Interesting Links for 12-12-2019

[andrewducker]

China, where the library burns books if they are "improper"

(tags:books library china censorship )

Lib Dem election candidate endorses Labour rival in his own seat out of 'concern for our country'

(tags:libdem voting labour )

Denmark plans to build artificial islands for windfarms

(tags:Denmark windpower )

YouTube bans malicious insults and veiled threats

(tags:youtube abuse )

Just how racist are Labour and Conservative voters?

(tags:Jews Islam racism Labour conservatives OhForFucksSake UK )

UK's post-Brexit trade at risk as WTO's top court shuts down (because of Trump)

(tags:trade usa uk europe OhForFucksSake )

Huge mobile crane will arrive at Edinburgh St James Centre site overnight to take down Europe's largest tower crane

(tags:Edinburgh construction )

The NHS robots performing major surgery

(tags:NHS healthcare surgery robots )

A self-driving truck delivered butter from California to Pennsylvania in three days

(tags:automation delivery driving transport )

Heatwaves on multiple continents linked by jet stream tendency

(tags:temperature climate weather )

Why Electronic Voting Is Still A Bad Idea

(tags:voting technology video )

Millennials Are Leaving Religion And Not Coming Back

(tags:religion usa )

Crows could be the smartest animal other than primates

(tags:crows Intelligence )

Comments

[claudeb]

"YouTube bans malicious insults and veiled threats." In other words you'll no longer be allowed to say "OK boomer" and "eat the rich". But it will still be perfectly fine to do the Nazi salute on camera.

Of course, that's not what they say. But I bet it's exactly what this will translate into.

[azurelunatic]

My surgeon used a robot to take out my uterus and its baggage. I was out of the hospital the next morning. It was a decent experience.

[andrewducker]

I'm glad it works well.