Interesting Links for 17-08-2023

[andrewducker]

1. Pink Floyd's song recreated by scientists using recorded brain waves

(tags:music brain neuroscience )

2. German cabinet backs plan to legalise cannabis use

(tags:Germany marijuana legalisation )

3. Bomb threats and 'swatting' campaign hits dozens of US synagogues

(tags:USA Jews OhForFucksSake )

4. Livejournal just blocked a 7-year-old post of mine for linking to this Teen Vogue guide to anal sex. I guess Russian repression is kicking into high gear!

(tags:sex teenagers Livejournal Russia censorship )

5. Awesome Chinese tech expert Naomi Wu was silenced. Nobody cared.

(tags:china censorship lgbt Technology )

Comments

[bens_dad]

1. I have been saying for a couple of decades that "scientists with computers can read your mind - from a distance of 2 cm !"

This is clearer, but they have to get inside your skull to do it.

Better, than the mice in The HitchHiker's Guide though; they thought they needed to take Arthur's brain out and dice it to read the Ultimate Question.

[andrewducker]

If we wanted *that* we'd probably still have to get in there with a blender.

[cmcmck]

Time to get the hell off LJ I'd say- the Soviet style transphobia of a number of years back finally saw me run.

[andrewducker]

Oh, I haven't updated it since February 2022, when they stopped allowing crossposting. I still have the account so I can keep up with a few friends who have bizarrely stayed on there.

[hilarita]

5. How very depressing. Also true for 3.

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[anna_wing]

but we aren’t actually people, we’re just signs for people like you in the West to wave at each other in their ideological war.

That has always been the case, but sadly each generation must learn it anew.

[doubtingmichael]

3: What I find most staggering in that article is the statement that calling in a false bomb threat apparently isn't illegal in America. Or is this the police being rubbish?