Interesting Links for 22-02-2018

Amazon Studios to Adapt Consider Phlebas, First Novel of the Culture Series, for Television

I mostly want it to be successful so they make Player of Games.
(tags: Amazon TheCulture tv IainBanks scifi )

Hundreds Of Homeless Slaves Recruited On UK Streets (Government completely incompetent)

(tags: slavery UK homelessness OhForFucksSake )

Scottish Greens won't enter budget negotiations next year unless council tax reform is underway

(tags: tax Scotland GreenParty )

Disneyland withholds bonuses for hotel workers until they agree to contract offer

(tags: Disney pay money )

I am _fascinated_ by how badly KFC have cocked up their deliveries

(tags: kfc food transport epicfail )

Japanese 'Prince' Switched at Birth Was Raised a Pauper

(tags: epicfail identity Japan children )

Wrong haircut? No education for you!

(tags: school hair UK OhForFucksSake )

Ancient Britons 'replaced' by newcomers, 4,500 years ago

(tags: prehistory uk europe )

Whovian Feminism — A #MeToo Moment Unfolds At Gallifrey One

(tags: drwho women abuse acting )

Disney loses bid to stop Redbox from selling its digital download codes

I wonder if this would also apply to reselling music CDs after Amazon has applied the downloads to your account
(tags: copyright Disney movies )

The environmentalists using gene editing to wipe out invasive species

(tags: environment genetics )

Major study finds that anti-depressants work. Which is good, because up until now we've just been plugging random chemicals into people's brains without any testing.

(tags: antidepressants research )

TV viewing is dropping, and advertising along with it

(tags: advertising tv )

Europe forces UK to stop poisoning its populace

(tags: pollution UK Europe )

Boston Dynamics is teaching its robot dog to fight back against humans

(tags: robots war )

Why Is the Manhattan DA Looking at Newsweek’s Ties to a Christian University? (The Editor's Notes are _astonishing_)

(tags: media journalism OhForFucksSake viaSwampers )