Interesting Links for 24-10-2023

[andrewducker]

1. A checklist for managers

(tags:management advice lists )

2. Excel now lets you disable its "helpful" turning of letter/number combinations into dates.

(tags:date excel GoodNews )

3. Four of the five developers for the original Mario game worked on the most recent one

(tags:Mario games development history )

4. The pandemic's true death toll (around 27m people. So far.)

(tags:Pandemic death )

5. The UK criminal justice system has now failed

(tags:UK law epicfail austerity )

6. Edinburgh University failing over sexual misconduct complaints

(tags:Edinburgh university abuse sex )

7. UK Government using AI to decide on benefits and driving licences

(tags:ai OhForFucksSake law government uk )

8. 'Failure to act' on suicide website linked to 50 UK deaths

(tags:suicide uk web )

Comments

[naath]

8. let people make choices you don'h like dammit

[andrewducker]

There are irrevocable choices people can make which seem vital for what turn out to be temporary reasons.

I'm on board with euthenasia. I'm not on board with people who are suffering from depression being encouraged to kill themselves without being offered help first.

[naath]

well that would b e nice if anyone could actually help, there is no money or time, so you can be poor and miserable, b ut you must be alive, that is all that matters, and I am sick of it

[andrewducker]

Yes, I agree that that's a shit state, and I'm not at all happy about that.

[zz]

amen. censorship *and* denying people the right to end their own lives is 2 human rights violations.

[naath]

well quite, but think of the chiiiiildren (I aw, all the children stuck with awful parents, but of course the parental lobby has all the power)