Interesting Links for 18-01-2023

[andrewducker]

1. The Parliamentary Inquiry into English Childcare is looking for feedback. If you're in England then have your say on the state of childcare

(tags:children UK childcare )

2. Brexit has created shortage of 330,000 workers in UK

(tags:UK work migration Doom Europe )

3. What was life like for a poor family in London in 1900?

(tags:life history family poverty uk )

4. Edinburgh council starts taking work back from private contractors to improve quality of service and conditions for staff

(tags:edinburgh work outsourcing )

5. Artists file class-action lawsuit against AI image generator companies

(tags:ai images copyright )

6. What measurement system does the UK use? (ALL OF THEM!)

(tags:measurement UK funny video )

7. How MPs voted on blocking Scotland's gender reform bill (Labour whipped to abstain)

(tags:UK voting )

8. A look at the arguments the UK government has put forward for blocking Scotland's gender reform act

(tags:Scotland UK law LGBT transgender viaDanielDWilliam )

9. What if you could be nudged to do the right thing? (Read on beyond the fake research writeup to the short story)

(tags:scifi behaviour psychology happiness augmentedreality )

Comments

[danieldwilliam]

The UK government's arguements were much less sophisticated than I thought they would be. I feel bad for them.

[conuly]

3:

It seemed, after further patient waiting on the part of the visitors, that the husbands and children[58] could not abide porridge—to use the expressive language of the district, “they ’eaved at it.”

So much for "poor children are just happy to get food, they'll eat whatever you put in front of them", huh.

But what's all that at the start of the link, with hearthstone and red ochre and doorsteps?