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andrewducker) wrote2023-12-20 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2023-12-20 12:00 pm
Entry tags:
- animation,
- censorship,
- christmas,
- conservatives,
- copyright,
- creativity,
- economy,
- epicstupidity,
- fanfic,
- funny,
- hacking,
- history,
- iceland,
- income,
- india,
- labour,
- law,
- lgbt,
- links,
- lotr,
- murder,
- nhs,
- ohforfuckssake,
- oxford,
- physics,
- psychology,
- schools,
- scotland,
- shakespeare,
- tax,
- teams,
- technology,
- teeth,
- tolkien,
- uk,
- university,
- viapatrickhadfield,
- video,
- volcano,
- work
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 )
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Fan fiction was OK when it was printed in small-circulation fanzines. People who wanted could read it where it could be enjoyed inoffensively, and those who didn't want didn't have it waved in front of them. But the internet changed things. Posting on the open internet is tantamount to publishing.