Interesting Links for 27-10-2021

On dealing with corruption on the Chicago police

(tags:police corruption USA Chicago )

European energy crisis proves the lie of 'stable' fossil fuels

(tags:electricity fossils viaDanielDWilliam renewables )

Under GDPR you *must* be allowed to spell your name correctly. Even if your bank doesn't support accents on characters

(tags:spelling dataprotection computers )

Europe's next rule of law problem: Angela Merkel

(tags:Europe Poland Germany Hungary OhForFucksSake fascism )

Making a greenscreen dress - because why have one fabric color when you can have ANY fabric color

(tags:technology clothing video )

Jobs that Marry Together the Most

(tags:jobs marriage )

The 'Dune' Screenplay Was Written in an MS-DOS app

(tags:writing history scifi movies )

Please sign this open letter to the BBC regarding a transphobic article published by Catherine Lowbridge

(tags:LGBT transgender BBC bigotry )

The pandemic in Scotland is stuck in a rut.

Over the last month the number of cases per day has stayed resolutely around 2,500 (about 45/100k), hospital admissions has varied only slightly from 90 per day, and the only good news is that the number of daily deaths has halved from 20 to 10.

It's true that this is a vast improvement from the massive peak that came just before it, but it would be nice if the case count would stop hanging about and actually *drop*.



Incidentally, I have no idea why deaths have halved in the last two weeks. The only thing that's changed there is that the booster shots have come in, and it seems unlikely that they'd be having that much of an effect so soon.

I do wonder where this is going next...

(Graph, as usual, from TravellingTabby)