Interesting Links for 03-08-2018

[andrewducker]

Brexit is not the first time a people have turned to self destruction to try and turn back time.

(tags: Africa history doom )

Women with polycystic ovary syndrome more likely to have a child with autism (2.3% vs 1.7%)

(tags: pcos testosterone autism )

People really are very judgemental about how other people show affection

(tags: society love OhForFucksSake children )

How to explain infinity to kids

(tags: infinity numbers children mathematics )

This is the most sense I've seen about Labour and the anti-Semitism saga

(tags: Labour Jews UK politics )

Netanyahu has tried to shift the blame for the holocaust from the nazis onto the palestinians.

(tags: Israel holocaust OhForFucksSake )

Buried UK government report finds fracking increases air pollution and lowers home values

(tags: pollution uk Conservatives )

A milestone is reached with the first zero-cost tracker funds - How low can you go?

(tags: investment wtf )

Timid, half-hearted and apologetic immigration policy is not the way to tackle prejudice

(tags: immigration libdem OhForFucksSake )

Research Shows Media Coverage Drives Public Support for UKIP

(tags: UKIP media uk )

How are negotiations going on the withdrawal agreement?

Still no solution for Ireland
(tags: UK Europe trade )

Indecisive penguin is indecisive

(tags: penguins video funny decisions )

Pocket City - Sim City, but on your phone. I've lost several hours to this already

(tags: simcity phone viaSwampers )

Driverless cars insurance laws receive Royal Assent

(tags: uk law automation driving )

Facebook API changes mean you can no longer cross-post from Twitter (or any other service)

(tags: facebook twitter )

Heatwave forces 3 Nordic nuclear reactors to be curbed, 1 to close, more expected, and EDF may shut 4 French reactors

(tags: nuclearpower temperature weather doom )

Comments

[jack]

Netanyahu has tried to shift the blame for the holocaust from the nazis onto the palestinians.

Yeah. I'd just been about to write an angry "don't accuse Jewish people of anti-semitism tweet" and then I saw the prime minister of Israel denying the holocaust and decided not to get into that argument :(

Although I note, the links I saw were people commenting, now, about something he said in 2015. From what I hear from people who know anything about Israeli politics, he really is that awful (I mean, unsurprisingly, given how awful Israel's government is in several ways).

But I'm worried people are dragging out examples of just HOW bad it was because they don't want to have to paint their (extremely necessary and accurate) condemnations of Israeli policy with a sufficiently narrow brush to avoid fanning antisemitism elsewhere. And I don't really know how to tell.

[dewline]

Israeli politics really is a mess, although no more or less so than my own country. Frankly, I'm mildly surprised that Likud isn't a member of the International Democrat Union. They seem to conduct themselves along similar lines to the political parties whose reputations and antics I know much better. Canadian and UK Conservatives, US Republicans, Australian Liberals...but maybe we draw the line at Fidesz?

Facebook API changes mean you can no longer cross-post from Twitter (or any other service)

[jack]

Agh! I hadn't been paying enough attention. I always crossposted twitter/facebook, I hadn't even noticed it stopped working till I saw this.

I guess this is supposedly an anti-bot measure, although I assume it's actually driven by a desire to try and become more walled-garden-y.

I hope someone figures out a way round it (even just, having a browser plugin which posts as if a person, despite the crappiness of that); I know a lot of people only see my life on fb, but I don't want to go fb-only. I'd be quite happy to post from some custom interface (happier, even, if it had useful options like x-posting locked updates to two places).

Re: Facebook API changes mean you can no longer cross-post from Twitter (or any other service)

[andrewducker]

Yeah. I'm used to my posts here automatically going there, and now they won't.

Re: Facebook API changes mean you can no longer cross-post from Twitter (or any other service)

[jack]

I don't know if facebook has a way of automatically posting from a feed elsewhere -- I remember every time I try to configure something like this, some services have "post to this other service", some services have "repost this feed here", some both, some neither, and I end up with a long rube-goldberg chain to get anything to work. That'd be more in line with facebook's walled garden model, but presumably if it existed someone would have mentioned it.

Re: Facebook API changes mean you can no longer cross-post from Twitter (or any other service)

[andrewducker]

Yeah. If it existed I'd hope someone would have mentioned.

Re: Facebook API changes mean you can no longer cross-post from Twitter (or any other service)

[cahwyguy]

This doesn't seem to effect me, but I've always used a button I have that just brings the link over, I then have to write some introductory text and then post myself. So I think what I do (addtoany) is a different beast that still works.

Re: Facebook API changes mean you can no longer cross-post from Twitter (or any other service)

[andrewducker]

Yeah, you can manually crosspost things if you want.

Re: Facebook API changes mean you can no longer cross-post from Twitter (or any other service)

[dewline]

That's going to be a problem for a lot of people, good and bad.

Re: Facebook API changes mean you can no longer cross-post from Twitter (or any other service)

[lsanderson]

Help! Help! Help! You mean I can't spam my Facebook feed no more? Oh, wait, I cut that off a bit ago.

[liv]

I think Owen Jones is right as far as he goes, but he's mainly saying that it's possible for both unfair smears against Corbyn and actual anti-semitism within the Labour party to exist. I am not sure he has much insight beyond that.

For me the most sensible commentary I've seen is from Jonathan Freedland, who isn't always perfect, but I think he's right in this case: the core problem in Labour-Jewish relations is that Labour isn't listening to the Jewish community:

This is not really about clauses and paragraphs. If there had been goodwill and trust, Labour could have sat down with the Jewish community [...] Instead it drew up its code of conduct itself, without consulting the organised Jewish community at all.

[cmcmck]

As I've said here and on my own blog, being a trans woman of Jewish and Romani descent means I can no longer trust the party of which I was once a member( from the age of sixteen, until Iraq and the Kelly Affair) and as a left socialist of the non Trot persuasion, I am left with nowhere to go.

Depressing doesn't even begin to describe it! :o(

[gingicat]

I have myself wondered if PCOS, like constipation, is part of the constellation of autism *symptoms*.

[andrewducker]

I suspect there's a bunch of different things that are linked together in a variety of ways.

[emperorzombie]

I note that they didn't control for socio-economic status, which might be important - more affluent areas tend to have more autism diagnoses, and I wonder if that correlation also exists for PCOS diagnosis. I could easily see a scenario where women who are more persistent at getting their GP to test and diagnose PCOS are also more persistent at getting a diagnosis for their child.