Entries tagged with austerity

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Interesting Links for 26-03-2025

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Interesting Links for 09-03-2025

1. Social housing to be demolished as post-Grenfell repairs are too expensive: (tags:UK housing OhForFucksSake )
2. Volkswagen reintroducing physical controls for vital functions: (tags:cars driving ux )
3. Game-Changing Vaccine Offers Long-Lasting Protection Against COVID-19 & Flu: (tags:vaccine pandemic flu GoodNews )
4. The Person Centred Association comes out against transphobia: (tags:LGBT transgender bigotry GoodNews counselling )
5. Asimov's, Analog, and Fantasy and Science Fiction have all been purchased: (tags:scifi publishing )
6. Why the Edinburgh South Suburban tram/train is unlikely to happen: (tags:trains trams edinburgh economics )
7. The Relationship between Autism and Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes/Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders: (tags:autism genetics bodies )
8. Scandal of the sick: Ill and disabled PIP benefit claimants die while waiting for payments: (tags:UK welfare austerity OhForFucksSake )

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Interesting Links for 06-02-2025

1. In-patient services at Edinburgh's Astley Ainslie hospital to be transferred to East Lothian: (tags:edinburgh nhs scotland )
2. The Curta Mechanical Calculator (I'd love to have one if they didn't cost so much): (tags:calculator mechanics impressive video viaSwampers )
3. AI systems with 'unacceptable risk' are now banned in the EU: (tags:ai europe regulation )
4. Scotland! Will! Not! Ban! Cats!: (tags:scotland cats wtf )
5. Time limit for child sex abuse claims to be removed in England and Wales: (tags:rape children abuse law uk GoodNews england )
6. The greatest families behind the greatest showmen - what it's like living life on the road, and how that affects the children: (tags:children family uk )
7. Probably the most sensible thing I've read about Neil Gaiman: (tags:neilgaiman )
8. Nurse who objected to transgender woman in changing room admits harassment: (tags:LGBT transgender NHS harassment )
9. Assaulted woman's divorce case was turned down by 116 Scottish legal aid lawyers: (tags:Scotland law austerity divorce assault )
10. Scientists explore how to make quantum bits with spinel gemstones: (tags:quantum materials )
11. CIA sent unclassified email with names of recent hires - at Whitehouse insistence.: (tags:usa Intelligence OhForFucksSake doom )
12. "I looked for dating advice online - and got sucked into the toxic manosphere": (tags:men relationships feminism patriarchy OhForFucksSake )

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Interesting Links for 14-09-2024

1. The Music industry's 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying: (tags:music Technology fail )
2. How to Spot NASA's Solar Sail Demonstration Streaking Through the Night Sky: (tags:solar space NASA )
3. New beanless 'coffee' emerges but does it taste any good?: (tags:coffee caffeine )
4. What's the most accurate weather app in the UK?: (tags:weather apps uk )
5. Lord Darzi review finds Tory austerity has left NHS in critical condition: (tags:austerity nhs uk )
6. AI chatbots might be better at swaying conspiracy theorists than humans: (tags:conspiracy ai GoodNews )
7. 'Good Omens': Neil Gaiman Offers To Step Back From Season 3 (I hope he does the same with the Netflix Sandman show): (tags:neilgaiman assault tv terrypratchett )
8. All maps are wrong: (tags:GPS maps Technology )
9. New ChatGPT o1 Blitzes "Britain's Hardest TV Quiz" (Only Connect): (tags:ai quiz viaSteer )

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Interesting Links for 13-06-2024

1. The Titan Submersible Disaster Shocked the World. The Exclusive Inside Story Is More Disturbing Than Anyone Imagined: (tags:submarine epicfail safety OhForFucksSake )
2. Israel and Hamas added to UN list for violating children's rights: (tags:children UnitedNations rights Israel Gaza )
3. MSPs approve buffer zones at abortion clinics in Scotland: (tags:Scotland abuse abortion GoodNews )
4. Plans for 8,500-capacity Edinburgh Park arena approved by council: (tags:Edinburgh music construction performance )
5. Real-Time Settlers Of Catan: (tags:games )
6. NASA accidentally broadcasts simulation of distressed astronauts on space station (I don't see how this could happen, and it sounds like the start of a bad movie): (tags:NASA video conspiracy )
7. Where does SNP claim of £18bn cuts under Labour come from?: (tags:Labour austerity OhForFucksSake )
8. Wild horses have returned to the Golden Steppe of Kazakhstan for the first time in at least 200 years: (tags:horses kazakhstan )
9. Greatest Comics of All Time as Chosen by 45 Writers and Artists: (tags:comics recommendation )

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Interesting Links for 04-05-2024

1. Voters want cost-of-living assistance more than increased funding for public services: (tags:tax polls austerity UK )

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Interesting Links for 07-12-2023

1. The internet helps solve an X-Files question that fans have been wondering about for 25 years: (tags:x-files music Twitter )
2. Why are movies full of CGI lying about it?: (tags:cgi movies fraud )
3. Incidence and burden of long COVID in Africa - the rates are *staggering*: (tags:Africa Pandemic Doom )
4. Building end-to-end security for Facebook Messenger: (tags:Facebook communication encryption )
5. No, having a cat doesn't increase your risk of developing schizophrenia. Probably.: (tags:cats schizophrenia ToxoplasmaGondii )
6. Services across England now lag far behind East Germany, as experts call for 'universal basic infrastructure' in UK: (tags:uk germany OhForFucksSake infrastructure austerity )
7. Commuting longer than 30 minutes os associated with depression: (tags:travel work depression mentalhealth )
8. Can the new Rwanda bill work and what could stop it?: (tags:law immigration uk rights echr )

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Interesting Links for 23-03-2023

1. Here's the full analysis of newly uncovered genetic data on COVID's origins: (tags:pandemic virus animals genetics china )
2. How fast does spring travel? About 2mph: (tags:time uk weather viaSwampers )
3. GPT-4 and professional benchmarks: the wrong answer to the wrong question: (tags:ai memory exams )
4. Fungus! Attacks! America!: (tags:fungus usa doom )
5. One of history's most famous psychological experiments was probably fake (Sending well people into psychiatric hospitals): (tags:psychology research history fraud OhForFucksSake )
6. Something Pretty Right: A History of Visual Basic: (tags:computers history windows programming microsoft billgates )
7. Ethical AI art generation? Adobe Firefly may be the answer: (tags:ethics ai art )
8. Comparing the cost of living in the UK and Germany: (tags:UK Germany austerity society Doom )
9. Life hacks from the 90s: (tags:history advice funny )
10. Scientists can now separate sperm based on whether they carry X or Y chromosomes with 80% accuracy: (tags:gender children sperm )
11. Female Afghan judge living in fear of Taliban denied sanctuary in Britain: (tags:UK Afghanistan asylum OhForFucksSake )