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]

Right, so you're going to ignore the rest of the content of the article?

That's deeply unimpressive.

And, sure, https://www.pinknews.co.uk/

[flick]

The article cites one opinion piece, and then makes vague claims about there being other examples. If there are so many, why doesn’t it reference any of them?

Pink News? Wikipedia rates it as only “generally reliable”, way below many other UK sources. Are you serious, you rate PN’s content over that of, say, the BBC?

[andrewducker]

The letter, from hundreds of Guardian employees says:
"We are also disappointed in the Guardian’s repeated decision to publish anti-trans views...But the pattern of publishing transphobic content has interfered with our work and cemented our reputation as a publication hostile to trans rights and trans employees"

I'm afraid I trust those hundreds of Guardian employees to know what they're talking about.

I'm not aware of the BBC publishing pieces saying whether something is bigoted or not. They tend to be very against that kind of thing. Have they made a statement, because I would be interested in reading it if so.