Interesting Links for 01-08-2024
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- 1. A collection of hybrid words
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- 2. Labour are restricting Winter Fuel Payment to just those on benefits - that's too narrow a group
- (tags:welfare heating UK doom Labour )
- 3. BMA to undertake an evaluation of the Cass Review on gender identity services for children and young people - calls for a pause until it has done so
- (tags:LGBT transgender healthcare UK GoodNews doctors )
- 4. EU reveals its eight demands for a better relationship with Britain
- (tags:UK Europe )
- 5. Rachel Reeves's spending audit at-a-glance
- (tags:UK Labour economy )
- 6. Study Finds Consumers Are Actively Turned Off by Products That Use AI
- (tags:ai marketing )
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Date: 2024-08-01 12:00 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2024-08-02 06:12 am (UTC)I have been obsessed with hybrid words for nearly a decade.
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Date: 2024-08-02 06:26 am (UTC)What kicked it off?
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Date: 2024-08-02 06:46 am (UTC)Philae probe. It’s actually the Greekification of a North African place name, but it reads initially as a Greek word with a Latin ending.
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Date: 2024-08-01 12:49 pm (UTC)It doesn't only deny these kids NHS treatment but also denies them the right to elect for private treatment, which I find very questionable- no one denied me the right to go out and spend my own money on treatment.
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Date: 2024-08-01 08:06 pm (UTC)But there's gotta be more hybrid words out there in use in modern English, or else I'll have to start inventing them and seeding them across the web.
bendimented -- to be crazy/non-conformist in a positive way. Welsh bendigedig (was 'blessed' now 'fabulous') plus 'demented'
to have the boss-schrecken -- said of managers who obey their superiors at all costs and ignore anyone lower down the scale. 'Boss' (Anglo-Dutch?) plus 'Schrecken' (German, terror). That example's not personal at all!
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Date: 2024-08-02 05:29 am (UTC)https://www.extinctanimals.org/where-were-dinosaurs-found/dinosaurs-in-china
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Date: 2024-08-07 07:41 am (UTC)This may be part of still owning a land-line. On average I get 4 calls a day on it. Also on average: 3 of those will be scams calls with claims to be contacting me about an existing account of something I do not own/possess or subscribe to - and the vast majority of those are AI calls. Maybe 15-20% have a live scammer on the other end of the phoneline.
Today was hopefully an anomaly, having had 7 calls, 6 of which were AI scam calls & only 1 having a human on the other end of the line, trying to scam me into talking about 'my' phone service to a company I have never been a member of.
If nothing else, this heightens my distrust of AI anything.