Interesting Links for 20-06-2018
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andrewducker- Ur-Fascism (by Umberto Eco)
- (tags: fascism history society italy )
- Why We Should Teach Music History Backwards
- (tags: music history )
- Neurotic folk spend more time doing chores (and other effects of personality on your daily life)
- (tags: personality life work )
- Mike Godwin has suspended Godwin's Law
- (tags: Nazis internet argument )
- The US Isn't Just Separating Children From Their Parents. It Also Has No Plan To Reunite Them.
- (tags: usa oh children immigration )
- Open letter to the young Taliban
- (tags: Afghanistan society )
- The Ur-Fantasy novels from different decades
- (tags: Fantasy satire history writing )
- Debunking myths about the USA removing children from their families at the border
- (tags: usa OhForFucksSake immigration )
- Trump Administration Rejects Study Showing Positive Impact of Refugees
- (tags: usa immigration republicans OhForFucksSake )
- Creating lines of deplorability to ratchet the world towards being a better place
- (tags: morals society )
- Showing in great detail that nobody knew what Brexit would lead to. And anyone claiming that people knew exactly what they are voting for are liars
- (tags: UK Europe voting referendum )
- The US joins Iran, North Korea and Eritrea as the only countries that refuse to participate in the UN Human Rights Council
- (tags: usa rights OhForFucksSake )
- Using a drone with a flamethrower to clear debris from power lines
- (tags: drone fire power )
- Obama was...not good on immigration internment camps
- Not as bad as the current lot, but Democrat moral failure makes it easier for Republican evil
(tags: immigration children barackobama democrats OhForFucksSake ) - The Machine Fired Me
- (tags: automation HumanResources OhForFucksSake )
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Date: 2018-06-20 12:59 pm (UTC)This is one of those moments where I suspect you of having had fun writing the tags :-)
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Date: 2018-06-23 02:46 pm (UTC)In this case it was second best, after watching a drone set fire to things.
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Date: 2018-06-20 01:17 pm (UTC)ROFL!
"Using a drone with a flamethrower to clear debris from power lines"
OK, seriously the bad timeline is not content yet, now it's just trolling us
"Obama was...not good on immigration internment camps"
:( Yeah, it's hard for me to see things in shades of grey. It makes sense that the status quo was... rather bad, but Trump was still able to massively worsen it :(
"The Machine Fired Me"
Ouch. Yeah, I'm not surprised this sort of thing happens all the time, but I'm surprised there's no-one who can sort it out and say, "yes, i'm in charge, over-ride the system and re-activate the accounts". I guess sometimes, you can but no-one does, and sometimes, there's a lot of indemnity tied up in following process and no-one dares deviate from it, and no-one wrote in sensible exceptions for when people could temporarily work round policy.
In a way, it's not *computers*, it's *systems*, including purely human-run ones, but computers enable much more complicated and opaque systems. Kafka was way ahead of his time :(
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Date: 2018-06-23 02:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-06-20 02:44 pm (UTC)Ur-Fantasy: The 1950s description sounds more 1960s, while the 1960s one sounds more 1970s.
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Date: 2018-06-20 04:36 pm (UTC)Yeah, we dropped the ball on that one big time.
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Date: 2018-06-21 06:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-06-23 02:43 pm (UTC)