Interesting Links for 21-03-2021

[andrewducker]

This is a decent background on the mess going on with the SNP at the moment

(tags:Scotland snp )

£1m-plus PPE contract handed to Tory donor's firm still kept secret one year later

(tags:UK conservatives corruption )

Some fascinating developments in understanding and working with mouse and human embryos

(tags:pregnancy mice humans research )

Infinite Nature: Perpetual View Generation of Natural Scenes from a Single Image

(tags:impressive ai nature video )

People are sharing the useless mental health advice from their GPs

(tags:mentalhealth healthcare awful )

Giant octopus moves in to Edinburgh's Sick Kids hospital

(tags:Edinburgh octopus children hospital )

Here's Google embedding sexism in its translation software

(tags:Google sexism OhForFucksSake translation )

Why is the Taiwanese government telling its citizens to stop changing their name to "Salmon"?

(tags:names fish Taiwan food marketing )

Met Police are happy to beat up women, but anti mask idiots are free to march as much as they like

(tags:protests police OhForFucksSake London UK )

Visa to hike interchange fees for UK customers in post-Brexit move

(tags:visa fees UK Europe )

Republicans warn that if people get their vote then they won't be able to win

(tags:politics usa republicans )

How vaccinated is the UK, and what does the data tell us we need to watch out for?

(tags:pandemic vaccination UK )

Comments

[rangifer]

Turns out this is exactly how Google Translate treats Finnish, too. Probably anything with non-gendered pronouns.