Interesting Links for 30-06-2023

[andrewducker]

1. Breweries are moving to heat pumps

(tags:alcohol heat technology viaDanielDWilliam )

2. Women actively hunt in 70% of hunter-gatherer societies still in existence

(tags:women society )

3. Renaissance Vs baroque Vs romantic art

(tags:art history )

Comments

[channelpenguin]

1. looks like I cant see twitter links now without signing in. Which I wont do. so hmmm.

[andrewducker]

Well that's stupidly annoying!

[mellowtigger]

They previously announced they would delete accounts that didn't login. The last rumor was that 1 year of inactivity might qualify for deletion. Apparently the rapid loss of accounts worried them, because now they're forcing people to login to interact with their platform at all. I see this requirement was mentioned up to 2 years ago, but only in the last few days/weeks has it affected me. Which makes Twitter.com ineffective as a news/sharing platform.

[andrewducker]

Yeah, no point in sharing things there if people can't see them

[mellowtigger]

TechCrunch took notice.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/30/twitter-now-requires-an-account-to-view-tweets/

[agoodwinsmith]

Oh, I see: no heat pump for me. Ah well.

[haggis]

Just checked and wow, how shit is that?

Instagram and Tiktok both allow you to have limited views without logging on. Which is a large part of why I don't have an Instagram or Tiktok account. If I wasn't already on Twitter, this would reduce the chances of me signing up.

[simont]

I think that must have happened within the last couple of days. I'm sure Twitter links worked for me earlier this week, but I agree that now they don't – following that link, I get nothing but a login prompt.

(And I don't even have a Twitter account in the first place to hold my nose and use. And certainly don't feel like making one at this stage!)

[channelpenguin]

I think they possibly just shot themselves in the foot big style with this!

[andrewducker]

I've certainly lost any interest in linking to them

[bens_dad]

To be fair facebook have always been like that; which is why I didn't get a facebook account when they started.

Why put stuff on the web if random other people cannot see it ?

[ninetydegrees]

Yep and any Firefox add-on that would let you bypass other login walls that had been previously been implemented has stopped working too.

[armiphlage]

1. Same.

#2

[lsanderson]

Stop! Stop! Stop trying to confuse me with facts and research. Every good Victorian man knows women are too weak to hunt, and if I can't prove that from my arm chair here at the club...

[hilarita]

2. I'd rather suspected this, given the performance of women in endurance events (especially the ultra ultra stuff). It seemed likely to me that this would be a useful trait for hunters in hunter-gatherer societies. It's nice to see it confirmed by research.