Interesting Links for 27-02-2025

[andrewducker]

1. Covid shots protect kids from long Covid —and don't cause sudden death

(tags:pandemic vaccination )

2. Eight Psychiatric Disorders Share the Same Genetic Causes

(tags:autism anorexia ADHD anxiety genetics schizophrenia bipolar depression )

3. Washington Post opinion chief quits as Bezos makes new editorial demands

(tags:USA journalism doom )

4. TypeScript types can run DOOM (ridiculous and nerdy)

(tags:doom type-systems wtf impressive video )

5. Musk tweets about a Mexican telecoms owner cost him billions

(tags:telecoms ElonMusk business epicfail )

6. Consultation on Edinburgh's Seafield regeneration plan.

(tags:edinburgh housing )

7. Edinburgh's Seafield sewage works records 165 spills in a year

(tags:edinburgh sewage )

Comments

[simont]

#3 vs #4: I suspect you of using the "doom" tag in two different senses on purpose :-)

[andrewducker]

I never do things on purpose. I am a leaf on the wind.

[haggis]

5. I clicked through to confirm that Elon's tweet cost him money, rather than the Mexican guy. Good, I really hope that he starts facing consequences for his behaviour (and that everyone who can divests from Starlink).

7. I believe in England, permits generally allow you to spill 10 times a year. So 165 is pretty bad.

Unfortunately, some spills are going to occur because the treatment works are designed to work efficiently at normal flow and climate change is causing more intense storms so storm flows are rising. In theory, you capture the worst stuff in the first flush which clears out the pipes so you spill effectively dirty water. Frequent spills suggest the works is spilling early and not storing enough on site during the storm.

[andrewducker]

Yeah. 165 doesn't sound good at all.

Particularly if they're planning regeneration around that site. Nobody wants to live next to a waste plant that's pumping out sewage.

2

[anna_wing]

Assuming that this is a real and replicable breakthrough, in countries and social classes where that level of medical care will be available, it will probably result in pre-natal genetic screening for those variants, with more abortions of affected foetuses and better treatments for the ones whose parents choose to keep them, and for adults.

Re: 2

[andrewducker]

I suspect you're right.

It seems plausible that some of those variants also confer advantages in some situations (possibly depending on development and how many you have). So losing them entirely would be bad overall.

Re: 2

[anna_wing]

The incidence of Down's Syndrome has crashed in many countries due to selective abortion. And in richer Asian countries, congenital deafness has been noticeably reduced in my lifetime since screening of newborns' hearing was introduced.