Interesting Links for 06-08-2025

[andrewducker]

1. Scientific fraud has become an industry, alarming analysis finds

(tags:science research publishing fraud OhForFucksSake )

2. An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine (Finds that less than 2% of the money raised goes to the candidates)

(tags:democrats fundraising corruption )

3. Didn't Take Long To Reveal The UK's Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About

(tags:UK privacy censorship politics OhForFucksSake )

4. World Athletics' mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know - I discovered the relevant gene in 1990

(tags:genetics sports gender )

5. Tech billionaires are arguing amongst themselves about how exactly humanity should go extinct

(tags:extinction humans ai thefuture )

6. When Disney Went Digital (earlier than you'd think)

(tags:Disney history computers technology art animation movies )

7. Labour got a bunch of former-Conservative voters in Scotland, and are now in danger of shedding them to Reform (might explain a few things)

(tags:scotland politics Conservatives labour )

Comments

Re: 5.

[channelpenguin]

Indeed I did. I should have use "one" but that has fallen out of casual use in English (but not in German!). Apologies.

Yes, genocide is a better word. By niggle, I mean that it was not truly clear to me that ALL those people are all advocating for the genocide of humanity. But certainly some are. So I meant that for me to quibble over me finding no explicit mention was "a niggle" not that the fact that some people have effectively genocidal plans is "a niggle"! Because that is NOT. And I DO believe that at at least some people have such plans.