Interesting Links for 17-11-2022

[andrewducker]

1. Automatic braking can cut crashes over 40%

(tags:cars driving safety speed automation )

2. Undetectable very-low frequency sound increases dancing at a live concert

(tags:music sound dancing psychology )

3. I *really* don't want to work at Twitter

(tags:Twitter jobs ElonMusk viaPatrickHadfield )

4. Vaccine denial probably didn't play a role in Republican midterm losses

(tags:politics vaccination death usa )

5. Bill to protect equal marriage clears hurdle in US Senate with support from a dozen Republicans

(tags:USA marriage LGBT GoodNews )

6. Pubs refuse to show World Cup matches in protest over Qatar LGBTQ rights record

(tags:LGBT football protest pubs UK Qatar bigotry )

7. The Stereotype of the Woke Teen Is 'Tárring' Art

(tags:society TV writing )

8. Creating huasi ruyi filigree jewellery the old fashioned way

(tags:jewelry video )

9. Over 1,000 songs with human-mimicking AI vocals have been released by Tencent Music in China. One of them has 100m streams. (Sadly, I can't track any of them down.)

(tags:music ai china viaPatrickHadfield )

10. Appreciating the history of chainmail armour

(tags:armour rome history viaDanielDWilliam )

11. 'Florida man makes announcement': Murdoch twists the knife on Trump with New York Post frontpage

(tags:RupertMurdoch politics journalism usa )

Comments

[dewline]

1. That would be good.

3. Neither do I these days. If Twitter can be rescued from Elon Musk, we'll revisit this topic.

4. It may not be that big a factor, but it still matters right now. There might be a cascading effect in 2024, if Democrats are careful, bold and lucky in the right measures over the next two years.

5. That bill doesn't go nearly as far as I'd prefer. I know that it's what can be had for now, and that still doesn't mollify me at all.

6. Pleased to read about such pushback.

11. Heh. Heh. Heh.

Of course the Murdoch family wants to replace Trump with far worse. Meanwhile, I'll just enjoy this while bewaring of who might be next.

[andrewducker]

5) doesn't go as far as I'd like either. But I'm glad we've got it, and that it shows that there is now general support for such things.

[calimac]

A few of the Republicans who supported it are generally very conservative. There are cracks in that facade.

[channelpenguin]

1. wow. nice!
3. nope, nor do I. nor does anyone sane... (though I do understand the dilemma for those on a sponsored visa)
9. amusing. shame you could not find any.

[andrewducker]

9) Some interesting demos here: https://supertone.ai/

[movingfinger]

Flogging employees to put in long hours coding results in fairly crap code, as I recall. The coders who can go into flow state, keeping an entire system or module in mind as they work on it for hours at a time and producing solid code as they go, are the rare walk-on-water gods who have left Twitter or are being headhunted aggressively.

[calimac]

7) Directly answers one of the questions I had about Tár.

[anna_wing]

The filigree video is fabulous. I have a small collection of this kind of jewellery, vintage rather than antique, and I treasure it because nowadays it's not available any more. You can get convincing replicas with additive manufacturing, but no-one does the old-style techniques, because of loss of skills, and the cost of the time, and also the wastage costs of the materials. A jewellery manufacturer of my acquaintance told me that switching to additive manufacturing saved her a huge amount in lost gold. Previously, every year she had to burn the carpets in her workshop to recover the gold dust caught in it...