Interesting Links for 15-02-2024

[andrewducker]

1. I do not share the taste of the people who decorated this house

(tags:housing design )

2. The correct way to reheat pizza

(tags:pizza )

3. The 2023 Hugo Awards: A Report on Censorship and Exclusion (leaked emails reveal what was going on)

(tags:Hugo awards china censorship scifi fandom viaPatrickHadfield )

4. 54% of Americans read a book last year

(tags:books reading USA )

5. I have clearly been wasting my life raising kids when I could have been pursuing my dreams like this instead!

(tags:dancing fatherhood parenting video OhForFucksSake )

6. Finland's entry into Eurovision is amazing

(tags:Finland eurovision video music windows )

7. Backdoors that let cops decrypt messages violate human rights, EU court says

(tags:encryption rights europe )

Comments

[nancylebov]

It's presumably a coincidence that the breakdancing family neglector is followed by the No Rules video.

[andrewducker]

It is!

I hope that Mr Windows95 has not abandoned his family to be on Eurovision.

[rmc28]

Ah excellent, love the Finland entry.

[cmcmck]

1. Hmmmm.....I see that you mean!

[adrian_turtle]

The study about reading surprises me. I had thought romances were more popular, but then I realized they were counting the person who read 2 romance novels every week (plus one cookbook for the holidays) the same as the person who read 3 books about sewing and "A Dress A Day," after getting it by mistake.

[hilarita]

7. Hooray for the EU!

[lilysea]

54% of Americans read a book last year

I had to read that sentence again, because I thought at first it said

"54% of Americans read a book last MONTH"

No books in a year? Are they not counting ebooks or audiobooks?
Are they dyslexic or illiterate?

[andrewducker]

About half the population just aren't very interested in books.

[simont]

Actually just statistical error. Average person reads 0 books per year. SF fans, who live in caves and read over 10,000 each day, are outliers and should not be counted.

[andrewducker]

Oh, to be able to read that much.

(Well, maybe not *that* much)

[zz]

i'm not sure i read a book last year, but i read all day every day...

[conuly]

On the one hand, the skillet is absolutely the correct way to reheat a pizza, good job.

On the other - turn that handle in, do you want to knock it off the stove!?

[bens_dad]

7. For several minutes I thought that Russia was obeying the ECHR. It is "just" that what Russia asked Telegram to do was found to upset the human rights of a Telegram user in the EU.

I am pleased that the EU Court has understood that the crooks can have whatever the cops have.

1. Agreed. Not sure whether their interior decor is worse than their exterior decor.

2. Does sound like it might be a good way to reheat pizza.

3. Bah. Trying to avoid a problem, but making it much worse.

4, "A book" includes an ebook or an audiobook, but I wonder how many of them read a newspaper (ours have more words than a slim novel) or as many words on social media ?

6. Windows95 did very little for me until the [spoiler deleted] which seems likely to be a one time trick.

5. ... doesn't deserve to be left out, but I have nothing to add.

[foms]

Reheating pizza seems to me to be like global thermonuclear war: the only winning move is not to play.

[cellio]

1: that's grim. And some of that looks like tile, not just paint or furnishings, so it's more expensive to fix.