Missing Links (misc)

[andrewducker]

Buncha links went missing. I think this covers everything!

1. How are the British like the Japanese?

(tags:UK Japan society )

2. Edinburgh council rules out pneumatic underground bins

(tags:Edinburgh waste technology )

3. 'All the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order': The riddle of the 'Pulborough Area' torc from Sussex. (And how much effort it takes to find a fraud)

(tags:history archeology fraud )

4. Meta is now allowing lies about the 2020 election in political ads

(tags:facebook advertising fraud politics usa OhForFucksSake )

5. Transforming the future of music creation with AI

(tags:music ai )

6. Elephants might give each other names

(tags:elephants names )

7. for babies born before 34 weeks, delaying the clamping of the cord for a minimum of 60 seconds after birth reduces death by nearly a third

(tags:babies death )

8. Young Animator of the Year UK - an impressive piece for anyone, but for a 16 year old...

(tags:animation children impressive video )

9. Are you a victim of Executive Function Theft

(tags:behaviour work )

10. 'Nimona' breaks LGBT barriers and survives to tell the tale

(tags:LGBT movies animation Disney )

11. Apple announces RCS support for iMessage

(tags:Apple sms communication )

12. Google confirms they will disable uBlock Origin in Chrome in 2024

(tags:adblock Google Chrome web OhForFucksSake )

13. IBM suspends ads on X after they appeared next to Nazi posts

(tags:Twitter Nazis ibm advertising )

14. Nihilist Penguin (Werner Herzog)

(tags:penguin video )

15. Incredible video of Starling murmuration

(tags:video birds )

16. World-first gene therapy that aims to cure sickle-cell disease

(tags:genetics disease GoodNews )

17. Royal Mail owner says 'reform is urgent' after group slumps to a £319m loss

(tags:royalmail uk )

18. People living in Europe are about to get a much better Windows 11

(tags:europe windows regulation )

19. Archaeologists discover previously unknown ancient language (3,000 years old, transliterated into Hittite)

(tags:language archeology )

20. From toy to tool: DALL-E 3 is a wake-up call for visual artists—and the rest of us

(tags:Technology ai art )

21. 'I was deported for wearing tinted moisturiser': Qatar's new LGBT crackdown

(tags:qatar lgbt OhForFucksSake )

22. Why are some jobs so "greedy"?

(tags:jobs )

23. South Korea announces plans to ban consumption of dog meat

(tags:dogs korea food )

Comments

[cmcmck]

1. Well since your origins are in the same part of the world as mine, remember William Adams (aka Anjin Sama)? :o)

[andrewducker]

I used to live very near Will Adams Roundabout!

[flemmings]

1. Coming from a very Brit-influenced background, I found Japanese mores very congenial, except for their notion of a good time. Which was also British (go out in a group and get roaring drunk together) but my French half wanted some conversation, dammit.

[andrewducker]

Me too. I just don't enjoy being around drunk people that much.

[channelpenguin]

Greedy Jobs and Executive Function Theft ... Software development has become FAR more of both in the past 5 years or so. At least for me. We used to have Sysadmins, Ops people, QA testers, DBAs, Support (customer, 2nd line) - as standard. Even in small companies. Putting things "in the cloud" and running DevOps does not take away the need for / advantage of specialists ...

Specialists we DID seem gain were the more technical kind of designers, but I've not done serious UI for years, so I am out of touch there.

[andrewducker]

Definitely far less understanding that work requires concentration.

[coth]

Gossip from a recent conversation: Royal Mail has declared that their Data Centre is not a mission critical department, is dispersing its specialists among non-specialist teams, and leaving what's left in the hands of a generalist manager with no data expertise.

I think this might come back to bite them, she said, mildly...

[andrewducker]

Might????

[coth]

Well. I am British after all. I believe in polite understatement.

Seriously. My interlocutor related a conversation that included the statement that RM can't afford non-critical departments. I shudder. I grant you that it probably not the _single_ most critical department they have, but IRL it must surely be one of the top three, and if that is not understood by the Board then they don't have a functioning business.

[andrewducker]

I despair that a business which has people walking along every street in the UK 6 days a week somehow can't compete with the likes of Hermes. They clearly don't understand how to manage their data systems in the slightest.

[coth]

Well, they are hardly alone in that, are they?

[andrewducker]

True. Even when given direct examples by others of what to do.

[coth]

I would waste time worrying if I thought it would do the slightest good. But it won't. We are at the mercy of our collective failures of understanding.

Archaeologists discover previously unknown ancient language (transliterated into Hittite)

[anef]

Ahem, actually transliterated into cuneiform. Hittite is a language, cuneiform is a script that the Hittites (and a number of other peoples in that part of the world) used. Apparently it was initally developed by the Sumerians.

Re: Archaeologists discover previously unknown ancient language (transliterated into Hittite)

[andrewducker]

Thank you for the clarification!