Interesting Links for 08-12-2022
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andrewducker- 1. Support for Independence hits 56%, 51% of people to vote SNP (53% if it's a defacto referendum)
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- 2. Transphobes are now attacking...The Samaritans.
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- 3. BBC plans to switch off broadcast TV and move to internet-only programmes
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- 4. Discovery of world's oldest DNA breaks record by one million years
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- 5. The Art Game and the Money Game and how the ending of Minecraft was set free
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- 6. Sats: MPs and peers fail tests for 11-year-olds as campaign groups call for overhaul of 'high-stakes' exams
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- 7. First UK coal mine in decades approved
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- 8. Europe First: Brussels gets ready to dump its free trade ideals (because the USA and China both already have)
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- 9. Two inhaled covid vaccines have been approved. Here's what you need to know.
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- 10. AI learns to precisely manipulate individual atoms
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- 11. How Many Fundamental Constants Does It Take To Explain The Universe? (26, at the moment)
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- 12. People expect identical twins to be *really* identical
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- 13. Humans are surprisingly poor at picking up cues of aggression in dogs
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Date: 2022-12-09 07:39 am (UTC)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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Date: 2022-12-09 01:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-12-09 03:36 pm (UTC)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.