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

[azurelunatic]

One of my friends discovered that a supposedly UVA or UVB light sold at a dollar store in the US seems to have been actually a UVC light. So the criminal negligence may be at a different point than one might have first thought. They have hypothesized that a bunch of unsold UVC lights manufactured during the height of the pandemic may have been criminally reboxed and sold to unsuspecting customers. They tried using the light, felt that it wasn't quite right, and only after seeing the apefest problems realized that something could be bad in a more systemic way.

Their thread starts here: https://twitter.com/outliersgeorg/status/1721446109401522400

[andrewducker]

I'm glad they realised!