Interesting Links for 03-06-2020

[andrewducker]

Why Our Intuition About Sea-Level Rise Is Wrong

Turns out that reality is complex
(tags:ocean earth globalwarming complexity )

Financial Times shares its Coronavirus excess mortality data

(tags:viaPatrickHadfield pandemic data )

Bournemouth Beach tells us how doomed we all are

(tags:pandemic OhForFucksSake uk )

Simplifying Board Games (you know, for kids!)

(tags:children games design )

The UK Now has the Highest Health Worker Deaths in Europe

(tags:UK death pandemic OhForFucksSake )

Here's the correct process to follow if you're upset about police violence in the USA

(tags:USA police violence )

Bread was invented as a way to store the ingredients for beer

This is, of course, just one theory. But a pretty reasonable one, from somd additional reading.
(tags:alcohol prehistory bread food )

The American Right is infected with Neo-Confederate apocalypticism.

(tags:politics religion USA republicans )

Travel in Scotland may be restricted after hundreds flout rules

(tags:Scotland pandemic OhForFucksSake )

Northern Ireland is not impressed with Boris Johnson

(tags:BorisJohnson pandemic NorthernIreland polls )

Maps show which UK pavements are not wide enough for social distancing

(tags:pandemic roads UK maps )

75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice

(tags:racism society USA )

Who needs to see the cutest thing on earth?

(tags:cute animals )

Nissan: UK factory still under threat from no-deal Brexit

(tags:uk europe manufacturing doom cars )

Urban foxes are becoming more like domesticated dogs

(tags:foxes evolution urban )

Last Person to Receive Civil War-Era Pension Dies

(tags:pensions civilwar usa history )

Comments

[calimac]

Once again I am struck by how awful, horrible, no-good Twitter is at conveying messages longer than a single tweet. That's not what it's for. People who have serious and valuable things to say are packing them into a container that, for their purposes, sucks rocks. It's not their fault they have to use it to get the word out, but somebody, give the world something more flexible.

[andrewducker]

This should be a bit more readable
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1267831319112761346.html

[rhythmaning]

I was just about to post that!

[calimac]

So since you have that, why don't you link to these instead?

(I was also thinking of this one.

[andrewducker]

Because I want to be able to find them again later, and while I trust Twitter to exist a few years from now I don't trust "threadreaderapp" to last as long.

[cyprinella]

Also a lot of people block services like threadreader because they object to a service making money off their tweets.

[skington]

Yes, this. To hell with threadreader.

[nancylebov]

Would it be worth your while to include threadreader links for extented tweet eassys in addition to the twitter links?

For those who hate threadreader, might it be worth encouraging people who post long-form on twitter to also link to some more essay-friendly site?

It seems weird to me to post essays on twitter, but I assume that's where people who do that have their main or prefered audience.

[andrewducker]

Good idea - if one exists I'll add it in the notes.

But yeah, it's where (a/the) audience is. And people can share snippets of it, which helps it go further.

[jack]

Also, I know that tweet threads are bad for a lot of people, but for some people like me they're a really good way of reading! The answer may be more variety of formats, not just, more long blogging less short blogigng.

[andrewducker]

But yes, I totally agree. I wish people blogged more.

[cmcmck]

Which explains kvass- a low alcohol rye bread beer.

[rhythmaning]

I can't remember where I read this, but I recall one reason for the prevalence of whisky in north east Scotland is that there was excess barley and plentiful water - whisky was seen as a way of using barley and brightening the winter.

[skington]

Regarding the invention of bread thead on tumblr: why have people on tumblr taken to top-posting? I understand why email clients did that - not wanting to trim the reply down to something sensible, and having a document that you can forward to other people in the business rather than having to forward zillions of small emails - but none of these apply to tumblr, surely?

[andrewducker]

I don't see it as top posted.

How Odd.

[jack]

I think it was like that for me but I don't really know, I just expect tumblr to be weird and inconsistent from time to time :)

[ninetydegrees]

"Who needs to see the cutest thing on earth?"

Reminded me of a Gremlin. ;)

[andrewducker]

That person should probably count their fingers when they're done!

[dewline]

Sexton has a point. Several, in fact. And while the information is not new, the reminder is needed. Now.