Interesting Links for 02-02-2025

[andrewducker]

1. Impressive horror dance from an Indian reality TV show

(tags:dancing video TV India horror )

2. CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. (like "LGBT")

(tags:censorship USA research OhForFucksSake cdc )

Comments

[cmcmck]

I wondered when he'd go after LGB having declared that trans people don't exist.........

'first they came for the'.............

[nancylebov]

1. Possibly too horrifying for my current mood, but impressive. The reddit page has things to follow, like that it's based on a movie called Bhool bhulaiya.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzYxbnHHhY4&ab_channel=T-Series

[channelpenguin]

2. That's truly horrific. :-(

[andrewducker]

That's fascism.

[channelpenguin]

Yeah. Horrific.

[magedragonfire]

2 - Isn't the CDC a government agency? Would such censorship be a violation of the first amendment?

[andrewducker]

It's their own output they're censoring. I don't think that's something that can be legally challenged. We'll see though!

[magedragonfire]

Fingers crossed. It's like every day there's some new reason to be horrified by what's going on down there.

The big thing on Bluesky today seems to be about Musk Funk's takeover of the Treasury.