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

[dewline]

8. Good. The "Euroskeptics" want to make things worse, so their rage can just get vented in an airlock.

10. Yikes.

[mellowtigger]

10. I just noticed that this article is from a year ago. Still, though, it's what I was warning about too. I'm glad that I'm not the only one who sees the (terrible) possibility. It seems like the window of opportunity for my being wrong keeps getting shorter. Yet I still don't see air filters in the few frequently traveled areas I visit like a grocery checkout lane or the library for voting today.