Interesting Links for 30-05-2019
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andrewducker- Retirement should be a right. But it's in danger of becoming a privilege for the rich
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- Advertising as a major source of human dissatisfaction
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- What incels really are
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- In 1996 Terry Pratchett interviewed Bill Gates and accurately predicted how the internet would propagate and legitimise fake news. Gates didn't believe him.…
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- Chrome is about to lose a bunch of its ad blocking capability
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- Twitter Has Started Researching Whether White Supremacists Belong on Twitter
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- Why Britain should be building more nuclear plants
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- You should pretend to be a whale. It's good for your brain.
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- People Who Self-Harm May Be Compensating For Their Difficulty Interpreting Bodily Signals of Emotion
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- The USA is apparently now beyond satire
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- FactCheck: Labour rulebook doesn't mention IHRA antisemitism definition or examples
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- Further extensions to Rock Paper Scissors
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- Post Mortem: What the European elections tell us about a second referendum
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Date: 2019-05-30 01:24 pm (UTC)We're there.
3. Not interested in living the Gor novels life, thanks. Reality is entertaining enough. Or the "rage-filled incel" life.
4. Pratchett would have preferred to be wrong on this one in particular, I suspect.
6. Started researching? Those researchers are right about Twitter possibily being fatally late in getting to that particular table re: plagues of interNazis.
10. A deeply chilling thought about the USA being beyond the reach of satire. Energy Undersecretary Mark Menezes has become symptomatic.
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