Interesting Links for 24-05-2019

[andrewducker]

Turning a single photo (or a piece of art) into an animated face. Incredibly impressive - watch to the Mona Lisa!

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Your regular reminder that Labour are pro-Brexit

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European elections: EU citizens report being barred from polling stations

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Terminator: Dark Fate - Official Teaser Trailer (I'm trying not to be excited. Not very successfully)

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'Swarms' of wolf-dog hybrids sweeping Europe

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"What happened when I met my Islamophobic troll"

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Ursula Le Guin on Abortion

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SpaceX Launches sixty Starlink satellites on thrice-flown rocket, sticks landing

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When we say "Everest is crowded," this is what we mean

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NASA officially orders its first segment of a lunar space station

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Ultra-rare discovery reveals how ancient Celtic warriors fought - 2,400 years ago

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Different voting systems across the EU (for the European elections)

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Mathematicians revive abandoned approach to the Riemann Hypothesis

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European elections: Far-right populists flop in the Netherlands as centre-left makes surprise gains

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Renault's new target market : people who loved the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon

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Theresa May has quit: these were her five greatest moments of failure

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The Last Known Slave Ship Has Been Found

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Video filmed at four trillion frames per second captures light in a flash

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"Once-In-A-Hundred Year" Sightings of Bamboo Blossoms Reported In Japan

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Stroke deaths halved in England over ten years

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Comments

[dewline]

2. So, if the leadership of the Tories and Labour are both pro-Brexit - in spite of their membership, in the latter's case, it seems! - who's left standing for Remain?

4. I saw that trailer yesterday. It looks...apropos. Confusing, but apropos.

8. Seems like good progress on making sure there's a solid comms infrastructure for the planet.

10. I know there's people arguing to leave the Moon to the private sector, David Brin among them (and in his case, I suspect I've oversimplified his position), but I think we need some kind of governments-managed permanent infrastructure to manage those things.

13. Good.

15. That was both a surprise and not a surprise. Sharks have been circling May for a couple of years.

[andrewducker]

2) Lib Dems, Greens, Plaid Cymru, SNP.

[ninetydegrees]

#1 Hoping it can be helpful although I thought the result didn't look much like the real person.

Lots of great stuff in this post! Thanks!

[andrewducker]

My absolute pleasure!

[calimac]

Why am I still not seeing any election results from the UK in online news sources? Wasn't the election yesterday? Are the results being embargoed until they're all in, or something? They don't do that with domestic elections.

[andrewducker]

Yup. As far as the EU is concerned it's all one election.

[calimac]

OK. Then I suppose that Netherlands article in your list (which 404s when I click on it) is an exit poll or campaign-observation article of some sort, like the one in the Guardian about how the Brexit Party is carrying NW England.

Interesting the EU should consider it one election when the US treats presidential elections as 51 individual state elections, each result posted separately as soon as it's available.

[errolwi]

It's the early adopter problem, innit. The Electoral College was a virtual practical necessity to solve the problem when the US constitution was written. Not so when others were.

[calimac]

Nothing to do with the electoral college. What I said is equally applicable to congressional elections, which I should have cited instead because that's a lot more equivalent to European Parliament elections.

It's purely a matter of how the entity views the rights and responsibilities of federalism. The US has a strong tendency to gather everything into the federal government's hands, but we still leave the administration of elections purely in the state governments' hands, and that includes the releasing of results. When polls close in a state, that's it, and results are released as soon as they're available. That polls are still open in some other states further west, where turnout might be affected by knowing the other states' results, is just tough luck.

[naath]

UK domestic elections embargo the exit polling, and the BBC doesn't report on the politics at stake all day. Dogs At Polling Stations is where it is at. And we're all 1 time zone (takes bloody hours to get a result most places though because we count by hand)