1139978\" target=\"_blank\">being sold without our knowledge<\/a> to people who have the authority to deny us needed care.\n<li>Commander Zero gets ready for spring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commanderzero.com\/?p=6133\" target=\"_blank\">by starting seeds<\/a> while the snow piles higher.\n<li>From American Partisan, which is proving to be a damned useful site: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanpartisan.org\/2019\/02\/weapons-for-the-suburban-prepper-by-patriotman\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Weapons for the suburban prepper.&#8221;<\/a>\n<li>Michael Werecat Dean and friends have produced &#8220;Microtonal Freedom,&#8221; and album to <a href=\"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/?p=4633\" target=\"_blank\">benefit Lyn Ulbricht<\/a>, who&#8217;s been fighting hard for her imprisoned son Ross.\n<li>Twenty-two preparedness items <a href=\"https:\/\/www.womensoutdoornews.com\/2019\/02\/rogue-preparedness-prepper-items-dollar-store\/\" target=\"_blank\">from the dollar store<\/a>.\n<li>Guns are nice for personal protection and all. But apparently nothing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/2019\/02\/04\/mississauga-store-owner-fights-off-robber-with-bananas-video-shows.html\" target=\"_blank\">beats a big bunch of bananas<\/a> in an emergency. \ud83d\ude42\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I still (however involuntarily) have Comcast &#8230; That weird SWAT raid in Houston that left a couple and their dog dead, several cops wounded, and no evidence of heroin dealing found &#8212; the one where a police official threatened they were tracking anybody who criticized cops &#8212; is looking more and more like the work of lazy, lying thugs. (H\/T DT) Data is a worse problem than the privacy invasions used to collect it. The country&#8217;s largest grocery chain already gives customers who foolishly make themselves identifiable a &#8220;health score&#8221; based on their food purchases. Now they aim tomatch&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/09\/weekend-links-122\/\">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":[2,7,12,13,19,20,23,27,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-cultural-insanity","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-preparedness","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\/40951","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=40951"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40966,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40951\/revisions\/40966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}