Link Roundup September 2018

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Emails Link Former Homeland Security Official to White Nationalists

Though the emails don’t show Smith and Spencer interacting, some of the messages indicate a familiarity on Smith’s part with Spencer’s projects. In another email, sent on March 7, 2015, Smith refers to an event held by “NPI,” the acronym for the National Policy Institute, Spencer’s white-nationalist nonprofit, saying he had missed it because he was out of town. And in another, on May 9, 2016, Smith recommended someone for a job at a prominent, Trump-supporting media outlet, saying that the person was “currently working in development at LI” (the conservative training group the Leadership Institute) and “writes for Radix, Amren, VDare and Chronicles under a pseudonym.” The word Amren refers to American Renaissance; Radix is Spencer’s publication. “Chronicles” appears to refer to Chronicles Magazine, another publication associated with this movement, which has published Lutton and Sam Francis, the late editor of the Council of Conservative Citizens’ newsletter. Smith also wrote that the person he had recommended “helps Richard and JT with their websites,” appearing to refer to Spencer and Jared Taylor.

This Gorgeous Portrait Series Celebrates Older Trans And Gender-Nonconforming People

According to Dugan, she and Fabbre always conducted the interviews in the same way — starting with "How do you identify today, and what were some key moments that led to that identity?" and ending with "As you look ahead, what hopes, or fears, do you have about the future and growing older?"

Stunning Fossils Show Ancient Parasitic Wasps Still Inside Their Unfortunate Hosts

Finding examples of parasitic behavior in the fossil record is hard because it requires the parasite to be caught in the act of parasitizing its host. What’s more, many parasites develop inside their hosts (as is the case here) and are not visible on the exterior of the fossil. Until now, the fossil record of parasitic wasps has been limited to isolated adults trapped in amber. But in this case, the researchers managed to discover fully developed wasps inside their fly hosts, which they did using a technique known as high-throughput synchrotron X-ray microtomography.

Amazon Prime Day created a surge in health and safety complaints from exhausted workers

In May the GMB published Freedom of Information requests to ambulance services revealing ambulances had been called 600 times to Amazon warehouses in the past three years – including 115 call-outs to the company’s Rugeley warehouse, compared to eight call outs for a similar sized Tesco warehouse nearby. This autumn, according to Rix, the GMB will back “a series of personal injury claims in a coordinated legal action for warehouse workers – claiming Amazon’s working methods cause injuries and industrial diseases."

Amazon's 'ambassador' workers assure Twitter: we can go to the toilet any time

After this article’s publication, an Amazon spokesperson contacted the Guardian to clarify that the ambassadors undertake their work in a new, full-time capacity. “FC ambassadors are employees who have experience working in our fulfillment centers and choose to take the role of being an FC ambassador, do this full time, and receive their same compensation and benefits.”