Interesting Links for 27-10-2015
- Tax credit cuts will leave the low-paid facing a 93 per cent effective tax rate
- Google Turning Its Lucrative Web Search Over to AI Machines
- Former Greece finance minister Yanis Varoufakis is setting up a Europe-wide movement to democratise the EU
- Processed meats as bad as cigarettes: bad reporting on good science
- What time is it now? Confusion reigns in Turkey as no one knows whether the clocks have gone back or not
- (tags: turkey time viaPatrickHadfield )
- Bart needs your help fucking with Facebook
- (tags: Facebook drugs OhForFucksSake )
- The writer of Borderlands comes out as asexual
- (tags: borderlands asexual sexuality )
- Talking Female Characters, “Friendzoning,” and Representation With The Writers Of Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
- (tags: borderlands representation LGBT feminism Games )
- After receiving threats, SXSW cancels panel about online harassment
- (tags: harrassment gaming )
- Breaking down cultural appropriation
- (tags: cultural_appropriation )
- The Fukushima accident was preventable
- "...if international best practices and standards had been followed, if there had been international reviews, and had common sense prevailed in the interpretation of pre-existing geological and hydrodynamic findings"
- (tags: nuclearpower epicfail )
- Hot dog sausages contain human DNA, study says, and many vegetarian ones contain meat
- Did a study _really_ show that hot dogs are contaminated with human DNA?
- (tags: dna research meat food viaErindubitably )
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