Interesting Links for 06-09-2020

[andrewducker]

What are the Chinese government hiding in their maps?

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1299002325038587904.html
(tags:China maps )

A Doomed Search for a Bedside Wireless Phone Charger

(tags:technology fail electricity design )

Black Panther titles are free right now on Comixology

(tags:comics race )

A satellite photo of California on fire

(tags:California photo fire )

How computer games do Maori tattoos wrong

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1302257921758117888.html
(tags:cultural_appropriation Maori tattoos games design )

Introducing children to the prisoner's dilemma

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1302369790720274432.html
(tags:philosophy children funny )

How the right wing press manufactured the BBC's "war on left wing comedy"

(tags:media comedy bbc OhForFucksSake politics )

Comments

[dewline]

1. One wonders what each of the world's "recognized" nations is trying to hide from either their own citizens or from everyone else. This is the kind of comparison the governments of such would rather we not do, isn't it? And covering up concentration camps, no matter whose they are, is a horrifically large part of the motivation. By no means the only part, but still...horrifically large.

3. Disney/Marvel saw an opportunity for reader-audience-building here and they're taking it.

4. Oh my God(s).

Tattoos

[anna_wing]

If the real tattoos have meanings, then perhaps the fake ones in computer games should be completely meaningless. That way no real families are insulted, and no misleading claims about identity are made. It's like not giving the villain of your novel a name so rare and distinctive that the one person in the world who actually has it is prompted to sue you for libel.

Similarly perhaps it is preferable (and also frankly more entertaining) for merely decorative tattoos to be meaningless, so that it is clear that they are meant merely to be artistic mark-making, rather than actual text.

[drplokta]

I’m still using a wired charger for the bedside. Because there aren’t any suitable wireless ones. There’s definitely a market niche to be exploited.