Interesting Links for 27-01-2020

[andrewducker]

What we still haven't learned from Gamergate

(tags:abuse internet misogyny racism bigotry )

Welcome to Mystery Flesh Pit National Park

(tags:scifi nature weird )

Intensively farmed meat and dairy are a blight, but so are fields of soya and maize. There is another way

(tags:farming nature )

Poorer areas that backed Tories face fresh funding cuts as cash switched to wealthy southern regions

(tags:UK austerity Conservatives )

The food ordering websites that let delivery companies fraudulently pretend to be restaurants.

(tags:restaurant fraud OhForFucksSake )

If Your University's Administration Ran a Polar Expedition

(tags:satire academia Arctic )

White House gives press passes to site that called Trump's impeachment as "a Jew coup" planned by "a Jewish cabal."

(tags:racism Jews republicans USA )

Keir Starmer calls for fully federal UK. (If only he was also in favour of PR. Get me both of those and I'll be a lot less interested in Independence)

(tags:UK politics Labour reform )

The Hairy, Potbellied Mermen Taking the Canadian Coast

(tags:Canada Ocean men society masculinity )

Comments

[cmcmck]

Both of those sound good especially if he adds that little word 'republic'.

[alithea]

Agreed!

[claudeb]

Newfies are awesome. And the polar expedition one is hilarious. Could apply just as easily to software development.

[danieldwilliam]

The article on Keir Starmer soesn't say he's against PR and if someone suggested "a new constitutional settlement" I'd expect that to include some discussion about PR.

Do you know if he's come out against PR in the past?

[andrewducker]

I.... also didn't say he was against. Just not that he was for it. I can't find anything saying he's pro, and don't want to assume.

[danieldwilliam]

Fair enough.

PR is a difficult thing for the Labour Party. They are (ahead of elections) more in favour of things like devolution which shift power to voters in some parts of the country top vote Labour in different tier of government. PR tends to shift power to voters to potentially not vote Labour.

Gamergate as Part of the Process of Building to Trumpist America

[dewline]

As a forensic crime scene analysis...the Vox article gives a useful sense of the scale and scope of this series of crimes in progress.

As for the White House/Rick Wiles mess...Wiles probably has ambitions of replacing Pence as DT-45's vice-president. Such ambitions should be turned to ash in his mouth.

On the Canadian front re: Reich-Wing Extremism

[dewline]

This CBC News report might be of some interest.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/right-wing-extremism-1.5441464