Interesting Links for 08-06-2023

[andrewducker]

1. Labour comes out against Tory 'war on woke' bigotry

(tags:lgbt labour GoodNews )

2. Why ADHD people have so many unfinished projects, and how to reframe that

(tags:adhd )

3. Stack Overflow has made its moderators very very angry

(tags:forum ai communication volunteers doom )

4. Delays to new bus tracker system costs Edinburgh council over £1.5million

(tags:buses edinburgh location )

5. The trailer for John Finnemore's new TV show (Good Omens Season 2) is out!

(tags:TV trailer neilgaiman video davidtennant )

6. The dangerous power of cross examination

(tags:law viaDanielDWilliam psychology )

7. We have hit the great oil plateau

(tags:oil viaDanielDWilliam economics )

8. No, breastfeeding doesn't make kids smarter

(tags:intelligence breastfeeding )

9. The Dutch government wants to automatically gain permission to target victims of hackers

(tags:netherlands hacking law )

10. A detailed explanation of the government's judicial review of the Covid Inquiry - and why this judicial review is so significant

(tags:law pandemic )

11. Australian government set to introduce national ban on Nazi symbols

(tags:australia nazis censorship )

12. Why we shouldn't hold referendums

(tags:referendum )

Comments

[dewline]

1. They had best be getting their act back together in the Labour Party camp. These last couple of years have been problematic.

2. Oh shit.

7. We're already in a danger zone on this stuff...

9. Worrying, this is...

11. The Conservatives in Canada already did stuff to roll back laws on hate speech during the Harper years. I fear what they'll do if they get to form government again under Pierre Poilievre.

Why we shouldn't hold referendums

[jack]

I wrote a longer answer and then deleted it because it was too rambling. I agree 100% that referendums are not a good way to policy decisions. But I don't think we hold them because people want the best policy decision and think that this time a referendum is the best way to get it. Rather, it's more like, people massively disagree about an emotive question that doesn't especially correlate with the election of government parties, and the government reasonably only wants to proceed if there's a CLEAR determination for it. Or the reverse, the government wants to avoid the responsibility, or to pretend they have a mandate when they don't.

[fub]

Pet peeve: using 'Holland' to mean the whole of the Netherlands. Holland is not even the largest part of the Netherlands, and most Dutch people are not Hollanders.

[andrewducker]

Apologies - I meant to go and google what I was supposed to call it, and then got distracted. Fixed now!

[fub]

No hard feelings, in the grand scheme of things it's not that important. That is what makes it a pet peeve! ;)
I'm sure it's similar to when people say "England" when they mean the UK!

[movingfinger]

Labeling ChatGPT et al "AI" is deliberately mendacious. They are text generators.

[cellio]

Yeah. Lots of "A", but no "I" there.

11

[anna_wing]

I hope that the legislation will bear in mind that the swastika is a very commonly used symbol for Buddhists, and to a lesser extent for Jains and Hindus. Given the number of Asians in Australia, this should not be forgotten just because of cultural appropriation by a few gangs of ethnoradical losers.

Re: 11

[andrewducker]

I hope they can take context into account. Shouldn't be that hard!

Re: 11

[jack_ryder]

Swastikas aren't covered by the legislation for exactly that reason

Re: 11

[anna_wing]

That's good to know. Thank you for sharing.