Interesting Links for 25-03-2023

[andrewducker]

1. "Everything I, an Italian, thought I knew about Italian food is wrong"

(tags:food italy history )

2. Utah demands parental permission for social media site usage - hands over childrens' private messages to parents.

(tags:children socialmedia usa privacy OhForFucksSake )

3. Russia is discovering that its friendship with China has limits

(tags:china russia trade diplomacy )

4. 50% of men and 20% of women think they could land a plane in an emergency. They are almost certainly wrong

(tags:airplanes confidence belief psychology )

5. Wyoming's abortion ban is blocked by a judge for the most hilarious reason

(tags:abortion obama USA law )

6. GPT-4 is great with coding problems it's seen before, terrible with novel ones

(tags:programming ai memory )

7. Principal resigns after Florida students shown Michelangelo statue

(tags:Florida OhForFucksSake art nudity )

Comments

[lilysea]

Utah demands parental permission for social media site usage - hands over childrens' private messages to parents

Oh for fuck's sake.

This has the very real potential to get Lesbian; Gay; Bisexual; Transgender students made homeless or even killed.

[cmcmck]

4. this is on a par with the GP who threatened to out me to my parents when I went to try and get help in my early teens. And you know what happened with me and my parents............

[channelpenguin]

2. FFS!
7. FFS! Nakedness != sexual. Plus the sex-ed ban bit - cue (yet more) clueless but fertile 12yr olds getting pregnant - and being forced to give birth (wrecking health and finances in one go).

4. FFS! Why do so many people live in a fantasy world that disregards reality and discounts training, education hard-won expertise of any sort? I mean, why the fuck do they think pilots (in this example) go through the long and difficult training that they do?

[naath]

2 - ffs
4 - I reckon a plane could land itself...