Interesting Links for 10-08-2024

[andrewducker]

1. Edinburgh council is carrying out a consultation on Firework control zones - have your say here

(tags:fireworks Edinburgh consultation )

2. More than 2,000 people died from the heat in England last summer

(tags:heat death UK )

3. The truth about Trump's press conference

(tags:republicans journalism doom )

4. A Huge New York office building sold for a 97% discount. How much worse can the office space market get?

(tags:office newyork economics )

5. Love this review of "The Crush House" a game that has you working as a camera operator on a reality show, forced to balance the needs of competing audiences and the demands of the contestants.

(tags:games reality TV review )

Comments

[misbegotten]

Shouldn't one of the tags on #2 be doom? How depressing.

[andrewducker]

Probably. I don't guarantee accuracy in the tags. Or, indeed, anything else.

[calimac]

3) It turns out the helicopter story is less bonkers than it seems. Trump did once share a scary helicopter ride with a black politician, it just wasn't Willie Brown. It was Nate Holden, a Los Angeles city councilman. "I guess we all look alike," Holden quipped when telling about this. Story.

(And they certainly wouldn't have been discussing Kamala Harris, who was a newly-hired deputy DA in Oakland at the time.)

[andrewducker]

That's somewhat less bad than just imagining things, I guess!