Human folly for 02017-05-02

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• The games we play (medium.com):

  Nadia Eghbal speaks out against Dries Buytaert’s #public-shaming of #Larry-Garfield for being #Gorean, and also firing him from all his Drupal-related positions. ‘In the past, Dries might’ve kicked Larry out because “BDSM is a threat to family values”. Today, leaders like Dries kick Larry out because “#BDSM is a threat to gender equality”.’

• You Dont know JS (github.com):

  #JS #ebook series aimed at language lawyers

• 20170328 statistician proves Gaussian correlation inequality (quantamagazine.org):

  #math #statistics proof by Thomas Royen of the Gaussian correlation inequality; nearly ignored because he wrote it in Word and published it in “the Far East Journal of Theoretical Statistics, a periodical based in Allahabad, India...which...listed Royen as an editor”. Not a joke!

• (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov):

  a time-motion study #paper on cataract #medicine from #India, published in 2008 in the Indian Journal of Public Health

• 20170418 how Western civilisation could collapse (bbc.com):

  mathematical models of how #inequality and other factors could #collapse civilization. #predictions

• Ariane5Rep (www-users.math.umn.edu):

  official #paper of the Inquiry Board on the #Ariane-5 failure #RISKS

• Ariane (web.archive.org):

  #paper on the #Ariane-5 failure and whether it could have been avoided by using Eiffel. #RISKS

• Ariane (rvs.uni-bielefeld.de):

  another #paper on the #Ariane-5 failure and what social factors caused it. Broken link; use archive link. #RISKS

• Laughing Congressional hearing Jeff Sessions code pink US (huffingtonpost.com):

  61-year-old Desiree Fairooz (@desireefairooz), Code Pink activist, arrested and prosecuted for laughing at Jeff Sessions’s confirmation. #USA #politics #human-rights