Interesting Links for 17-12-2025

Dec. 17th, 2025 12:00 pm
andrewducker: (Default)
1. Trans scholars being pushed out of academia, researchers warn
(tags:transgender bigotry LGBT UK academia OhForFucksSake )
2. Scottish Trans and LGBT Youth Scotland response to Scottish Government consultation on updating school buildings regulations
(tags:school transgender consultation Scotland )
3. Magic mushroom compound psilocybin found to break depression spiral
(tags:depression psilocybin psychedelics )
4. Creepy McDonalds AI Actor Responds To Backlash
(tags:ai advertising actors copyright video )
5. The official Fallout season 1 recap is filled with AI and thinks the show is set in the 1950s
(tags:Amazon AI misinformation )
6. Police Scotland warn mental health call-outs are unsustainable
(tags:police Scotland mentalhealth )
7. Tesla Robotaxis crash 12x as often as humans
(tags:automation driving Tesla )
Tags:
  • Add Memory
  • Share This Entry

Interesting Links for 14-11-2025

Nov. 14th, 2025 12:00 pm
andrewducker: (Default)
1. 'Segregated facilities' are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts
(tags:usa racism )
2. Lupus may be caused by the common Epstein-Barr virus (as well as MS)
(tags:disease virus immune_system )
3. Waymo robotaxis are now giving rides on freeways in LA, San Francisco, and Phoenix
(tags:automation driving usa )
4. The last-ever US penny was minted today in Philadelphia
(tags:usa money cash )
5. Inside China's Mini PC Production: How Tiny Computers Are Made (a 22 minute factory tour)
(tags:computers video manufacturing )
6. Marble: generating 3D scenes from text and imagery prompts
(tags:3d design ai )
7. GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON'T DIE (apocalyptically strange looking film, I rather fancy it)
(tags:movies trailer weird video )
8. 5 key points as legal experts grilled by MSPs on indyref2
(tags:scotland independence law )
9. Drop in U.S. Religiosity Among Largest in World (down 17% in a decade, to less than half)
(tags:religion USA )
10. UK tax calculator showing tax rates and marginal rates under various suggestions by different groups/parties
(tags:tax UK visualisation )
Tags:
  • Add Memory
  • Share This Entry

Interesting Links for 17-10-2025

Oct. 17th, 2025 12:00 pm
Tags:
  • Add Memory
  • Share This Entry

Interesting Links for 15-10-2025

Oct. 15th, 2025 12:00 pm
andrewducker: (Default)
1. The Commissioner for human rights for the Council of Europe warns that Britain's treatment of trans people could breach the ECHR
(tags:rights europe uk transgender lgbt )
2. Have you made the Ur-Ur error?
(tags:language history )
3. A human-faced stone from 12 thousand years ago was found in Karahan Tepe (Turkey)
(tags:turkey archeology prehistory )
4. Afghanistan commando who served with British Army is deported to Taliban (because the Home Office failed to get paperwork done)
(tags:Afghanistan UK military migration OhForFucksSake )
5. How UK recognising Palestine helped win Arab support for Trump's Gaza deal
(tags:UK Gaza Israel diplomacy )
6. Enzymes successfully converted a kidney to universal type O for transplant, marking a major step toward faster, more compatible organ donations.
(tags:organdonor technology GoodNews )
7. Waymo's Robotaxis Are Coming to London in 2026
(tags:taxis automation Technology london uk )
8. So far, in 2025, Britain has wasted more than £1Billion switching off wind turbines and paying gas plants to switch on.
(tags:waste electricity uk OhForFucksSake )
Tags:
  • Add Memory
  • Share This Entry

Interesting Links for 23-09-2025

Sep. 23rd, 2025 12:00 pm
Tags:
  • Add Memory
  • Share This Entry

Interesting Links for 07-07-2025

Jul. 7th, 2025 12:00 pm
Tags:
  • Add Memory
  • Share This Entry

Interesting Links for 25-06-2025

Jun. 25th, 2025 12:00 pm
Tags:
  • Add Memory
  • Share This Entry

Interesting Links for 15-06-2025

Jun. 15th, 2025 12:00 pm
Tags:
  • Add Memory
  • Share This Entry

Interesting Links for 13-06-2025

Jun. 13th, 2025 12:00 pm
Tags:
  • Add Memory
  • Share This Entry

Interesting Links for 10-06-2025

Jun. 10th, 2025 12:00 pm
andrewducker: (Default)
1. This seems like a reasonable overview of how Labour are doing on the economy
(tags:economics labour uk )
2. The Trump Administration's Nasty Campaign Against Trans People
(tags:lgbt bigotry usa transgender OhForFucksSake )
3. The Allegory Of The Cave - Further Details
(tags:comic philosophy funny )
4. Fiber Optic Bird's Nest Heralds A Fiber Drone Summer In Ukraine
(tags:Ukraine fibreoptics drone war nature birds technology )
5. World fertility rates in 'unprecedented decline', UN says
(tags:fertility population )
6. Civil servants told to consider quitting if they disagree with policy over Gaza
(tags:uk gaza government )
7. Give new dads six weeks off work at nearly full pay, MPs say
(tags:uk parenting fatherhood )
8. Uber brings forward trialling driverless taxis in UK
(tags:automation taxi uk driving transport )
Tags:
  • Add Memory
  • Share This Entry

Interesting Links for 05-06-2025

Jun. 5th, 2025 12:00 pm
Tags:
  • Add Memory
  • Share This Entry

Interesting Links for 04-05-2025

May. 4th, 2025 12:00 pm
Tags:
  • Add Memory
  • Share This Entry

Interesting Links for 02-05-2025

May. 2nd, 2025 12:00 pm
andrewducker: (Default)
1. The Summerisle Arcana - Wicker Man Inspired Tarot
(tags:tarot horror movies )
2. Seattle Worldcon science fiction convention vets panelists with ChatGPT
(tags:ai conventions scifi OhForFucksSake )
3. No One Knows What's Inside the Smallpox Vaccine
(tags:disease history vaccines cows horses )
4. The White House's Plan For Reversing The Declining Birth Rate
(tags:satire children usa politics )
5. For Women Scotland: a legal critique of the recent judgment on transgender rights
(tags:LGBT transgender rights law UK )
6. US abandons $350bn debt claim in Ukraine minerals deal - but Trump hasn't noticed
(tags:usa ukraine war trade )
7. AI extends the career of a porn actress. Also Jack Nicklaus, Snoop Dog, and KISS
(tags:ai celebrity business )
8. 100 Men vs. 1 Gorilla: Primatologists Explain Who Would Win
(tags:gorillas violence funny internet ViaDrCross )
9. How the UK Establishment Crushed Trans Rights
(tags:LGBT transgender guardian DailyMail journalism UK politics bigotry )
10. How would zonal energy pricing work? (And why it would lower *everyone'ss* prices)
(tags:electricity uk economics )
11. Rector wins appeal over St Andrews University Gaza row
(tags:Scotland Israel gaza Palestine genocide university StAndrews freespeech )
12. Waymo automated taxies make the roads safer for bikes and pedestrians
(tags:driving automation safety )
13. I finally understand why all those Soulslike bosses hated me so much, thanks to The Dark Queen of Mortholme, which pits you up against some plucky upstart who just keeps coming back
(tags:games review )
14. Don't watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits
(tags:headline dragons law EpicWTF )
15. Do any of you like puzzles?
(tags:puzzles )
Tags:
  • Add Memory
  • Share This Entry

Interesting Links for 21-03-2025

Mar. 21st, 2025 12:00 pm
andrewducker: (Default)
1. EU sends Apple first DMA interoperability instructions for apps and connected devices
(tags:Europe apple regulation )
2. Big drop in overseas students at Scottish universities (driven by changes in immigration visas)
(tags:scotland university uk migration visa doom )
3. "We'll deport you if we have evidence against you, and if we do not" - An extraordinary witness statement by the US government
(tags:usa migration OhForFucksSake law )
4. New study reveals bacterial vaginosis is actually a sexually transmitted infection
(tags:sex disease women viaDrJon )
5. Vivian Jenna Wilson on Being Elon Musk's Estranged Daughter, Protecting Trans Youth and Taking on the Right Online
(tags:LGBT transgender ElonMusk USA politics bigotry )
6. PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now
(tags:games computers )
7. Tesla cars disengage autopilot if you're about to crash
(tags:Tesla automation OhForFucksSake driving crash )
8. Battery storage is dramatically reshaping the California grid, and finally moving it away from gas
(tags:batteries electricity GoodNews California )
9. What evidence does the CIA have that Hitler was still alive in South America in the 1950s?
(tags:history hitler USA cia colombia wtf )
10. Apple Is Losing Over $1 Billion per Year on Streaming Service, Has 45 Million Apple TV+ Subscribers
(tags:Apple TV business )
11. I thankfully don't have to worry about dating apps. But I do find it fascinating what kind of person makes them work for them.
(tags:dating advice )
12. Germany and Britain issue warnings about traveling to America
(tags:usa travel germany uk )
Tags:
  • Add Memory
  • Share This Entry

Interesting Links for 28-02-2025

Feb. 28th, 2025 12:00 pm
Tags:
  • Add Memory
  • Share This Entry

Interesting Links for 30-01-2025

Jan. 30th, 2025 12:00 pm
andrewducker: (Default)
1. The one critic Elon Musk can't counter: his daughter
(tags:ElonMusk family transgender lgbt )
2. A really simple guide to self-care
(tags:advice health mentalhealth )
3. OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us
(tags:ai intellectual_property )
4. Edinburgh theatre run of Coraline scrapped over sexual misconduct allegations involving author Neil Gaiman
(tags:neilgaiman rape theatre )
5. Friends make tasks seem easier
(tags:psychology friendship )
6. Good Omens Graphic Novel Kickstarter will not be giving Neil Gaiman any money.
(tags:neilgaiman terrypratchett kickstarter )
7. Elon Musk can't even play computer games
(tags:games ElonMusk cheating )
8. 55% of Britons support rejoining the EU. Only 30% think we were right to leave.
(tags:uk europe polls )
9. Sicko game developers keep returning to reinvent Tetris
(tags:tetris games design )
10. Waymo to test its autonomous taxis in 10 new cities in 2025, starting with Las Vegas and San Diego
(tags:automation driving )
Tags:
  • Add Memory
  • Share This Entry

Interesting Links for 21-12-2024

Dec. 21st, 2024 12:00 pm
Tags:
  • Add Memory
  • Share This Entry

Interesting Links for 18-12-2024

Dec. 18th, 2024 12:00 pm
Tags:
  • Add Memory
  • Share This Entry

Interesting Links for 30-11-2024

Nov. 30th, 2024 12:00 pm
Tags:
  • Add Memory
  • Share This Entry

Interesting Links for 12-11-2024

Nov. 12th, 2024 12:00 pm
andrewducker: (Default)
1. A portrait of the fascist as a young gamer
(tags:gaming bigotry )
2. The UK has a £47bn bill in outstanding compensation claims
(tags:uk money )
3. Want to shoot down a drone fleet? You need a machine gun, a camera, and some automation
(tags:technology drone guns automation )
4. How a stubborn computer scientist accidentally launched the deep learning boom
(tags:ai computers neurons images )
5. Israel's Smotrich tells authorities to prepare for West Bank annexation
(tags:Israel )
6. What Britain's £100m bat tunnel can tell us about why Britain can't build infrastructure
(tags:UK infrastructure bureaucracy hs2 epicfail )
7. Water expands a ridiculous amount when it turns into steam, and you do not want to be nearby if it happens very quickly
(tags:video water heat )
8. I have been reading Sophia these jokes and she has been explaining to me, one by one, why they make no sense.
(tags:jokes children )
9. Chi-Fi Tuning - Why It Sounds So Damn Piercing To Western Ears?
(tags:china music Technology sound )
10. Expert Explains Why, Essentially, You're Fucked
(tags:video doom funny )
11. Why I Will Always Be Angry About Software Engineering (or anything else that's badly managed)
(tags:life programming organisation systems anger )
12. Do Not Obey In Advance
(tags:fascism bureaucracy heroism )
Tags:
  • Add Memory
  • Share This Entry

Profile

andrewducker: (Default)
andrewducker
My NotZen Website

December 2025

S M T W T F S
 1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17181920
21222324252627
28293031   

Syndicate

RSS Atom

Most Popular Tags

Page Summary

Active Entries

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Dec. 17th, 2025 11:12 pm
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios