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Interesting Links for 08-09-2024
Sep. 8th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. UK solar power wins record backing in latest auction
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- 2. UK's biggest solar farm given go-ahead in Government's anti-Nimby drive
- (tags:UK solarpower GoodNews )
- 3. AI worse than humans at summarising information, trial finds
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- 4. First of Edinburgh's fully electric double deck buses hit the road
- (tags:electricity Edinburgh buses transport )
- 5. Why are Remainers so weak in post-Brexit Britain?
- (tags:UK Europe voting )
- 6. Automation Bias - when people don't double check computers properly
- (tags:psychology bias automation )
- 7. What they're getting wrong about the Minecraft movie
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- 8. 10+ Things to Know about The Great Wave
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- 9. Startup Alarmed When Its AI Starts Rickrolling Clients
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Interesting Links for 15-07-2024
Jul. 15th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Questions for Wes Streeting on his banning of puberty blockers
- (tags:LGBT transgender Labour OhForFucksSake children puberty )
- 2. Objective tests for aphantasia
- (tags:vision brain psychology )
- 3. What would the general election have looked like with PR
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(tags:elections UK proportional_representation ) - 4. Could HS2 be revived? Government still owns £500m land from Birmingham to Manchester
- (tags:hs2 GoodNews )
- 5. How Nextdoor reduced racial bias by 75% with improved design
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Interesting Links for 12-06-2024
Jun. 12th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. My other earworm of today is C-A-P-Y-B-A-R-A [an AI-generated song with an AI-generated video]
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- 2. It's not the screen of your phone that stops you going to sleep, it's the distraction it causes.
- (tags:screens Technology sleep )
- 3. Genes protective during the Black Death may now be increasing autoimmune disorders
- (tags:disease immune_system history genetics )
- 4. Donuts, Uhauls, snuggly farm cats, and international law - what happens when a chunk of spacecraft falls on your property?
- (tags:spaceflight Spacex law Canada USA viaPatrickHadfield )
- 5. Objective or Biased - On the questionable use of Artificial Intelligence for job applications
- (tags:ai jobs bias )
- 6. On the Americanisation of Winnie The Pooh
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- 7. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito says the battle for America "can't be compromised," and that one political party will "win."
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Interesting Links for 02-03-2024
Mar. 2nd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Edinburgh parking: New permits for carers to be introduced in Capital
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- 2. CNN leak shows internal distress about double standards on Israel coverage
- (tags:Israel cnn journalism Palestine bias )
- 3. As banks buy up bitcoins, who else are the 'Bitcoin whales'?
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- 4. Waymo Will Bring Autonomous Taxis to Los Angeles—Its Biggest Challenge Yet
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- 5. Rock star: I've spent 30 years making a Scotland map from pebbles
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- 6. Who *doesn't* want Tenacious D covering Britney Spears?
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- 7. On the genetic basis of tail-loss evolution in humans and apes
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- 8. Facebook, Instagram, X and Telegram fail to remove posts selling date rape drugs
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Interesting Links for 13-06-2023
Jun. 13th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Tesla 'Autopilot', has been involved in far more crashes than previously reported
- (tags:Tesla crash driving automation epicfail )
- 2. Gender bias remains entrenched all around the world
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- 3. Blow for Britain as EU rules out renegotiating Brexit trade deal for years
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- 4. How to get your children to tell you what they've been up to today
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- 5. Job Listings Abound, but Many Are Fake
- (tags:jobs fraud OhForFucksSake )
- 6. Why are so many Reddit communities on strike?
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- 7. Edinburgh George Street pedestrianisation: Trees to be included and increased access for disabled and taxis
- (tags:disability trees Edinburgh )
- 8. Scottish ministers propose gas boilers ban in new buildings from 2024
- (tags:heating Scotland globalwarming )
- 9. It's not just English and American spelling that differ, we call very different animals and plants by the same names too!
- (tags:animals trees USA UK names wtf )
- 10. Abortion law clearly needs reform after woman handed 28 month sentence
- (tags:abortion law uk )
- 11. Please please please do not have children unless you really want them.
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- 12. There's an influx of Redditors to Dreamwidth - here's some useful advice for them
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Interesting Links for 07-03-2023
Mar. 7th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Did you know there were two types of boomers?
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- 2. Reconstructing visual experiences from human brain activity
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- 3. Slow motion adverts make people think the produce is more luxurious
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- 4. How you phrase questions really really strongly affects the answers you get
- (tags:polls language bias )
- 5. Edinburgh's Lothian Buses announce revised fares from Sunday 2 April
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- 6. Neil Gaiman on whether CGI is replacing physical movie making
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- 7. SimCity 2013 launched a decade ago, and it was so disastrous it killed the series
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Interesting Links for 19-02-2023
Feb. 19th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. It Is Journalism's Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible
- (tags:LGBT satire journalism bigotry transgender viaNeilGaiman )
- 2. Rabbits infested Macquarie Island from the 1800s until very recently - finally the island is recovering
- (tags:Rabbits Australia wildlife GoodNews )
- 3. Calls for violence against trans people in the USA are on the rise
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- 4. How biased is the BBC's Question Time?
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- 5. In case you were wondering why nobody wants to be a teacher any more
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Interesting Links for 18-09-2022
Sep. 18th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Probably the best customer service email in the history of mankind
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- 2. Research into who is in The Queue
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- 3. If we don't get rid of the monarchy then can we at least get rid of its privileges?
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- 4. Labour MP Clive Lewis breaks ranks to criticise monarchist lies
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- 5. Women's software contributions are accepted more often. Unless people can tell that they're from women
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- 6. American Dark Money, the Mercers and the Conservative Party: A Network of Influence
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- 7. Border conflict between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. I wonder about general destabilisation in the region
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- 8. 18 incredible Edinburgh buildings we can't believe were demolished
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Interesting Links for 10-09-2022
Sep. 10th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. GrieveWatch - monitoring the Totally Normal Grieving Process, here on Normal Island
- (tags:grief uk marketing queen death viaLizzieCassMaran )
- 2. Russians bomb Ukrainian positions near Kharkiv with white phosphorus
- (tags:OhForFucksSake WarCrimes Ukraine Russia war video viaPatrickHadfield )
- 3. Dealers Are Giving Discounts on Cocaine and Ketamine in Honour of the Queen
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- 4. Massive status bias in peer review
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- 5. Time lapse of Ukrainian advances over the last three days
- (tags:Ukraine Russia war GoodNews )
- 6. Russian State Media Admits Vladimir Putin's Worst Case Scenario in Ukraine War Is Coming True
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- 7. Researchers Find Spaceflight May Be Associated With DNA Mutations and Increased Risk of Developing Heart Disease and Cancer
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Interesting Links for 14-05-2022
May. 14th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. When there's a choice candidates vote alphabetically over 80% of the time
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- 2. Who wants to see a standing wave in a swimming pool?
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- 3. Why the Sudden Infant Death syndrome finding might not be very useful
- (tags:death children viaNancyLebov )
- 4. Alliance Party In Northern Ireland Could Rewrite Power Sharing
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- 5. Trying (and failing) to track down why American outhouses have crescent moons on them
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- 6. Wakefield Labour executives resign en masse amid row over by-election selection process
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- 7. Edinburgh Councillors celebrate as Water of Leith walkway reopens after years of closure
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Interesting Links for 24-03-2022
Mar. 24th, 2022 12:05 pm- 1. On why Apple-haters are every bit as misguided as any fanboy
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- 2. Framed - The daily movie guessing game (I got today's in 3)
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- 3. Government ignored warnings about Putin's 'march to war' for 10 years, says ex-UK defence official
- (tags:uk russia corruption war )
- 4. 'Worm-on-a-chip' device could someday help diagnose lung cancer
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- 5. The Real History of 'Perfect Blue' and 'Requiem for a Dream'
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- 6. SEC will require companies to list greenhouse emissions, climate risks
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- 7. Economics 101 is conservative propaganda
- (tags:economics inequality wages minimumwage )
- 8. Decisions made by human experts can be as inscrutable as those made by algorithms — but we don't realise it
- (tags:decisions ai people psychology trust )
- 9. That's How It Works When You're a Woman on the Internet
- (tags:harrassment abuse internet 4chan twitter misogyny )
- 10. Boris Johnson condemned for pulling funny faces as MPs told of Ukrainians huddled in basements
- (tags:BorisJohnson OhForFucksSake )
- 11. Utah governor vetoes anti transgender bill. (I thoroughly appreciate his reasoning -read from "I am not an expert" onwards)
- (tags:LGBT transgender republicans good sports USA )
- 12. Fertilizer is getting more expensive. Here's what that means to farmers. And you.
- (tags:food gas Doom viaDanielDWilliam farming wheat )
- 13. Different word orders for different languages, illustrated
- (tags:language visualisation )
- 14. The UK's proposed space-based solar power station would cost £16Bn for 2GW (About the same cost per GW as the Hinkley C nuclear power plant)
- (tags:space solarpower UK )
- 15. Here's the Church of England with patronising propaganda about mothers for 5 year olds
- (tags:religion mother women patriarchy OhForFucksSake children )
- 16. Russia has been pushing a narrative of the decadence of The West for about 10 years now, and many Brits have lapped it up
- (tags:fascism russia propaganda bigotry gender lgbt transgender )
- 17. More than a million to be pushed into poverty in the UK, as the Conservatives cut taxes
- (tags:inequality poverty uk )
- 18. Here's how our ability to empathise changes as we get older
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Interesting Links for 11-11-2021
Nov. 11th, 2021 12:00 pm- The Americans Are Not Impressed By The UKâs Threat to Invoke Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol
- (tags:uk usa trade doom politics )
- The secret 1930s court case that led to transgender people losing their rights
- (tags:law UK history transgender LGBT ViaDrCross )
- Psilocybin trial finds psychedelic is effective in treating depression - but has side-effects
- (tags:psilocybin depression research )
- Remember, brave soldiers fought and died for your right to wear the remembrance thong
- (tags:clothes war history wtf )
- White House hails vaccine mandates as number of unvaccinated drops 40%
- (tags:vaccination usa pandemic GoodNews )
- How Are Kids Handling The Pandemic? We Asked Them.
- (tags:children pandemic psychology )
- North Carolina Republicans Passed A Heavily Skewed Congressional Map. How Will The Courts Respond?
- (tags:voting bias usa republicans OhForFucksSake )
- Brain Implant Translates Paralyzed Man's Thoughts Into Text With 94% Accuracy at 18 words per minute
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- What Norwegians are learning as they pioneer autonomous ships
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Interesting Links for 15-09-2021
Sep. 15th, 2021 12:00 pm- The NHS in Scotland: Your gran might be lying on the floor for 10 hours
- (tags:scotland nhs pandemic doom )
- Edinburgh Council are having a consultation on making the whole city a Short-Term Let Control Area. Fill it out here.
- (tags:edinburgh housing rental )
- Loops of Concern. A short self-help guide to tackling them
- (tags:mentalhealth autism advice )
- How COVID-19 Reveals Existing Biases Against The Disability Community
- (tags:disability pandemic bias healthcare )
- We are benefitting hugely from Brexit, says Estonia's prime minister
- (tags:Estonia UK Europe trade OhForFucksSake )
- Parliament bars China's ambassador in retaliation for sanctions on MPs who spoke up for Uyghurs
- (tags:UK China politics genocide )
- Labour groups on councils running themselves awfully
- (tags:labour bullying UK politics )
- Scientists accidentally released butterflies infected by parasitic wasps carrying smaller parasitic wasps
- (tags:insects Parasites )
- Nasal saline irrigation: hospitalizations in COVID-19 patients reduced hospitalisation by a staggering amount
- medRxiv - The Preprint Server for Health Sciences
(tags:pandemic ) - COVID in US children: Infections skyrocket 30X, now account for 30% of cases
- (tags:pandemic usa children )
- Some refreshing comments against the glamourisation of serial killers and the woo-woo of criminal profiling
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- Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show
- (tags:facebook mentalhealth girls teenagers OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 15-01-2021
Jan. 15th, 2021 12:00 pm- Emergency measure planned at ports to prevent food shortages because of Brexit
- (tags:food trade UK Europe Doom )
- US police three times as likely to use force against leftwing protesters
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- The Scottish postman behind 'Sea Shanty TikTok'
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- Eyes Wide Shut is an anti-consumerist Christmas classic
- (tags:christmas StanleyKubrick movies capitalism )
- Highway to the Danger Zone: Top Gun and the dangers of flirting with heterosexuality
- (tags:lgbt satire planes TomCruise homosexuality heterosexuality movies review )
- People are great at following the lockdown rules - except for the one that matters the most
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1349459843833352192.html
(tags:pandemic Doom OhForFucksSake viaFrancescaElston ) - Dire Wolves Were Not Wolves, New Genetic Clues Reveal
- (tags:wolves genetics USA )
- Takeaways in Scotland: 'I put £2,000 in every week just to stay open'
- (tags:takeaway food Scotland business pandemic )
- Why was NYC able to roll out a vaccine 50x faster in the 40s?
- (tags:history vaccine USA nyc newyork )
- The reluctance of the Home Office to deny publicly that it is reconsidering the restoration of the death penalty - an example of government-media relations
- (tags:government journalism UK death_penalty )
- An outbreak of common colds at an Antarctic base after seventeen weeks of complete isolation
- (tags:colds virus weird )
- What next for Scottish Labour?
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1349830451742060545.html
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Interesting Links for 30-11-2020
Nov. 30th, 2020 12:00 pm- What Is the Signal Encryption Protocol?
- (tags:encryption communication Android )
- Secretive licensing system allows UK weapons to reach repressive regimes
- (tags:UK weaponry secrecy )
- What it's like playing a complex board game for the first time
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- How Joe Biden Stole the Election
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- Boris Johnson Dumps Tory Manifesto Pledge Of Superfast Broadband For All By 2025
- (tags:internet UK broadband conservatives lies )
- "Accentism" is real, but impossible to end
- (tags:speech bias UK France )
- Sculpting a Selfie Girl, with Maths
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- An open letter to people who complain about the cost of restaurants
- (tags:restaurant money food business reviews )
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Interesting Links for 20-11-2020
Nov. 20th, 2020 12:00 pm- Meteor breaks up over ocean in incredible footage
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- Boris Johnson pledges laser guns
- (tags:lasers wtf military UK BorisJohnson )
- Nigella Lawson butters her toast twice, and Britain is really angry about it
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- Anyone interested in a script from the recent She-Ra remake?
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- FactCheck: Is this a green revolution? (and what do government announcements add up to? l
- (tags:environment UK government Conservatives )
- IBM Apologizes For Firing Computer Pioneer For Being Transgender...52 Years Later
- (tags:IBM computers history LGBT transgender )
- Internalized gender-focused attitudes affect health, career prospects
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- I see the Conservatives are turning in to fascists again
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- On Not Meeting Nazis Halfway
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- Here's what happens when some idiot decides to store two tons of sodium in their garage
- (tags:OhForFucksSake safety UK chemistry )
- I see Labour's civil war is going swimmingly
- (tags:labour OhForFucksSake )
- Covid: Why stricter rules for Glasgow but not for Edinburgh?
- (tags:Scotland Glasgow Edinburgh pandemic )
- When AI Sees a Man, It Thinks 'Official.' A Woman? 'Smile'
- (tags:AI bias )
- The big dish of Arecibo observatory has reached the end of the line
- (tags:astronomy history )
- When women can't get divorced, murder is the alternative
- (tags:murder women abuse history )
- Covid in Scotland: When will we be vaccinated?
- (tags:UK Scotland thefuture vaccine pandemic )
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Interesting Links for 05-11-2020
Nov. 5th, 2020 12:00 pm- Students give female teaching assistants vastly worse reviews than men - even when they're the same person
- (tags:psychology bias misogyny teaching )
- Why the Post Office's Last-Minute Ballot Crisis Isn't as Dire as It Seems
- (tags:voting USA mail )
- Denmark to cull entire mink population after coronavirus mutation spreads to humans
- (tags:animals Denmark pandemic aieeee! )
- Boris Johnson: Lord of Misrule (a fascinating insight from an ex colleague)
- (tags:BorisJohnson lies politics UK conservatives OhForFucksSake )
- Scientists hail earwax test for checking stress hormone levels (and possibly other things)
- (tags:stress hormones ears )
- Why Latinx people vote for Trump
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1324083909404090374.html
(tags:SouthAmerica USA voting ) - 750M genetically modified mosquitoes to be released in Florida
- (tags:Florida USA mosquito genetics )
- The alignment chart of kitchen corner cabinets
- (tags:design alignment funny cooking storage )
- New study finds psilocybin greatly and quickly relieves depression
- (tags:depression psilocybin hallucinogenics )
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Interesting Links for 04-08-2020
Aug. 4th, 2020 12:00 pm- Is Belief in God Necessary for Good Values? Global Survey on Religion and Morality
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- Bacteria in the gut have a direct line to the brain
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- Amazon given go ahead to launch thousands of satellites to boost internet access worldwide
- (tags:space amazon internet )
- Google Pixel 4A Review: Nearly Perfect and Only $350 (if I hadn't just bought a new phone this is the one I'd be getting)
- (tags:phones review )
- I am beginning to think that pubs might need to be closed for the duration of the pandemic
- (tags:alcohol pandemic )
- Former police chief convicted over child abuse video granted court of appeal hearing
- This seems like a very odd thing to have convicted her of in the first case, as far as I can see
(tags:paedophilia video police law wtf UK ) - Government says medicines must be stockpiled for no-deal Brexit on top of Covid-19 pressures
- (tags:UK medicine pandemic Europe Doom )
- UK virologists criticise handling of Covid testing contracts
- (tags:UK pandemic incompetence )
- UK chemical industry warns of £1bn cost to duplicate EU regime
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1290319702095519745.html
(tags:UK Europe chemistry Doom ) - Physical attractiveness bias in the legal system
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- "Why I'm now leaving MSNBC"
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