Interesting Links for 24-05-2023

[andrewducker]

1. Weapons expert cut from government event because he's against other government policies

(tags:uk censorship government OhForFucksSake )

2. Damning Video Proves Greece Abandons Migrants at Sea

(tags:greece migration asylum OhForFucksSake )

3. Post-Brexit boom in UK companies setting up in Germany

(tags:uk europe trade OhForFucksSake )

4. Bakhmut before-and-after: Satellite images of the city destroyed in the Russia-Ukraine war

(tags:ukraine cities war russia OhForFucksSake )

5. Covid doubles type 1 diabetes risk in children

(tags:diabetes children Pandemic )

6. End of an era: CD Baby stops distributing artists' CDs, vinyl, and other goods

(tags:cd Technology obsolescence )

7. An excellent dissection of how "free to play" games nudge players into handing over their cash.

(tags:games Mario design nintendo )

8. Seabed warfare is a 'real and present threat'

(tags:sea military Technology )

9. DNA Research Reveals Surprising Origins of Native Americans

(tags:USA genetics prehistory viaNancyLebov )

Comments

[dewline]

1. That seems...disturbing.

2. Horrific.

5. And still we're rolling back the protective measures across the planet now. Despite the evidence justifying the need for those measures.

6. Very bad choice. Someone is going to see an opportunity being abandoned here by CD Baby's current parent company.

[andrewducker]

As far as I can tell the number of people buying CDs nowadays is a very small percentage.

[mtbc]

First vinyl sales grew again, then cassette tapes, now we're just waiting for CD sales to increase again. (-:

Seedy CD salesmen...

[hairyears]

I'm not sure that CD's are durable, let alone archival-grade the way vinyl can be: the market for 'vintage' CD's might be outlived by most of its early adopters.

Weapons expert cut from government event because he's against other government policies

[anef]

This is both ludicrous and frightening - so Big Brother *is* watching you!

Re: Weapons expert cut from government event because he's against other government policies

[andrewducker]

The idea that an expert isn't worth hearing from because their ideas are elsewhere on the spectrum from government policies is so ridiculous.

(Particularly when those ideas aren't dangerous ones - not having people along who are racist, etc is fine by me as it will exclude others)