Interesting Links for 01-08-2021

[andrewducker]

FactCheck: What's behind the UK vaccination slowdown?

(tags:UK vaccination )

China is building nuclear weapons. Here's why.

(tags:nuclearweapons China )

Electric cars have much lower life cycle emissions

(tags:co2 cars manufacturing )

How transphobes read Pratchett as being on their side

(tags:LGBT transgender terrypratchett )

Google encouraged employees who experienced harassment/assault to use their mental health benefits, then pressured counselors to provide records of their sessions to use in court when those employees filed lawsuits

(tags:Google assault harassment OhForFucksSake )

Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch covid. None of them helped. Some were actively unhelpful

(tags:ai pandemic epicfail )

IOC admits guidelines for transgender athletes are not fit for purpose

(tags:LGBT transgender olympics )

Amanda Knox: Who Owns My Name?

(tags:murder corruption lies media TV movies OhForFucksSake )

The Winged Labrys - a pin designed for inclusive sapphic people

(tags:LGBT transgender lesbian design )

Tory chairman Ben Elliot sold access to his uncle Prince Charles

(tags:conservatives royalty money corruption UK )

10 iconic logos. 156 Americans. 80 hours of drawing from memory.

(tags:marketing design memory viaElfy )

Comments

[dewline]

2. They don't want anyone doing a Germany 1945 to them. That's the big motive. Also, Xi thinks he'll benefit if he keeps Russia, India and the US from sitting together that the same nuclear arms negotiations table.

3. So much for "don't be evil".

7. Amanda Knox has got a valid point, and therefore is being pointedly ignored.

[snippy]

4 - that's absolutely standard, if you make any claim of emotional injury/damages in an employment suit they will definitely subpoena your medical records and try to prove that any symptoms you report were due to other things in your life, not due to your employer. As is encouraging people to use the company-paid services. Remember, HR exists to protect the company from employees.