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Interesting Links for 09-08-2023

1. YouTuber makes viral video about why Hades' hardest playthrough is basically impossible, then a speedrunner comes along a week later and beats it for the first time in history: (tags:games video impressive viaSwampers )
2. A completely free cookbook for the zero spoons crowd.: (tags:cooking food recipe )
3. The Good Omens graphic novel is Kickstarter's number 1 comics project …ever.: (tags:neilgaiman terrypratchett kickstarter impressive )
4. Mushroom poisoning deaths: Family lunch mystery grips Australia: (tags:australia poison fungus viaDanielDWilliam )
5. Closing a coal plant drops cardio-related emergency room visits by 42% immediately and then things keep improving: (tags:coal health pollution )
6. Banks have made it impossible for sex workers to store their money. Crypto exchanges are now following suit: (tags:sexwork banking blockchain OhForFucksSake )
7. Ukraine's 21st century war on a shoestring and the tech the West is racing to copy: (tags:ukraine war Technology )
8. Do not use "Brave" browser: (tags:viaLProven browser OhForFucksSake )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4026221.html

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Interesting Links for 22-04-2021

James Bond: The Flowchart: (tags:JamesBond flowchart charlesstross )
How to make Disappointment a positive force in your life: (tags:advice philosophy happiness self-improvement life )
The majority of people in the UK think that transphobia is a problem. Including almost twice as many women as don't.: (tags:bigotry UK LGBT transgender polls )
Manhattan to stop prosecuting prostitution, dismissing cases dating back decades: (tags:prostitution USA GoodNews )
The Super League Was The Wrong Solution To A Real Problem: (tags:money football business )
Ousted No 10 aide complains of class bias in Westminster: (tags:class uk CivilService government )
'An uncomfortable chair' - why the international trade secretary wrongly believes trade deals are quick and easy, and why this false belief matters: (tags:trade uk doom )
Sleep deprivation impairs molecular clearance from the human brain: (tags:sleep brain )
Don't ask artists to share your kinks.: (tags:art fetish )
AmIUnique - checking if your computer can be uniquely idenfitied by its browser details: (tags:surveillance browser viaNathan )
Scotland set for hybrid-electric plane trial: (tags:electricity planes scotland )
Ferrofluid display cell bluetooth speaker: (tags:pretty video music metal )

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Interesting Links for 07-06-2020

2 metres, explained with different animals around the world: (tags:pandemic animals )
Every Jurassic Park Dinosaur Illustrated With Modern Science: (tags:dinosaurs )
Scottish Independence is getting more and more popular: (tags:Scotland polls independence )
Coronavirus: 'Die-in' outside Dominic Cummings's house over COVID-19 response: (tags:pandemic protests UK )
Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality (buy over 700 games and game-related things for $5, and support Black Lives Matter): (tags:games race money )
How, during the Third American Race War, white racists overthrew the government: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1186468302400507904.html
(tags:usa history racism )
Between the Guardian, The Observer, The Telegraph, Financial Times, The Times and The Sunday Times, there have been only two reviews of a restaurant serving African or Caribbean cuisines in the last 10 years.: (tags:journalism food racism UK )
The Spectator comes out against Boris Johnson: (tags:BorisJohnson pandemic epicfail )
The US Marines ban the Confederate Battle Flag: (tags:USA marines military racism )
How Georgia rebooted its police force.: (tags:police organisation success )
No-deal Brexit will cause food shortages worse than coronavirus panic buying: (tags:food Doom UK Europe pandemic )
How Do You Know If You're Living Through the Death of an Empire?: (tags:Rome USA society organisation Doom )
Do not use the "Brave" web browser: (tags:scam web browser )
Tactics to Make Women Only Spaces Include All Women: (tags:women LGBT protests viaJaneCarnall )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3859248.html

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Interesting Links for 23-01-2020

You really don't want to read the winner of the Bad Sex Award: (tags:sex awful writing )
Netflix counts you as a viewer if you watch at least 2 minutes.: (tags:netflix statistics )
I had not realised that NK Jemisin's name is from a Scottish slaveowner.: (tags:names slavery Scotland )
Being an international student in the UK is a goddamn nightmare no one should do it: (tags:work academia students immigration UK OhForFucksSake )
In Defense of Our College's Mascot, Sir Racist Von Genocide: (tags:racism satire university )
The UK ranks 28th out of 31 European countries for childcare and maternity leave: (tags:children Europe UK OhForFucksSake )
I don't think I want bone conduction headphones, but now I really want to try some: (tags:sound technology hearing )
One immune cell type appears to attack any type of cancer. Why?: (tags:cancer immune_system )
The new agricultural bill could be one of the most significant pieces of legislation for farmers in England for over 70 years. What does it mean?: (tags:farming nature UK law )
Valve opens up about Half-Life: Alyx, Source 2 engine on Reddit: (tags:games VirtualReality valve half-life )
Remember the power loaders from "Aliens"? Technology is reaching that point: (tags:cybernetics )
What Needs To Happen Before Retiring Internet Explorer?: (tags:ie web browser microsoft )
The chinese education system sounds horrific: (tags:china Education children school torture OhForFucksSake )
How sure are we about the link between lead and crime?: (tags:lead crime )
I Was Tortured for Days Thanks to Bruce Jessen and James Mitchell. A "Sorry" Would Be Nice: (tags:torture usa )
Brexit 2020: Everything you need to know about Boris Johnson's trade deal nightmare: (tags:uk trade europe doom )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3833886.html

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Interesting Links for 23-10-2019

London Ultra Low Emission Zone cuts toxic air pollution by a third: (tags:London pollution GoodNews )
The replies to this are *perfect*: (tags:society gender funny )
UK to use Â£1bn meant for green energy to support fracking in Argentina: (tags:uk fracking argentina OhForFucksSake )
How fast fashion hurts the planet through pollution and waste: (tags:fashion clothing waste plastic environment )
PM to pull Brexit bill if timetable not approved: (tags:UK Europe elections )
Simple "Hypocrisy Intervention" Reduces Collective Blaming Of Muslims For Extremism, With Long-Lasting Effects: (tags:psychology bigotry islam )
Dramatically reduced power usage in Firefox 70 on macOS: (tags:Apple Firefox web browser )
Nokia, the hand held console, and Goatse: (tags:design console goatse nokia )
The Eldritch One, Jolene: (tags:Cthulhu music tumblr )
Dazzling Night Sky When the Milky Way Collides with Andromeda in 4B Years: (tags:space thefuture )
Watch amazing drone footage of the Edinburgh St James Centre as it reaches 'one year to go' milestone: (tags:Edinburgh construction architecture video drone )
Sandy Hook father to receive $450,000 from conspiracy theorist: (tags:conspiracy guns murder children )
Blind auditions and gender discrimination: (tags:bias interview research statistics music )
Claim Brexit is about concealing offshore accounts is baseless: (tags:UK Europe tax )
Richard Burgon says Labour will back general election before Christmas if EU grants Brexit delay: (tags:elections uk europe labour )
Decriminalisation: Parliament's health committee finally grasps the need for drug reform: Of course nothing will be done
(tags:drugs UK politics )
Original Irn Bru to relaunch in stores across Scotland: (tags:drink Scotland )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3825347.html

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Interesting Links for 21-09-2019

The one thing the Bible is clear about: (tags:Bible furniture funny )
Safari is breaking adblockers. Switch to Firefox.: (tags:advertising Apple browser )
EU rejects Boris Johnson request for Brexit deal without Irish backstop. UK responds with, frankly, gibberish: (tags:uk europe doom )
Jeremy Corbyn is the most unpopular opposition leader of past 45 years: (tags:labour OhForFucksSake )
Lib Dems set out radical agenda for tackling climate emergency: (tags:globalwarming libdem )
Thomas Cook: plans made for biggest UK peacetime repatriation: (tags:holidays epicfail business )
We are all potential victims of the con artist: (tags:fraud )
French court rules Steam's ban on reselling used games breaks European law: Presumably the same will apply to Kindle books...
(tags:law Europe games )
There were women in sport in the 19th century. And then they were eradicated from it: (tags:women sport history OhForFucksSake )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3786137.html

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Interesting Links for 02-05-2019

Julian Assange jailed for 50 weeks for breaching bail: (tags:JulianAssange )
The Guardian breaks even: (tags:business journalism uk )
Are you an anti-Semite? Take our interactive test to find out!: (tags:racism Jews satire politics uk )
Chief whip warns cabinet that referendum or customs union are price of Brexit: (tags:UK europe politics )
A Christian minister talks about walking away from their faith: (tags:religion Christianity society usa )
Women not allowed to compete if they're too naturally good at sport: (tags:sports testosterone OhForFucksSake women )
A Conspiracy To Kill IE6: (tags:Google ie6 browser history web youtube )
I had not noticed this about the climax of this week's Game of Thrones: (tags:gameofthrones )
Scotland's greenhouse gas emissions to be net-zero by 2045: (tags:globalwarming scotland GoodNews )
Brexit will hammer Britain's financial services - and no-one seems to have noticed: (tags:uk europe finance economy )
10% of British people go to church regularly. 26% of us believe Jesus died and was resurrected for our sins.: (tags:uk christianity religion )
84% of people in the UK support the right of terminally ill people to kill themselves: (tags:euthanasia uk )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3770622.html

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Interesting Links for 05-03-2019

Keith Flint death: Prodigy front man dies aged 49: (tags:music UK death )
The World Wide Fund for Nature Funds Guards Who Have Tortured And Killed People: (tags:nature charity OhForFucksSake )
Ministers halt discussion of tax transparency bill - because it was going to impose transparency on Jersey, Guernsey, and the Isle of Man: (tags:tax uk )
Tobacco giants say getting rid of packaging pictures of diseased organs will cost them millions after Brexit: (tags:uk europe cigarettes viaSwampers )
This is the best memorial to Keith Flint.: (tags:childbirth music death )
Virgin Atlantic removes make-up requirement from cabin crew: (tags:airlines makeup work women GoodNews )
UK government doesn't understand how EU works, says its former ambassador to Brussels: (tags:europe uk doom )
Artists Become Famous through Their Friends, Not the Originality of Their Work: (tags:art Fame socialnetworking )
Incredible shift in immigration attitudes in the UK: 64% were negative in 2011, now down to 26%.: (tags:immigration polls uk )
UK patient free of HIV after stem cell treatment: (tags:aids GoodNews stem_cells )
The BBC is running a positive transgender story. I do hope this is part of a change in the awful media approach that's been going on: (tags:lgbt transgender bbc uk )
Mozilla fears DarkMatter misuse of browser certificates for hacking: (tags:security browser firefox )
Star Wars, edited into five minutes. (been making the rounds this week, well worth a look): (tags:StarWars video )
Winter - a touching poem. Somewhat about poo.: (tags:faeces poetry relationships )
Plans for Edinburgh's biggest new park in over a century revealed: (tags:edinburgh nature park )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3746580.html

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Interesting Links for 04-12-2018

The Brexit 'legal advice' is just the latest way for the deal to die: (tags: UK europe law doom )
Here’s the case for reopening Edinburgh’s lost circle line: (tags: edinburgh transport trains )
Marvel's Shang-Chi Movie in Development: (tags: movies marvel china )
Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th. (And presumably shut down two days later): (tags: tumblr censorship socialnetworking )
PayPal, Square and big banking's war on the sex industry: This is one of those areas where decentralised electronic currency would be awesome
(tags: sex money censorship )
women with cancer are far more likely to be abandoned by their partners than men in the same position.: (tags: cancer men women OhForFucksSake relationships )
Microsoft is building its own Chrome browser to replace Edge: (tags: Microsoft browser web )
Girls exposed to chemicals in make-up and other products hit puberty earlier: (tags: pthalates puberty girls )
Welcome to Dreamwidth, Tumblr folks! (Where your images are safe): (tags: dreamwidth tumblr )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3624276.html

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Interesting Links for 11-10-2017

Heads-up, ceos: Corporate social responsibility may get you fired: (tags: society work success )
The Absurdly Underestimated Dangers of CSV Injection: (tags: security data google microsoft )
Frankie Muniz doesn't remember starring on 'Malcolm in the Middle': (tags: tv memory brain )
When did it become unacceptable for celebrities to rape people? and is political correctness to blame?: (tags: rape society celebrity )
The whole web at maximum FPS: How WebRender gets rid of jank: (tags: Firefox graphics computers browser )
The Rock Test: A Hack for Men Who Don’t Want To Be Accused of Sexual Harassment: (tags: assault harassment advice men satire )
The Lush Billion-Tree Spectacle of China's Great Green Wall: (tags: China desert trees )
MPs shocked to discover how many jobs work: (tags: work uk )
A list of myths about the European Union: (tags: Europe myths )
US Drug ads gloss over risks with a mind trick—that’s backed by the FDA: (tags: drugs safety usa advertising )
Viking Age script deciphered – is ancient Arabic, and mentions ‘Allah’ and ‘Ali’: (tags: islam viking history )
Huge effect of ethnicity on life chances revealed in official UK figures: (tags: uk ethnicity society work success )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3609895.html

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Interesting Links for 22-08-2017

People who 'hear voices' can also detect hidden speech in unusual sounds: (tags: hearing brain psychology hallucinations )
Trans men show unusual connectivity patterns in brain networks involved in self perception: (tags: perception psychology transgender lgbt )
How JavaScript works: (tags: javascript browser technology programming )
Hunt vs. Hawking: who’s right about the NHS?: (tags: nhs facts uk healthcare )
Recognizing when two arithmetic expressions are essentially the same: (tags: mathematics programming )
The government position on betting machines is evil *and* stupid: (tags: OhForFucksSake gambling UK tax Conservatives )
Minnesota has a Confederate symbol — and it is going to keep it: (tags: USA history war flags )
Tory councillors suspension lifted over offensive tweets about Catholics and black people.: (tags: Conservatives racism catholicism )
Why I Don't Like Being Called A 'Gender Neutral Parent': (tags: gender children marketing parenting toys )
Wings Over Scotland blogger arrested over alleged harassment: (tags: scotland harrassment twitter )
Lib Dems under Vince Cable still want to legalise cannabis: (tags: marijuana legalisation uk libdem )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3558967.html

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Interesting Links for 11-03-2017

NASA finds lunar spacecraft that vanished 8 years ago: (tags: NASA space india )
Reservoir Dogs: Bloody Days is the time-mangling, single-player cooperative tactical shooter you didn't know you needed: (tags: games review time movies )
How an online fight about dogs became one of 2016’s greatest memes: (tags: meme twitter dogs viaSwampers )
Scotland is the only part of the UK which exports more than it imports: (tags: scotland trade uk )
The Fight to Legalize a Machine That Melts Flesh From Bone: (tags: death bodies chemistry )
Singapore regulator reports successful inter-bank payments using blockchain: (tags: banking Technology )
CRISPR used to genetically modify viable human embryos for the first time: (tags: genetics )
Swindon ‘just like Harry Potter’, say American tourists: (tags: harrypotter funny satire )
Which browser uses the least memory?: (tags: browser memory )
Inside the cruellest RollerCoaster Tycoon park ever created: (tags: games evil )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3501818.html

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Interesting Links for 07-09-2016

Ministers back tax disclosure plan amid pressure from MPs: (tags: tax uk )
Government wants Brexit 'national consensus': (tags: doom europe uk )
Who wants baby otter GIFs? (Spoilers: You!): (tags: cute animals )
Supermarkets accused of sexist pricing after charging women more than men for same products: (tags: shopping women gender patriarchy )
The YA Not-Hugo should not be named after Heinlein: (tags: heinlein hugo awards history )
What happens when a boy achieves teenagerdom: (tags: teenagers children age comic funny viaSwampers )
Interovert? You may appreciate this site: (tags: personality introversion )
Humans probably first arrived in the Americas by boat: (tags: prehistory usa geology )
Managerial vs transformative politics: (tags: politics history )
Sony Bravia TVs to lose YouTube access (Huzzah for Smart TVs): (tags: tv youtube video internet OhForFucksSake )
Robot Macroeconomics: What can theory and several centuries of economic history teach us?: (tags: robots economics )
Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in responsiveness: (tags: firefox memory computers browser )
An interview with Amazon's first employee: (tags: amazon business internet history )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3473783.html

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Interesting Links for 29-06-2016

AI fighter pilot wins in combat simulation: (tags: ai airplanes war military )
Who governs Britain? This is the UK's new 10-party system: (tags: politics europe uk )
Majority of new Labour members support deselecting MPs who undermine Jeremy Corbyn: (tags: labour politics uk )
Jeremy Corbyn loses 'no confidence' vote among Labour MPs by 172 to 40: (tags: labour politics uk )
Scotland's First Minister sets up expert group to advise on aftermath of Brexit vote: (tags: scotland uk europe )
Eggs Don't Cause Heart Attacks -- Sugar Does: (tags: food sugar heart health )
Tetris gets trilogy as story 'too big' to fit into single film: (tags: tetris EpicWTF movies games )
Less Than 1000 Brits Googled "What is the EU?" After Referendum: (tags: google europe uk myths referendum )
US border authority seeks travellers' social media details: (tags: usa immigration travel socialmedia OhForFucksSake )
Exercise Releases Brain-Healthy Protein: (tags: exercise health brain )
13 Questions to Ask Before Getting Married: (tags: marriage relationships )
All the important stuff that happens offscreen in Independence Day: Resurgence: Seriously, do people have to actively work at making films this badly?
(tags: movies fail )
Study shows Millennial Men do not think of women as their equals: (tags: men feminism usa misogyny )
Chemists say they finally know how to make soft, delicious gluten-free bread: Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!
(tags: gluten food viaCahwyguy )
Amazing closeups of a Luna Moth's wing: (tags: photos beautiful animals )
The classic meme returns: Brexit vs Downfall!: (tags: video uk europe referendum politics funny )
UK in breach of international human rights: (tags: humanrights austerity welfare uk )
Inside a robot-run warehouse: (tags: robots business jobs china )
The key lesson of Brexit is that globalisation must work for all of Britain: Gordon Brown speaking a huge amount of good sense.
(tags: politics globalization labour uk economics europe scotland )
The Languages Which Almost Became CSS: (tags: web history browser )
Brexit Buzzword Bingo - Can you collect the set?: (tags: uk europe funny )
Making Sense of Brexit – the data you need to analyse: (tags: europe uk data )
Open plan offices are basically terrible in every way: (tags: office work fail )
SNP bids to replace Labour as official Commons opposition: (tags: snp labour funny politics uk scotland )
Suffering Vs. Oblivion: (tags: morality death happiness )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3440554.html

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Interesting Links for 15-04-2016

Capitalism excels at innovation but is failing at maintenance, and for most lives it is maintenance that matters more: (tags: innovation capitalism viaFanf )
The researcher who claimed that you either "get" computers or don't has now retracted their claim.: (tags: computers learning )
If traditional relationships were treated like alternative relationships: (tags: relationships funny society )
Man accidentally deletes his entire company with one line.: (tags: OhForFucksSake web computers epicfail )
Chrome 50 ends support for Windows XP, OS X 10.6, other old versions: (tags: browser google Technology )
Millions of women left unabused after Twitter outage: (tags: twitter abuse funny satire )
Star Trek: TOS - more female friendly (and downright feminist) than a lot of modern TV: (tags: tv StarTrek feminism women history )
I like this an awful lot. I have no idea why. Anyone care to explain me to me?: (tags: meaning anime )
Person finds their grandfather's notebook. Discovers things about them they never expected.: (tags: history family sexuality lgbt )
The Flynn Effect and abstract reasoning: (tags: Intelligence iq thinking thought abstraction )
When Trigger Warnings Attack!: What happens when they're taken too far?: (tags: language society discussion )
China moves Dr Strange's origin from Tibet to Nepal. In other news, China is a big movie market.: (tags: china marvel movies )
A GUIDE FOR YOUNG LADIES ENTERING THE SERVICE OF THE FAIRIES: (tags: shortstory love )
Good Omens: Neil Gaiman to adapt Terry Pratchett collaboration for TV: (tags: neilgaiman terrypratchett tv )
How the U.N. caused Haiti’s cholera epidemic: (tags: disease UnitedNations visualisation )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3393480.html

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Interesting Links for 07-01-2016

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