Interesting Links for 19-02-2024

1. Can ChatGPT edit fiction? 4 professional editors asked AI to do their job - and it ruined their short story

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2. Mercury: Council and Parliament strike a deal to completely phase out mercury in the EU

(tags:Europe dental mercury lighting )

3. There's a fascinating discussion in this article about who "the Celts" were

(tags:prehistory Europe language society )

4. 2023 Hugo winner announces that they no longer consider themselves to have won

(tags:Hugo awards china fraud )

5. All new NHS building projects in Scotland put on hold

(tags:Scotland NHS money building )

6. Rabbit Test - the short story that won* a Hugo

(tags:hugo abortion rights women scifi )

7. Fertility doctor uses own sperm to impregnate lots of women, leading to incest

(tags:usa fertility incest OhForFucksSake healthcare fraud )

8. The Fifteenth Doctor audition piece

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Life with two kids: Tiny Theresa May

A couple of weeks ago I was walking Sophia from Gideon's nursery to her school. For the previous three days we'd taken a shortcut across some grass, but that morning it was a bit wetter. So I asked her which way we should go.

"The normal way," she replied.

"Which was is the normal way? The way we did last week, or the way we've done for the last three days?"

"THE NORMAL WAY, DADDY!"

"But which way *is* normal? The one we've done all this week or the one we did all last week?"

"I! SAID! THE! NORMAL! ONE!"

"Sophia, do you know what normal means?"

And that, dear reader, was how I came to be walking the way to school with a 5 year old yelling at me, repeatedly, "NORMAL MEANS NORMAL!"