Interesting Links for 14-01-2022

[andrewducker]

In bad news for US cloud services, Austrian website's use of Google Analytics found to breach GDPR

(tags:privacy usa europe )

Covid in pregnancy linked to birth-related complications (but vaccination isn't)

(tags:Pandemic pregnancy )

New external system for complaints against Scottish ministers

(tags:Scotland complaints government )

A collection of Simpsons/Watchmen mashups

(tags:funny Simpsons mashup Watchmen comics )

The Inside Story of Politics for All, Twitter's Infamous UK News Account

(tags:UK news Twitter )

Beautiful butterfly dresses!

(tags:clothing insects )

How to communicate with difficult doctors

(tags:doctors language )

What If…. the Scottish Conservatives once more become a separate party?

(tags:scotland Conservatives politics viaDanielDWilliam )

Unvaccinated in New York 13 times more likely to get hospitalized

(tags:vaccination pandemic newyork )

Orwell on Political Correctness

(tags:GeorgeOrwell language )

Putting cows into the Mootrix increases their milk production

Prior art http://pvponline.com/comic/mon-may-12
(tags:cows TheMatrix VirtualReality weird )

Comments

[nancylebov]

I have doubts about the Mootrix. It seems possible, but if it were true, I think more people would be trying it, and more importantly, we'd get to see at least a screenshot of what the cows are seeing.

[andrewducker]

I find the whole thing very silly. And it seems unlikely that they've got it adjusted so the cows can see well or that seeing fields increases milk production significantly.

But I may well be wrong.

[jack]

I think it's the sort of thing where, I'm not surprised there might be something there, but on average I'd expect to see a bunch of ill-conceived attempts without very meaningful results first.