Interesting Links for 09-10-2023

[andrewducker]

1. Written? Kitten! (having problems hitting your word count? This site will reward you with kittens!)

(tags:kittens writing )

2. Twitter is now trying to force people to post everything on their site by deprioritising links. I suspect (and hope) it will go very badly for them.

(tags:Twitter OhForFucksSake business )

3. New study definitively confirms gulf stream weakening

(tags:Doom globalwarming ocean )

4. How one independent researcher conducted the largest-ever survey on fetishes, and what it has to teach us about sex, pleasure, and social science methodology.

(tags:research sex fetish psychology )

5. Musk is nearly done destroying what made Twitter Twitter

(tags:Twitter epicfail design viaPatrickHadfield )

6. EU launches a carbon tax on all imports

(tags:europe tax co2 globalwarming economics )

7. Ticket reselling companies set to lose more than $1million because they bought all of the tickets for an artist that not many people want to see live.

(tags:music business epicfail tickets )

Comments

6.

[channelpenguin]

Did the EU not read your link from last week about all carbon offset schemes being junk? :-)

Re: 6.

[andrewducker]

Carbon offsets are. Carbon taxes are a vastly better idea.

Re: 6.

[channelpenguin]

sorry, I misread the bit that says ". Since 2005, the EU has levied a carbon price on highly polluting industries within its own borders, requiring manufacturers to buy credits to cover the carbon they emit or risk heavy fines"

I misinterpreted "buy credits" I think. It doesn't state how credits actually work.

I was extrapolating from "What we are going to see is a potential mushrooming of other carbon markets,”

[rmc28]

1. the schadenfreude is strong here

[andrewducker]

Assuming that was supposed to be a "7" then yes, absolutely!

[rmc28]

it was! the markdown formatting transformed it

[andrewducker]

I believe you.

(And if I could replicate it then I'd raise a bug for it.)

[rmc28]

honestly? I think that's markdown working as advertised, I should have remembered and either put the number in the comment subject field, or shifted to casual HTML

markdown is what I want about 95% of the time but it does catch me out when it isn't

[andrewducker]

Ah, gotcha. Any number with a . after it triggers the "This is an ordered list" formatting.

(I use Casual HTML as my default. I should probably learn enough markdown to use that instead.)

[marymac]

Oh dear, oh no, so sad, so very sad, etc 😂

[movingfinger]

7. I know nothing about the musician, but, no matter who it is, that's cruel.