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Interesting Links for 11-07-2025
Jul. 11th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Everything tech giants will hate about the EU's new AI rules
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- 2. Photos: The Scale of China's Solar Power Projects
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- 3. What kind of video games do different fantasy races make?
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- 4. Fake signs and graffiti, frequently science-fiction related, from Glasgow
- (tags:Glasgow scifi graffiti sign art funny viaSwampers )
- 5. The Marks & Spencer hack was down to TCS having *terrible* security processed on their helpdesk.
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Interesting Links for 08-07-2025
Jul. 8th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. 7 Engineers Suspended After $2.3 Million Bridge Includes Bizarre 90-Degree Turn
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- 2. Edinburgh Airport liquid limit increased from 100ml to two litres
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- 3. The Time Someone Plagiarized Calvin & Hobbes and Nobody Noticed or Cared
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- 4. Turns out a great way to get children to want to learn their times tables is to set them to pop songs
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- 5. Employers to be banned from silencing harassed or abused staff
- (tags:regulation abuse work UK law )
- 6. Some English children are living in 'Dickensian' poverty, says commissioner
- (tags:england poverty children OhForFucksSake )
- 7. Electricity from large solar arrays with batteries now cheaper than from fossil plants in Germany
- (tags:electricity solarpower batteries germany GoodNews )
- 8. O Fortuna Misheard Lyrics
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Interesting Links for 21-06-2025
Jun. 21st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Good things Labour have achieved this week
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- 2. YouTube Playlists Are Advertising "No AI" as Entire Site Gets Choked by AI Slop
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- 3. It's True: The JAWS Shark is Public Domain
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- 4. Finding Peter Putnam - The forgotten janitor who discovered the logic of the mind
- (tags:history philosophy computing viaPatrickHadfield )
- 5. Edinburgh Council agrees on proposal to explore halt on new accommodation
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Interesting Links for 16-06-2025
Jun. 16th, 2025 12:01 pm- 1. Damaged paintings can now be restored in hours rather than months but printing the fix and applying it on top.
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- 2. The Meta AI App Lets You 'Discover' People's Bizarrely Personal Chats
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- 3. A New Obesity Pill May Burn Fat Without Suppressing Appetite
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Interesting Links for 21-05-2025
May. 21st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Avenge yourself on the icebergs that sunk you in Titanic Re-Christened: Maiden Vengeance
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- 2. UK Suspends Trade Talks With Israel Over 'Abominable' Situation In Gaza
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- 3. What happened to American manufacturing is not unusual - here's what experts says helps
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- 4. Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books
- (tags:newspapers ai OhForFucksSake )
- 5. How many carers does it take to afford a flat? The answer is Labour's big problem
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- 6. The Hive - a glorious piece of art in Kew Gargens
- (tags:bees art gardens viaKenny )
- 7. Flying dinosaur fossil with intact feathers reveals how first birds took flight
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- 8. The Default-Parent Problem (I am delighted that both school and nursery have now mostly learnt to call me first)
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- 9. Israeli MP Yair Golan hits out at own country for 'killing babies as a hobby'
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- 10. The mayfly's lifecycle: a fascinating, fleeting story
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Interesting Links for 15-05-2025
May. 15th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Labour doesn't believe British people should be allowed to live here with their families
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- 2. Crossness Pumping Station: seduced by symmetry
- (tags:art design architecture history London UK )
- 3. Dammit. I'm going to have to get a babysitter so I can go see Superman
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- 4. Would you like to see someone have their dream come true live on stage?
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- 5. Scottish Water warning after driest period in 60 years
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- 6. What it's like being a nanny for the super-rich
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- 7. EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basis
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- 8. How to Sniff Out 'Copaganda': When the Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
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- 9. Audible to use AI narrators and translators
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- 10. South Korea's robot chefs worry human workers, disappoint customers
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Interesting Links for 04-05-2025
May. 4th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The first driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes
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- 2. "I like being autistic": Assessing the benefit of autistic-led psychoeducation for autistic children
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- 3. Snake enthusiast survived hundreds of bites. Now his blood is aiding the search for a universal antivenom
- (tags:snakes immune_system genetics viaKenny )
- 4. They Sent the Message. But Did They Write It? (How AI is disrupting actual communication)
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- 5. Love in the time of cancer
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- 6. Creating Bluey: Tales from the Art Director
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Interesting Links for 17-04-2025
Apr. 17th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Bringing meat and cheese back to Britain from the EU is now illegal
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- 2. Your reminder that the current wave of transphobia was started in 2017 by the Christian Right to split the LGBT alliance
- (tags:transgender bigotry politics USA LGBT )
- 3. A closer look at the restoration work going on on Edinburgh's North Bridge
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Interesting Links for 15-04-2025
Apr. 15th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. What's the opposite of DEI?
- (tags:usa politics OhForFucksSake comic )
- 2. Edinburgh Trams introduces Tap-On Tap-off... soon
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- 3. These game case animations are gorgeous
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- 4. The Wisconsin cartographer who mapped Tolkien's fantasy world
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- 5. China's 'dreamy' new ship aims to drill 7km below the ocean floor
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- 6. NHS England is holding back a report on suicide in trans kids that was finished a year ago.
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Interesting Links for 01-04-2025
Apr. 1st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Alarms, overdoses and saving lives: 48 hours in UK's first drug injection room
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- 2. "What Trans Day of Visibility means to me"
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- 3. Labour congratulated on class April Fool's ruse after announcing plan to implement genuinely left-wing policy
- (tags:Labour AprilFool satire politics UK )
- 4. Buses in Wales to be brought under public control
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- 5. The 1 bedroom Edinburgh flat with over a thousand businesses registered at it.
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- 6. The Style Returns: Some legal notes on ChatGPT and Studio Ghibli
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- 7. "At 52, I learned the truth about my confident Oxbridge colleagues - they're bluffing"
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Interesting Links for 29-03-2025
Mar. 29th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Hayao Miyazaki on the use of AI: "I am utterly disgusted"
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- 2. Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
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- 3. Iron Age Britain was matrilocal (the female lines stayed still, the male lines migrated)
- (tags:archeology genetics uk )
- 4. Flight Bookings From Canada to the US Plummet Over 70%
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Interesting Links for 28-03-2025
Mar. 28th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Art projected onto The National Gallery of Scotland
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- 2. Why I recommend against Brave Browser
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- 3. Nintendo's new system for sharing digital Switch games, explained
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- 4. New research shows that monogamy is just as good as polyamory
- (tags:research relationships happiness polyamory ViaDrCross )
- 5. Two-way traffic returns to Edinburgh's North Bridge ahead of schedule
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Interesting Links for 19-03-2025
Mar. 19th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. I am very amused to discover that I'm distantly related to Magnus Hirschfeld.
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- 2. Why does every book come from the same country? And why is its capital city Swindon?
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- 3. Basic Woman's Entire Personality Revolves Around Things She Enjoys
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- 4. How Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones
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- 5. Naoshima - Japan's island of art
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- 6. Benefit cuts aren't going to help.
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Interesting Links for 18-03-2025
Mar. 18th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. How much welfare is fraudulently claimed, and how much bigger is the tax lost through evasion?
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- 2. Edinburgh's Summerhall arts venue has 'bright future' after signing of 10-year lease
- (tags:Edinburgh art GoodNews )
- 3. Nietzsche! Vs! Spicy! Food!
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- 4. A rational way of feeling about the present state of the world.
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- 5. Planet Definitions
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- 6. "My brother stole a phone - 13 years on, he's still in prison"
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Interesting Links for 19-12-2024
Dec. 19th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. All of Starmer's betrayals and u-turns as Labour faces Waspi women backlash
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- 2. US city tells residents to stop sticking googly eyes on its statues
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- 3. These people have the right idea about New Year's resolutions
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- 4. Owners of derelict shops and car parks will be forced to sell to build new homes
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- 5. America has won its war against the murder hornets
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Interesting Links for 06-12-2024
Dec. 6th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. People will share misinformation that sparks "moral outrage"
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- 2. The artist who uses mountains as his canvas
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- 3. Israel bans Islamic call to prayer
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- 4. LA Times Owner To Personally Review Opinion Headlines To Avoid Offending Elon Musk
- (tags:ElonMusk journalism USA OhForFucksSake censorship viaPatrickHadfield )
- 5. Democrats must combat Trump's culture wars, new progressive chair says
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- 6. Amnesty report concludes Israel's actions against Palestinians in Gaza constitute genocide
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- 7. Labour's childcare plan won't work due to funding crisis, nurseries say
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- 8. Bitter Americans React to UnitedHealthcare CEO's Murder: 'My Empathy Is Out of Network'
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- 9. See how lab-grown diamonds are made, step by step
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- 10. Happy 20th anniversary to Numa Numa!
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Interesting Links for 24-11-2024
Nov. 24th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. On the eve of the rise of the Maya civilization, people living in what's now Belize turned a whole wetland into a giant network of fish traps big enough to feed thousands of people.
- (tags:fish SouthAmerica archeology history )
- 2. UK Views on assisted dying
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- 3. Results Of The AI Art Turing Test?
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- 4. 10 amazing trans women you didn't learn about in history class
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Interesting Links for 21-11-2024
Nov. 21st, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. You Can Now Buy Lab-Grown Foie Gras
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- 2. Dare you climb... The Death Stairs?
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- 3. The Mistake Waltz
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- 4. Japan has made a $26Billion discovery of rare metals wrapped around megalodon teeth
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- 5. Would you pay $5m for the right to tape a banana to your wall?
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- 6. Railways set to come back into public ownership after law passes
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Interesting Links for 04-11-2024
Nov. 4th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Starmer's Brexit reset is stalling - and insiders in Brussels are worried
- (tags:UK Europe doom Labour OhForFucksSake )
- 2. 70% of the land in Britain is still owned by 1% of the population, largely descended from William the Conqueror's army
- (tags:uk inequality land )
- 3. The Mystery of How Agatha Christie Could Afford a Maid and a Nanny but Not a Car
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- 4. PETA's Animal "Shelter" Continues as a Leader in Animal Death
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- 5. AI overwhelmingly prefers white and male job candidates in new test of resume-screening bias
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- 6. 60% of Britain's Brexit pain is still to come, admits Treasury minister
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- 7. The 'light sabre' wielding photographer creating colourful light paintings
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- 8. When you visualise spacetime curving you're probably doing it wrong.
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