Interesting Links for 03-08-2024

[andrewducker]

1. Olympics to ban literally every athlete in order to avoid controversy around competitors with 'genetic advantages'

(tags:genetics olympics satire )

2. Seven things to know before forming an opinion on boxing's Olympics gender row

(tags:gender Olympics sports )

3. Thousands of unused affordable homes sitting empty because housing associations can't afford to take them on

(tags:housing UK OhForFucksSake )

4. Fully-automatic robot dentist performs world's first human procedure

(tags:dental automation )

5. The Untold Story of How Ridley Scott Saw 'Star Wars'—and Ended Up Making 'Alien'

(tags:movies StarWars history alien RidleyScott )

6. Cycling trips on Leith Walk double - 9% of trips are now by bike

(tags:cycling Edinburgh Scotland transport )

7. Digital Apartheid in Gaza: Unjust Content Moderation at the Request of Israel's Cyber Unit

(tags:Israel Palestine socialmedia )

8. Old News, New Reality: A Year of Meta's News Ban in Canada

(tags:Facebook news Doom )

9. The Emperor Claudius and the eclipse on his 54th birthday

(tags:Rome eclipse history )

10. What are Labour and the Tories talking about on tax in the UK?

(tags:tax UK Labour conservatives )

Comments

[nancylebov]

3. What's a Housing Association?

[andrewducker]

Good point!

https://www.housing.org.uk/about-housing-associations/

Very different manner of beast than in the USA.

[nancylebov]

The mystery deepens. Why aren't they making low income housing (that I gather they haven't paid for) available?

[andrewducker]

"Ibecause the housing associations that would previously have bought and managed the homes can no longer afford to"

[nancylebov]

Well, yes, but what happened? Do the HA's have less money? Have the houses gotten more expensive?

[andrewducker]

Much less government funding due to our previous Conservative overlords.