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Linkdump 29-02-2016
Mon, Feb. 29th, 2016 09:00- miss_s_b | A poll: What time of day is better for linkspams to appear?
I, too, would be interested in the results of this.
- Black MP Dawn Butler reveals racism in Parliament after colleague assumed she was a cleaner - Mirror Online
"‘This lift really isn’t for cleaners’."
- Donald Trump is not a joke: A warning to Americans from an Italian who survived Berlusconi - Quartz
"Like Trump, Berlusconi consistently seemed too absurd to be true[...] People didn’t take him or what he said seriously. Then one day we woke up to find our government overrun by criminals, our economy destroyed, and our cultural mores perverted to the extent that the objectification of women was commonplace. There was no more laughing left to do." See also: Boris
- How Eurosceptic is your area? | YouGov
I'm no statistician but I detect a sort of general trend.
- Great British bands and the region they originate from - Vivid Maps
Missed opportunity for gag about the Beautiful South
- Parents on a Date Were Asleep in Car When Cops Arrived and Killed Them Both – The Free Thought Project
Seven new orphans created because an armed, armoured policeman felt scared of the scary black man. Also note the logic: "Obviously at some point they were conscious because somebody felt threatened" == "obviously they were guilty because they were arrested".
- The World's First Cultured Meatball - Memphis Meats ¦ Youtube
"This is the first time a meatball has ever been cooked with beef cells that did not require a cow to be slaughtered". Paging @GreatDismal.
- How not to say the wrong thing - LA Times
Ring Theory: a useful exercise in perceptual positioning. "Dump out, comfort in" would seem to be functionally equivalent to "punch up, not down".
- The Ontario Government Is Investigating Giving Everyone Free Money | Motherboard
I love the fact that this is becoming a mainstream idea.
- AlphaGo and AI Progress - Miles Brundage
This is big. Holy grail achieved, and inna way that seems (mostly) to be generalizable.
- In a Huge Breakthrough, Google’s AI Beats a Top Player at the Game of Go | WIRED
Slightly more simplified account. Parts of this are best read inna Schwarzenegger accent.
- Robots will take your job - The Boston Globe
This is how big it is: "We must seriously start talking about decoupling income from work".
- No Go: Facebook fails to spoil Google's big AI day | Technology | The Guardian
The creatures outside looked from Zuckerberg to Google, and from Google to Zuckerberg, and from Zuckerberg to Google again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.