Interesting Links for 07-12-2022

[andrewducker]

1. An update on leap seconds

(tags:time standards )

2. It's a mistake to think of the election as just LAB vs CON

(tags:uk elections )

3. 'I was sent to jail for refusing to hand over a sexual assault victim's therapy notes - I'd do it again'

(tags:rape counselling law australia )

4. Dwarf Fortress' graphical upgrade provides a new way into a wildly wonky game

(tags:games ux )

5. 20,000 Pounds of Trash Removed From Pacific Garbage Patch: 'Holy mother of god. It worked!'

(tags:waste ocean GoodNews )

6. You too can learn fascinating facts about elephant eggs from AI

(tags:ai elephants eggs )

7. The Ocean Cleanup Project Could Destroy the Neuston

(tags:ocean waste life viaSteer )

8. What abortion restrictions and laws look like in every state in the U.S.

(tags:abortion viaBenWerdmuller visualisation )

9. What 4 year old girl doesn't want their own 12 foot skeleton?

(tags:girls horror children cute video )

Comments

[calimac]

1) Much of this was too technical for me to understand - I'd like a survey of this problem intended for lay readers - but three cheers for the writer deciding to put this on a blog instead of dividing it up into Twitter posts, of which this would take dozens.

3) Are medical records, as traditionally defined, immune from the sort of invasive discovery motion that sent this therapist to jail? If so, the solution should be to formally classify therapy records as medical.

5) The article mentions micro-trash, but I wonder where the large and visible pieces of trash are coming from, as I've read assurances that everything is broken down into micro-size by the time it gets into the infamous gyres.

6) I now feel I know less about whether there are actually things called "elephant eggs," whatever might produce them, than I did before reading this. Which was nothing.

8) A continually updating site like this will be useful for us, despite having aged out of any personal concern with abortion, given a disinclination to travel to states where women are endangered.

[andrewducker]

There are no elephant eggs. This was entirely done to show that the abilities of the recent chat AI bot to produce things that sound very human-like can still produce total nonsense, while sounding authoritative.

[bens_dad]

Well, technically an elephants *does* have eggs. It is just that they are naturally only found between her ovaries and her uterus. Once fertilized they become zygotes and then embryos ...

Which doesn't help, but proves that truth and nonsense can and do overlap.