Interesting Links for 15-07-2024

[andrewducker]

1. Questions for Wes Streeting on his banning of puberty blockers

(tags:LGBT transgender Labour OhForFucksSake children puberty )

2. Objective tests for aphantasia

(tags:vision brain psychology )

3. What would the general election have looked like with PR

(tags:elections UK proportional_representation )

4. Could HS2 be revived? Government still owns £500m land from Birmingham to Manchester

(tags:hs2 GoodNews )

5. How Nextdoor reduced racial bias by 75% with improved design

(tags:racism bias design )

Comments

[channelpenguin]

ooh 2. looks interesting

and 5 is very heartening!

[mountainkiss]

The Nextdoor article is super interesting thank you! So many things become more tractable when viewed as design problems.

[andrewducker]

Yes!

I love that the new design doesn't have a "Is this racist?" check, it merely asks people to give some more detail, and pay attention to what they're saying, and that gets rid of most of it.

[gingicat]

The aphantasia test is wild. Now I want to ask my husband to look at my eyes when I imagine a bright light. (And vice versa.)