Interesting Links for 15-09-2020

[andrewducker]

Apparently there are empty Covid testing centres in England which are turning people away because the booking systems are fucked.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1305208471273566208.html
(tags:testing pandemic epicfail uk OhForFucksSake )

JK Rowling's latest book is about a murderous cis man who dresses as a woman to kill his victims

(tags:jkrowling OhForFucksSake )

Why political parties can't just be based on "what people think"

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1305434347852517376.html
(tags:polls politics UK )

Arm's fired China CEO refuses to leave, company reps banned from Arm China premises

(tags:business China wtf computers )

Microsoft's underwater data centre resurfaces after two years

(tags:Ocean data Microsoft technology Scotland )

Brexit and the break-up of the UK

(tags:UK Europe Doom )

Public Health Wales had a data breach of Covid sufferers

(tags:pandemic dataprotection fail OhForFucksSake wales )

Whistleblower: There Were Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Facility

(tags:crime USA OhForFucksSake )

A Massachusetts Judge Asked Harvard to Find Out Why So Many Black People Were In Prison. They Could Only Find 1 Answer: Systemic Racism

(tags:USA crime racism police )

Beautifully preserved cave bears emerge from Siberian permafrost

(tags:Russia Bears prehistory )

There's an awful lot of overclocking out there

(tags:Windows computers fail )

Comments

[andrewducker]

I just realised that I was stupidly thinking of UK ones only, which is why I was struggling. Liberal US publications are baffled as to why the UK is the way it is, to the point where they have been publishing explainer articles.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/09/opinion/britain-transphobia-labour-party.html

Or

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/06/jk-rowling-transphobia-feminism

For example.

So I'll happily take either of those two. Or the Washington Post.

[flick]

Nothing in the NY Times or WaPo yet, I’m afraid: I dare say they do book reviews in the weekend editions.

Wall Street Journal? Their reviewer didn’t even think a serial killer wearing a wig and woman’s coat to get close to potential victims to be comment-worthy, which probably shows what a minor plot point it is: https://archive.is/sVYNv

[andrewducker]

Ah, people avoiding talking about bigotry (or claims thereof) doesn't really carry any weight.

If there was a claim that X was anti-semitic, I'd be looking for Jews (or Jewish-allies) to either say "Yes, of course it is", or "No, actually, this is being overblown, and brings other claims of antisemitism into disrepute, because it's a ridiculous assertion."

I'm looking for something similar here.

Edit: Or something with sufficient detail to make my own mind up more - which the one I linked to above had more of in it than I've seen elsewhere.

[andrewducker]

You'll be delighted to hear that I've now seen a couple of reviews from friends who I trust on this stuff who say that there are things they don't like (which you'd expect from a lot of writers), but that, indeed, the Telegraph was exaggerating things to get people wound up.

(Which was a relief, because I'd hope that I would have friends who would value perspective over being partisan. And I didn't want you thinking that I'd go on believing untrue things for partisan reasons either.)