Interesting Links for 12-10-2020

[andrewducker]

Labour Party in "can continue to fuck off" shock

(tags:LGBT transgender labour OhForFucksSake )

Building the Mathematical Library of the Future

(tags:mathematics computers )

Animation of Coronavirus spread in the UK - 1st Feb to 9th Oct

(tags:animation visualisation pandemic uk )

Contact-tracing data collected in pubs sold on

(tags:dataprotection OhForFucksSake pandemic )

Sexuality, Disability and the Journey to Inner Freedom

(tags:sexuality disability sex beauty society )

Covid virus survives for 28 days in lab conditions

(tags:pandemic virus Doom )

We Have Misjudged Margaret Ferrier (important stuff)

(tags:horror pandemic satire politics uk scotland )

25-Year Study of Nuclear vs Renewables Says One Is Clearly Better at Cutting Emissions

(tags:nuclearpower renewables environment co2 pollution )

If the UK makes a food deal with the USA here's what that means for contamination

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1315381869479890944.html
(tags:food USA standards UK Doom )

If the UK was actually serious about Covid testing this is what it would be doing

Clarifying detail: https://twitter.com/nemoqd/status/1315596052402253824?s=19
(tags:Pandemic China testing )

Comments

[calimac]

regarding plague-carriers in folklore, we've got one in American folklore too: a half-historical, half-legendary figure from the early 20C called Typhoid Mary, infamous for her refusal to stop infecting people. I'm not sure how much she's been heard of in other cultures.

[andrewducker]

I've heard of her, but don't actually know any details. I shall go Google now!

Typhoid Mary

[channelpenguin]

Typhoid Mary is well known in the UK too.

[lilysea]

Typhoid Mary is well known in Australia...

[cmcmck]

All three of the major 'English' parties are transphobic as it happens.

[armiphlage]

The US keeps pushing against Canadian food-safety regulations as "trade barriers".

The recently-"renegotiated" free trade agreement between Canada, the US, and Mexico (renamed from NAFTA to "USMCA" by Trump to put the US first) explicitly states as an objective:

"ensure that sanitary or phytosanitary measures implemented by a Party do not create unnecessary barriers to trade;"

https://www.international.gc.ca/trade-commerce/assets/pdfs/agreements-accords/cusma-aceum/r-cusma-09.pdf

There is an interesting clause, "For greater certainty, a sanitary or
phytosanitary measure is not more trade restrictive than required unless there is another option that is reasonably available, taking into account technical and economic feasibility, that achieves the Party’s appropriate level of protection and is significantly less restrictive to trade. "

So, if the UK had a similar trade agreement, and objected to the presence of fecal matter on US meat, the US could state that, rather than provide feces-free meat, it would be more economically feasible for the British consumer to just wash the meat with bleach and then boil it until tasteless, to kill the E. Coli.

[hairyears]

"Contact-tracing data collected in pubs sold on"

I'm going to wait for confirmation of this before commenting elsewhere.

I do not think that everyone here has any understanding of how damaging and dangerous these data-safety breaches are.

Everything you read about it will be headlined with the minimising trivialisation 'Privacy'.

The data is out there and the tort is committed.

Staljers and abusive exes have it. Religious fundamentalists, blackmailers, and journalists are collating and cross-linking it.

There are people who are eager to destroy private lives and families, combing through this data as I speak, gleeful and gloating in anticipation the hate crimes it has profited these data criminals and publicans to facilitate.

And if no-one goes to prison for this appalling and endangering data safety violation, then Britain has no meaningful data protection law.

The data's out there, being used.

If we do not see deterrent prison sentences for this, and a sustained campaign by the police against the users of this stolen data...

And we won't

...Then the only hope for some of the most vulnerable and endangered people who must live in fear among us - and for thousands of 'safe' and ordinary people who don't yet know what the malicious use of stolen social data will do to their lives - the only hope we have, and they have, is that a sustained campaign of violence and destruction, against the property and persons of the data criminals, can secure the safety of us all.

Yes, I know: I am advocating terrorism.

The law is failing us and we are in danger.

[andrewducker]

It's a terrible situation!