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Interesting Links for 05-08-2025

Tue, 05 Aug 2025 11:00:07 GMT

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Interesting Links for 09-06-2025

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 11:00:09 GMT

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Interesting Links for 23-05-2025

Fri, 23 May 2025 11:00:10 GMT

1. Why are Scotland's councils so short of cash when tax is going up?: (tags:scotland tax )
2. Greenland Signs Lucrative Minerals Deal with Europe in Blow to Trump: (tags:Europe USA materials Greenland trade )
3. How I Beat NES Mario in 0.000005 Seconds (the nerdiest video I have ever watched. If you've seen something nerdier then do let me know): (tags:video games programming technology mario )
4. Trump's image of dead 'white farmers' came from Reuters footage in Congo, not South Africa: (tags:USA politics Africa southafrica )
5. Programmers spend 5% of their time editing code, the rest is mostly understanding it/the issue they're trying to solve..: (tags:programming research )
6. Which word made you old? (Mine was GOAT): (tags:language age change comic )
7. Explaining "what a species is" turns out to be very very tricky: (tags:video ontology life )

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Interesting Links for 12-11-2024

Tue, 12 Nov 2024 12:00:10 GMT

1. A portrait of the fascist as a young gamer: (tags:gaming bigotry )
2. The UK has a £47bn bill in outstanding compensation claims: (tags:uk money )
3. Want to shoot down a drone fleet? You need a machine gun, a camera, and some automation: (tags:technology drone guns automation )
4. How a stubborn computer scientist accidentally launched the deep learning boom: (tags:ai computers neurons images )
5. Israel's Smotrich tells authorities to prepare for West Bank annexation: (tags:Israel )
6. What Britain's £100m bat tunnel can tell us about why Britain can't build infrastructure: (tags:UK infrastructure bureaucracy hs2 epicfail )
7. Water expands a ridiculous amount when it turns into steam, and you do not want to be nearby if it happens very quickly: (tags:video water heat )
8. I have been reading Sophia these jokes and she has been explaining to me, one by one, why they make no sense.: (tags:jokes children )
9. Chi-Fi Tuning - Why It Sounds So Damn Piercing To Western Ears?: (tags:china music Technology sound )
10. Expert Explains Why, Essentially, You're Fucked: (tags:video doom funny )
11. Why I Will Always Be Angry About Software Engineering (or anything else that's badly managed): (tags:life programming organisation systems anger )
12. Do Not Obey In Advance: (tags:fascism bureaucracy heroism )

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Interesting Links for 28-05-2024

Tue, 28 May 2024 11:00:09 GMT

1. Study Finds That 52 Percent of ChatGPT Answers to Programming Questions Are Wrong (but sound believable): (tags:ai programming )
2. Theresa May admits mistakes over migrant policies: (tags:migration conservatives politics UK )
3. Congress Just Made It Basically Impossible to Track Taylor Swift's Private Jet: (tags:surveillance airplanes usa )

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Interesting Links for 29-10-2023

Sun, 29 Oct 2023 12:00:07 GMT

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Interesting Links for 26-07-2023

Wed, 26 Jul 2023 12:25:10 GMT

1. A Growing Share Of Americans Think States Shouldn't Be Able To Put Any Limits On Abortion: (tags:usa abortion polls )
2. Labour drops pledge to introduce self-ID for trans people - but will still streamline the process, removing the need for a panel: (tags:lgbt transgender labour politics )
3. "What I've learned about having sex with ADHD (and why you should never go nude trampolining)": (tags:adhd sex )
4. There is no good data on whether attention spans have been declining: (tags:attention psychology research fail )
5. Scottish government approval for £500m hydro scheme: (tags:Scotland electricity hydroelectric GoodNews )
6. To understand Musk's renewed obsession with X you need to understand his history with it: (tags:internet ElonMusk history business finance )
7. On Monotropism, Autism, and ADHD: (tags:autism adhd research )
8. Programming Advice: Before you try to do something, make sure you can do nothing: (tags:advice programming )
9. Wagner gold smuggling critical to keeping Russia's economy afloat: (tags:Russia gold Sudan )

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Interesting Links for 22-06-2023

Thu, 22 Jun 2023 11:00:06 GMT

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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 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 08-08-2022

Mon, 08 Aug 2022 11:00:08 GMT

1. Teenage girls are being raped by several boys during their boyfriends' gang initiation: (tags:UK gangs rape )
2. The Dangerous Ideas of "Longtermism" and "Existential Risk": (tags:morality transhumanism )
3. Genesis: an interpreted, Turing-complete Paleo-Hebrew programming language: (tags:programming Jews funny )
4. Humanities scholarship labor crisis: How the infrastructure of research is falling apart.: (tags:academia Doom research )
5. Why does the Bank of England appear to be ignoring its mandate?: (tags:economics Doom UK viaDanielDWilliam )
6. The terrible, awful, no-good morality of Thomas the Tank Engine: (tags:morality children stories )
7. How the Conservatives are going to crash the UK's most profitable export industry: (tags:uk art Education academia entertainment )
8. Tax cuts for the rich lead to higher income inequality in both the short- and medium-term with no significant effect on economic growth or unemployment: (tags:tax inequality economics )
9. Finland & Croatia Test Digital Passports: (tags:passport finland croatia )
10. Spain orders public places set air conditioning no lower than 27 degrees Celsius: (tags:spain electricity temperature weather )

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Interesting Links for 06-11-2021

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 12:00:06 GMT

Pfizer pill cuts Covid deaths by nearly 90%, study finds: (tags:Pandemic medicine GoodNews )
There Is No Such Thing as Unconscious Thought: (tags:thinking )
There Is No Such Thing as Conscious Thought: (tags:thinking )
IAB Europe cookie consent pop-ups to be found in breach of GDPR: (tags:UK privacy dataprotection cookies )
When you get offered an interview for the job you just got fired from - and decide to accept...: (tags:Jobs interview funny )
How were video games from the 90s so efficient?: (tags:games history programming )
HIV patient denied life-saving medication in UK detention centre: (tags:UK migration OhForFucksSake hiv Jamaica )
High Fructose Corn Syrup-Moderate Fat Diet Potentiates Anxio-Depressive Behavior (in mice): (tags:diet anxiety depression mice )
Adding sad violin music to your ex's terrible apology text: (tags:viaJennieRigg music funny relationships apology )
Do *you* need a distraction log?: (tags:distraction adhd advice )
Lawyer, 41, Who Sued His University Over His Grade Sues His Parents to Pay Him $500 a Week, Loses Appeal: (tags:wtf money law UK )

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Interesting Links for 31-10-2021

Sun, 31 Oct 2021 12:00:10 GMT

John Carmack issues some words of warning for Meta and its metaverse plans: (tags:internet socialnetworking VirtualReality johncarmack )
A few short examples of why Ringo Starr was a great drummer: (tags:drums music Beatles )
Activision Blizzard to Improve Diversity and Workplace Culture: (tags:gaming women abuse GoodNews )
Bored animals at empty zoos are entertained by each other (the second video is lovely): (tags:zoo video animals )
Pain Doesn't Lie: On Elliott Page's Performance In Hard Candy: (tags:LGBT transgender movies horror abuse rape )
The US Embassy sample Scottish cuisine ahead of their trip to Glasgow: (tags:USA Scotland food video )
How to help a student get unstuck: (tags:programming teaching knowledge )
Tree Rings Show Modern Cyclones Are the Rainiest in Centuries: (tags:weather history trees )
This is the worldâs oldest image of a ghost: (tags:supernatural history )

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Interesting Links for 29-09-2021

Wed, 29 Sep 2021 11:00:05 GMT

Labour can continue to fuck off (freedom of movement and spying on people edition): (tags:labour OhForFucksSake europe police )
What do you call someone who stands for office, drops all their pledges, and then tries to change the rules for the next election?: (tags:labour politics OhForFucksSake )
Nuclear Energy - How unsafe is it?: (tags:nuclearpower safety death electricity co2 )
Third of Covid patients have at least one long-term symptom up to six months: (tags:pandemic health )
Half of American Kids Have Lead in Their Blood: (tags:lead blood children )
Troll farms reached 140 million Americans a month on Facebook before 2020 election - biggest Christian and Black pages were run out of Eastern Europe: (tags:fraud religion facebook politics russia )
The code worked differently when the moon was full: (tags:programming weird )
The alarm clock that tells Twitter when you hit Snooze: (tags:alarm Twitter funny )

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Interesting Links for 06-08-2021

Fri, 06 Aug 2021 11:00:17 GMT

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Interesting Links for 20-04-2021

Tue, 20 Apr 2021 11:00:12 GMT

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Interesting Links for 27-03-2021

Sat, 27 Mar 2021 12:00:08 GMT

You say you want a 'written constitution' for the UK? Here are four online places where it is already written down.: (tags:Constitution UK )
Learning to code 'will seriously change your life': (tags:computers propaganda UK programming )
Alex Salmond becomes leader of new pro-independence Alba Party ahead of Scottish elections: (tags:politics Scotland independence viaDanielDWilliam )
Easter and paganism. Part 1: (tags:Easter religion history paganism )
Easter and paganism. Part 2: (tags:religion history paganism easter )
Ooh, DC got someone competent to direct The Suicide Squad reboot, and it shows!: (tags:movies DC trailer )
Solar Is Cheapest Electricity In History, U.S. DOE Aims To Cut Costs 60% By 2030: (tags:electricity solarpower GoodNews thefuture USA )
In Stockholm there's an IT battle underway for people's schools: (tags:it schools Sweden OhForFucksSake )
The parental consent case against the Tavistock has succeeded (puberty blockers no longer blocked): (tags:LGBT law GoodNews transgender children puberty )
How The Hobbit became the best selling text adventure of all time: (tags:text adventure games TheHobbit history programming )
How a coronavirus variant tore through an English island and onto the world stage: (tags:UK Kent virus pandemic )
Police lied about officers with broken bones during the Bristol protests: (tags:protests police lies violence )

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Interesting Links for 15-03-2021

Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:00:07 GMT

What sequence of events led to the Met violence at the vigil?: (tags:police violence London death law UK )
Higher Taxes Don't Scare Millionaires Into Fleeing Their Homes After All (a 10% tax rise causes only 1% to move): (tags:taxes wealth USA )
This is now my favourite programming story: (tags:programming funny genius )
A flexible and durable "electronic" fabric that can be used as a display: (tags:electronics materials clothing )
'We're going to lose fast': U.S. Air Force held a war game that started with a Chinese biological attack (and ended badly for the USA): (tags:war USA China Doom )
Ode to executive dysfunction: (tags:video mentalhealth viaSwampers music )
Cabinet Office and Foreign Office to move 500 jobs each to Scotland: (tags:Scotland jobs government )
My favourite Coronavirus tracker is one year old: (tags:pandemic visualisation )
10 years in prison if you put someone at risk of being seriously annoyed - maybe this isn't a good law...: (tags:law uk OhForFucksSake )
World's first dinosaur preserved sitting on nest of eggs with fossilized babies: (tags:dinosaurs eggs viaPatrickHadfield fossils )

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Interesting Links for 24-02-2021

Wed, 24 Feb 2021 12:00:11 GMT

The bitcoin blockchain is helping keep a botnet from being taken down: (tags:bitcoin malware )
Firefox enables Total Cookie Protection to stop you being tracked: (tags:Firefox privacy )
Chip shortage may threaten PlayStation 5 supplies at Christmas: (tags:PlayStation CPU )
Robot lumberjacks are terrifyingly impressive: (tags:robots trees video )
It is staggeringly hard for small businesses to export to the EU: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1364137289165791232.html
(tags:trade UK europe Doom )
Why can't we unlock now the most vulnerable are vaccinated?: (tags:pandemic vaccination )
Why the high court was right to deny standing to members of parliament to bring public law claims: (tags:law UK )
Nursing home deaths spike after private equity acquisitions: (tags:death age care OhForFucksSake viaCharlesStross )
Learning to program increases your creativity, maths, and ability to reason: (tags:thinking programming education )
50 terrible terrible sets of stairs: (tags:housing stairs design fail )
Scientists create new class of Turing patterns in colonies of E. coli: (tags:patterns biology AlanTuring )
Edinburgh councillors back call for buffer zones to protect women from abortion clinic protesters: (tags:abortion protest Edinburgh GoodNews Scotland )
Slug filmed descending from vertical thread of slime in never seen before behaviour: (tags:animals )

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Interesting Links for 10-12-2020

Thu, 10 Dec 2020 12:00:09 GMT

Lost Muppet Christmas Carol song rediscovered: (tags:muppets movies Disney Christmas )
Covid in Scotland: Lockdown nearly eliminated it, but the second wave was reignited by summer holidays: (tags:pandemic Scotland holidays OhForFucksSake )
"A damn stupid thing to do"—the origins of the C programming language: (tags:programming history computers )
Looks like one in every few thousand people is allergic to the Covid vaccine: (tags:pandemic vaccine allergies )
Tyrannosaurs probably sounded like geese: (tags:birds dinosaurs sound )
Five reasons why the "Nordic Model" is a terrible approach to sex worker legislation: (tags:sexwork law )
Top 10 student and graduate design projects of 2020: (tags:design architecture )
I don't usually talk about new battery technology, but this one looks like it might actually happen: (tags:batteries technology )
British public now supports proportional representation 42% - 33%: (tags:voting reform polls )
Nicolas Cage To Host 'History Of Swear Words' At Netflix: (tags:niccage swearing Netflix )
Some more info on the Pfizer vaccine and its safety and efficacy: (tags:vaccine safety )

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Interesting Links for 07-12-2020

Mon, 07 Dec 2020 12:00:10 GMT

The 1,700 year old skyscraper city that's being destroyed by the weather: (tags:weather history yemen architecture viaDanielDWilliam )
How the Brothers Grimm went hunting for fairytales, accidentally changed the course of historical linguistics, and kickstarted a new field of scholarship in folklore.: (tags:history Germany language stories fairytale )
Excel formulas become Turing complete: (tags:programming spreadsheet Microsoft )
If you are giving the Guardian money then you are supporting bigoted lies that kill children: (tags:guardian bigotry LGBT transgender OhForFucksSake )
Forget London, Brexit fight is about Paris and Berlin: (tags:Germany France Europe UK trade )
Why a "soft Brexit" was never on the table - by an MP who tried to prevent a hard one: (tags:UK politics Europe history )
Charlie Stross on how the next month or so are likely to look (Bad. Very bad): (tags:UK Europe Doom charlesstross )
Zalando boss to quit so his wife can focus on her career while he looks after the kids: (tags:work women family )
The 'virtual nannies' looking after kids via Zoom: (tags:childcare children remote )
Kids can eat free in Asda cafes throughout December: (tags:children food supermarkets UK )
What might travel, holidays, and commuting look like over the next ten years?: (tags:thefuture travel work holidays )

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Interesting Links for 26-11-2020

Thu, 26 Nov 2020 12:00:08 GMT

Can a neutral network recognise your doodles?: (tags:art ai )
The Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid Vaccine Data Isn't Up to Snuff: (tags:uk vaccination pandemic oxford )
Andromeda over Patagonia: (tags:space photo pretty )
KFC deploys autonomous 5G food trucks in China: (tags:food delivery automation )
The first artist with a Criminal Behaviour Order affecting the type of music he can put out: (tags:music UK crime viaDanielDWilliam )
You'll feel like you've got the flu for a couple of days after your first Covid vaccine shot. You must get the second one anyway: (tags:vaccine pandemic )
How Dutch Plant Breeders Bred The Badness Out Of Brussels Sprouts: (tags:food genetics )
Explaining Jewish holidays: (tags:Jews judaism religion )
How the Once Elusive Dream of Laser Weapons Suddenly Became a Reality: (tags:lasers weaponry technology )
6 Essential Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Programming: (tags:programming advice )
Olivia Colman, Jameela Jamil and Paloma Faith condemn 'violence and hostility' against trans women in open letter: (tags:LGBT transgender )

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Interesting Links for 23-10-2020

Fri, 23 Oct 2020 11:00:08 GMT

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Interesting Links for 06-10-2020

Tue, 06 Oct 2020 11:00:09 GMT

On Vaccinations Programmes and Normality in September 2021: (tags:vaccination pandemic )
What should the democrats do if they win the election?: (tags:USA politics )
Shock and despair follow revelations that Test and Trace system is being run on Excel: (tags:Excel spreadsheet pandemic OhForFucksSake incompetence )
Boris Johnson encourages people to congregate indoors for the good of the economy: (tags:cinema BorisJohnson pandemic OhForFucksSake )
Lawrence Fox is backed by some deeply unpleasant people with a lot of media knowledge: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1310953494799626240.html
(tags:fascism racism UK media politics )
Details on what went wrong with the Excel/Track and Trace fiasco: "The problem is that the PHE developers picked an old file format to do this - known as XLS. As a consequence, each template could handle only about 65,000 rows of data rather than the one million-plus rows that Excel is actually capable of."
(tags:fail Excel programming )
People Who Want To Be More Empathic May Also Develop "Liberal" Moral Values: (tags:politics morals empathy psychology )

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