Interesting Links for 06-02-2025

[andrewducker]

1. In-patient services at Edinburgh's Astley Ainslie hospital to be transferred to East Lothian

(tags:edinburgh nhs scotland )

2. The Curta Mechanical Calculator (I'd love to have one if they didn't cost so much)

(tags:calculator mechanics impressive video viaSwampers )

3. AI systems with 'unacceptable risk' are now banned in the EU

(tags:ai europe regulation )

4. Scotland! Will! Not! Ban! Cats!

(tags:scotland cats wtf )

5. Time limit for child sex abuse claims to be removed in England and Wales

(tags:rape children abuse law uk GoodNews england )

6. The greatest families behind the greatest showmen - what it's like living life on the road, and how that affects the children

(tags:children family uk )

7. Probably the most sensible thing I've read about Neil Gaiman

(tags:neilgaiman )

8. Nurse who objected to transgender woman in changing room admits harassment

(tags:LGBT transgender NHS harassment )

9. Assaulted woman's divorce case was turned down by 116 Scottish legal aid lawyers

(tags:Scotland law austerity divorce assault )

10. Scientists explore how to make quantum bits with spinel gemstones

(tags:quantum materials )

11. CIA sent unclassified email with names of recent hires - at Whitehouse insistence.

(tags:usa Intelligence OhForFucksSake doom )

12. "I looked for dating advice online - and got sucked into the toxic manosphere"

(tags:men relationships feminism patriarchy OhForFucksSake )

Comments

[original_aj]

I had one of these back in the 70s: https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co59665/magic-brain-calculator-c-1955

Did much the same thing, though a lot less stylishly. Back when electronic calculators were way out of our price range, I didn't get to use one until A levels.

[juan_gandhi]

Oh, thank you! A really good list of links! (An impostor having an impostor syndrome - I liked the idea)

[mountainkiss]

I think it would be really quite difficult to ban cats.

[ninetydegrees]

5) Such good news. I wish it could be the same everywhere, and for adult victims too.

[lilitufire]

There’s a really horrible opinion piece in the Grauniad today about the changing room case, continually misgendering the transgender person. It was rubbish and infuriating before I saw this coverage of the case.

Re cats

[anef]

Just to say that in Australia cats are not allowed to go outside for fear of their effect on the fragile natural wildlife. I am not sure if this is in the whole of Australia or only in some parts.