[BLOG] Some Sunday links

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• Keiran Healy suggests much of Apple's opposition to the FBI's demand it decrypt a terrorist's phone has to do with its need to establish itself as a reliable and trustworthy source of hardware.


• Joe. My. God. notes that WWE wrestler Dave Bautista takes Manny Pacquiao's homophobia poorly.


• Language Hat links to this 2008 map showing lexical différences between Europe's languages.


• Language Log notes the politicized position of minority languages in China.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money is unimpressed? with Amitai Etzioni's call for genocide in Lebanon.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer, looking to Ecuador, notes that international arbitration awards do matter.


• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw is unimpressed by Australia's reaction to the Syrian refugee crisis.


• Peter Rukavina shares a photo of Charlottetown transit's new maps.


• Transit Toronto notes the delivery of the TTC's 16th streetcar.


• Window on Eurasia notes the weakness of the Russian opposition, particularly in relation to Chechnya's Kadyrov.