ben_hr @ben_hr@social.coop

This is my Everest - “The Case For Inbox Infinity” https://warzel.substack.com/p/the-case-for-inbox-infinity

Astonishing study of 76 𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙤𝙣 Brazilians found that cash transfers reduced suicide risk by 61% over 12 years https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3766234 via 🔒

‘Like hunting for unicorns’: Australians on the search for adequate, affordable mental healthcare http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/apr/19/like-hunting-for-unicorns-australians-on-the-search-for-adequate-affordable-mental-healthcare The need for (and absence of) proportionate universalism in health services is perhaps most obvious in mental health

Brain fog: how trauma, uncertainty and isolation have affected our minds and memory http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/apr/14/brain-fog-how-trauma-uncertainty-and-isolation-have-affected-our-minds-and-memory Interesting, and recognisable.

I suspect the real purpose of automated transport and delivery investment is to drive down wages and disempower labour, even if it ends up costing more in the medium term http://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/apr/12/dominos-pizza-nuro-robotic-pizza-delivery-houston

This is the reference photo I used

On Becoming A Person

Carl Rogers, the person who has probably had the greatest impact on my personal philosophy, and whose work I’ve been re-reading. This is the most difficult project I’ve tackled in the three months since I started drawing/illustrating in earnest. I decided to try a portrait using only the watercolour brushes in Fresco, which was much more difficult than I’d expected. I hope I did him justice.

What a day

Guilt and fury: how Covid brought mothers to breaking point http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/feb/28/mums-women-coronavirus-covid-home-schooling-inequality

So, er, avoid engaging with online information altogether https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/opinion/fake-news-media-attention.html

Thanks to @codl for that oddity

Today I learned about the “expert wizard amendment” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_wizard_amendment

AstraZeneca ChAdOx1-S approved by TGA https://www.tga.gov.au/covid-19-vaccine-astrazeneca-chadox1-s 12 week interval

tl;dr: prehistoric conch horn still works - First record of the sound produced by the oldest Upper Paleolithic seashell horn https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/7/eabe9510

AI can detect human emotions with wireless signals https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2021/02/ai-can-detect-human-emotions-with-wireless-signals/ The total absence of considerations about whether this should be done highlights the urgent need for much stricter ethical oversight of AI research

The Never-Ending Frontier? https://www.publicbooks.org/the-never-ending-frontier/

China to build the world’s biggest dam on sacred Tibetan river https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/8/china-to-build-the-worlds-biggest-dam-on-sacred-tibetan-river

The disappointments https://overland.org.au/2021/02/the-disappointments/