Interesting Links for 14-07-2023

[andrewducker]

1. I missed that Biden terminated federal private prison contracts 2 years ago

(tags:prison business politics usa )

2. How crab sticks are made. (Sophia loves those things)

(tags:factory food video )

3. Phones with replaceable batteries to be required by 2027 thanks to the EU

(tags:Europe phones batteries )

4. ChatGPT owner in probe over risks around false answers

(tags:ai fraud regulation usa )

5. Magnetic drive has the potential to silence submarines

(tags:magnets submarine usa )

6. Nearly every home in the UK will need a heat pump by 2050 as plan for hydrogen to replace gas is ditched

(tags:hydrogen uk GoodNews heating )

7. Studios demanded the ability to scan actors once, owning their image forever

(tags:actors faces scanning )

8. FDA approves the first over-the-counter birth control pill

(tags:usa contraception )

9. Participating in genetic studies is in your genes

(tags:research genes )

10. London faces a measles outbreak of tens of thousands of cases unless vaccination rates improve

(tags:vaccination london OhForFucksSake )

Comments

[calimac]

1. It doesn't mean much in a practical sense, as most prisoners in the US are in state prisons, and Biden has no authority over those. But it sure is important symbolically.

4. This just makes me more exasperated at my brother, who's using ChatGPT as if it were an oracle to answer philosophical conundrums of the "Can God make a rock too heavy for him to lift?" sort. And then he sends me the transcripts. By this point I'm just deleting them unread.

5. At last, an article that actually references the movie that immediately comes to mind when reading it.

7. And people blame the shutdown on the actors who went on strike. Why not blame the studios who insisted on these awful things?

2 - "crab" sticks

[agoodwinsmith]

I am always fascinated and horrified by how processed food is made.

The machinery is fascinating and ingenious, and the goo is *so* too goo; and it also always surprises me the little parts of the process that are still best done by a human.

And: ew. ;)