Interesting Links for 23-05-2026

[andrewducker]

1. EHRC's new chair in Scotland linked to anti-abortion dark money groups

(tags:UK rights abortion OhForFucksSake bigotry )

2. The Translator Behind Elden Ring & Dark Souls

(tags:games Japan translation video )

3. The science of spaghetti: Neutron scattering explains why gluten-free pasta falls apart

(tags:gluten pasta food )

4. Is AI Profitable Yet?

(tags:ai business )

5. The Entire History of Medieval Europe in 23 minutes

(tags:europe history video )

Comments

[juan_gandhi]

Regarding #5: the guy is talking with an accent that sounds strange to me, pretty hard to understand. Do you know what kind of accent it is (and is it an accent, or just a feature)?

[andrewducker]

Pretty sure that's an Irish accent.

[juan_gandhi]

Oh, ok. Now I know; thanks!

[dewline]

1. So EHRC has been "captured" from the inside, I take it.

[andrewducker]

Yup. Tories appointed a transphobe and then Labour decided to do that rather than piss off their reactionary wing.

[redbird]

I am amused but unsurprised that the only profits being made in AI are by Invidia selling lots of chips to the companies that think, or claim, that they can make money with AI applications.

[symbioid]

WTF?
"Campanale sued the Liberal Democrats in 2024, claiming that the party had discriminated for deselecting him as an electoral candidate because of his protected Christian beliefs. The Liberal Democrats argued that Campanale had not told them about his opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage or his previous membership of a Christian right political party, but admitted last month they had breached his human rights."

So, you MUST take me even if you vehemently oppose everything I stand for, otherwise it's discrimination against me as a member of a protected class... What even IS a political party at that point?

[andrewducker]

Yeah, it makes no sense at all to me.