Interesting Links for 04-07-2022

[andrewducker]

1. A chipmunk having its mind blown by a flavour explosion

(tags:cute video food )

2. A "Chinese Borges" wrote millions of words of fake Russian history on Wikipedia for a decade.

(tags:wikipedia Russia China fake )

3. Fun! With! Science! (be better if there were explanations of each of these though)

(tags:video science )

4. Innovative lung-imaging technique shows cause of long COVID symptoms

(tags:mri Pandemic Doom viaPatrickHadfield )

5. Daily Mail to turn against Boris Johnson

(tags:DailyMail BorisJohnson conservatives )

6. Neil Gaiman speaks honestly about the quality of the Sandman TV show

(tags:neilgaiman TV sandman )

7. How do politicians respond when asked whether Scotland is allowed to leave and what the democratic route to them doing so.

(tags:politics independence Scotland video )

8. When truth is another casualty: Why Ukraine is losing ground in the war by not telling the whole story

(tags:Russia Ukraine censorship war )

9. If I was 20 years younger and still had the time/energy to watch terrible movies then I'd love to see Assassin 33A.D. (Time traveling Muslim assassins go after Jesus!)

(tags:religion timetravel awful Jesus Christianity movies review )

10. Transphobic LGB Alliance condemned by Trades Union Congress in near unanimous vote

(tags:LGBT transgender unions GoodNews )

11. The British class system is a delight

(tags:class UK politics )

12. England's population is ageing. Our deeply substandard politicians ignore what this is going to cost us

(tags:UK aging politics )

Comments

4. Innovative lung-imaging technique shows cause of long COVID symptoms

[jack]

Hopefully knowing is a positive step!

5. Daily Mail to turn against Boris Johnson

[jack]

Wait, the daily mail had an owner who doesn't like Johnson? Why now? Did he just wake up after a coma? Or did he genuinely believe Dacre was being independent? Or did he not care? Or did he suddenly realise which way the wind was blowing?

I also wonder where the wind is blowing TO :( This decades conservative party has a lot of frying pans and Johnson isn't the worst:(

9. If I was 20 years younger and still had the time/energy to watch terrible movies then I'd love to

[jack]

So you want to be younger just to have more time? That does sound hilariously awful

[simont]

9: the terrible Jesus movie I'd be somewhat amused by would be the mash-up one in which everybody who's ever made a movie about Jesus collides in a huge mess. Those Muslim assassins would run smack into the Judean People's Front, for example.

6. Neil Gaiman speaks honestly...

[dewline]

This is where I become far more interested in actually watching the show, should I be able to do so.

[calimac]

I've been assured on various occasions that the class system as described in #11 is a thing of the past, obsolete, not around any more. I began to have doubts about that when I saw the rise of David Cameron.

[jducoeur]

(2) reminds me of the oldest book I own, a 16th century edition of the Historia Augusta, a gloriously odd 4th century history of the Emperors of Rome, which freely mixes fact and fiction. (And like the Wikipedia thing, uses a variety of fake authors in order to make it sound more plausible.)

(3) -- yeah, really. I can explain most of those, but several leave me scratching my head.