Interesting Links for 06-10-2021

[andrewducker]

'No alternative' to rising inflation, Boris Johnson says

(tags:inflation economics uk BorisJohnson Conservatives )

Yes, it's a big deal when Facebook goes down. This is why

(tags:Facebook socialmedia society )

UK Supreme Court upholds challenge to two Scottish bills (I am completely unsurprised)

(tags:Scotland UK law )

Covid pass to be introduced in Wales after Tory MS misses vote due to Zoom error (This feels wrong to me, not sure what the answer would be)

(tags:politics Technology failure wales )

You are allowed to leave

(tags:advice )

Sunlight affects whether languages have a word for 'blue'

(tags:light colour biology )

Henrietta Lacks heirs sue biotech firm for stealing her cells

(tags:racism research medicine intellectual_property rights women viaSwampers )

Comments

[mountainkiss]

I love that last line. "If you want a better world, be a better human being."

[andrewducker]

I also like ‘Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation’.

[mountainkiss]

I only sort of like that. If we're in the dying throes of a civilisation then working as if we were in the early days of a better nation is (i) denial and (ii) probably the wrong work to be doing. But I understand your point.