Interesting Links for 14-12-2017

[andrewducker]

Notifications from the Dead

(tags: death birthday facebook )

MPs are warned they could be sued if they make defamatory comments about whips’ activities

(tags: politics uk Conservatives )

Muslim nations urge recognition of East Jerusalem as Palestinian capital

(tags: usa islam middle_east palestine israel )

Fun and games with the Internet of Things

(tags: pranks internet Technology )

Salma Hayek: Harvey Weinstein Is My Monster Too

(tags: movies abuse OhForFucksSake )

Patreon: We messed up. We’re sorry, and we’re not rolling out the fees change. - The Patreon Blog

(tags: CrowdFunding GoodNews )

Tory Brexit rebels inflict major defeat on Theresa May

(tags: politics Europe UK GoodNews )

Anti-stress compound reduces obesity and diabetes

(tags: obesity stress diabetes )

A way to infuse plants with the luminescence of fireflies

(tags: light plants )

In a Shot Across the Bow of Nautilus, Writers Demand Payment

(tags: money journalism science )

Surgeon pleads guilty to burning initials into patients’ organs

(tags: assault doctors OhForFucksSake organs )

Irish Eighth Amendment committee agrees to recommend abortion law changes

(tags: Ireland abortion GoodNews )

This is the style guide for Nazi website The Daily Stormer

(tags: Nazi web writing viaCipherGoth )

David Davis, in 2002, tells MPs why referendums can go badly wrong.

(tags: politics Conservatives )

A new solution to the question of why human children are born so early

(tags: babies birth )

Correlation found between antibody in mothers and likelihood of son being gay

(tags: lgbt immune_system mother attraction )

Comments

[dewline]

2. Well, that's an unusual Parliamentary threat to make. But Brexit seems to have addled the situation a great deal more than we already knew to expect, doesn't it?

8. "If FKBP51 is blocked, diabetes will not develop, even if too many calories are consumed or the body is still stressed. Less FKBP51 in the muscle tissue means reduced glucose intolerance and thus maintenance of normal metabolism."

I wonder what the alternative consequence of this will be.

13. Theodore Beale continues to vex the human race, I see, by being an accomplice to hate-lit.

Noting that when I look at the Huffington Post article on the subject, all image files showing excerpts from the style guide in question are being blocked. Whether that's due to respecting the section of Canada's Criminal Code section 318 on Hate Propaganda/Advocating Genocide or some other issue (like my using the "Stop Normalizing 'Alt-Right'" browser extension)?

Not complaining, though. The people who operate and support that other website get no love from me at all.

[calimac]

Now that you've read Salma Hayek, the next article of that kind you should read is Dahlia Lithwick on Alex Kozinski.

Re Brexit: I saw a Grauniad piece on the government's inept loss of a vote on a Brexit bill amendment. But I couldn't find anything explaining what the amendment itself says; as usual, the assumption is you already know that. Help?

[andrewducker]

Took me a while, but I found this:
https://publiclawforeveryone.com/2017/12/14/does-the-government-defeat-on-clause-9-of-the-eu-withdrawal-bill-mean-parliament-has-taken-back-control/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

[calimac]

OK, that's clear enough. Thank you.

[andrewducker]

And thanks for the piece on the judge. Horrifying stuff.