Interesting Links for 03-12-2019

[andrewducker]

It is the fiftieth anniversary of the most culturally important work of the 20th century

(tags:Muppets video music )

UK factories are laying off workers at fastest rate for seven years

(tags:uk manufacturing fail )

Our Ability To Recognise Dogs' Emotions Is Shaped By Our Cultural Upbringing

(tags:society dogs psychology emotion )

"The First Non-Bullshit Book About Organisational Culture I've Read"

(tags:books organisation advice military )

A harrowing personal account of China's concentration camps

(tags:torture China Islam OhForFucksSake )

Lib Dems suspend campaigner after email forgery

(tags:libdem fraud OhForFucksSake )

FactCheck: has Scotland 'subsidised the rest of the UK'?

(tags:Scotland economics oil )

This account of Lukasz the narwhal tusk-wielding hero of London Bridge is epic

(tags:terrorism heroism london video ViaDrCross )

All of the things wrong with Jeremy Corbyn

(tags:politics criticism Labour uk )

Child homelessness hits 12 year high

(tags:homelessness UK poverty children )

Turns out that what you needed this morning was the Waaay Too Happy cover of Rammstein's Du Hast

(tags:music video happiness )

There was no Roman colony in Tucson, Arizona

(tags:italy usa wtf archeology )

The Middle East is rapidly becoming less religious

(tags:religion middle_east GoodNews )

New York City adopts ranked-choice voting

(tags:newyork voting reform )

With little evidence that failing to complete a prescribed antibiotic course contributes to antibiotic resistance

(tags:antibiotics )

AI Plays Hide and Seek...And Surprises Its Creators

(tags:ai Technology video )

Google ads are supporting fake news - here's how we stop them

(tags:bigotry advertising news lies )

Comments

non-bullshit book

[rmc28]

I read Turn The Ship Around nearly two years ago and found it really helpful. The concrete thing I took from it was "I intend to ..." for managing upward, and to find some kind of "deliberate action" approach to communicate to my peers when I'm about to do something risky.

E.g. when planning code deployments we usually create a checklist of actions for the deployment and run through it with everyone concerned at least once before the deployment. That's both eliminated a lot of potential for miscommunication, *and* it's been fuel for finding parts of the process to automate. (can't right now find the blog post also from early 2018 about how you move towards automation when you are too busy to automate things)

Lukasz the narwhal tusk-wielding hero

[calimac]

If you listen to what the man describing the event in detail actually says, it turns out that, according to him, Lukasz and the guy wielding the narwhal tusk are TWO DIFFERENT PEOPLE. What Lukasz takes down from the wall is described as "a long stick" and later as a "pole". He fights off the terrorist by himself for a minute, and then is joined by two other guys, the one with the fire extinguisher and the one who grabs the narwhal tusk. The transcript caption writes "animal" but the speaker clearly says "narwhal", and later he uses the word again in the same context.

Is the speaker confused, or has EVERYBODY ELSE got it WRONG? I'm inclined to think the latter, because even the person who posted this on Twitter, and even the caption-writer, seems not to realize that this contradicts their narrative of "Lukasz the narwhal tusk-wielding hero of London Bridge."

Just to make it clear, both men are heroic, and one of them did wield a narwhal tusk against the terrorist. But according to this, the famous solo duel of tusk-wielder against terrorist DIDN'T HAPPEN. He had a long stick or pole.

Re: Lukasz the narwhal tusk-wielding hero

[andrewducker]

I think you're right. It's certainly garbled. I noticed the incorrect caption, but missed that it was not the original person who had the horn.

Not sure who has it wrong!

Re: Lukasz the narwhal tusk-wielding hero

[darkoshi]

From what I've gathered, there were 2 narwhal tusks (which look like long sticks) on the wall (https://newsontheflipside.com/europe/bystander-chases-london-bridge-terrorist-with-5-foot-narwhal-tusk/)
So Lukasz must have taken the first down, and the other person took the second.

I thought I read that it was a "police chief" with the tusk a couple of times, which confused me, then I saw elsewhere it was a "Polish chef". :)

[momentsmusicaux]

Yeah, I see dog emotions as mostly excessive excitement, aggression, and annoying neediness.
Oh and nonchalance with some dogs, but rarely. Those are the ones I can get on with.