Interesting Links for 28-11-2022

[andrewducker]

1. The Women Who Rode Miles on Horseback to Deliver Library Books

(tags:library history women horses usa )

2. AI image generation is improving quickly

(tags:AI art )

3. America is a Christian Nationalist Hellhole, license plate edition

(tags:OhForFucksSake Christianity USA religion fascism driving )

4. One nice thing about Mastodon is that, for example, the EU can set up an instance and then you can trust every post on there is a verified EU institution/entity

(tags:Europe socialnetworking identity )

5. How supportive would Britons be of a family member coming out? (also compared to other countries)

(tags:LGBT polls )

6. French man wins right to not be 'fun' at work in wrongful termination case

(tags:work France fun law )

7. Ineos in talks with Rolls-Royce to build mini nuclear reactor and power Scottish chemical refinery

(tags:scotland nuclearpower viaDanielDWilliam )

8. The High-Temperature Superconductivity Mystery Is Finally Solved

(tags:physics )

9. How Stochastic Terrorism Uses Disgust to Incite Violence

(tags:disgust terrorism violence bigotry )

10. Power grid boost as two Scottish firms net £14m to work on energy storage systems

(tags:storage electricity scotland )

Comments

[calimac]

3) When I was a child, my parents arranged their will so that if they died, we would not be sent to the relatives in Tennessee, much as we loved those particular relatives. Because it was Tennessee. And they made sure I knew this.

8) I knew about the theory explaining superconductivity, so it's nice to see it confirmed experimentally. Reminds me of reading about the experimentalists who first split the atom in 1932 and, incidentally, proved that e really does equal mc2.

[andrewducker]

Very sensible of your parents. Some places you wouldn't want to condemn a child to.