Interesting Links for 20-12-2023

1. A tech guru is waging a war on major media outlets across three continents, hiring a “media assassin” law firm to kill stories connecting him to “hacks-for-hire” controversy.

(tags:Technology hacking india censorship )

2. Animation vs. Physics

(tags:physics animation video )

3. Baby It’s Cold Outside discourse is the same as Macbeth discourse.

(tags:shakespeare funny )

4. NHS dentistry as we know it 'gone for good'

(tags:UK NHS teeth OhForFucksSake )

5. Why MAs at Oxford had to swear an oath against a man who'd been dead for over 500 years.

(tags:history university uk oxford murder viaPatrickHadfield )

6. New income tax band for people in Scotland earning over £75,000

(tags:scotland income tax )

7. Teams are more creative when they're sitting next to each other

(tags:creativity teams work psychology )

8. Iceland volcano erupts leaving 2.5-mile crack (with live video)

(tags:iceland volcano )

9. Tom Bombadil and The Ring, a Christmas story

(tags:Christmas lotr fanfic )

10. Lord of the Rings fan fiction writer tries to sue Amazon/Tolkien, gets countersued into a smoking crater

(tags:copyright fanfic EpicStupidity lotr Tolkien )

11. A series of charts showing how awful the Conservatives are for the economy

(tags:UK economy conservatives Labour )

12. Tory attempts to ban social transitioning in schools held up by lack of evidence showing it causes any problems

(tags:LGBT law schools UK )

instagram cross-post

Got the buggy folded and put away, went upstairs, and found these two cuddling on the back seat.
Original is here on instagram.