Interesting Links for 23-08-2023

[andrewducker]

1. The UK has a massive housing shortage, and yet builders are building less, because inflation is up.

(tags:uk housing OhForFucksSake )

2. Pioneering wind-powered cargo ship sets sail

(tags:wind shipping Technology )

3. Gaps in Elon Musk's SpaceX Starlink service cost Ukrainian lives and forced retreat

(tags:Ukraine Russia ElonMusk war )

4. We're All Just Temporarily Abled. (I notice this more and more. Every time a new twinge comes along I wonder if it'll be the one that doesn't ever get better)

(tags:bodies age aging )

5. Leaving the ECHR isn't popular, even with Tories

(tags:echr rights Europe politics polls UK )

6. W. H. Auden's 1954 review of The Fellowship of the Ring.

(tags:review lotr )

7. Could decriminalisation solve Scotland's drug problem? (Lessons from Portugal)

(tags:drugs decriminalization portugal scotland )

8. Can't lose what you never had: Claims about digital ownership and creation in the age of generative AI

(tags:ai intellectual_property regulation fraud usa )

Comments

[nancylebov]

#4. I know there was a time when I wasn't emotionally involved in the question of whether there were bannisters, but I don't remember what it was like.

I don't think the failing to remember those days is a problem with my memory. I think not caring about bannisters is a non-experience, while being concerned about bannisters is a vivid thing.

I'm 70, and I've gotten off easy so far compared to a lot of people.

[andrewducker]

Yes, I'm sure that at some point that will be me too. Fingers crossed I get some travelling in first!

[nancylebov]

People with bad knees can still travel.