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andrewducker) wrote2022-12-08 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2022-12-08 12:00 pm
Entry tags:
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- atom,
- bbc,
- behaviour,
- bigotry,
- broadcasting,
- children,
- china,
- coal,
- contracts,
- copyright,
- dna,
- dogs,
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- europe,
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- games,
- genetics,
- globalwarming,
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- ohforfuckssake,
- pandemic,
- physics,
- politics,
- polls,
- prehistory,
- psychology,
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- scotland,
- statistics,
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- suicide,
- thefuture,
- trade,
- transgender,
- twins,
- uk,
- usa,
- vaccines
Interesting Links for 08-12-2022
- 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 )
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Are we actually capable,, as a society and a country, of expressing a reaction of mass revulsion?
This demands something even stronger than the 'RNLI moment', when the criminalisation of lifeboatmen by psychopathic racists in the Cabinet triggered a moderately-sized public backlash, and resulted in a surge of donations to the Royal National Lifeboats Institution.
But... There's no liberal media outlet who will support this backlash, here, even for the Samaritans.
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If you're ever on Twitter, you will have seen the view that I expressed on that, retweeted and copied and repeatedly quoted-by-reflex by people who see it the same way I do.
I was astonished to see that it was circulating on Mastodon before I went there a month ago.
And...
It's not about selling papers, it's worse than that: it's the patient and pathological 'capture' of a culture, and people choosing not to care that they were knowingly being subverted and corrupted; and The Guardian are the way they are now, because that's the people that they want to be.