Interesting Links for 29-07-2022

1. It's Not Just Loot Boxes: Predatory Monetization Is Everywhere in Gaming

(tags:games money gambling )

2. AlphaFold reveals the structure of the protein universe

(tags:biology protein ai )

3. Drought and disease exposure led to Europeans adapting to milk consumption

(tags:milk evolution humans europe )

4. The Fallout From Apple's Bizarre, Dogged Union-Busting Campaign

(tags:apple unions OhForFucksSake )

5. Why Google Sued the Descendants of a Railroad Tycoon and a Civil War General (tiny plots of land in inconvenient places)

(tags:google property law )

6. Typical UK families are £8,800 poorer than their counterparts in comparable countries

(tags:inequality uk OhForFucksSake )

7. Keir Starmer has shown his true colours as a pound-shop Blair, reheating Tory dogma about unions

(tags:unions labour politics uk OhForFucksSake )

8. Putin's occupation of Ukraine falters as bankers, doctors and metal workers boycott key jobs

(tags:russia ukraine )

9. The French Data Protection Commission bans Google Analytics

(tags:france dataprotection europe )

10. UK's only gender identity clinic for children is being replaced by eight of them

(tags:LGBT transgender youth children healthcare )

11. Scientists reanimate dead spiders as robot gripping claws

(tags:spiders death technology cyborg )

12. Edinburgh Council wants to know what you think about the licensing of short term rental accommodation

(tags:Edinburgh housing rental viaDanielDWilliam )

13. A poem about science fiction authors by CS Lewis

(tags:CSLewis poetry scifi )

14. Upscaling and an Important Note About Photo "AI"

(tags:photos photoshop ai )