1. Popper was right about the link between certainty and extremism

(tags:politics psychology belief )

2. Plastic from takeaway containers may fuel Alzheimer's risk (in mice)

(tags:mice alzheimers plastic )

3. Is it cheating if your illicit affair is with AI?

(tags:relationships ai )

4. The US "healthcare" system is not fit for purpose.

(tags:healthcare USA OhForFucksSake )

1. Labour's weirdness over flags is deranged, not patriotic

(tags:Labour nationalism flags weird )

2. Why bans on smartphones or social media for teenagers could do more harm than good

(tags:phones internet children )

3. One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants

(tags:ants reproduction viaPatrickHadfield weird cloning )

4. DragonCon ejects AI 'artist', to approval of all

(tags:art ai conventions )

1. Scientist exposes anti-wind groups as oil-funded. Now they want to silence him.

(tags:corruption oil globalwarming windpower propaganda usa )

2. Kpop Demon Hunters becomes Netflix's most viewed film ever

(tags:movies korea music demon netflix )

3. Fraudsters are training AIs on a musician and then releasing songs in their name

(tags:ai fraud music )

4. Bluesky now platform of choice for science community

(tags:science socialmedia )

5. Liberty chief blasts Labour over ECHR tinkering

(tags:rights Europe UK labour OhForFucksSake migration )

6. Dreamwidth is forced to block Mississipi

(tags:dreamwidth mississippi OhForFucksSake )

7. Donald Trump state visit: Ed Davey to boycott banquet over Gaza

(tags:USA Israel UK libdem Palestine gaza )

1. Consultation opens on Edinburgh's proposed new tram line

(tags:edinburgh trams consultation )

2. How to justify colonialism, Julius Caesar edition

(tags:history comic morality )

3. Trump is turning into Liz Truss but with more dictatorial behaviour

(tags:USA economics authoritarianism doom )

4. OpenAI Usage Plummets in the Summer, When Students Aren't Cheating on Homework

(tags:ai students )

5. Fixing the voting system brings in more women representatives

(tags:women politics voting reform )

1. Trans Segregation in Practice (Experiences of trans segregation following the Supreme Court ruling)

(tags:transgender bigotry LGBT UK OhForFucksSake )

2. How UK inheritance tax compares with other countries

(tags:inheritance tax uk )

3. Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses

(tags:ai energy co2 water )

4. Nigel Farage lies about the real asylum story

(tags:asylum uk migration OhForFucksSake )

5. Where Is the Political Leadership Against This Violent Far-Right Movement Terrorising Britain?

(tags:racism politics UK OhForFucksSake )

6. Missing Texas woman found living among lost ‘African’ tribe in Scotland

(tags:Scotland Africa history EpicWTF weird )

7. Ann Summers confirms trans women welcome at bra fittings

(tags:clothing transgender LGBT shops )

8. New Fireworks Control Zones to be introduced in Edinburgh

(tags:fireworks edinburgh scotland )

9. Moderate drinking is not good for you.

(tags:cancer alcohol disease )

10. 4chan will refuse to pay daily UK fines, its lawyer tells BBC

(tags:law uk usa censorship )

No idea why the autoposter didn't work yesterday/today. Will investigate tonight!

1. Harry Potter board game creators to donate profits to trans charities

(tags:harrypotter transgender boardgames GoodNews LGBT viaPatrickHadfield )

2. Europe Divided Into Areas With An Economy Equal In Size To London (this would make everyone happy, of course)

(tags:maps funny Europe viaSwampers )

3. What does a proper British diet look like?

(tags:tea satire video funny )

4. Happy 20th anniversary to "They're taking the hobbits to Isengard!"

(tags:history music funny lotr video )

5. Britain's first transgender judge takes UK to European court over Supreme Court ruling on biological sex

(tags:law echr rights transgender uk lgbt )

6. Ranking AIs by how well they score in Only Connect

(tags:tv ai quiz )

1. How to make a carpet (hypnotizing video)

(tags:video craft impressive )

2. How Britain became the libel capital of the world

(tags:law libel uk history OhForFucksSake viaKenny )

3. A business card that runs a fluid simulation

(tags:business advertising impressive technology )

4. Research: When Juggling Work and Family, Women Offer More Emotional Support Than Men

(tags:women men work family support research )

5. Germany halts military exports to Israel for use in Gaza

(tags:Germany Israel gaza trade )

6. Students who listened to material scored worse than those who read it

(tags:reading hearing learning psychology )

7. The new ChatGPT is less personal sounding than the old one. The women with AI boyfriends are not happy.

(tags:AI relationships )

1. How the UK's Equality and Human Rights Commission has gone horribly wrong,

(tags:uk equality rights OhForFucksSake politics )

2. "The Demon that Wears my Face"

(tags:jobs ai short_story scifi )

3. You get women with XY chromosomes who can give birth. Turns out biology is complicated

(tags:gender women genetics )

4. The Math Is Haunted (a look at a mathematics prover)

(tags:mathematics programming )

5. Scientists unravel decade-long mystery behind death of five billion starfish

(tags:life disease ocean sea )

6. Aerial footage filmed by ITV News shows the scale of Gaza's destruction

(tags:gaza genocide Israel )

7. Grid-scale Batteries in Scotland Stabilize Power

(tags:Scotland batteries electricity )

1. HS2 was doomed to be a mess before it began, say insiders

(tags:hs2 uk regulation trains planning epicfail )

2. Is it cake? M&S vs HMRC tax edition

(tags:uk tax food cake viaSwampers )

3. In a Major Reversal, the World Bank Is Backing Mega Dams

(tags:hydroelectric investment renewables )

4. UK's Biobank, the biggest human imaging study scans its 100,000th volunteer

(tags:uk mri health research )

5. ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries

(tags:ai inequality women pay OhForFucksSake )

1. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem

(tags:people comics ai doom communication )

2. How old are you in your head? (Mid 30s for me)

(tags:age psychology )

3. Reddit will start verifying the age (but not the identity) of UK redditors

(tags:uk age reddit regulation internet )

4. "Autism" is at least 4 different syndromes, each with distinct biological and genetic pathways.

(tags:autism genetics )