Friday 5th April, 2019 #
- 21 people were killed on 21st November 1974 in the Birmingham pub bombing, the IRA call to prevent it came in a bit too late
- There are moves being made to unionize in the video games industry following many 1000s of layoffs worldwide
- News organizations have all but abandoned their archives - I very much agree that digital archiving is a massive issue, and everyone loves the internet archive, but as I have said before, in my experience the internet arvhive works in mysterious ways, at least for me, mostly it just does not work
- Japanese spacecraft 'bombs' asteroid in scientific mission - The latest in the "let's blow things up really quite near the earth" race, asteroid was at a distance that is equivalent of a mear 2% of the earth's diameter - At what distance does it become safe to blow stuff up and not risk a space debris chain reaction catastrophe?
- Ecuador to Expel Assange Within ‘Hours to Days,’ WikiLeaks Says - Is this the new drama now that Brexit extensions are going to be put in place?
- Racist abuse of Juventus forward Moise Kean intolerable says Italy manager Roberto Mancini - "Even in England, where they are far ahead of us in the fight against racism, these things still happen"
- Google cancels AI ethics board in response to outcry
- Amazon to offer broadband access from orbit with 3,236-satellite ‘Project Kuiper’ constellation - I'm starting to get worried about this satellite space race that seems to be heating up, it's very risky develomnents and we have no backup planet, no way to retrieve space debris, they are talking about more than 10 000 satellites in the near future, at what point does it becaome an environmental issue? It would be more wise to stop sending up satellites until we have a proven safe way to recover from a space debris chain reaction catastrophe - a mistake in this area could mean the end of the human race in the distant long term