Interesting Links for 23-04-2024

[andrewducker]

1. How to stop a teenage girl from playing Warhammer (and then, several years later, how to invite her in)

(tags:games Warhammer sexism )

2. Doctor Who: If Not Gallifrey, Where IS the Doctor From?

(tags:drwho TV )

3. Increasingly irregular seasons caused by changes in earth's tilt drove the rise of agriculture

(tags:agriculture climatechange earth )

4. The Cass Review absolutely did ignore almost all evidence on the efficacy & safety of puberty blockers and hormones

(tags:LGBT bigotry transgender research UK )

5. Glasgow - Edinburgh trains: We need another station on the main line

(tags:trains glasgow edinburgh scotland )

6. Animation companies are unwittingly subcontracting to North Korea

(tags:animation it NorthKorea )

Comments

[cmcmck]

The Cass review is an almighty mess and it's leaving kids with no help at all.

If they wanted to know how hormone therapy had gone in the longer term all they needed to do was to ask old dears like me!

[fub]

The comments on the Warhammer story is why I don't want to have anything to do with the Warhammer "community".

[andrewducker]

Never read the comments!

[anef]

I couldn't read the comments! (But now I realise that I didn't want to.)

[bens_dad]

6. OK, so it is breaking the sanctions against North Korea, but this illegal work benefits ordinary workers, not the military rulers, so is there any real harm ?

How are the animators and programmers in Korean being paid, or at least how are they getting to spend it on their rent, food or other goods that end up in North Korea ?

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If we can ban people from hiring workers in North Korea, please can we ban people from hiring work from AIs, or at least from power-hungry AIs ? If AI-produced work requires more energy than a human would use, it should not be allow, perhaps ?

[dewline]

Item 2: Last option is definitely amusing!

[matgb]

Flux had the personification of time itself as one of the characters. The Doctor is the personfication of either Space or The Universe. Or both. Simples, ties in with the stuff Cartmel was doing with 7 as well