Interesting Links for 10-08-2023

[andrewducker]

1. Russia using Wagner in Africa to displace the West and erode democracies

(tags:russia africa corruption )

2. Global warming increases ocean temperatures, stripping the seas of oxygen

(tags:oxygen ocean fish doom )

3. People are publishing AI books with real authors' names.

(tags:ai writing publishing fraud )

4. Covid testing in Scottish hospitals, care homes and prisons to end

(tags:scotland pandemic )

5. Norway fines Facebook owner Meta $100k/day over privacy breaches

(tags:norway facebook privacy regulation )

6. SUSE, the German Linux company, appear to be deeply anti-semitic

(tags:Jews linux OhForFucksSake )

7. Inside Keir Starmer's plan to 'annihilate the left' and appoint 'middle-class and dull' candidate MPs

(tags:labour politics )

8. The electoral breach in the UK was all Microsoft's fault

(tags:uk hacking microsoft )

9. Complex ape-man culture, with burial practices, may have existed in Africa 300,000 years ago

(tags:africa humans evolution society culture death )

10. Gender disparity in the rate of partner abandonment in patients with serious medical illness

(tags:cancer divorce gender )

Comments

[haggis]

10 I have seen that sort of statistic before and it's absolutely horrible and depressing.

Especially as mathematically it must mean that some women are sticking it out in marriages that they would otherwise have left to balance out the men who scarper.

[nancylebov]

I tried looking up #6 to see how much could be verified. I didn't find much.

Dunluke actually did publicity for SUSE.

There was a SUSEcon that ended the day before Yom Kippur in 2017. I'm not even sure it was the same one he was talking about.

I wouldn't mind hearing more about the two managers who were fired.

[bens_dad]

10 I wonder how big a part the US health insurance system plays in this ?