Interesting Links for 24-12-2016

Tory and Labour MPs gang up in bid to strip London Assembly of PR voting system

(tags: labour Conservatives politics voting proportional_representation london OhForFucksSake )

Men: this study suggests it’s a really bad idea to cry in front of your colleagues – Research Digest

(tags: patriarchy emotion men work OhForFucksSake )

Rogue One Missing Trailer Footage Tell Us This About The Reshoots

(tags: StarWars movies )

Merry Christmas, have a new Nine Inch Nails EP

(tags: music )

Israeli settlements: UN Security Council calls for an end

(tags: israel )

Carrie Fisher: Star Wars actress suffers heart attack

(tags: StarWars )

World’s first solar road opens in France: It’s ridiculously expensive

(tags: france solarpower roads )

The First Female Doctor in Britain Spent 56 Years Disguised as a Man

(tags: gender women history doctors military )

Only three passengers on BA flight enjoy champagne and selfies

(tags: airplanes )

A deep-sea fisherman in Russia has been posting his (terrifying nightmarish) finds on Twitter

(tags: fish ocean russia )

Taking apart the ridiculous anti-AI essay that's been making the rounds

(tags: ai Intelligence Technology argument )

It is possible that my brain is functioning at less than full efficiency

Andy (staring at the internet): Apparently bacon works really well when fried.
Jane (completely deadpan): Tell the people.
Andy: continues reading for about five seconds.
Andy: What did I just say?
Jane: Apparently bacon works really well when fried.
Andy: AVOCADO! I MEANT AVOCADO!
Jane: I did think you were running a little bit behind the curve on that one.

This isn't the first time recently that my mouth has become disconnected from what my brain thinks it's saying (or not saying). In York two weeks ago we were wandering past a stuffed toy shop, and Jane asked me if I'd liked a specific purple bear in the window, and I was amazed at how she could have known I was thinking about it, and wanted to know if she'd been looking at my eyeline. And it turned out that I had literally dropped the words "Purple bear" into the middle of a sentence and then carried on talking without noticing that I'd done so.


(Fried avocado recommendation from here)