Interesting Links for 19-06-2019

[andrewducker]

The CIA Spied on People Through Their Samsung Smart TVs

(tags:tv spying surveillance cia )

Nigel Farage milkshake attacker pleads guilty to assault and criminal damage

(tags:assault uk politics fascism )

Why women leave academia and why universities should be worried

(tags:women phd academia )

No, most Labour voters are not working class Leavers

(tags:labour europe )

Butterless puff pastry is bad enough. But other food hacks can be fatal

(tags:foo money death )

Two centuries of rapid global population growth will come to an end

(tags:demographics growth earth humans )

Why Is Europe's Far Right Targeting Gender Studies?

(tags:Europe society gender fascism )

ITV bans all comedies written solely by men

(tags:writing gender tv UK )

The "realistic" Disney characters are great (particularly Megara, Ursula, and Frollo)

(tags:Disney art )

The Flag Of Northern Ireland (of which there isn't one. Sort of)

(tags:NorthernIreland flags video history )

DWP fit-to-work assessments cost more money than they save

(tags:UK welfare disability OhForFucksSake Conservatives )

This is a woman who knows how to handle a lightsaber

(tags:StarWars stunts video impressive )

Engineers boost output of solar desalination system by 50%

(tags:desalination solar )

Boaty McBoatface makes significant climate change discovery on first mission

(tags:globalwarming ocean antarctic )

Ivan Rogers: no deal is now the most likely Brexit outcome

(tags:UK Europe Doom )

Brexit: MPs take legal action to force police to act over crimes committed by Leave campaign during EU referendum

(tags:uk police fraud politics europe )

Comments

Re: The CIA Spied on People Through Their Samsung Smart TVs

[dewline]

Therefore, it also was a Bad Idea to let TV tech get to the point that would allow spy agencies to actually do their jobs to us via our TV sets. If only retroactively so.