Interesting Links for 19-09-2021

[andrewducker]

Unprecedented seabird deaths on northern coasts a mystery

(tags:birds death UK )

Facebook forced fraudulent content on over 40% of all Americans each month

(tags:Facebook fraud OhForFucksSake Russia )

Lib Dems urge sanctions and Olympic boycott on China over Uyghur genocide

(tags:libdem China genocide Olympics )

Ireland raises privacy question over Facebook smart glasses

(tags:Ireland glasses surveillance cameras Facebook )

Three ways of looking at constitutions: institutions, functions, tensions

(tags:constitution law )

Comments

[aldabra]

The US has had unprecedented songbird deaths this year, from some unidentified cause.

https://ny.audubon.org/news/updates-songbird-illness

Causes of Bird Deaths

[dewline]

Around the new WTC complex in NYC, the causes aren't nearly as mysterious. We can extrapolate to some extent for "glass tower"-style buildings of various purposes across the planet, as well as factoring in cats allowed to hunt freely.

And now this as well. We have a feeder and two bird baths here at our place. So this is another issue.

[dewline]

2. I am angered and unsurprised by this. It's another part of why I'm reworking my "terms of engagement" with FB. All the news services and advocacy groups I follow there are being put through a decision as to whether or not to allow myself to read them in my feed or make myself actively choose to go looking at their Facebook pages.

3. I would prefer that targeted Magnitsky Act sanctions be applied to specific officials in mainland China/Zhong Guo. It's a bit late for us to organize multinational boycotts of the Games themselves now, right?

4. Ireland's not wrong to raise this question.

5. I want to take a closer look at this, with an eye on my own country's context.

[snippy]

So glad I deleted my FB account something like 15 years ago.