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1. How does WhatsApp make money?: (tags:communication business )
2. You Don't Need Words to Think: (tags:language thinking )
3. Who wants to hear interesting facts about the English language?: (tags:language writing history video English )
4. Bohemian Rhapsody, told in memes: (tags:meme queen music funny )
5. George R.R. Martin Announces He's Written Every 'And' That Will Appear In Next Book: (tags:writing GeorgeRRMartin funny satire )
6. Keir Starmer scores first major Brexit reset success with landmark defence deal with Germany: (tags:UK Germany military russia )
7. Edinburgh city centre to get first major new public gardens for 200 years: (tags:edinburgh gardens school music )
8. Scientists Say Our Water Cycle Has Started Breaking Down: (tags:water environment doom )
9. Meet the winners of Nikon's 2024 photomicrography contest: (tags:photos awards microscope )
10. California Is Flooding School Cafeterias With Vegan Meals—and Kids Like It: (tags:food california vegan )
11. What explains the timing and manner of the Chagos Islands sovereignty deal? (the USA): (tags:usa uk india politics )
12. UK Supreme Court rules that individuals can take regulators to court to make them do their job.: (tags:uk regulation law )
13. "Autism" is at least four different things.: (tags:autism genetics development children )

1. French decision to protect right to abortion shows 'real fear far-right populists could gain power': (tags:abortion rights France )
2. How much effort it takes to clean a professional kitchen (and how much the cook will hate you if you walk in 10 minutes before closing): (tags:restaurant cleaning )
3. More than one-quarter of scholarly articles are not being properly archived and preserved: (tags:research academia fail viaPatrickHadfield )
4. Why Edinburgh's potholes are winning: (tags:edinburgh roads weight )
5. How Hugo ballots used to be counted: (tags:software hugo awards )
6. Sugary drinks increase your risk of a heart condition by 10%. Drinks with sweeteners raise it by 20%: (tags:sugar drink heart doom )
7. The man who spends £8,500 a year to live on a train: (tags:trains germany viaDanielDWilliam )
8. This is The Longest Train Route in the World (as of 2024): (tags:trains china Russia Spain Portugal )
9. What is your objective?: (tags:advice life )
10. European Court of Human Rights Confirms: Weakening Encryption Violates Fundamental Rights: (tags:encryption privacy Europe rights )
11. Racism is embedded in LLMs (in this case, based on dialect): (tags:racism ai )

1. Can ChatGPT edit fiction? 4 professional editors asked AI to do their job - and it ruined their short story: (tags:ai editing fail viaMarrog )
2. Mercury: Council and Parliament strike a deal to completely phase out mercury in the EU: (tags:Europe dental mercury lighting )
3. There's a fascinating discussion in this article about who "the Celts" were: (tags:prehistory Europe language society )
4. 2023 Hugo winner announces that they no longer consider themselves to have won: (tags:Hugo awards china fraud )
5. All new NHS building projects in Scotland put on hold: (tags:Scotland NHS money building )
6. Rabbit Test - the short story that won* a Hugo: (tags:hugo abortion rights women scifi )
7. Fertility doctor uses own sperm to impregnate lots of women, leading to incest: (tags:usa fertility incest OhForFucksSake healthcare fraud )
8. The Fifteenth Doctor audition piece: (tags:tv drwho acting RusselTDavies )

1. All of the parties have shared their proposed budgets for Edinburgh: (tags:edinburgh politics money )
2. UK MPs will be helped to spot conspiracy theories: (tags:research conspiracy uk politics )
3. Neil Gaiman is in disagreement with half of his fans of the genre of Good Omens: (tags:neilgaiman comedy TV genre funny )
4. The 2023 Hugo Fraud and Where We Go From Here: (tags:Hugo awards scifi fraud )
5. What it takes to scam someone out of $50,000: (tags:money fraud )
6. Service change from Sunday 24 March - Lothian Buses: (tags:Edinburgh buses transport )
7. Scientists aghast at bizarre AI rat with huge genitals in peer-reviewed article: (tags:ai rats genitals penis wtf )
8. Greece legalizes same-sex marriage in a first for an Orthodox Christian nation: (tags:greece lgbt marriage christianity )
9. Solar & Battery Storage to Make Up 81% of New U.S. Electric-Generating Capacity in 2024: (tags:solarpower GoodNews usa batteries )
10. The Fraud of Plastic Recycling (and the companies that have covered it up for 50 years): (tags:recycling plastic fraud doom )

1. Wouldn't everyone's life be better if they could hear the theme music?: (tags:music movies StarWars funny )
2. Searching 32 million academic papers for obscene acronyms hidden in the titles: (tags:swearing research academia funny )
3. We've Known How To Prevent A School Shooting for More Than 20 Years: (tags:viaPatrickHadfield schools guns murder psychology USA )
4. Celebrity culture is the modern morality play: (tags:morality society celebrity )
5. If you're wondering how Britain is doing, the #12 single right now is "Prince Andrew is a Sweaty Nonce": (tags:monarchy UK music funny )
6. I do not understand why anyone would rely on Google for a chat application: (tags:Google communication epicfail )
7. MBE for Travelling Tabby - very well deserved!: (tags:Pandemic awards )
8. The UK government is having the most ludicrously biased consultation I've ever seen (on Imperial units): (tags:consultation UK government measurement OhForFucksSake )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4128142.html

Racial equality commission head Munira Mirza compares using 'N word' to calling someone 'fat': (tags:UK conservatives racism OhForFucksSake )
Proposal to avoid no-deal Brexit rejected by UK's chief negotiator: (tags:UK Europe Doom )
A friend is selling their house. Looks pretty, if you've ever wanted to live near Edinburgh: (tags:Edinburgh housing )
America, Israel, police, brutality, and anti-Semitism. Why Rebecca Long-Bailey had to go.: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1276171378044125189.html
(tags:USA Israel police Labour )
Booker Prize drops Baroness Nicholson as honorary vice president over transphobia, homophobia, etc: (tags:LGBT transgender awards homophobia )
Almost 1 in 3 pilots in Pakistan have fake licenses: (tags:flying Pakistan OMGWTF )
American ex-health-insurance boss comes clean about lying about Canadian healthcare: (tags:USA healthcare fraud )
Four years after Brexit, support for the EU surges in Britain: (tags:UK Europe polls )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3818647.html

Reading nerve signals in your arms to control a computer: I really really want one of these. I hope they can make it into a viable product.
(tags: cyborg thefuture Technology )
Katie Hopkins files for IVA amid crippling debts 18 months after losing libel case against Jack Monroe: (tags: GoodNews racism uk money )
Ruth Davidson has shown again why she's a unique politician: (tags: Scotland politics Conservatives )
French bookshops revolt after prize selects novel self-published on Amazon: (tags: France publishing awards amazon )
Most of the Daily Mail's 'Commentors' Don't Even Exist: (tags: comments DailyMail fraud )
Linus Torvalds apologises for his behaviour, takes some time off: (tags: linustorvalds linux opensource management behaviour community )
Rain ruins one of Norway’s richest men: (tags: electricity investment epicfail )
I had no idea Pumpkin Spice flavour wasn't actually pumpkin flavour at all!: (tags: Halloween autumn food )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3724462.html

Drive-in 'sex boxes' for prostitution are a wild success in Switzerland: (tags: Switzerland prostitution )
The risks of alcohol (again) (with actual details of how dangerous, and a useful graph): (tags: ViaDrCross alcohol health )
No-deal Brexit will be blocked by at least 40 Tory MPs, former Conservative minister says: (tags: UK Europe Conservatives )
The case for abolishing private schools: (tags: school Education inequality )
It is actually fine to feed bread to swans (and presumably ducks, etc): (tags: myths birds health food bread )
What happens to British manufacturers using the CE mark after "Brexit day"?: (tags: UK Europe manufacturing electronics safety trade )
The Origins of Opera and the Future of Programming: (tags: opera programming systems teams history )
Jacob Rees-Mogg suggests that after Brexit, people crossing the Irish border should be subject to 'inspections, just like during The Troubles': (tags: OhForFucksSake conservatives Ireland NorthernIreland )
The Guardian view on science fiction: The Broken Earth deserves its Hugo (totally. Read them): (tags: books Hugo scifi race awards )
Skim reading is the new normal (waffles on a lot, I found it hard not to skim read, and I'd like to see some detail on the studies and the effect sizes): (tags: reading technology )
Muslim Journalist Forced To Show TSA Her Bloody Pad During Search: (tags: Islam security_theatre usa OhForFucksSake )
The State of the Bestiary is Stable: 25 years of Magic the Gathering. (Fascinating, mathematical, personal, and analytical): (tags: games magic history )
Friends, gather round for the tale of the worst bride in the world.: (tags: wedding money OhForFucksSake )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3718258.html

Corbynistas are doxing and *checking the ancestry* of BBC journalists.…: (tags: OhForFucksSake Jews politics uk )
In horrifying detail, women accuse U.S. customs officers of invasive body searches: (tags: usa OhForFucksSake )
Measles cases hit record high in Europe (three times what it was, because people aren't vaccinating their kids): (tags: vaccination OhForFucksSake )
Video: Change in Queen Elizabeth's appearance on currency: (tags: money royalty video history )
Kerala needs your help (huge floods, hundreds dead, hundreds of thousands living in camps): (tags: india charity )
Everyone expects women to do the shitty work - Women volunteer more, are asked to volunteer more, and accept requests to volunteer more: (tags: patriarchy women men society )
Announcing the 2018 Hugo Award Winners: (tags: hugo scifi awards )
The Real Reason that There Are So Many Thai Restaurants in America: (tags: Thailand food usa )
Number of Third-Party Cookies on EU News Sites Dropped by 22% Post-GDPR: (tags: privacy cookies europe web )
Doctor Who - New Series Writers and Directors announced: (tags: drwho writing tv )
Consuming milk at breakfast lowers blood glucose throughout the day: (tags: milk glucose health food )
Scientists discover the reason people believe in conspiracy theories and creationism: (tags: conspiracy psychology religion )
How Do We Measure the Distance to a Star?: (tags: physics light space astronomy )
The cosmic distance ladder: (tags: astronomy space )
Armageddon vs. Deep Impact: 20 Years Later: (tags: movies space review asteroids history )
Minigame integrated into EVE Online helps scientists understand cells: (tags: EveOnline games research biology )
First upgraded ScotRail InterCity train arrives in Scotland, rollout completed by late 2019: (tags: trains transport scotland )
Is it the end of the 9 to 5 working day?: (tags: time work )
Five-minute steam treatment that shrinks enlarged prostate offers hope for millions of men: (tags: prostate )
A Visual Git Reference: (tags: git versioncontrol )
High school students learning programming do better with block-based languages, and the impact is greatest for female and minority students: (tags: programming ux school )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3717073.html

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