Interesting Links for 07-11-2023

[andrewducker]

1. Happy Mastoversary!

(tags:mastodon socialnetworking )

2. Can solar and wind power Britain? An update of David MacKay's numbers

(tags:renewables windpower solarpower uk )

3. Dengue rates plunged by up to 97% after release of lab-altered mosquitoes

(tags:disease mosquito GoodNews )

4. It's nice to know that I'm not the only person who looks up the plots of movies too scary for me to watch on Wikipedia

(tags:Wikipedia horror movies video funny )

5. File this under "Headlines that should be satire but somehow aren't."

(tags:headline Israel Palestine wtf OhForFucksSake health weight )

6. The UK planning system is a disaster

(tags:UK planning building infrastructure OhForFucksSake )

7. Not content with scamming people out of large amounts of money for bad monkey art, NFC companies are now trying to blind them

(tags:eyesight light OhForFucksSake EpicStupidity blockchain )

8. EU equality laws to be reinstated by the UK to avoid 'gap in protections' for workers

(tags:UK Europe equality law )

9. Scottish ministers refuse to comply with UK government strike plan

(tags:uk scotland unions strike )

10. Is 'Long Covid' similar to 'Long SARS'? (If so it can persist permanently)

(tags:pandemic disease )

Comments

[calimac]

7. Puzzled as to what this could mean, I looked it up and was shocked to find it meant "blind" literally.

[andrewducker]

It really did require an epic amount of stupidity on the part of whoever organised it.

[bens_dad]

It really did require an epic amount of stupidity on the part of whoever organised it.

... and someone else in Hong Kong did the same thing six years ago.

Not sure whether this will amount to jail-time stupidity or just going-bust stupidity.