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Interesting Links for 30-11-2023
Nov. 30th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. UK humans rights watchdog under review by the UN over approach to trans people
- (tags:uk transgender UnitedNations rights )
- 2. On portrayals of tech billionaires in science fiction
- (tags:scifi inequality )
- 3. Edinburgh trams 'wouldn't have gone ahead if councillors weren't lied to on cost'
- (tags:Edinburgh trams fraud )
- 4. 27% Of New Cars In France Now Plugin Electric Cars!
- (tags:electricity cars France )
- 5. 1850s Tumblr Simulator
- (tags:Tumblr history funny )
- 6. Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America's Ruling Class, Finally Dies
- (tags:death history USA OhForFucksSake politics obituary war republicans )
- 7. Elon Musk Just Told Advertisers, 'Go Fuck Yourself' (because they didn't want to support antisemitism)
- (tags:ElonMusk bigotry advertising twitter )
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- advertising,
- bigotry,
- cars,
- death,
- edinburgh,
- electricity,
- elonmusk,
- france,
- fraud,
- funny,
- history,
- inequality,
- links,
- obituary,
- ohforfuckssake,
- politics,
- republicans,
- rights,
- scifi,
- trams,
- transgender,
- tumblr,
- twitter,
- uk,
- unitednations,
- usa,
- war
Missing Links (misc)
Nov. 21st, 2023 10:08 amBuncha links went missing. I think this covers everything!
- 1. How are the British like the Japanese?
- (tags:UK Japan society )
- 2. Edinburgh council rules out pneumatic underground bins
- (tags:Edinburgh waste technology )
- 3. 'All the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order': The riddle of the 'Pulborough Area' torc from Sussex. (And how much effort it takes to find a fraud)
- (tags:history archeology fraud )
- 4. Meta is now allowing lies about the 2020 election in political ads
- (tags:facebook advertising fraud politics usa OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Transforming the future of music creation with AI
- (tags:music ai )
- 6. Elephants might give each other names
- (tags:elephants names )
- 7. for babies born before 34 weeks, delaying the clamping of the cord for a minimum of 60 seconds after birth reduces death by nearly a third
- (tags:babies death )
- 8. Young Animator of the Year UK - an impressive piece for anyone, but for a 16 year old...
- (tags:animation children impressive video )
- 9. Are you a victim of Executive Function Theft
- (tags:behaviour work )
- 10. 'Nimona' breaks LGBT barriers and survives to tell the tale
- (tags:LGBT movies animation Disney )
- 11. Apple announces RCS support for iMessage
- (tags:Apple sms communication )
- 12. Google confirms they will disable uBlock Origin in Chrome in 2024
- (tags:adblock Google Chrome web OhForFucksSake )
- 13. IBM suspends ads on X after they appeared next to Nazi posts
- (tags:Twitter Nazis ibm advertising )
- 14. Nihilist Penguin (Werner Herzog)
- (tags:penguin video )
- 15. Incredible video of Starling murmuration
- (tags:video birds )
- 16. World-first gene therapy that aims to cure sickle-cell disease
- (tags:genetics disease GoodNews )
- 17. Royal Mail owner says 'reform is urgent' after group slumps to a £319m loss
- (tags:royalmail uk )
- 18. People living in Europe are about to get a much better Windows 11
- (tags:europe windows regulation )
- 19. Archaeologists discover previously unknown ancient language (3,000 years old, transliterated into Hittite)
- (tags:language archeology )
- 20. From toy to tool: DALL-E 3 is a wake-up call for visual artists—and the rest of us
- (tags:Technology ai art )
- 21. 'I was deported for wearing tinted moisturiser': Qatar's new LGBT crackdown
- (tags:qatar lgbt OhForFucksSake )
- 22. Why are some jobs so "greedy"?
- (tags:jobs )
- 23. South Korea announces plans to ban consumption of dog meat
- (tags:dogs korea food )
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- ai,
- animation,
- apple,
- archeology,
- art,
- babies,
- behaviour,
- birds,
- children,
- chrome,
- communication,
- death,
- disease,
- disney,
- dogs,
- edinburgh,
- elephants,
- europe,
- facebook,
- food,
- fraud,
- genetics,
- goodnews,
- google,
- history,
- ibm,
- impressive,
- japan,
- jobs,
- korea,
- language,
- lgbt,
- links,
- movies,
- music,
- names,
- nazis,
- ohforfuckssake,
- penguin,
- politics,
- qatar,
- regulation,
- royalmail,
- sms,
- society,
- technology,
- twitter,
- uk,
- usa,
- video,
- waste,
- web,
- windows,
- work
Interesting Links for 18-11-2023
Nov. 18th, 2023 09:33 pm- 1. This series of The Crown is the best yet
- (tags:TV review monarchy Queen UK )
- 2. Finally, a solution to the Teleporter problem!
- (tags:StarTrek funny death comic )
- 3. "Personalised Learning" is not the best approach to teaching children
- (tags:children Education )
- 4. Criticisms of BMI have been grossly overstated
- (tags:BMI weight health )
- 5. Half-Life gets a big update for its 25th anniversary
- (tags:games valve half-life )
- 6. Edinburgh named as one of worst cities in Scotland for vacant homes with almost 7,000 lying empty
- (tags:housing Edinburgh epicfail )
- 7. Apple, Disney, Comcast and Warner Brothers Discovery have all halted advertising on X amid antisemitism storm
- (tags:bigotry Jews advertising twitter ElonMusk )
Interesting Links for 31-10-2023
Oct. 31st, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Which UK university towns have the highest cost of living?
- (tags:university edinburgh money uk )
- 2. The future of warfare: A $400 drone destroying a $2M tank
- (tags:war drone )
- 3. People with autism less likely to succumb to bystander effect
- (tags:psychology autism )
- 4. Getting angry may help you achieve your goals, so long as they are hard ones.
- (tags:anger achievement psychology )
- 5. What Happens to a Werewolf on the Moon? - a call for research!
- (tags:viaSimonTatham wolves supernatural funny research moon space )
- 6. Use your own controller to work with an Xbox? Not if Microsoft has anything to do with it!
- (tags:Microsoft OhForFucksSake consoles )
- 7. Woman uses man's name on delivery app, notices marked change in service
- (tags:patriarchy food OhForFucksSake )
- 8. To find out how wildlife is doing, scientists used AI to listen to the forest
- (tags:sound nature ai birds )
- 9. Facebook and Instagram launch ad-free subscription tier in EU (not UK though)
- (tags:facebook socialnetworking advertising GoodNews )
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- achievement,
- advertising,
- ai,
- anger,
- autism,
- birds,
- consoles,
- drone,
- edinburgh,
- facebook,
- food,
- funny,
- goodnews,
- links,
- microsoft,
- money,
- moon,
- nature,
- ohforfuckssake,
- patriarchy,
- psychology,
- research,
- socialnetworking,
- sound,
- space,
- supernatural,
- uk,
- university,
- viasimontatham,
- war,
- wolves
Interesting Links for 03-10-2023
Oct. 3rd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. How to Compete with Patreon
- (tags:business internet )
- 2. International School Signs (what do your local ones show?)
- (tags:school sign )
- 3. Dreamwidth's war against spam intensifies
- (tags:dreamwidth spam OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Scientists discover world's oldest human-built structure, built by an extinct species
- (tags:humans prehistory )
- 5. Does working from home damage productivity? Just look at the data.
- (tags:work homes productivity )
- 6. New Jersey police bought software to predict crimes. It was wrong 99% of the time.
- (tags:epicfail predictions crime police software )
- 7. How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet
- (tags:google search fraud advertising )
Tags:
- advertising,
- business,
- crime,
- dreamwidth,
- epicfail,
- fraud,
- google,
- homes,
- humans,
- internet,
- links,
- ohforfuckssake,
- police,
- predictions,
- prehistory,
- productivity,
- school,
- search,
- sign,
- software,
- spam,
- work
Interesting Links for 22-09-2023
Sep. 22nd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Scottish Labour MSPs told to oppose employment law devolution motion - despite running on a platform to devolve it
- (tags:scotland labour employment law OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Luxembourg legalises cultivation and consumption of cannabis at home
- (tags:europe marijuana legalisation )
- 3. Amazingly, 5% of NFTs are still worth something
- (tags:blockchain money epicfail )
- 4. How far back into pre-history can we push the earliest societies?
- (tags:prehistory Intelligence society )
- 5. I hope that some day Samuel L Jackson will be hired to play me. And that it's at least as awesome as this ad for bread.
- (tags:SamuelLJackson bread advertising video )
- 6. EU politicians say there is a 'whole pile' of post-Brexit problems to fix before a UK return
- (tags:uk europe )
- 7. Spider silk is spun by silkworms for the first time, offering a green alternative to synthetic fibers
- (tags:spiders silk worm materials )
- 8. Happy September 21st everyone!
- (tags:video weird music )
Tags:
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- blockchain,
- bread,
- employment,
- epicfail,
- europe,
- intelligence,
- labour,
- law,
- legalisation,
- links,
- marijuana,
- materials,
- money,
- music,
- ohforfuckssake,
- prehistory,
- samuelljackson,
- scotland,
- silk,
- society,
- spiders,
- uk,
- video,
- weird,
- worm
Interesting Links for 10-09-2023
Sep. 10th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Google bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome. (Switch to Firefox today!)
- (tags:Google advertising browser OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Woman accused of faking symptoms of debilitating illness dies aged 33 (these unfounded accusations happen to women a *lot*)
- (tags:women doctors healthcare OhForFucksSake patriarchy )
- 3. Number of sexual partners changes as we age
- (tags:sex age UK )
Tags:
- advertising,
- age,
- browser,
- doctors,
- google,
- healthcare,
- links,
- ohforfuckssake,
- patriarchy,
- sex,
- uk,
- women
Interesting Links for 02-08-2023
Aug. 2nd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. UK's first drone mail service begins in Orkney
- (tags:royalmail postoffices scotland drone )
- 2. The Good Omens graphic novel is now on Kickstarter
- (tags:kickstarter CrowdFunding neilgaiman terrypratchett comics )
- 3. Covid breach MP loses seat after recall petition
- (tags:UK politics Pandemic )
- 4. Meta loses battle in EU, will ask for consent to show personalized ads on Facebook and Instagram
- (tags:advertising surveillance Facebook Europe )
- 5. UK to keep EU safety mark in post-Brexit climbdown
- (tags:UK Europe standards )
- 6. Trump indictment: a brief introduction
- (tags:USA politics republicans crime )
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Interesting Links for 27-07-2023
Jul. 27th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Mock Jurors, Ex Jurors, Real Jurors: What Can Jury Research Tell Us about Rape Trials?
- (tags:law rape Scotland newzealand )
- 2. Record number of Scottish trainee doctor positions filled
- (tags:Scotland NHS healthcare )
- 3. BMW uses autonomous cars for boring, repetitive tests
- (tags:cars testing automation )
- 4. Twitter tells brands to buy more ads or risk losing their verification
- (tags:Twitter extortion advertising )
- 5. More than 900 people per square mile and they probably vote for a progressive party
- (tags:politics cities psychology sociology )
- 6. Mastercard demands US cannabis shops stop accepting debit cards
- (tags:USA law marijuana finance )
Tags:
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- automation,
- cars,
- cities,
- extortion,
- finance,
- healthcare,
- law,
- links,
- marijuana,
- newzealand,
- nhs,
- politics,
- psychology,
- rape,
- scotland,
- sociology,
- testing,
- twitter,
- usa
Interesting Links for 16-06-2023
Jun. 16th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. I have watched this terribly cute video about 15 times and it never fails to make me grin
- (tags:funny cute hats video )
- 2. Abortion clinic 'buffer zone' bill lodged in Scottish Parliament
- (tags:scotland abortion protests GoodNews )
- 3. AO3 is diverging badly from basic, fundamental Trust and Safety best practices
- (tags:safety internet abuse OhForFucksSake )
- 4. UK time trial cycling excludes over 10% of elite female cyclists for having too much testosterone
- (tags:testosterone OhForFucksSake women cycling UK sports )
- 5. Daily Mail hires liar as new columnist
- (tags:DailyMail BorisJohnson lying )
- 6. 'Synthetic' human embryos created without eggs or sperm
- (tags:life research ArtificialLife )
- 7. Google made millions from ads for "crisis pregnancy centers" that work to prevent women from accessing abortions.
- (tags:abortion advertising google OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 15-06-2023
Jun. 15th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Edinburgh trams: Plans for extension to Newbridge set to be abandoned in favour of route along A71 corridor
- (tags:edinburgh trams )
- 2. Do a quarter of British people really believe Covid was a hoax?
- (tags:conspiracy polls )
- 3. Who wants to read a judge interrogate lawyers for presenting AI gibberish as if it was reality?
- (tags:USA law AI epicfail )
- 4. Google risks forced breakup of ad business as EU alleges shocking misconduct
- (tags:Google advertising corruption fraud business regulation )
- 5. Body mass index gets smack down: American Medical Association calls out harms and "racist exclusion" | Ars Technica
- (tags:weight healthcare USA )
- 6. How many of these do you think are birds?
- (tags:birds paleontology evolution )
- 7. How do people treat you differently when you're skinny?
- (tags:weight bigotry society )
- 8. First time one of my posts on Mastodon has gone viral! (just hit 500 shares)
- (tags:socialmedia )
- 9. Europe votes to regulate AI and ban use of live facial recognition
- (tags:regulation ai faces )
- 10. 'I got to know my gut microbiome - as a result, I sleep better, have more energy and I've lost 25lbs'
- (tags:microbiome )
- 11. Johnson Verdict: 'He lied, lied about lying, lied about lying about lying, and is generally a twat'
- (tags:BorisJohnson lying politics satire true )
- 12. Two children were born with 'insatiable hunger' that left them severely obese. Now scientists know why (leptin gene mutation)
- (tags:genetics hunger )
- 13. Boosting paternity leave has economic benefits and reduces inequality
- (tags:parenting men uk inequality )
- 14. Wildcats bred in captivity released into Cairngorms
- (tags:cats nature scotland )
Tags:
- advertising,
- ai,
- bigotry,
- birds,
- borisjohnson,
- business,
- cats,
- conspiracy,
- corruption,
- edinburgh,
- epicfail,
- evolution,
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- healthcare,
- hunger,
- inequality,
- law,
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- men,
- microbiome,
- nature,
- paleontology,
- parenting,
- politics,
- polls,
- regulation,
- satire,
- scotland,
- socialmedia,
- society,
- trams,
- true,
- uk,
- usa,
- weight
Interesting Links for 06-06-2023
Jun. 6th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. The "death of self-driving cars" has been greatly exaggerated
- 2. Cameron-Osborne austerity left UK 'hugely unprepared' for Covid
- (tags:Pandemic austerity UK doom )
- 3. Lung cancer pill which cuts risk of death by half 'should change the way patients are treated'
- (tags:cancer medicine )
- 4. Austrian party reverses leadership result after spreadsheet hiccup
- (tags:spreadsheet elections fail viaSwampers )
- 5. Twitter U.S. advertising sales sink to less than half of what they were a year ago
- (tags:Twitter advertising Doom )
- 6. There's an unusual case of Covid that is being tracked through waste water - not not accurately enough to find the person
- (tags:Pandemic infection USA )
Tags:
- advertising,
- austerity,
- cancer,
- doom,
- elections,
- fail,
- infection,
- links,
- medicine,
- pandemic,
- spreadsheet,
- twitter,
- uk,
- usa,
- viaswampers
Interesting Links for 04-05-2023
May. 4th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Edinburgh Council has a critical shortage of staff
- (tags:edinburgh work doom )
- 2. Who do LGBTQ people vote for in the next UK general election
- (tags:lgbt uk politics )
- 3. AI-generated beer commercial contains joyful monstrosities, goes viral
- (tags:alcohol advertising ai weird )
- 4. Apple, Google partner on an industry specification to address unwanted tracking
- (tags:apple google tracking surveillance )
- 5. Mozilla acquires review-checking, scammer-spotting service Fakespot for Firefox
- (tags:firefox fraud )
- 6. FBI former agent arrested over Jan. 6 (more than 1,000 people arrested so far)
- (tags:fbi usa politics crime )
- 7. it's a(door)able - a one-minute minigame.
- (tags:love games )
- 8. The Internet Isn't Meant To Be So Small
- (tags:web internet socialmedia )
- 9. The most draconian assault on free speech in living memory is now UK law
- (tags:uk law freespeech protests )
- 10. Port of Aberdeen welcomes UK government funding for world's first liquid hydrogen autonomous vessel project
- (tags:automation shipping scotland hydrogen viaJane )
- 11. The web's most important decision
- (tags:internet web history computers opensource )
Tags:
- advertising,
- ai,
- alcohol,
- apple,
- automation,
- computers,
- crime,
- doom,
- edinburgh,
- fbi,
- firefox,
- fraud,
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- games,
- google,
- history,
- hydrogen,
- internet,
- law,
- lgbt,
- links,
- love,
- opensource,
- politics,
- protests,
- scotland,
- shipping,
- socialmedia,
- surveillance,
- tracking,
- uk,
- usa,
- viajane,
- web,
- weird,
- work
Interesting Links for 19-04-2023
Apr. 19th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Kitkat ads made using AI satirise making things with AI
- (tags:ai advertising food chocolate )
- 2. Iowa passes a law allowing child labour
- (tags:USA children work OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Two-for-One: Chickenpox Vaccine Lowers Shingles Risk in Children
- (tags:chicken virus vaccination )
- 4. Manager at radical French publisher arrested on terror charges en route to London Book Fair (for taking part in protests against French pension changes)
- (tags:France UK publishing wtf protests )
- 5. Former Wagner fighters claim they were ordered to kill children and civilians in Ukraine
- (tags:murder WarCrimes Russia Ukraine children )
- 6. Brecon Beacons name change explained: How to pronounce the National Park's new Welsh name Bannau Brycheiniog
- (tags:names wales nature mountains )
- 7. Prepayment meter ban could see energy firms go after struggling customers' cars and TVs
- (tags:energy money business debt poverty )
- 8. Hundreds of years after the first try, we can finally read a Ptolemy text
- (tags:history mathematics writing )
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Interesting Links for 15-03-2023
Mar. 15th, 2023 12:00 pmTags:
- advertising,
- disease,
- doom,
- funny,
- heat,
- links,
- scotland,
- sex,
- swimming,
- technology,
- uk,
- viaswampers,
- video,
- water
Interesting Links for 07-03-2023
Mar. 7th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Did you know there were two types of boomers?
- (tags:generation demographics usa history )
- 2. Reconstructing visual experiences from human brain activity
- (tags:vision mri brain neuroscience ai )
- 3. Slow motion adverts make people think the produce is more luxurious
- (tags:luxury advertising slowmotion video psychology )
- 4. How you phrase questions really really strongly affects the answers you get
- (tags:polls language bias )
- 5. Edinburgh's Lothian Buses announce revised fares from Sunday 2 April
- (tags:edinburgh buses transport money )
- 6. Neil Gaiman on whether CGI is replacing physical movie making
- (tags:movies cgi neilgaiman )
- 7. SimCity 2013 launched a decade ago, and it was so disastrous it killed the series
- (tags:simcity games epicfail )
Tags:
- advertising,
- ai,
- bias,
- brain,
- buses,
- cgi,
- demographics,
- edinburgh,
- epicfail,
- games,
- generation,
- history,
- language,
- links,
- luxury,
- money,
- movies,
- mri,
- neilgaiman,
- neuroscience,
- polls,
- psychology,
- simcity,
- slowmotion,
- transport,
- usa,
- video,
- vision
Interesting Links for 03-03-2023
Mar. 3rd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Edinburgh's Gorgie Farm to reopen as community venture
- (tags:edinburgh farm )
- 2. Plans approved to remove slavery plaque from Edinburgh statue
- (tags:slavery edinburgh statue )
- 3. Absolutely gorgeously decorated house for sale
- (tags:beautiful homes )
- 4. Taking real photos that look like CGI.
- (tags:cgi graphics photos )
- 5. Hyperfocus Photography - some lovely shots here
- (tags:photos beautiful )
- 6. Regarding Efforts By You, In Inferior Person, To Cancel Me, A Genius
- (tags:satire society troll communication funny )
- 7. Is adspend funding an increase in LGBTQIA+ hate crime?
- (tags:lgbt transgender bigotry advertising )
