Interesting Links for 04-12-2018

[andrewducker]

The Brexit 'legal advice' is just the latest way for the deal to die

(tags: UK europe law doom )

Here’s the case for reopening Edinburgh’s lost circle line

(tags: edinburgh transport trains )

Marvel's Shang-Chi Movie in Development

(tags: movies marvel china )

Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th. (And presumably shut down two days later)

(tags: tumblr censorship socialnetworking )

PayPal, Square and big banking's war on the sex industry

This is one of those areas where decentralised electronic currency would be awesome
(tags: sex money censorship )

women with cancer are far more likely to be abandoned by their partners than men in the same position.

(tags: cancer men women OhForFucksSake relationships )

Microsoft is building its own Chrome browser to replace Edge

(tags: Microsoft browser web )

Girls exposed to chemicals in make-up and other products hit puberty earlier

(tags: pthalates puberty girls )

Welcome to Dreamwidth, Tumblr folks! (Where your images are safe)

(tags: dreamwidth tumblr )

Comments

[jack]

"Chrome has turned into the new IE6" is a scary sentence.

[andrewducker]

It's becoming true though. A monoculture is not a good thing.

[marahmarie]

And one I use all the time (I think it's even somewhere in my CSS comments right now, because it is, and oh yeah, just try designing for it and then grrrrr you really see how it is).

[cmcmck]

Apparently TUMBLR refugees are already turning up in numbers on here.

Whodathunkit, eh?

[cyprinella]

Apparently when you can honestly say that you've got no plans to take VC money, and haven't for a decade, and straight out say users can post whatever legal porn they want, it gets you users.

[cmcmck]

I guess Tumblr's use of that iffy term 'adult content' reminded a lot of people (myself included) of what happened over on LJ.

They came to deem anything I posted there to be 'adult content' simply because I dared to exist and be who I was what with being trans an'all.

Was I going to prevent some desperate young person from reading something that might save their lives?

No, as it happens. I couldn't sign their new ToS which is why I made DW my home- already being here helped of course.

[cyprinella]

Yep. As someone on twitter pointed out, the communities that are going to be the first and hardest hit are going to be the LGBTQ and probably by design. :(

[dewline]

Seeing that the new LJ TOS expected me to conduct myself on LJ as if I were living in Russia, and that this was part of it...well, I've got a bunch of friends, trans people akin to yourself. I'm not LGBTQ, but I'm not going to pretend you don't exist and I'm not going to pretend that you're Evil Monsters on the demand of the Putinists and their like when I know damn well that isn't true.

[ninetydegrees]

"Microsoft is building its own Chrome browser to replace Edge"

Oh the irony. I've never seen much difference between IE (not the really old version but the latest ones before it was renamed to Edge) and Chrome. To me Chrome has always been an "easier", "better" IE-clone, leagues below Firefox or other similar browsers.

Re Shang-Chi

[dewline]

I knew there was a Reason beyond the trade collections of Master of Kung-Fu being printed unexpurgated that would justify Marvel renegotiating with the Rohmer Estate over the Fu Manchu characters.