{"id":7402,"date":"2023-01-06T05:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/?p=7402"},"modified":"2025-11-17T23:12:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T23:12:51","slug":"weekly-links-01-06-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/weekly-links-01-06-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Links, 01\/06\/2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul><li>I spent a week walking in rural Japan and most towns I passed through were shockingly depopulated. Japan is paying families with kids 1 million yen ($7,600) per child to move out of Tokyo. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/56d754c7-729d-46c3-8410-1f71c28d8935\" target=\"_blank\">Japan to offer families \u00a51mn per child to leave Tokyo<\/a><\/li><li>This is a heretical argument: the case against putting any humans on Mars. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/idlewords.com\/2023\/1\/why_not_mars.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Why Not Mars<\/a><\/li><li>EVs are fantastic! There are a lot of other electric cars besides Teslas. Wired has a good roundup of 17 new EVs being introduced in 2023. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-17-best-evs-coming-in-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\">The 17 Best EVs Coming in 2023<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a week walking in rural Japan and most towns I passed through were shockingly depopulated. Japan is paying families with kids 1 million yen ($7,600) per child to move out of Tokyo. Japan to offer families \u00a51mn per &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/weekly-links-01-06-2023\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1476],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7402"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7626,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7402\/revisions\/7626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}