Interesting Links for 30-06-2020

[andrewducker]

Trump retweets video of supporter shouting 'white power'

(tags:racism republicans USA politics Twitter video )

Coronavirus: No plans for Scotland to quarantine UK visitors. Yet.

(tags:Scotland pandemic )

Flu virus with 'pandemic potential' found in China

(tags:China pandemic disease virus pigs )

French far right parties lose nearly half their seats in local elections

(tags:France politics GoodNews )

so.... JK Rowling is following a white nationalist who wrote a book about "Muslims destroying europe"

(tags:jkrowling islam racism OhForFucksSake )

Impressive sculptures made from woven Willow. Including an amazing dragon!

(tags:dragons wood sculpture )

The secretive government agency planting 'cyanide bombs' across the US

(tags:usa wildlife nature poison )

AI predicts effective depression treatment based on brainwave patterns

(tags:depression neuroscience brain ai )

Comments

[cmcmck]

So, will Twitter take him down THIS time?

[jack]

"the agency seems to be keenly aware of the rising tide of anti-cyanide-bomb sentiment"

HOW IS THAT LEGAL IN THE FIRST PLACE? Why don't they put up a big sign saying "WARNING! CYANIDE BOMB KILLS ANYONE WHO COMES NEAR! NON-COYOTES STAY BACK"??

[andrewducker]

You'd think, wouldn't you?

[mountainkiss]

I love the implication that at some earlier point people were indifferent to cyanide bombs, or perhaps even faintly positive.

[mountainkiss]

How can you post a link to ANOTHER PANDEMIC and not tag it doom?

[andrewducker]

That is an excellent question, to which I can but wish I had as an excellent an answer.

[dewline]

They seem content to keep hammering him with "content advisory" warnings of several flavours all over his tweets for the moment. The fact that this enrages him gives me some degree of schadenfreude comfort for the moment.

[dewline]

If I might intervene: the fact that this coronavirus was spotted before it could jump species gives us considerable advance warning, and the opportunity to hammer it flat before it makes that jump. Hence, the lack of "doom" tagging?

Biologists, virologists, etc. across the planet, please prove me right on this one!

[jack]

I mean.. can anyone just leave lethal boobytraps anywhere?

[jack]

Me: I wish people took social distancing seriously
Monkey's Paw: Hahaha muahaha BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH your wish is my command

[cmcmck]

True, but if it were you or me doing this................

[ninetydegrees]

So is JKR losing it aka becoming a hateful -phobist person or does she feel "safe" to speak up about what she was thinking all along now that she's a billionaire?

[dewline]

One wonders and worries about that.

Stephen King did a good thing about her attempting to rope him in the other day, I thought.

[ckd]

Yeah. The fact that she unfollowed him over it, though, puts paid to her apologists' argument that "her following someone doesn't mean she agrees with them".

[ninetydegrees]

Ooh hadn't heard about this. Thanks!

[dewline]

It certainly does.

Willow sculptures

[anef]

I like the willow sculptures a lot. There is a disconcerting liveliness about them. They appear to have been moving just before you caught sight of them and will bound off when you look away.

Re: Willow sculptures

[andrewducker]

"disconcerting liveliness" is a perfect summation!