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Interesting Links for 02-09-2024
Sep. 2nd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Stripped and held at gunpoint, the 12 year old Gaza school kids forced to be Israel's human shields
- (tags:Israel war crime children )
- 2. Academic publisher Wiley set to earn $44m from AI rights deals, confirms "no opt-out" for authors
- (tags:publishing academia ai copyright )
- 3. A primer on why microbiome research is hard
- (tags:microbiome research )
- 4. The Starliner spacecraft is haunted
- (tags:space noise spaceflight )
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Interesting Links for 05-06-2024
Jun. 5th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Columbia Law Review Refused to Take Down Article on Palestine, So Its Board of Directors Nuked the Whole Website
- (tags:palestine law israel usa academia censorship )
- 2. Faiza Shaheen quits Labour accusing the party of a 'hierarchy of racism' days after she was blocked from standing
- (tags:labour racism politics uk )
- 3. Did you know that there are fossilized footprints showing a woman picking up and putting down a child as they walked beside her?
- (tags:prehistory children fossils )
- 4. Sunak was offered a deal to stop Farage and decided to reject it
- (tags:conservatives UK politics )
- 5. There's no evidence that Farage being hit by a milkshake was an inside job
- (tags:assault conspiracy UK politics )
- 6. China turns on a solar plant the size of New York which could power Luxembourg
- (tags:solarpower china viaMyBrotherMike )
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Interesting Links for 06-03-2024
Mar. 6th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. French decision to protect right to abortion shows 'real fear far-right populists could gain power'
- (tags:abortion rights France )
- 2. How much effort it takes to clean a professional kitchen (and how much the cook will hate you if you walk in 10 minutes before closing)
- (tags:restaurant cleaning )
- 3. More than one-quarter of scholarly articles are not being properly archived and preserved
- (tags:research academia fail viaPatrickHadfield )
- 4. Why Edinburgh's potholes are winning
- (tags:edinburgh roads weight )
- 5. How Hugo ballots used to be counted
- (tags:software hugo awards )
- 6. Sugary drinks increase your risk of a heart condition by 10%. Drinks with sweeteners raise it by 20%
- (tags:sugar drink heart doom )
- 7. The man who spends £8,500 a year to live on a train
- (tags:trains germany viaDanielDWilliam )
- 8. This is The Longest Train Route in the World (as of 2024)
- (tags:trains china Russia Spain Portugal )
- 9. What is your objective?
- (tags:advice life )
- 10. European Court of Human Rights Confirms: Weakening Encryption Violates Fundamental Rights
- (tags:encryption privacy Europe rights )
- 11. Racism is embedded in LLMs (in this case, based on dialect)
- (tags:racism ai )
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Interesting Links for 18-02-2024
Feb. 18th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. A short comic about a mysterious creature living among the monks of a secluded abbey.
- (tags:comic fantasy religion bigotry )
- 2. Air Canada Has to Honor a Refund Policy Its Chatbot Made Up
- (tags:ai airplanes law travel Canada )
- 3. A Killer Disease Is Rampant In Hospitals Around The World
- (tags:pandemic disease epicfail )
- 4. How the Starship Troopers movie brilliantly depicts an empire in fascist decline
- (tags:StarshipTroopers movies fascism scifi robertheinlein )
- 5. The intersection of AI, racism, and academia
- (tags:ai writing academia viaPatrickHadfield racism )
Interesting Links for 05-12-2023
Dec. 5th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Scottish Greens vote to ban 'Behaviour Modification' practices for disabled people
- (tags:Scotland disability autism abuse GreenParty )
- 2. Edinburgh council statement on their house emergency
- (tags:edinburgh housing homelessness )
- 3. Harvard Gutted Initial Team Examining Facebook Files Following $500 Million Donation from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
- (tags:Facebook corruption USA research academia )
- 4. Possibly the worst customer service of all time (cancelled plane edition)
- (tags:airplanes kenya epicfail )
- 5. Liz Truss to propose law banning biological males from single-sex spaces
- (tags:lgbt bigotry OhForFucksSake conservatives UK )
- 6. Did you know that the *Real* version of the Muppet Christmas Carol is on Disney+ (hidden in a submenu)
- (tags:Muppets Christmas Disney )
- 7. Happy Clair Cameron Patterson day! He did a lot more than most to improve the world (by fighting to remove lead from so many things)
- (tags:lead health )
- 8. Neurons in your eye help keep your view stable
- (tags:neuroscience eyes humans )
- 9. UK police are using AI data analysis to spot crimes. And they want to start predicting them.
- (tags:ai data predictions crime police uk )
- 10. Bye bye to the Edinburgh Zoo pandas
- (tags:edinburgh zoo panda )
- 11. "My $500M Mars Rover Mistake: A Failure Story"
- (tags:mars space epicfail )
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Interesting Links for 11-06-2023
Jun. 11th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. The Gender Critical Movement Is Undermining Academic Freedom
- (tags:academia UK bigotry transgender )
- 2. UCL censors its in-house blog to cover up transphobia
- (tags:LGBT bigotry academia UK OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Wind-to-Hydrogen Production Reaches Deep Water
- (tags:hydrogen windpower ocean )
- 4. Sharon Horgan and Michael Sheen's Best Interests asks life's hardest questions.
- (tags:TV life death children )
- 5. Blood Quantum is the racist method used by the US government to destroy native American tribes
- (tags:USA racism )
- 6. This year's ocean temperature graph is terrifying
- (tags:globalwarming ocean Doom visualisation )
- 7. Bloody Sunday murderer, aka Soldier F, named in Ireland's parliament. (cannot be named in the UK)
- (tags:UK Ireland NorthernIreland murder military history names )
Interesting Links for 06-12-2022
Dec. 6th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. The big budget French version of The Three Musketeers looks amazing
- (tags:France trailer video viaSwampers )
- 2. Getting AI to set tests, mark them, complain about the marking, respond to the chubby, and grade the teacher
- (tags:academia ai )
- 3. Do Games Have to be Fun?
- (tags:games video )
- 4. Covid causes your immune system to work badly, leading to further infections from other sources
- (tags:Pandemic immune_system Doom )
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Interesting Links for 17-10-2022
Oct. 17th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. A lovely short story about a small God and their worshipper
- (tags:short_story fantasy religion )
- 2. If you want a takedown of Rowling's latest transphobic nonsense...
- (tags:jkrowling bigotry LGBT transgender Scotland )
- 3. Chaucer rape allegations: What the newly found British National Archives document tells us about Chaucer and Chaucer studies
- (tags:academia RapeCulture rape history writing )
- 4. The man who wanted to touch the art
- (tags:art touch painting )
- 5. A New Verse Translation of "Genesis 4" by Adam Roberts
- (tags:Bible poetry translation )
- 6. Transgender MP accuses fellow Tories of weaponising trans issues in leadership race
- (tags:lgbt transgender Conservatives politics )
- 7. A classical pianist plays Queen
- (tags:Queen music piano video )
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Interesting Links for 08-08-2022
Aug. 8th, 2022 12:00 pm- 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 03-06-2022
Jun. 3rd, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Wouldn't everyone's life be better if they could hear the theme music?
- (tags:music movies StarWars funny )
- 2. Searching 32 million academic papers for obscene acronyms hidden in the titles
- (tags:swearing research academia funny )
- 3. We've Known How To Prevent A School Shooting for More Than 20 Years
- (tags:viaPatrickHadfield schools guns murder psychology USA )
- 4. Celebrity culture is the modern morality play
- (tags:morality society celebrity )
- 5. If you're wondering how Britain is doing, the #12 single right now is "Prince Andrew is a Sweaty Nonce"
- (tags:monarchy UK music funny )
- 6. I do not understand why anyone would rely on Google for a chat application
- (tags:Google communication epicfail )
- 7. MBE for Travelling Tabby - very well deserved!
- (tags:Pandemic awards )
- 8. The UK government is having the most ludicrously biased consultation I've ever seen (on Imperial units)
- (tags:consultation UK government measurement OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 29-04-2022
Apr. 29th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Labour adverts attack Lib Dems for wanting to decriminalise drugs
- (tags:OhForFucksSake drugs labour libdem )
- 2. Japanese rail company rolls out VR-piloted robot worker
- (tags:robots VirtualReality japan )
- 3. Children cannot avoid daydreaming but it may affect learning
- (tags:psychology learning attention )
- 4. Covid self-isolation guidance to end in Scotland
- (tags:Pandemic Scotland )
- 5. Solar panels installed at Edinburgh Castle to cut carbon emissions
- (tags:Scotland Edinburgh solarpower castle )
- 6. Any academics fancy writing about Russell T Davies?
- (tags:academia drwho )
- 7. Meet the LEGO Muppets Minifigures
- (tags:Lego Muppets )
- 8. The prime theory for the hepatitis outbreak is *not* Covid
- (tags:disease )
- 9. Natalie van Gogh: 'The UK is 15 years behind Holland when it comes to trans women in sport'
- (tags:sport transgender cycling Holland Netherlands LGBT )
- 10. Republicans have gone much further right than Democrats have gone left
- (tags:politics USA democrats republicans )
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Interesting Links for 22-04-2022
Apr. 22nd, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Only 26-40% of Scottish people in ICU with Covid are there because of Covid
- (tags:pandemic uk scotland )
- 2. Students with Dark Triad traits don't feel responsible for their own learning, making them more likely to cheat
- (tags:psychology academia responsibility )
- 3. Why I'm picking trans* rights over Harry Potter
- (tags:jkrowling LGBT transgender harrypotter )
- 4. Bees! Get! Jetlag!
- (tags:bees time video ViaDrCross )
- 5. Government's cost of living work group has not met for six months
- (tags:conservatives UK government poverty )
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Interesting Links for 31-03-2022
Mar. 31st, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Jamie Wallis: Conservative politician comes out as UK's first openly trans MP
- (tags:LGBT conservatives UK transgender )
- 2. How cables get so tangled
- (tags:video cables funny Technology )
- 3. A Woman's Story
- (tags:racism computers women history usa )
- 4. "I no longer grade my students' work - and I wish I had stopped sooner"
- (tags:academia learning school )
- 5. When the school day starts later, teens get better sleep and feel more motivated
- (tags:sleep school )
- 6. Automated taxis coming to San Francisco
- (tags:sanfrancisco automation driving cars )
- 7. MPs Vote To Make At-Home Early Abortion Services Permanent
- (tags:UK abortion GoodNews )
- 8. The vast majority of British voters support a close deal with the EU (Norway-like)
- (tags:UK Europe polls identity )
- 9. Scottish under 18s will no longer be sent to young offenders institutions
- Although, why can changing approach from "one of punishment to one of love and support" be applied to adults too?
(tags:scotland prison children ) - 10. "Procedural Justice" reduces crime by 14% and arrests by 60%
- (tags:crime police transparency )
- 11. Mobile phone users do not have increased risk of brain tumours
- (tags:mobile_phones Technology cancer GoodNews )
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Interesting Links for 03-03-2022
Mar. 3rd, 2022 12:00 pm- Lecturers share their terrible reviews
- (tags:reviews academia university )
- Hidetaka Miyazaki Sees Death as a Feature, Not a Bug
- (tags:death failure games )
- What Russian "intellectuals" are saying right now
- (tags:russia ukraine nationalism )
- The British Guardian Vs the American one on the subject of trans rights
- (tags:LGBT rights guardian transgender )
- How badly will sanctions affect Russia?
- (tags:Russia war Ukraine economy economics trade viaDanielDWilliam )
- The projected light show from Paisley Abbey is rather beautiful
- (tags:light animation Scotland video )
- Ukraine's Chinese characteristics
- (tags:ukraine china taiwan )
- Carmakers shut factories and freeze sales as Ukraine invasion fallout spreads
- (tags:ukraine manufacturing russia cars )
- Bee-killing pesticide banned by EU to be used in UK
- (tags:bees pesticide uk doom )
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Interesting Links for 15-11-2021
Nov. 15th, 2021 12:00 pm- Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Why does the UK Government owe Iran £400million?
- (tags:UK money Iran )
- What makes it hard to leave academia?
- (tags:academia meaning life work )
- Artist Recreates What Roman Emperors Looked Like Using AI, Facial Reconstruction, And Photoshop
- (tags:faces Rome history statues ai )
- The state of modern Britain
- (tags:UK society Europe war history )
- The Royal Canadian Legion sold poppy NFTs. *sigh*
- (tags:cryptography Canada war history )
- All The Major Corruption Accusations Levelled At The Conservative Party
- (tags:conservatives corruption )
- Prehistoric cave paintings were animations
- (tags:animation video prehistory art cave )
- âPlease save usâ: Refugees face death at Poland-Belarus border
- (tags:Poland Europe Libya Syria asylum death refugee )
- Covid Booster Vaccines For Over 40s Are Recommended By Vaccines Committee
- (tags:uk vaccination pandemic )
- Covid testing provider investigated over plans to sell on customer's DNA samples for medical research
- (tags:Pandemic privacy OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 12-11-2021
Nov. 12th, 2021 12:00 pm- Government appoints ex-Tory advisor married to Tory MP to help pick media regulator
- (tags:uk government corruption Conservatives regulation media )
- Soldiers should not be heroes
- (tags:military war society )
- The Gradual Extinction of Softness by Pol Pot
- (tags:life history Cambodia poverty death )
- Nottingham College are embarrassing themselves with completely pointless security theatre
- (tags:security_theatre UK academia OhForFucksSake knife )
- Remembrance Day: 8 examples of the most unusual merchandise and memorabilia from over the years
- (tags:war history wtf viaClare )
- A metal guitarist thought Doomscroll would be a great name for a band. Video game developer Id Software had other ideas.
- (tags:Doom OhForFucksSake intellectual_property games music )
- UK an enabler of corruption, Nigerian anti-sleaze tsar tells Boris Johnson in stinging rebuke
- (tags:UK corruption Nigeria )
- Scotland to ban most single-use plastic from June 2022
- (tags:plastic environment Scotland )
- LGBTQ Employees Are Quitting the BBC Because They Say Itâs Transphobic
- (tags:LGBT BBC bigotry transgender )
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Interesting Links for 29-10-2021
Oct. 29th, 2021 12:28 pm- Impact of Brexit on economy is worse than Covid says Office for Budget Responsibility
- (tags:pandemic uk europe economy doom )
- Your code displays Japanese wrong
- (tags:japan language china unicode fonts )
- A charming song about your date's choice in movies being a red flag
- (tags:funny relationships viaSwampers music video movies horror )
- How Ace Ventura and South Park harmed trans people
- (tags:LGBT transgender SouthPark comedy abuse )
- Covid: Inexpensive antidepressant can cut hospitalisation risk by 30%
- (tags:pandemic medicine depression )
- Sluggish exports: the 'worrying trend' in the UK economy
- (tags:UK Europe trade Doom )
- Anti-trans professor Kathleen Stock quits Sussex university
- (tags:GoodNews LGBT transgender bigotry academia UK )
- The answer to lactose intolerance might be in Mongolia
- (tags:milk history food Mongolia microbiome bacteria viaMyBrotherHugh )
- No end in sight for chip shortage as supply chain problems pile up
- (tags:cpu computers business Doom )
- Zuckerberg Announces Fantasy World Where Facebook Is Not a Horrible Company
- (tags:VirtualReality Facebook socialnetworking )
- Gifted dogs tilt their heads more than average
- (tags:dogs intelligence )
- Why Dogs Tilt Their Heads
- (tags:dogs behaviour )
- An intuitive guide to the mathematical constant 'e'
- (tags:growth mathematics )
- Artists - are you ready to make a fat stack of cash from NFTs?
- (tags:cryptography art money comic advice )
- Margaret Atwood seems to be back onside over transgender issued
- (tags:LGBT transgender margaretatwood )
- Why Canada won't print indigenous spelling on passports
- (tags:canada names OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 28-10-2021
Oct. 28th, 2021 12:00 pm- The teaser for "Lightyear" (a new Pixar movie) looks like a lot of fun
- (tags:pixar space trailer )
- Oregon's arboreal smiley
- (tags:trees emoji viaDanielDWilliam photos )
- "Dune" (the movie), annotated
- (tags:sci-fi movies )
- Exams in Scotland to be reformed, but not scrapped
- (tags:education school Scotland exams )
- The UK Media Has Seriously Bungled the Kathleen Stock Story
- (tags:transgender media academia LGBT uk journalism )
- People Who Technically Did Their Job, But In A Really Bad Way
- (tags:work funny fail viaCharlesStross )
- I just donated to the Legal Defence Fund for Transgender Lives
- (tags:law transgender lgbt uk money nhs )
- Facebook prioritized 'angry' emoji reaction posts in news feeds - pushing more provovactive content into users' news feeds
- (tags:facebook emotion viaSwampers OhForFucksSake )
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