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Interesting Links for 03-06-2026

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:00:05 GMT

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Interesting Links for 12-02-2025

Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:05:13 GMT

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Interesting Links for 02-05-2024

Thu, 02 May 2024 11:00:08 GMT

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Interesting Links for 30-01-2024

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:00:07 GMT

1. Dark Souls - Walking through memories (a video I bumped into, and want to be able to find again later): (tags:games video memory )
2. The Illusionist: The Mind-Bending Installations of Artist Felice Varini: (tags:art optical_illusion )
3. Functional 16-bit CPU built and runs in Excel, 3Hz processor includes 128KB of RAM, 16-color display, and a custom assembly language | Tom's Hardware: (tags:excel computer impressive viaSwampers )
4. The Northern Irish government is fascinating and dysfunctional - the report here on how to reform it is very interesting (pages 33-42): (tags:NorthernIreland politics government )
5. A fascinating and intriguing look behind the scenes of the audio version of Sandman: (tags:sandman audio neilgaiman )
6. A simple, cheap drug could prevent STIs. So why isn't the NHS providing it?: (tags:medicine sex infection disease NHS OhForFucksSake )
7. 'Tidal wave' of sex abuse in music industry, MPs told: (tags:abuse women UK music OhForFucksSake )
8. Patients say keto helps with their mental illness. Science is racing to understand why: (tags:diet health mentalhealth )

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Interesting Links for 14-09-2023

Thu, 14 Sep 2023 11:00:06 GMT

1. London hospital becomes first in the UK to perform 10,000 operations using a robot: (tags:robots surgery uk london )
2. Human memories are unreliable because of our tendency for complete storylines: (tags:stories psychology memory )
3. Theresa May is telling a fairytale about her Brexit deal. This is the truth: (tags:uk europe lies Conservatives )
4. UK government will not block Scots drug room pilot: (tags:Scotland drugs GoodNews UK )
5. Unfortunate Starlink 2 Hour Outage Last Night Just As Ukraine Attacked Sevastapol: (tags:Ukraine Russia space ElonMusk OhForFucksSake )
6. ScotRail peak fares to be scrapped as ministers try to push return to trains: (tags:Scotland trains money )
7. There are a *lot* of underwater cables: (tags:Ocean internet maps viaDanielDWilliam )
8. Alan Moore's 1986 opinions on superhero (and hero) discourse, and how ahead of the time they were.: (tags:superheroes alanmoore society history batman )
9. Scotland's population grew to record high (driven by migration): (tags:scotland population )
10. Edinburgh Filmhouse: Lease deal agreed to save cinema: (tags:scotland edinburgh movies cinema )

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Interesting Links for 08-04-2023

Sat, 08 Apr 2023 11:00:05 GMT

1. Cat jumps on imam leading Ramadan prayers in Algeria: (tags:cats religion video music prayer islam viacmcmck )
2. Human memory is hugely unreliable - within seconds: (tags:memory epicfail humans psychology )
3. Extra pregnancy scan could slash number of breech births and risk to babies: (tags:pregnancy healthcare )
4. Suella Braverman and several other Conservatives to address a radical right-wing conference tied to Christian Nationalism and the US radical right.: (tags:religion racism fascism UK conservatives USA OhForFucksSake )
5. Why do refugees come to the UK: (tags:refugee UK video migration )
6. The longest straight line in Great Britain (without crossing a public road): (tags:maps uk roads )
7. Costa Rica regrew its lost forest. Can the world learn from it?: (tags:SouthAmerica forests GoodNews )
8. Asking the EHRC about sex: (tags:rights UK bigotry OhForFucksSake transgender LGBT )
9. LGBT+ Lib Dems are very angry at the EHRC: (tags:LGBT transgender rights bigotry UK libdem )

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Interesting Links for 25-03-2023

Sat, 25 Mar 2023 12:00:05 GMT

1. "Everything I, an Italian, thought I knew about Italian food is wrong": (tags:food italy history )
2. Utah demands parental permission for social media site usage - hands over childrens' private messages to parents.: (tags:children socialmedia usa privacy OhForFucksSake )
3. Russia is discovering that its friendship with China has limits: (tags:china russia trade diplomacy )
4. 50% of men and 20% of women think they could land a plane in an emergency. They are almost certainly wrong: (tags:airplanes confidence belief psychology )
5. Wyoming's abortion ban is blocked by a judge for the most hilarious reason: (tags:abortion obama USA law )
6. GPT-4 is great with coding problems it's seen before, terrible with novel ones: (tags:programming ai memory )
7. Principal resigns after Florida students shown Michelangelo statue: (tags:Florida OhForFucksSake art nudity )

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Interesting Links for 23-03-2023

Thu, 23 Mar 2023 12:00:03 GMT

1. Here's the full analysis of newly uncovered genetic data on COVID's origins: (tags:pandemic virus animals genetics china )
2. How fast does spring travel? About 2mph: (tags:time uk weather viaSwampers )
3. GPT-4 and professional benchmarks: the wrong answer to the wrong question: (tags:ai memory exams )
4. Fungus! Attacks! America!: (tags:fungus usa doom )
5. One of history's most famous psychological experiments was probably fake (Sending well people into psychiatric hospitals): (tags:psychology research history fraud OhForFucksSake )
6. Something Pretty Right: A History of Visual Basic: (tags:computers history windows programming microsoft billgates )
7. Ethical AI art generation? Adobe Firefly may be the answer: (tags:ethics ai art )
8. Comparing the cost of living in the UK and Germany: (tags:UK Germany austerity society Doom )
9. Life hacks from the 90s: (tags:history advice funny )
10. Scientists can now separate sperm based on whether they carry X or Y chromosomes with 80% accuracy: (tags:gender children sperm )
11. Female Afghan judge living in fear of Taliban denied sanctuary in Britain: (tags:UK Afghanistan asylum OhForFucksSake )

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Interesting Links for 26-01-2023

Thu, 26 Jan 2023 12:00:09 GMT

1. Justin Roiland: Rick and Morty creator and star dropped by Adult Swim (over assault charges): (tags:USA assault tv )
2. Chatting with the dead: the hermeneutics of thanabots (what happens when you train an AI on all the text a person leaves behind): (tags:ai writing communication death memory viaPatrickHadfield )
3. A lovely remembrance of a dying friend, and the last things he wanted to do.: (tags:archaeology death viaDanielDWilliam )
4. Edinburgh's iconic Granton gas holder to be transformed into new city park: (tags:Edinburgh gas park )
5. Clearly the best console gaming setup ever: (tags:gaming consoles video impressive )
6. Facebook follows Twitter in un-banning Donald Trump ahead of 2024 presidential bid, Nick Clegg confirms: (tags:Facebook politics USA )
7. What time is it on the moon?: (tags:time moon physics )
8. Christian decline UK: How it's measured and what it means: (tags:religion uk census demographics )
9. The UK's Biggest Cooking Myths: (tags:uk cooking myths )

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Interesting Links for 16-01-2023

Mon, 16 Jan 2023 12:00:08 GMT

1. Everything Everywhere All at Once — How to Shoot a Sci-Fi Kung Fu Epic (on a Budget): (tags:movies scifi MartialArts everything )
2. Text and data mining copyright exception proposal to encourage AI focus and innovation in the UK: (tags:UK ai data copyright )
3. Google's very expensive coders produce a security vulnerability in c/c++ every thousand lines of code. If you care about security then you shouldn't use them.: (tags:security programming memory )

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Interesting Links for 02-11-2022

Wed, 02 Nov 2022 12:00:10 GMT

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Interesting Links for 14-06-2022

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 11:00:07 GMT

1. What things tend to lead to happiness?: (tags:happiness psychology )
2. 1 in 5 US adults have Long Covid: (tags:pandemic health usa )
3. Why can't we remember being born or our first words?: (tags:language memory babies children )
4. Majority Of Northern Ireland Politicians Reject UK's Protocol Plan "In Strongest Possible Terms": (tags:UK NorthernIreland trade Europe politics )
5. Whole bunch of homophobia in the adoption system: (tags:LGBT adoption children UK OhForFucksSake gay )
6. Europe's Plan to Quit Russian Fuel Plunges Pakistan Into Darkness: (tags:Europe Russia fuel oil Doom Pakistan Ukraine war viaDanielDWilliam )
7. Healthy human brains are hotter than previously thought, exceeding 40C in the core: (tags:brain temperature )
8. Europe is prepping for a trade war with the UK that no-one wants: (tags:europe uk trade doom NorthernIreland )
9. Neil Patrick Harris Boards Doctor Who: (tags:drwho )
10. BA.4, BA.5 rise in Europe; officials sound alarm of COVID-19 surge to come: (tags:pandemic doom )

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Interesting Links for 07-04-2022

Thu, 07 Apr 2022 11:00:04 GMT

1. What leads people to believe they have been abducted by aliens?: (tags:aliens sleep psychology memory )
2. New part of the body found in the lungs: (tags:bodies humans air viaNancyLebov )
3. Boris Johnson's new nuclear plants expected to raise energy bills by over £80 a year - not be ready in time for anything useful: (tags:nuclearpower OhForFucksSake BorisJohnson electricity UK )
4. You all know about the millions of people in the Congo that Belgium killed and maimed to steal their resources, right?: (tags:Belgium Congo empire murder )
5. New 1,350 home village to be built in West Edinburgh: (tags:Edinburgh housing )
6. Five Swift Answers to The Problem of Baby-Eating Authors: (tags:satire behaviour authors writing jkrowling )
7. Fluoride in water in Scotland would save NHS a fortune: (tags:water teeth Scotland )
8. A new AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language.: (tags:ai art )
9. UK government: "No need for government Child Poverty Unit because we abolished child poverty targets": (tags:UK poverty children conservatives OhForFucksSake )
10. Black households three times more likely to be food insecure than the national average: (tags:race poverty food uk )
11. The fashion capital of the prehistoric world has been revealed: (tags:art craft fashion prehistory Spain archeology )
12. Germany boosts renewables with biggest energy policy reform in decades: (tags:electricity Germany renewables )
13. Long Covid cases in UK reach 1.7 million in record high. ⅓ of whom have had it for a year: (tags:Pandemic health Doom )
14. Dunbar's number, optimal group sizes, and how speaking is 2.8x better than picking fleas: (tags:psychology groups communication business organisation friendship )

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Interesting Links for 16-03-2022

Wed, 16 Mar 2022 12:00:09 GMT

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Interesting Links for 09-01-2022

Sun, 09 Jan 2022 12:00:10 GMT

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Interesting Links for 08-01-2022

Sat, 08 Jan 2022 12:00:08 GMT

Dangerous humid heat extremes occurring decades before expected: (tags:doom globalwarming )
Tech Startup Wants To Let You Invest In Suing People Using Crypto Tokens: (tags:blockchain law usa CrowdFunding investment )
Gut microbes elevated by dietary sugar disrupt memory function: (tags:sugar brain memory microbiome )
What things do parents love about having children?: (tags:children parenting )

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Interesting Links for 11-12-2021

Sat, 11 Dec 2021 12:00:07 GMT

"10 years late, I have fallen in love with Dark Souls, and you can too": (tags:games )
Brutal review of Michelin-starred restaurant Bros' goes viral: (tags:restaurant review funny )
New Zealand unanimously passes gender self-ID law in trans rights win: (tags:LGBT transgender newzealand )
Which early hominid are you? (I got homo sapiens sapiens, which delighted me): (tags:neanderthal prehistory quiz ViaDrCross )
The TikTok Couch Guy on what it's like to be investigated on the internet.: (tags:privacy internet socialmedia OhForFucksSake )
"The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience" makes it clear how impressive modern games can look: (tags:games graphics matrix )
Computers revolutionized chess - Magnus Carlsen wins by being human: (tags:chess games AI humans )
What it's like when your brain starts working properly for the first time: (tags:adhd brain )
How do you do on the digit span memory test? (I top out at 8, and seem to use auditory memory to hold them): (tags:memory numbers )

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Interesting Links for 13-11-2021

Sat, 13 Nov 2021 12:00:04 GMT

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Interesting Links for 01-08-2021

Sun, 01 Aug 2021 11:00:10 GMT

FactCheck: What's behind the UK vaccination slowdown?: (tags:UK vaccination )
China is building nuclear weapons. Here's why.: (tags:nuclearweapons China )
Electric cars have much lower life cycle emissions: (tags:co2 cars manufacturing )
How transphobes read Pratchett as being on their side: (tags:LGBT transgender terrypratchett )
Google encouraged employees who experienced harassment/assault to use their mental health benefits, then pressured counselors to provide records of their sessions to use in court when those employees filed lawsuits: (tags:Google assault harassment OhForFucksSake )
Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch covid. None of them helped. Some were actively unhelpful: (tags:ai pandemic epicfail )
IOC admits guidelines for transgender athletes are not fit for purpose: (tags:LGBT transgender olympics )
Amanda Knox: Who Owns My Name?: (tags:murder corruption lies media TV movies OhForFucksSake )
The Winged Labrys - a pin designed for inclusive sapphic people: (tags:LGBT transgender lesbian design )
Tory chairman Ben Elliot sold access to his uncle Prince Charles: (tags:conservatives royalty money corruption UK )
10 iconic logos. 156 Americans. 80 hours of drawing from memory.: (tags:marketing design memory viaElfy )

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Interesting Links for 13-06-2021

Sun, 13 Jun 2021 11:00:10 GMT

How to Mute Twitter's Suggested Tweets on Your Timeline: (tags:twitter )
Can't See Pictures in Your Mind? You're Not Alone. And Now We Know There Are People That See Particularly Vivid Ones.: (tags:vision imagination memory brain neuroscience psychology )
How the Web Became Unreadable: (tags:accessibility web fail )

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Interesting Links for 19-04-2021

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 11:00:06 GMT

Nil-by-mouth foodie: The chef who will never eat again: (tags:food cooking illness healthcare fail )
When my friends have supported me in getting out of a terrible relationship and then...: (tags:funny video sheep decisions fail )
Is Scotland heading for Catalonia-style meltdown?: (tags:Scotland independence uk )
How Cashless Restaurants Reinforce Systemic Racism: (tags:inequality cash technology )
Elmo and Robin Williams (blooper reel) - made me giggle a lot: (tags:SesameStreet TV funny fail )
An MP with this YouTube viewing list is a bit disturbing: (tags:belief aliens YouTube government )
US police kill twice as many people as die in mass shootings: (tags:USA police murder )
Mice Fed Fast Food Get More Anxious, Worse Memory: (tags:memory anxiety food )
The looming software kill-switch lurking in aging PlayStation hardware: (tags:sony games time )
This is what Doom looks like on a holographic display.: (tags:Holograms doom video )
United Nations experts says race report "repackages racist tropes and stereotypes into fact": (tags:racism uk )

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Interesting Links for 17-03-2021

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 12:00:11 GMT

Boris Johnson violating international law with plan to build more nuclear weapons: (tags:nuclearweapons UK OhForFucksSake )
England will still unlock slowly despite vaccinating faster than government assumed: (tags:UK pandemic vaccination )
First Scottish wildcat arrives at 'breed and release' centre in the Highlands: (tags:scotland cats nature )
What's next for Scotland's lockdown? (Looks like we're starting to open up from the start of April): (tags:scotland pandemic )
New protest laws go too far and are not needed, police commissioners say: (tags:police protests law uk )
New French coronavirus variant isn't detected by standard tests: (tags:pandemic virus testing Doom )
Evangelical Christians are, unsurprisingly, in favour of LGBT "conversation therapy": (tags:LGBT religion OhForFucksSake )
Foreign secretary says UK will trade with countries which fail to meet human rights standards: (tags:UK rights trade OhForFucksSake )
Youths attack eight buses with rocks in Edinburgh: (tags:Edinburgh violence buses )
The Ideas That Are Reshaping The Democratic Party And America: (tags:USA society democrats )
Government plans to change London mayor elections to First Past the Post: (tags:voting democracy London OhForFucksSake )
Blue Monday - but Star Wars: (tags:StarWars music video )
French MPs back law to introduce age of sexual consent: (tags:consent age sex France )
Breaking the code of silence over sexual violence at elite French universities: (tags:France rape university )
Thieves, robbers and burglars to be fitted with GPS tags on release from prison: (tags:crime uk GPS )
Uber to pay drivers a minimum wage, holiday pay and pensions: (tags:driving business taxi uk rights )
This is why you keep forgetting what you were doing when you enter a new room: (tags:memory psychology )
One year with Long Covid: (tags:disease pandemic )
18 people charged after spate of attacks on Lothian buses in Edinburgh: (tags:edinburgh buses violence OhForFucksSake )
Lothian Buses not running after 19:30 tonight: (tags:buses edinburgh violence )

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Interesting Links for 15-11-2020

Sun, 15 Nov 2020 12:00:07 GMT

Dominic Cummings Is Gone. But What Does His Reign Tell Us About Boris Johnson?: (tags:BorisJohnson UK politics Doom )
Do not pet, touch, talk to, talk about, or otherwise interact with service animals: (tags:pets dogs animals disability )
There's a link between traffic-related air pollution and mental disorders: (tags:mentalhealth pollution traffic )
Chili pepper consumption associated with 25% reduction in death from any cause: (tags:death food )
Remembering strengthens memories. Here's how that works: (tags:memory brain neuroscience )
Amazon declares that Northern Ireland is no longer part of the UK: (tags:Amazon NorthernIreland uk )
There's a Link Between QAnon and Polling Errors (because they don't trust pollsters enough to answer questions): (tags:conspiracy polls USA )
The Falkland Islands are landmine free for the first time in 38 years: (tags:falklands military GoodNews )
Near Donegal the trees are on the march: (tags:trees video Ireland wtf )
We could be detecting half of Covid carriers with cameras. Why aren't we?: (tags:pandemic temperature cameras )

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Interesting Links for 26-09-2020

Sat, 26 Sep 2020 11:00:06 GMT

Low Stakes TV; Cleaning Drains, Washing Cars and Long Walks: (tags:tv video ViaDrCross )
New Twitter prompt gets users to read news before retweeting it: (tags:Twitter reading )
Teaching offshore robots to speak our language: (tags:robots communication viaDanielDWilliam )
Brexit travel permits designed to avoid 7,000-lorry jams come January depend on software that won't be finished till April: (tags:technology trade UK Europe Doom viaCharlesStross )
Even Renewables Are Bigger In Texas: (tags:renewables windpower solarpower viaDanielDWilliam Texas usa )
Chimpanzee casually browsing Instagram: (tags:chimpanzees phones viaElfy )
Coronavirus: UK pledges £500m to global vaccine-sharing scheme: (tags:UK pandemic vaccine )
Stop taking people with dementia to the cemetery: (tags:dementia memory death )
On being a gay transgender man marrying in to a devout Jewish family, and the science fiction that sprung therefrom: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1298466405873049600.html
(tags:scifi writing Jews religion transgender LGBT gay ViaDrCross )

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Interesting Links for 16-01-2020

Thu, 16 Jan 2020 12:00:13 GMT

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