Interesting Links for 12-06-2020

[andrewducker]

UPnP flaw exposes millions of network devices to attacks over the Internet

(tags:security internet epicfail )

Turns out that if you get rid of the police you get warlords

(tags:USA violence police )

The AskHistorians subreddit banned Holocaust deniers, and Facebook should too.

(tags:Holocaust debate censorship )

JK Rowling and The Reasonable-Sounding Bigotry

(tags:bigotry jkrowling LGBT transgender uk )

There's a vacuum at the heart of the British government, and that's not good for anyone.

(tags:UK Europe Doom )

If you're good enough at conspiracy theories you can turn anything into one

(tags:conspiracy pandemic viaSwampers )

Plastic Rain Is the New Acid Rain (hundreds of millions of tons of it)

(tags:plastic rain environment pollution )

The Right Wing's Favourite 'Crazy Scientist' - Professor Karol Sikora

(tags:healthcare OhForFucksSake pandemic doctors )

Autism, Gender, and Queerness - We're here. We're weird. Get used to it.

(tags:LGBT autism )

"Being comfortable in my body" - on gender presentation and being non-binary

(tags:LGBT gender clothing )

Generation X and Trans Lives

(tags:age demographics transgender LGBT )

Comments

[jjhunter]

For what it's worth - with or without police, you get white guys doing this kind of aggressive open gun carry all the time.

'Warlord' is a pretty loaded term to escalate to, given the context of USA everything to do with race, police, guns, and policing of who's allowed to take advantage of legal rights to open and display them.

[andrewducker]

Oh, I think the police are as bad, and much worse in some places. They need massive reform, and lots of the things they get used for could be done by non-police in a much less violent and confrontational way.

[jjhunter]

I was thinking more of self-appointed auxiliaries like George Zimmerman (pretty telling that the popular media term there becomes 'vigilante' rather than 'warlord'), but yes, I strongly agree that there's a lot of examination needed re: what is actually appropriate police work and what very limited circumstances it might be appropriate for police work to be armed police work.