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Interesting Links for 13-04-2025
Apr. 13th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Key principles on in-game virtual currencies in the EU
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- 2. Is Airplane Mode on Flights Necessary or Outdated?
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- 3. After Paris curbed cars, air pollution maps reveal a dramatic improvement
- (tags:air pollution cars Paris GoodNews )
- 4. The Solid-State Shift: Reinventing the Transformer for Modern Grids
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- 5. The largest flood in Earth's history burst through Gibraltar and Sicily and refilled the entire Mediterranean in just a few years
- (tags:geology sea Europe flooding )
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Interesting Links for 22-02-2025
Feb. 22nd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. HP decided to make every phone customer wait 15 minutes before talking to them. And was then forced to backtrack.
- (tags:hp wtf customerservice OhForFucksSake phones )
- 2. A Delta pilot tried to raise safety issues. They accused her of being bipolar. It took years in the courts to prove her right.
- (tags:mentalhealth safety airplanes OhForFucksSake usa )
- 3. Exhausted Friends Slowly Realize They Were Playing Board Game Wrong Entire 6 Hours
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- 4. The Imperial March but it's coming from Vader's chest control panel
- (tags:StarWars music funny video )
- 5. What counselling training is like for an autistic person
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- 6. Five Oddly, Unexpectedly Upbeat Works of SFF
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Interesting Links for 27-01-2025
Jan. 27th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Austin rents have fallen for nearly two years. Because they build lots of new homes
- (tags:housing economics Texas USA )
- 2. Storm Éowyn brings down 15 trees in Edinburgh's Botanic Gardens, including one from 1859.
- (tags:trees edinburgh storm )
- 3. Outgoing Muslim Council of Britain leader Zara Mohammed criticises lack of government contact
- (tags:Islam UK government )
- 4. This is the Only Photo of the Concorde Flying at Supersonic Speed
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Interesting Links for 20-08-2024
Aug. 20th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. NASA Citizen Scientists Spot Object Moving 1 Million Miles Per Hour
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- 2. Why we should always be alert to the possibilities of miscarriages of justice
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- 3. Labour incapable of tackling racism and Islamophobia amid far-right violence, member of party committee says
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- 4. 53% of British school librarians asked to remove LGBTQ+ books
- (tags:censorship LGBT UK school OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Investors Are Suddenly Getting Very Concerned That AI Isn't Making Any Serious Money
- (tags:ai business )
- 6. Google's AI Search Gives Sites Dire Choice: Share Data or Die
- (tags:Google ai doom OhForFucksSake )
- 7. Thirty six flights were cancelled and 201 delayed at a Japanese airport on the weekend after a pair of scissors went missing in a store near the boarding gates.
- (tags:airplanes safety Japan )
Interesting Links for 28-05-2024
May. 28th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Study Finds That 52 Percent of ChatGPT Answers to Programming Questions Are Wrong (but sound believable)
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- 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
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Interesting Links for 22-05-2024
May. 22nd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Brain implants allow us to explore bilingualism
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- 2. The poverty children in the UK are subjected to is deliberate - never forget that
- (tags:poverty uk OhForFucksSake )
- 3. UK risks debt crisis as Tories and Labour ignore IMF over tax cuts
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- 4. Climate change is making turbulence worse
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Interesting Links for 21-05-2024
May. 21st, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. £5bn Brexit border checks system still has no timetable for launch
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- 2. Flying sharks save fuel (at least, applying shark-like skin to your plane does)
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- 3. The UK's Infected blood report's key findings at a glance
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- 4. The results of the UK's infected blood inquiry should surprise us, but they won't.
- (tags:UK OhForFucksSake blood lies government )
- 5. Trans-inclusive roller derby team helps strike down New York's trans sports ban
- (tags:newyork LGBT transgender GoodNews law sports )
- 6. What's the name for the emotion you feel when you see something cute?
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- 7. What will it be like when AI can create great art?
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- 8. 2022 Census: Majority of Scots have no religion
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Interesting Links for 14-05-2024
May. 14th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Why is Richard Dawkins talking about Cultural Christianity?
- (tags:society islam bigotry OhForFucksSake religion atheism ChurchOfEngland uk RichardDawkins )
- 2. Brain abnormalities in survivors of COVID-19 after 2-year recovery: a functional MRI study
- (tags:pandemic brain doom )
- 3. PFI means that school meals are too expensive and too small
- (tags:money school food children business OhForFucksSake )
- 4. What Your Favorite '90s Band Says About the Kind of Bored Suburban Mom You Are Today
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- 5. Autonomous F-16 Fighters Are Roughly Even With Human Pilots
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- 6. Overdue Edinburgh library fines to be scrapped as £50k in charges to be wiped
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Interesting Links for 31-03-2024
Mar. 31st, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. How to Talk to Little Girls
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- 2. Church of Whale Fall
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- 3. Headless, dog-sized robot to patrol Alaska airport to prevent bird strikes
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- 4. Disillusioned Businesses Discovering That AI Kind of Sucks
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- 5. Personal 'invisibility shield' goes on sale, starting under $70
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Interesting Links for 17-03-2024
Mar. 17th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. 'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower's prediction before death
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- 2. Deep-sea hiatus record reveals orbital pacing by 2.4 Myr eccentricity grand cycles
- (tags:prehistory ocean space weird )
- 3. Lexus, Not Tesla, Makes The Best Driver Assistance System (and most of them are bad)
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Interesting Links for 14-03-2024
Mar. 14th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Did you know there was an old rifle range under Edinburgh's Waverley Station? (6 minutes in to this video)
- (tags:guns edinburgh history trains )
- 2. What's been going on with Boeing? (they seem to have forgotten that making planes requires attention to detail)
- (tags:airplanes safety epicfail OhForFucksSake engineering manufacturing )
- 3. A global network of violent predators is hiding in plain sight, targeting children on major internet platforms, grooming them, and extorting them to commit horrific acts of abuse.
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- 4. Giant redwoods: The world's largest trees are thriving in the UK. (Except for not reproducing)
- (tags:trees UK )
- 5. The economics of all-you-can-eat buffets
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- 6. The Existential Relief of Having Children
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- 7. The Abyss 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray UK release | The BBFC comments on its cancellation
- (tags:rats abuse animals movies jamescameron BluRay )
- 8. Do your pets help you make food? You ain't seen nothing yet!
- (tags:food cows video funny )
- 9. LGBTQ+ Identification in U.S. Now at 7.6% (and dramatically higher in Gen Z)
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- 10. AI reveals prostate cancer has two distinct subtypes
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- 11. The full version of Tenacious D's - ...Baby One More Time cover is out. And even more awesome than you'd expect
- (tags:music video BritneySpears awesome panda )
- 12. Yes, the Tories are outrageously racist and sexist - but Labour is guilty too (writes Diane Abbott)
- (tags:politics racism UK Labour conservatives )
- 13. Giant 'sand battery' holds a week's heat for a whole town
- (tags:sand heat battery finland )
- 14. The only other mammals to go through the menopause live longer because of it
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- 15. New ONS figures show how Edinburgh's share of short term lets is massive by comparison to practically everywhere else in the UK
- (tags:edinburgh rental holidays housing tourism )
- 16. New extremism definition unveiled by British government. Is very vague.
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- 17. I see that J.K. Rowling is now engaging in anti-trans Holocaust denial
- (tags:transgender Holocaust jkrowling OhForFucksSake bigotry lgbt )
- 18. Assisted dying in Canada is accepted - but the UK should tread carefully
- (tags:euthanasia canada )
- 19. I was getting bored of running - then I found joggling
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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.
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- 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 17-02-2024
Feb. 17th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Air Force OKs Autonomous Cargo Flights Across California After Successful Test
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- 2. The UK will keep falling into recession until we renegotiate Brexit
- (tags:uk economics europe doom )
- 3. 'I was told not to have therapy because it could let my rapist walk free'
- (tags:therapy rape OhForFucksSake uk law )
- 4. How Junk Science Set The UK's Health And Welfare Policy
- (tags:uk pandemic ChronicFatigueSyndrome OhForFucksSake )
- 5. A brief history of the iconic Thierry Mugler cyborg suit worn by Zendaya
- (tags:fashion scifi history movies )
- 6. Elon Musk's X allows China and Russia-based propaganda banned on other platforms
- (tags:china russia propaganda twitter ElonMusk OhForFucksSake )
- 7. Study finds bigfoot sightings correlate with black bear populations
- (tags:bears cryptozoology )
- 8. The adult consequences of being bullied in childhood
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- 9. University of Bristol contributed to the death of one of its students (by failing in its duty of care over her mental health)
- (tags:university suicide mentalhealth law )
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Interesting Links for 29-01-2024
Jan. 29th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. "Lena" isn't about uploading (it's a great short story though)
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- 2. "My son says he is not a book person. Where did my parenting go wrong?"
- (tags:books children funny computers parenting )
- 3. What does the ICJ ruling mean for Gaza and Israel? Cambridge professor explains
- (tags:rights law Palestine Israel )
- 4. Why You've Never Been In A Plane Crash (the no-blame culture of crash investigations)
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- 5. Pavement parking crackdown begins in Edinburgh
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- 6. Edinburgh roads: Through traffic to be banned from key routes across city centre
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- 7. Talking points for calling your Senators about KOSA
- (tags:politics usa OhForFucksSake internet regulation )
- 8. How a Worldcon happens, and what might happen to them next
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Interesting Links - 2023-12-23
Dec. 23rd, 2023 04:46 pm- PR firm that works for the Tories and Palantir offers to pay for attacks on the Good Law Project
- (tags:UK OhForFucksSake politics law )
- Air Canada fined $97.5K after a passenger who uses a wheelchair was made to drag himself off a plane
- (tags:disability airplanes Canada OhForFucksSake )
- Biden pardons marijuana possession convictions
- (tags:marijuana crime USA democrats )
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
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 8. Neurons in your eye help keep your view stable
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- 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
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- 11. "My $500M Mars Rover Mistake: A Failure Story"
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Interesting Links for 03-11-2023
Nov. 3rd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Bigots lose Scottish court case over definition of 'woman'
- (tags:bigotry GoodNews scotland transgender )
- 2. The Information Commissioner found, two years ago, that the Scottish Government didn't use WhatsApp for discussions.
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- 3. Ancient roman road found in Stirling garden.
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- 4. Peter Jackson Talks About Making The Beatles' Last Music Video
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- 5. Insulin less temperature-sensitive than previously thought (can cope at temperatures up to 25 degrees for 6 months)
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- 6. This Plane Wasn't Snooping On Protesters In Los Angeles, It Was Dropping Irradiated Bugs
- (tags:insects radiation fertility USA airplanes )
- 7. Cyclists are Better People than Drivers
- (tags:cycling psychology morality driving cars bicycles )
- 8. The TRUTH about stars!
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Interesting Links for 11-09-2023
Sep. 11th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. The Australian solar tech that may have found a low cost solution to storage
- (tags:solarpower Australia )
- 2. Studios are bribing the critics used for Rotten Tomatoes scores
- (tags:movies reviews bribery corruption )
- 3. Covid: What does the new normal look like?
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- 4. The Carrington Event of 1859 Disrupted Telegraph Lines. A "Miyake Event" Would Be Far Worse
- (tags:sun doom electronics )
- 5. 'Sea Nomads' Are First Known Humans Genetically Adapted to Diving
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- 6. The UK is going about reclaiming city streets the wrong way
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- 7. California moves to decriminalize use of magic mushrooms, other psychedelics
- (tags:decriminalization psychology psilocybin GoodNews )
- 8. Meta deletes Al Jazeera presenter's profile after show criticising how Facebook works with Israel's intelligence agency
- (tags:israel palestine facebook OhForFucksSake )
- 9. Coincidentally-identical waypoint names foxed UK air traffic control system
- (tags:uk airplanes computers epicfail )
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