Interesting Links for 12-07-2024

[andrewducker]

1. "Microsoft destroyed my online life after I called home to Gaza"

(tags:microsoft gaza )

2. Inside the Playstation 4's fully automated factory

(tags:playstation automation robots manufacturing )

3. If you were looking for a non-bigoted way to buy books then can I recommend an online store run by independent local booksellers - bookshop.org

(tags:books shopping )

4. Yale releases report critical of the Cass transgender youth care research study

(tags:uk bigotry transgender research fraud )

5. Who's responsible for our accountability problem?

(tags:bureaucracy rules squirrel )

Comments

[nancylebov]

5. I suggest a content warning.

[gingicat]

tw: graphic reference to past horrible and egregious animal harm that I dearly hope is an urban legend.

[ckd]

Sadly, the incident is too well documented to be an urban legend.

[gingicat]

*sigh* people suck.

[ckd]

Systems lacking proper feedback and exception mechanisms suck, and such systems are far too often created by people.

[gingicat]

I hope that systems have been created that don't require painful death of creatures who don't deserve it.

Point 3

[dewline]

This is specific to the UK?

I think there may be a Canadian equivalent, but I'm not sure at the moment.

Re: Point 3

[nancylebov]

There's an American branch: https://bookshop.org/

Re: Point 3

[nancylebov]

https://www.howitravel.co/shipping-bookshop-canada/

They don't ship to Canada, but they've got information about getting books forwarded.

[gingicat]

*notes down the bookshop*

[zz]

1 - there really needs to be a solution to these companies that have become utilities and completely depended on, sometimes for livelihoods, just cutting people off from all access, and with no accountability. google+youtube are terrible for it too.

[andrewducker]

Absolutely.