Interesting Links for 05-12-2023

[andrewducker]

1. Scottish Greens vote to ban 'Behaviour Modification' practices for disabled people

(tags:Scotland disability autism abuse GreenParty )

2. Edinburgh council statement on their house emergency

(tags:edinburgh housing homelessness )

3. Harvard Gutted Initial Team Examining Facebook Files Following $500 Million Donation from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

(tags:Facebook corruption USA research academia )

4. Possibly the worst customer service of all time (cancelled plane edition)

(tags:airplanes kenya epicfail )

5. Liz Truss to propose law banning biological males from single-sex spaces

(tags:lgbt bigotry OhForFucksSake conservatives UK )

6. Did you know that the *Real* version of the Muppet Christmas Carol is on Disney+ (hidden in a submenu)

(tags:Muppets Christmas Disney )

7. Happy Clair Cameron Patterson day! He did a lot more than most to improve the world (by fighting to remove lead from so many things)

(tags:lead health )

8. Neurons in your eye help keep your view stable

(tags:neuroscience eyes humans )

9. UK police are using AI data analysis to spot crimes. And they want to start predicting them.

(tags:ai data predictions crime police uk )

10. Bye bye to the Edinburgh Zoo pandas

(tags:edinburgh zoo panda )

11. "My $500M Mars Rover Mistake: A Failure Story"

(tags:mars space epicfail )

Comments

[cmcmck]

5. So I become even more closeted as the best form of defence against this imbecility. Those of my generation were always told blend blend blend and there were reasons for that.

[andrewducker]

It is just so awful. I am hopeful that it will not get passed though. Or will get caught up in court cases until the Tories are kicked out.

It's them stoking the culture wars in the hope that it wins them a few votes.

[cmcmck]

This sort of contentious PMB very rarely goes anywhere and we have to hold on to that thought!

[anef]

I am sorry. I hope this Tory nightmare will be over soon.

[cmcmck]

We're due an election in the course of next year which will hopefully see the back of them!

[fub]

10: I don't see the appeal of the giant pandas in zoos. They are spectacular unremarkable and don't seem to move around that much. And then there's the thing where the Chinese government retains all ownership of them and uses them as tools for propaganda. I'm not a fan of the concept, I'm fine with a zoo without giant pandas.

(And let's be honest, red pandas are so, so much cuter than giant pandas.)

[andrewducker]

We saw the red pandas today and they were terribly cute.