{"id":7599,"date":"2021-05-21T18:07:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T18:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/?p=7599"},"modified":"2025-11-17T23:14:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T23:14:31","slug":"weekly-links-05-21-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/weekly-links-05-21-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Links, 05\/21\/2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul><li>Mirrorworld begins. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Google\/status\/1394727290551083009?s=20\" target=\"_blank\">Imagine a magic window, and through that window you see another person, life-size and in three dimensions.<\/a><\/li><li>Yes, lockdowns worked, a great analysis by @Noahpinion &#8220;\u2026the economy is made up of human beings, and valuing those human beings is pretty much the best thing you can do for your economy.&#8221; <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noahpinion.blog\/p\/yes-lockdowns-were-good\" target=\"_blank\">Yes, lockdowns were good<\/a><\/li><li>Hey @SamoBurja what if we used Google translate to do the first pass translation of the 90% untranslated Sumerian cuneiform tablets? Then human translate the most interesting. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.palladiummag.com\/2021\/05\/17\/why-civilization-is-older-than-we-thought\/\" target=\"_blank\">Why Civilization Is Older Than We Thought<\/a><\/li><li>The United States should vaccinate the world (opt in) and I&#8217;m happy to pay more taxes to do so, but it is the least expensive path forward in the long term. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/05\/14\/opinion\/biden-covid-vaccines-world-india.html?action=click&amp;module=RelatedLinks&amp;pgtype=Article\" target=\"_blank\">America Is Failing Its Moral Test on Vaccines<\/a><\/li><li>Of course aliens are here. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/05\/13\/opinion\/ufos-aliens-space.html?action=click&amp;module=Opinion&amp;pgtype=Homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Even if You Think Discussing Aliens Is Ridiculous, Just Hear Me Out<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mirrorworld begins. Imagine a magic window, and through that window you see another person, life-size and in three dimensions. Yes, lockdowns worked, a great analysis by @Noahpinion &#8220;\u2026the economy is made up of human beings, and valuing those human beings &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/weekly-links-05-21-2021\/\">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\/7599"}],"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=7599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7600,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7599\/revisions\/7600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}