Interesting Links for 08-12-2022

[andrewducker]

1. Support for Independence hits 56%, 51% of people to vote SNP (53% if it's a defacto referendum)

(tags:scotland independence polls )

2. Transphobes are now attacking...The Samaritans.

(tags:lgbt transgender bigotry OhForFucksSake suicide )

3. BBC plans to switch off broadcast TV and move to internet-only programmes

(tags:bbc thefuture streaming broadcasting )

4. Discovery of world's oldest DNA breaks record by one million years

(tags:genetics dna prehistory )

5. The Art Game and the Money Game and how the ending of Minecraft was set free

(tags:games art money copyright Microsoft contracts )

6. Sats: MPs and peers fail tests for 11-year-olds as campaign groups call for overhaul of 'high-stakes' exams

(tags:exams children politics )

7. First UK coal mine in decades approved

(tags:UK coal environment globalwarming )

8. Europe First: Brussels gets ready to dump its free trade ideals (because the USA and China both already have)

(tags:Europe China USA trade )

9. Two inhaled covid vaccines have been approved. Here's what you need to know.

(tags:vaccines pandemic )

10. AI learns to precisely manipulate individual atoms

(tags:ai atom physics research )

11. How Many Fundamental Constants Does It Take To Explain The Universe? (26, at the moment)

(tags:physics )

12. People expect identical twins to be *really* identical

(tags:twins genetics statistics )

13. Humans are surprisingly poor at picking up cues of aggression in dogs

(tags:dogs behaviour psychology )

Comments

[movingfinger]

The Minecraft story is bizarre. It's very self-justifying. The writer knows he screwed up and that he screwed people, not just himself, in this.

I think Julian Gough does not realize how badly he comes off in his own narrative. I pity his agent, and those are not words I ever thought I could string together in my brain. I pity his ex, his kids, and his current spouse, too. This kind of self-important, toxically passive-aggressive behavior is exhausting to deal with.

[channelpenguin]

He is trying to sell *to himself* that he is poor because art is more important to him than money, rather than that he's made a series of monumentally stupid decisions. Despite even that the 2nd chance to get a good contract and literally have enough money to support his family while making whatever art he pleased for the rest of his life."understanding" of the rest of it is useless if it doesn't lead him to make to better decisions.

I have made serial fuckups in my life, and blown 2nd (and 3rd) chances, but I have never tried to deceive myself quite this hard. chuckle