Interesting Links for 27-05-2025

[andrewducker]

1. The US health system is now overseen by vaccine deniers. The effects are entirely predictable

(tags:disease pandemic usa vaccines doom )

2. Hong Kong children urged to get Covid jabs as 'whole paediatric ward full'

(tags:pandemic HongKong china children doom vaccination )

3. An Oral History of 'Lilo & Stitch' (the original)

(tags:animation movies Disney Hawaii history )

4. German court rules cookie banners must offer "reject all" button (if they have an "accept all" button)

(tags:cookies surveillance germany dataprotection GoodNews )

5. It makes no sense to cut funding to mental health services when that costs you money in the long run.

(tags:mentalhealth money edinburgh )

6. How much energy does AI use?

(tags:ai electricity )

7. Owls! in! Towels!

(tags:owls cute photos )

8. Explaining a 31-month sentence for a tweet

(tags:racism riots uk law )

Comments

[channelpenguin]

thankyou for 7! a bit of a break from unending climate and health doom.

my own doom I can live with. doom for my darling wee cat I cannot :-(

[toothycat]

5. "It makes no sense to cut funding to mental health services when that costs you money in the long run" - sadly, the incentives don't work out that way:

* cost-cutting today means "savings" that you can claim credit for today

* long-term fallout will happen under a future government, who will take the blame - any pushback they might make on that will be lost in the general "everything bad is the fault of a previous government" rhetoric that previous governments flooded us with and so taught us to ignore

[juan_gandhi]

#8. Why is it racist, I wonder. Is it because everybody knows the race(s) of illegal immigrants, whom Connolly was talking about? This probably means that she was reflecting the common feelings in the country. (I'm clueless about what's going on actually, so all this looks pretty weird to me. To me, she was expressing her opinion. I believe, the only illegal part of her tweet was the word "mass", because with mass deportations you won't be able to maintain human rights. The rest: deportations, burning hotels, it's all legal, if done in a due process. Say, if she wrote something like "we need a legal process to deport illegal immigrants, and we need to destroy the hotels the only purpose of which is to host illegal immigrants", would that be legal?

As an immigrant, I'm pretty much against illegal immigration. But which immigration should be viewed illegal, must be carefully defined. Refugees, are they illegal? I don't think so.

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[zz]

one of my problems with all of the hate crime/terrorism/etc elimination of free speech is that society/law treats things like tweets as some sort of Serious Publishing, rather than the modern version of venting down the pub. we need to adapt to the fact that "putting things in writing" doesn't mean what it used to.

[ninetydegrees]

4 Please make it a EU law. Actually please make reject all buttons mandatory in the EU.

[anna_wing]

The owls look just like my Cats In Towels, ready to be vaccinated...

COVID in spreading in Southeast Asia, so I've started carrying a mask around with me again.

[cellio]

Those owls are just what I needed amidst all the -- flails arms -- stuff going on. Thank you.