Interesting Links for 13-01-2018

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The Widow, the Bank, and the $8 Billion Verdict (tags: banking death law money ) From Russia With Blood: 14 Suspected Hits On British Soil That The Government Ignored (tags: uk Russia murder ) Online shopping in Africa doesn’t work because addresses don't work (tags: africa maps location web ) A brief translation of today's Facebook news from Facebook speak to English (tl;dr "Fuck you, pay us") (tags: Facebook advertising ) Engineer says he quit Google after order to stop pro-diversity posts (tags: google diversity ) Mothers who regret having children are speaking up like never before (tags: parenting motherhood mother children women happiness ) The Clarke Gap (A useful metric for technology) (tags: magic Technology ux ArthurCClarke ) The company that runs Britain is near to collapse. Watch and worry (tags: UK business fail ) 'The desire to have a child never goes away': The Involuntarily Childless (tags: children mother fatherhood society motherhood sadness ) Introducing the world's toughest snail (tags: snails awesome ocean ) _Why_ Haiti is a shithole (tags: empire racism history ) Women get prominent media jobs in wake of misconduct ousters (tags: women media jobs equality ) Friends came to Netflix and everyone is shocked at the homophobia, transphobia and misogyny What currently acceptable tv shows will look awful in twenty years?
(tags: tv friends bigotry history ) Delivering mail in Kabul’s nameless streets (tags: Afghanistan mail ) In the 1880s Norwegians experienced racism in America (tags: usa norway racism history ) "The question we came to dread: ‘Are you going for a second child?’" (tags: children life questions ) Germany's Emerging Coalition Backs Off Delaying 2020 Climate Targets (tags: globalwarming Germany politics GoodNews ) Original post on Dreamwidth - there are
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