Interesting Links for 22-02-2022

[andrewducker]

The elaborate con that tricked dozens into working for a fake design agency (for free!)

(tags:fraud jobs OhForFucksSake )

Benefits changes could have serious consequences on mental health, warns UK psychologists' body

(tags:mentalhealth welfare uk OhForFucksSake )

Lit-Up Fishing Nets Dramatically Reduce Catch of Unwanted Sharks, Rays and Squid

(tags:light fish fishing sharks squid )

First gene therapy for Tay-Sachs disease successfully given to two children

(tags:genetics Jews medicine )

How Scholars Once Feared That the Book Index Would Destroy Reading

(tags:reading books organisation )

Some Reasons why Babies Cry in the First Three Months, How to Tell Them Apart, and What to Do

(tags:babies advice )

Where Are All the Men in Science Fiction?!?

(tags:scifi men gender women publishing )

The "Peacemaker" Opening Credits are just...amazing. (I just about held it together until the eagle. And then the giggling started.)

(tags:tv superheroes video funny )

Wordle, confirmation bias, and conspiracy theories

(tags:conspiracy words game psychology )

Boris Johnson takes away the tools people use to avoid killing their relatives

(tags:conservatives Pandemic OhForFucksSake )

We are in an unprecedented era of UK relative macroeconomic decline

(tags:economics uk doom Conservatives viaDanielDWilliam )

Comments

[cmcmck]

One extreme to the other- from 'test every time you put your face out the door' to 'don't test at all'........ :o/

I suspect the dear leader doesn't have a clue or more likely, doesn't give a damn!

[andrewducker]

Certainly somewhere between those two. "Whatever he can get away with!"

[mtbc]

I've found it striking to often see images of him unmasked in the back of a car being driven somewhere.

[cmcmck]

While legally being required to mask on the street has never been a thing here, he has been seen in places where he should have been when he wasn't- like when meeting hospital staff.

But this is Mr illegal party guy we're talking about..........

The masking rules are now no longer there so you'll no doubt see much more of Bojo's ugly fizz in future!

[calimac]

The guide to crying babies is brilliant, just the kind of hard specifics that I suspect that new parents need (I've never been one myself, but you have, so I presume you endorse this). I see there are some links, which I didn't follow; but a collection of sound clips illustrating the different types of crying would be very helpful. And a light-hearted account of how difficult it was to acquire these clips (waiting around with the mic on for the baby to issue the various kinds of cries) would be amusing.

Wordle bias: I suspect that there are ways in which bias of this kind (e.e. Wordle getting more difficult) can exist without being measurable by the tools being used to deny it exists. I vaguely recall having seen demonstrations of this kind in the past.

[mellowtigger]

Peacemaker is pretty good. It reminds me of Doom Patrol (which is still better) in that we get to see the flailing efforts of sub-par, imperfect, and humanly realistic superheroes. :)

If you're watching the series, did you notice these credits (cell cam photo of tv screen) at the end? I only caught it near one of the last episodes. It may have been there all along, and I just didn't notice it. I had to rewind a few times and freeze it to make sure I saw what I thought.

[reverancepavane]

As a piece of trivia Alan Tudyk was the inspiration/test dummy for the Peacemaker dance number, since his wife, Charissa Barton, was the choreographer responsible for it.

Apparently there is an unreleased tape of his performances...