Interesting Links for 18-04-2022

[andrewducker]

1. The impact of 'pile-ons' and trolling by transphobic Twitter users

(tags:LGBT Twitter bigotry transgender )

2. Rwanda genocide orphans told to leave hostel to make room for UK asylum seekers

(tags:genocide Rwanda asylum UK OhForFucksSake )

3. On Jimmy Saville and the price of joining the British establishment

(tags:UK abuse corruption )

4. "My skin was irritated, red and blotchy for years until I found out why because of lockdown"

(tags:allergies )

5. UK Shared Prosperity Fund gives Scotland one sixth of what they got from the EU

(tags:UK Scotland Europe money OhForFucksSake )

6. The power of inflation

(tags:money economics Argentina inflation )

7. As a parent, if offered a choice of my birth child or the one I had raised I would absolutely make this same choice

(tags:children fairytale )

8. A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says? Does it understand? And what does that mean?

(tags:language ai )

9. Put people in an unfamiliar place and only half their brain sleeps at a time (I wonder if this is also true of parents)

(tags:sleep humans brain )

10. The modern chicken is more than 4x the size of one from 50 years ago

(tags:chicken food history )

11. Happy "Virus Freedom Day" to everyone in Scotland!

(tags:scotland pandemic doom )

12. Two versions of the trolley problem elicit similar responses everywhere

(tags:morality philosophy psychology )

Comments

[threemeninaboat]

I know this answer! Parents don't actually sleep at all. Even worse than people in active bombing war zones.

[andrewducker]

To be fair, I would sleep more, if a cat didn't keep climbing on my head.