Interesting Links for 08-11-2025

[andrewducker]

1. What's wrong with the UK's housing market (and why are Labour's plans to tinker around the edges unlikely to help)

(tags:uk housing doom viaFJM )

2. The Battle Iranian Women Are Winning

(tags:iran women religion society GoodNews islam clothing )

3. Early-stage clinical trial demonstrates promise of intranasal influenza vaccine in generating broad immunity

(tags:vaccines viaKenny flu GoodNews )

4. Getty Images v Stability AI: A landmark High Court ruling on AI, copyright, and trade marks

(tags:uk ai law )

5. The old proxies for trustworthiness no longer work.

(tags:trust design scam fraud )

Comments

3.

[channelpenguin]

I'm sad at how slow it's being getting these intranasal and/or broad spectrum anti virals to market. We really need them. I suppose not everyone yet takes in how advantageous for health it is to avoid viral infections (because a virus seems to be with us for life, hiding out and causing aftereffects we are only recently discovering/connecting).

Speaking to you live from what this week became a Bird flu "observation zone". On the other side of town it's a full exclusion zone (no poultry movements in or out). So there's cases. We have a huge huge huge wild bird population, including migratory species. Nearly everyone here (except me) keeps "backyard chickens". I trust only about one or two neighbours to do the right thing if they have illness in their flock, and one I outright suspect of previously dumping diseased carcasses. And I think it's pretty much slaughter season...

I'm in former East Germany, that (likely due to historical mandatory vaccinations) has a massive population of vaccine refusers, plus a hard/dismissive attitude to illness.

I believe bird flu is 90% fatal to cats? My beloved ex-feral cat Felix hunts, including birds. :-(. Thankfully, doesn't seem to be targeting them right now.

Re: 3.

[andrewducker]

Hopefully they'll get them through testing soon.