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Interesting Links for 29-07-2026
Jul. 29th, 2026 12:00 pmTags:
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Interesting Links for 17-04-2026
Apr. 17th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. The World Bank thinks better of its old free-market absolutism.
- 2. Autonomous robo-taxis now driving themselves on British streets
- (tags:London UK taxi automation driving )
- 3. Europe could run out of jet fuel in 6 weeks
- (tags:Europe fuel oil airplanes doom )
- 4. Europe's Anonymous Online Age Verification App Is Here
- (tags:Europe age apps )
Interesting Links for 20-03-2026
Mar. 20th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Earth's first mass extinction may have been far worse than believed
- (tags:extinction prehistory paleontology )
- 2. People using AI to give law advice finally reaches Scotland.
- (tags:ai law scotland )
- 3. Denmark was preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland in January, with military support from France, Germany, and Nordic nations.
- (tags:war usa norway germany france denmark )
- 4. This perfectly encapsulates why I won't surf the web without an ad-blocker
- (tags:advertising web newspapers )
- 5. How *did* a multi-storey car park get built in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle?
- (tags:edinburgh cars history )
- 6. Waymo self driving cars are 13x safer than humans
- (tags:safety automation driving cars )
- 7. Police Scotland announce they don't want trans people to report any crimes
- (tags:transgender LGBT bigotry OhForFucksSake Scotland )
- 8. The change that made lighthouses work much better - and why it drove the keepers mad. (Lots and lots of mercury)
- (tags:mercury light history safety ships )
- 9. Gen Z is broke, stressed and exhausted - but boomers won't accept it
- (tags:stress society doom )
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- stress,
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- usa,
- war,
- web
Interesting Links for 18-02-2026
Feb. 18th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. U.K. government covered up dramatic spike in trans youth suicides
- (tags:transgender suicide UK OhForFucksSake LGBT )
- 2. WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out
- (tags:manufacturing harddrive Technology doom )
- 3. Ancient bacteria found frozen in cave resistant to 10 types of antibiotics
- (tags:antibiotics bacteria doom )
- 4. Fake law: Barrister suing Dan Neidle relied on cases from ChatGPT
- (tags:ai law fail UK )
- 5. The association between academic pressure and adolescent depressive symptoms and self-harm
- (tags:mentalhealth academia UK psychology )
- 6. Using Origami to Imagine Emergency Shelters That Are Sturdy, Cost-Efficient and Easy to Deploy
- (tags:origami materials design architecture )
- 7. Amazon are cracking down on erotica
- (tags:erotica publishing Amazon OhForFucksSake )
- 8. How "Remote Assistance" works with Waymo's autonomous taxis.
- (tags:taxi driving automation )
- 9. Inside Horden, the County Durham town failed by politics (if you were wondering why people are turning to Reform)
- (tags:politics poverty uk )
- 10. New Silent Hill game inspired by tiny fishing village in Fife
- (tags:horror games scotland )
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- psychology,
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- scotland,
- suicide,
- taxi,
- technology,
- transgender,
- uk
Interesting Links for 07-01-2026
Jan. 7th, 2026 12:01 pm- 1. How LEGO made its new Smart Bricks
- (tags:lego Technology viaSwampers )
- 2. Why managing Donald Trump will be far more important than defending international law for Keir Starmer in Paris
- (tags:politics ukraine greenland usa uk europe )
- 3. Nvidia unveils self-driving car tech
- (tags:nvidia driving automation )
- 4. False Hydra (a suggested gaming monster that's delightfully creepy in a way I haven't seen in a while)
- (tags:monsters roleplaying )
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Interesting Links for 25-12-2025
Dec. 25th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
- (tags:headline funny journalism )
- 2. There's no such thing as a fake feather
- (tags:birds materials video )
- 3. Dutch Tesla Fleet Goes Bankrupt After Betting on Musk's Self-Driving Promises
- (tags:Tesla automation fraud ElonMusk )
- 4. Super Mario Bros. and Yoshi Games' Affordance of Childlike Wonder and Reduced Burnout Risk in Young Adults
- (tags:psychology mentalhealth games Mario )
- 5. Why Britain doesn't have enough dentists
- (tags:teeth UK bureaucracy OhForFucksSake )
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- mentalhealth,
- ohforfuckssake,
- psychology,
- teeth,
- tesla,
- uk,
- video
Interesting Links for 17-12-2025
Dec. 17th, 2025 12:00 pm- 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 )
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Interesting Links for 14-11-2025
Nov. 14th, 2025 12:00 pm- 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 )
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Interesting Links for 17-10-2025
Oct. 17th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. 60 minute video of uninterrupted AI driving in London. (See comments for times of interesting points in the video)
- (tags:video automation driving London uk )
- 2. Trans people are hiding their identities at alarming rates
- (tags:LGBT transgender USA bigotry society )
- 3. Greens neck and neck with Labour, new poll shows
- (tags:politics GreenParty labour polls uk )
- 4. FindOutNow are terrible at polling, and their results should be taken with a very large pinch of salt
- (tags:polls Scotland UK politics )
- 5. Now British lawyers are using AI (and not checking that the cases they cite actually exist)
- (tags:law ai UK OhForFucksSake )
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- scotland,
- society,
- transgender,
- uk,
- usa,
- video
Interesting Links for 15-10-2025
Oct. 15th, 2025 12:00 pm- 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 )
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Interesting Links for 23-09-2025
Sep. 23rd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Tesla influencers tried to automatically drive coast-to-coast -- they crashed within 60 miles
- (tags:Tesla ElonMusk automation driving fail cars )
- 2. OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
- (tags:ai )
- 3. Girl footballers attacked for having short hair.
- (tags:gender society hair football UK OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Exercising in nature is superior to the gym or city
- (tags:exercise nature psychology )
- 5. UK Millionaire exodus did not occur, study reveals
- (tags:tax wealth UK )
Interesting Links for 07-07-2025
Jul. 7th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Labour promised LGBT voters a 'reset' - now many feel betrayedÂ
- (tags:LGBT bigotry Labour OhForFucksSake UK transgender )
- 2. Colombia seizes first unmanned narco-submarine with Starlink antenna
- (tags:drugs automation submarine Colombia )
- 3. The real Salt Path: how a blockbuster book and film were spun from lies, deceit and desperation
- (tags:fraud OhForFucksSake publishing crime lies )
- 4. Is Autism Genetic? (About 80% yes)
- (tags:autism genetics )
- 5. Why your baby is crying (at 2 months, 50% genes. at 5 months 70% genes)
- (tags:babies crying genetics )
- 6. 'Improved' Twitter AI criticizes Democrats and Hollywood's 'Jewish executives'
- (tags:twitter ai bigotry Jews usa politics OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 25-06-2025
Jun. 25th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Elon Musk doesn't want you to know Tesla's response to the NHTSA's Robotaxi questions
- (tags:Tesla automation driving OhForFucksSake )
- 2. US safety regulators contact Tesla over erratic robotaxis
- (tags:USA automation safety Tesla driving doom )
- 3. Some fascinating discussion on Romeo and Juliet
- (tags:shakespeare women history )
- 4. New bat viruses discovered in China raise concerns about potential pandemic
- (tags:virus bats china )
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Interesting Links for 15-06-2025
Jun. 15th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. U.K. lesbians are resisting state-mandated transphobia
- (tags:LGBT lesbians transgender )
- 2. Cray supercomputer Vs Raspberry Pi
- (tags:computers history )
- 3. In San Francisco, Waymo Has Now Bested Lyft. Uber Is Next
- (tags:USA automation driving taxi )
- 4. For some people chronic pain could be an autoimmune disorder
- (tags:pain immune_system )
- 5. People asking LLM AIs about their medical issues get the right result ⅓ of the time (Vs ½ the time for doing their own research)
- (tags:ai medicine )
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- transgender,
- usa
Interesting Links for 13-06-2025
Jun. 13th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft -- and people are paying anyway
- (tags:taxi automation business )
- 2. How much is golfing at St. Andrews worth to the Scottish economy? (over $400m)
- (tags:golf Scotland business )
- 3. Recording orchestral music for a computer game (Bloodborne, Cleric Beast fight)
- (tags:games music video )
- 4. Why Israel Struck Iran Now
- (tags:Israel Iran nuclearweapons )
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Interesting Links for 10-06-2025
Jun. 10th, 2025 12:00 pm- 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 )
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- nature,
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- parenting,
- philosophy,
- population,
- taxi,
- technology,
- transgender,
- transport,
- uk,
- ukraine,
- usa,
- war
Interesting Links for 05-06-2025
Jun. 5th, 2025 12:00 pmTags:
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- automation,
- drone,
- games,
- humans,
- links,
- people,
- race,
- trailer,
- vialinkmachinego,
- video,
- visualisation
Interesting Links for 04-05-2025
May. 4th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The first driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes
- (tags:automation driving delivery )
- 2. "I like being autistic": Assessing the benefit of autistic-led psychoeducation for autistic children
- (tags:autism education children )
- 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)
- (tags:communication ai doom )
- 5. Love in the time of cancer
- (tags:cancer love death )
- 6. Creating Bluey: Tales from the Art Director
- (tags:TV Australia art animation )
Interesting Links for 02-05-2025
May. 2nd, 2025 12:00 pm- 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 )
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Interesting Links for 21-03-2025
Mar. 21st, 2025 12:00 pm- 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 )
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