{"id":26010,"date":"2021-05-21T12:16:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T19:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=26010"},"modified":"2021-05-21T12:18:25","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T19:18:25","slug":"open-thread-and-link-farm-hico-ujill-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=26010","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread and Link Farm, Hico Ujill Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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  1. New Paper: Why \u201cIntellectual Property\u201d is a Misnomer – Niskanen Center<\/a>
    \nLong and (to me, anyway, but I assume I’m not the only one) interesting read.<\/li>\n
  2. Texas Museum Puts Donald Trump Wax Statue in Storage Because People Kept Punching It<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. I did a “I’ll post one comic I love for every like this tweet gets” meme thing. The tweet ended up getting 171 likes, but I decided it would be okay for me to quit after listing just 100 comics I love. So here’s the list, <\/a>if you’re curious. It touches on many\u00a0different genres.<\/li>\n
  4. Designer Creates Hilarious Travel Posters for America\u2019s National Parks Based on Their 1-Star Reviews<\/a>
    \nI’m not sure I’d say “hilarious,” but they’re amusing and also very pretty.<\/li>\n
  5. What Happens When Republicans Simply Refuse to Certify Democratic Wins? | Washington Monthly<\/a>
    \nEssentially, it’ll come down to what judges say. And if the judges are Trump appointed, we could be screwed.<\/li>\n
  6. Man Builds a Working Electric Guitar from His Deceased Uncle’s Skeleton<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. The War on Critical Race Theory | Boston Review<\/a>
    \n“CRT functions for the right today primarily as an empty signifier for any talk of race and racism at all, a catch-all specter lumping together \u201cmulticulturalism,\u201d \u201cwokeism,\u201d \u201canti-racism,\u201d and \u201cidentity politics\u201d\u2014or indeed any suggestion that racial inequities in the United States are anything but fair outcomes…”<\/li>\n
  8. The Tapeworm That Helps Ants Live Absurdly Long Lives – The Atlantic
    \n<\/a>A parasite makes ordinary worker ants live years longer. The infected ants are fed and coddled and carried around by the non-infected ants and don’t have to do any work themselves.<\/li>\n
  9. The strange journey of \u2018cancel,\u2019 from a Black-culture punchline to a White-grievance watchword – The Washington Post<\/a>
    \nIt’s more about the origins of the term – there’s not much about how it became a right-wing watchword. But what there is interesting.<\/li>\n
  10. As a Rabbi Raised in South Africa, I Can\u2019t Ignore Israel Is an Apartheid State<\/a><\/li>\n
  11. Reflections on Growing Up Fat and Chinese-American \u2014 naafa<\/a><\/li>\n
  12. Promoting Public Health in the Context of the \u201cObesity Epidemic\u201d: False Starts and Promising New Directions<\/a>
    \nA journal article provides an overview. It’s from 2015, but nothing’s changed since then. (I mean, regarding the issues the article discusses.)<\/li>\n
  13. the demonisation of fatness \u2013 earth to venus<\/a>
    \nA broad overview of a lot of fat acceptance issues, in the form of a blog post.<\/li>\n
  14. Group that can\u2019t find systemic voter fraud eager to help combat systemic voter fraud – The Washington Post<\/a>
    \nA Heritage Foundation database often cited to show that voter fraud is a major problem… shows that voter fraud is an insignificant problem. The database contains just one case from the 2020 election, for example.<\/li>\n
  15. Addressing The Claims In JK Rowling\u2019s Justification For Transphobia | by Katy Montgomerie | Medium<\/a>
    \nA detailed response to JKR’s famous anti-trans letter from last year.<\/li>\n
  16. Voter suppression: A short history of the long conservative assault on Black voting power – CNNPolitics<\/a><\/li>\n
  17. Open Letter on the History, Impact, and Future of the Filibuster | by Scholars for Reform | May, 2021 | Medium<\/a>
    \n“…the Framers explicitly rejected a supermajority requirement for common legislation…. Today, the Framers\u2019 vision of the function of the Senate has largely been inverted.”<\/li>\n
  18. Photos by Alice Donovan Rouse<\/a> and Lindsey Ross with Tim Mossholder<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    New Paper: Why \u201cIntellectual Property\u201d is a Misnomer – Niskanen Center Long and (to me, anyway, but I assume I’m not the only one) interesting read. Texas Museum Puts Donald Trump Wax Statue in Storage Because People Kept Punching It … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-farms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26010"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26070,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26010\/revisions\/26070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}