{"id":7563,"date":"2016-03-24T09:45:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T20:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=7563"},"modified":"2016-03-23T22:27:22","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T09:27:22","slug":"mind-trick-linky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=7563","title":{"rendered":"Mind Trick Linky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Hamill does some smooth Jedi moves on over-eager Star Wars fans:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"626\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f__3gE5HJJY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>My friend Vivian has released her new EP, &#8220;In Between Times&#8221;. <a href=\"http:\/\/viviangarcia.bandcamp.com\/\">Listen on Bandcamp<\/a>, and drop a few bucks if you like what you hear.<\/p>\n<p>New Yorker thinkpiece about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2016\/03\/21\/the-internet-of-us-and-the-end-of-facts\">how we no longer use facts to justify our beliefs<\/a>, which, okay, but I&#8217;m pretty sure we never did. <\/p>\n<p>And this short vid summarising psychologist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/video\/index\/474588\/why-empathy-is-a-bad-thing\/\">Paul Bloom&#8217;s take on why empathy is a bad thing<\/a> is infuriating in its bland dumbness. &#8220;We go to war because we are told people are suffering and we need to save them, then it turns out we harm loads more people, THANKS EMPATHY&#8221;. Linking to see if I&#8217;m motivated enough to read deeper and figure out if this guy has a point or not. But I suspect not.<\/p>\n<p>Both those via the <a href=\"http:\/\/nextdraft.com\/\">Nextdraft newsletter<\/a> of interesting things, well worth the subscription.<\/p>\n<p>Actually these might have come from there too &#8211; Vanity Fair&#8217;s writeup of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/culture\/2016\/03\/biggest-jewel-heist-in-british-history\">the senior citizens behind the biggest jewel heist in British history<\/a>. (There _must_ be a film of this in production already.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/sports\/sports_nut\/2016\/03\/the_air_ball_chant_is_the_greatest_taunt_in_sports_who_invented_it.html\">The origin of the Airball chant<\/a>, basketball&#8217;s most humiliating crowd response.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dangerousminds.net\/comments\/edward_gorey_vs_the_war_of_the_worlds_martians\">Edward Gorey&#8217;s War of the Worlds illustrations.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The AV Club has an overview of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/article\/dailymotion-has-vast-archive-unsold-and-unaired-tv-234081\">vast store of unaired TV pilots at DailyMotion<\/a>, including Young MacGyver and Buffy: The Animated Series (which I&#8217;d never seen before).<\/p>\n<p>Via Billy: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/jun\/03\/the-man-who-was-caged-in-a-zoo\">the story of when, in 1906, a young African man was exhibited with the apes in a zoo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, what do you get when you cross legendary bad movie The Room with legendary good musical Hamilton?<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"626\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m50JP_T-sjs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Hamill does some smooth Jedi moves on over-eager Star Wars fans: My friend Vivian has released her new EP, &#8220;In Between Times&#8221;. Listen on Bandcamp, and drop a few bucks if you like what you hear. New Yorker thinkpiece about how we no longer use facts to justify our beliefs, which, okay, but I&#8217;m &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=7563\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mind Trick Linky<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-7563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friday-linky","tag-fridaylinky"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-1XZ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7563"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7568,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7563\/revisions\/7568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}