Missing Links (misc)

Buncha links went missing. I think this covers everything!

1. How are the British like the Japanese?

(tags:UK Japan society )

2. Edinburgh council rules out pneumatic underground bins

(tags:Edinburgh waste technology )

3. 'All the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order': The riddle of the 'Pulborough Area' torc from Sussex. (And how much effort it takes to find a fraud)

(tags:history archeology fraud )

4. Meta is now allowing lies about the 2020 election in political ads

(tags:facebook advertising fraud politics usa OhForFucksSake )

5. Transforming the future of music creation with AI

(tags:music ai )

6. Elephants might give each other names

(tags:elephants names )

7. for babies born before 34 weeks, delaying the clamping of the cord for a minimum of 60 seconds after birth reduces death by nearly a third

(tags:babies death )

8. Young Animator of the Year UK - an impressive piece for anyone, but for a 16 year old...

(tags:animation children impressive video )

9. Are you a victim of Executive Function Theft

(tags:behaviour work )

10. 'Nimona' breaks LGBT barriers and survives to tell the tale

(tags:LGBT movies animation Disney )

11. Apple announces RCS support for iMessage

(tags:Apple sms communication )

12. Google confirms they will disable uBlock Origin in Chrome in 2024

(tags:adblock Google Chrome web OhForFucksSake )

13. IBM suspends ads on X after they appeared next to Nazi posts

(tags:Twitter Nazis ibm advertising )

14. Nihilist Penguin (Werner Herzog)

(tags:penguin video )

15. Incredible video of Starling murmuration

(tags:video birds )

16. World-first gene therapy that aims to cure sickle-cell disease

(tags:genetics disease GoodNews )

17. Royal Mail owner says 'reform is urgent' after group slumps to a £319m loss

(tags:royalmail uk )

18. People living in Europe are about to get a much better Windows 11

(tags:europe windows regulation )

19. Archaeologists discover previously unknown ancient language (3,000 years old, transliterated into Hittite)

(tags:language archeology )

20. From toy to tool: DALL-E 3 is a wake-up call for visual artists—and the rest of us

(tags:Technology ai art )

21. 'I was deported for wearing tinted moisturiser': Qatar's new LGBT crackdown

(tags:qatar lgbt OhForFucksSake )

22. Why are some jobs so "greedy"?

(tags:jobs )

23. South Korea announces plans to ban consumption of dog meat

(tags:dogs korea food )

instagram cross-post

Nice dawn this morning when I dragged the kids out to get the bus to nursery/school
Original is here on instagram.

Interesting Links for 21-11-2023

1. The problems the NHS is facing were all predicted years ago, but the UK doesn't do long term planning

(tags:UK NHS doom )

2. 200 mobsters convicted in mass trial of Italy's 'Ndrangheta mafia

(tags:Italy mafia law GoodNews )

3. New rule, if you don't understand exponential growth then you're not allowed to run a country

(tags:mathematics politics Pandemic )

4. How accurate is the new Napoleon movie?

(tags:movies funny history )

5. A City on Mars: Reality kills space settlement dreams

(tags:space reality )

The Conservatives are at war with themselves again

The Conservative Party is once again at war with itself.

This time, the "We Hate Foreigners*" part of the party, are saying that the government needs to go ahead with dumping people in Rwanda, even if it means breaking our treaty obligations. And the "Trading with our partners for maximum profit" wing would rather like it if we didn't break all of our treaty obligations and blow up our relationship with our trading partners.

And it seems ever more obvious that the UK would be better served by having at least 6 major national parties, so that people who would like "A lot of profit please, without setting up concentration camps" had someone to vote for**, and the more sensible parties could try and make things work between them. But that would mean reforming the system, and the chances of any of the major parties backing that seems terribly distant.


* Just the poor ones, of course.
** Although Labour are currently capturing that ground quite nicely