Interesting Links for 30-03-2023

[andrewducker]

1. Giant meatball grown in a vat from extinct mammoth DNA unveiled by food firm

(tags:food extinction elephants technology headline )

2. The German far-right are funnelling money to the Conservatives

(tags:politics germany Conservatives )

3. The people who trained and funded Kate Forbes, who nearly became First Minister of Scotland, are deeply deeply unpleasant bigots

(tags:bigotry LGBT Scotland Christianity religion )

4. Now ChatGPT is being (mis)used to do peer review

(tags:ai research publishing OhForFucksSake fraud )

5. Customer service jobs may be safe from AI for a bit

(tags:ai work fail )

6. Covid may be bringing cancer forward decades

(tags:Pandemic inflammation cancer Doom )

7. Conservatives and Brexit continue to be deeply unpopular with the British public

(tags:UK polls politics Europe )

8. The "Pause AI!" letter making the rounds is full of AI hype

(tags:ai hyperbole viaPatrickHadfield )

9. Inside Britain's anti-abortion training camps

(tags:abortion UK conspiracy )

10. The UK government clearly *wants* to have cyber security issues

(tags:security UK jobs pay Doom )

Comments

[marymac]

I sent #10 to husband earlier and successfully derailed his (cybersecurity network specialist) team meeting for a solid fifteen minutes. Oops.

[mellowtigger]

#6 SARS-CoV-2 infection
That news is consistent with what I've been saying for a long time. I'm sorry. It still would be a very good thing if I'm wrong.

P.S. Reminder: Everything that's happening can be predicted easily from the 5 things to know about SARS-CoV-2.