Interesting Links for 08-08-2018

Middle-aged men for rent in Japan

(tags: men japan )

BBC websites blocked in China after security change

(tags: security china censorship )

EU may force iPhone to switch from Lightning to USB

(tags: apple europe standards )

ICANN loses injunction bid in dispute over WHOIS data in Germany

(tags: internet privacy )

The different ways people talk (and think) about religion, and why it matters

(tags: religion )

Belief in Scottish independence protected under equality laws, Employment Tribunal rules

(tags: scotland equality belief )

Ten Years After the Crash, We Are Still Living in the World It Brutally Remade

(tags: doom epicfail economy usa investment society )

Earth at risk of becoming ‘hothouse’ if tipping point reached

(tags: globalwarming doom )

French study suggests younger women should stop wearing bras

(tags: breasts clothing )

Convincing evidence that someone *did* attempt to kill the Venezuelan president with exploding drones

(tags: assassination viaCipherGoth explosives drone Venezuela )

How to tell someone that a family member has died

(tags: death advice communication )

‘My illness is a feminist issue’: Woman reveals how doctors refused to treat her lipoedema because she is ‘fat’

(tags: NHS fat women OhForFucksSake )

Bad news: there’s no solution to false information online

(tags: fraud internet media journalism )

Stop saying “fake news”. It’s not helping.

(tags: fraud journalism politics usa )

Historic £1.3bn Edinburgh and South-East Scotland City Region Deal agreed

(tags: Scotland Edinburgh uk )

The Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters and the Prince Who Was Made of Meat – A Fairy Tale. For Dinosaurs.

(tags: fairytale short_story dinosaurs viaSwampers )