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Interesting Links for 02-03-2026
Mar. 2nd, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. UN Human Rights Council Castigates The EHRC For Their Proposed Trans Exclusion
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- 2. How to write (and, frankly, understand what it's like to be) women
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- 3. New iron nanomaterial wipes out cancer cells without harming healthy tissue (in mice)
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- 4. Keir Starmer's statement on Iran in full as US granted access to UK bases
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- 5. A Day in the Life of an Enshittificator
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Interesting Links for 27-01-2026
Jan. 27th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. The behavioral cost of personalized pricing
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- 2. Television is 100 years old today
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- 3. More Brits now watch YouTube than the BBC
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- 4. Elden Ring! Vs! Nietzsche!
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- 5. A judge has ruled that RuneScape gold pieces are real property, which is bad news for the ex-dev accused of stealing 705 billion of them
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- 6. The mountain that weighed the Earth
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- 7. Nobody Likes Ice (as told by meteorologists)
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- 8. How they fix potholes in Cambridgeshire
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Interesting Links for 26-01-2026
Jan. 26th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. United Nations Declares That the World Has Entered an Era of 'Global Water Bankruptcy'
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- 2. Why Minnesota Can't Do More to Stop ICE (Democratic lawmakers have few options that wouldn't trigger something like civil war.)
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- 3. The Lego Pokémon Line Shows Toys Are Only for Rich Adults Now
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- 4. LED lighting (350-650nm) undermines human visual performance unless supplemented by wider spectra (400-1500nm+) like daylight
- (tags:light vision doom )
- 5. What the world can learn from Paris's cycling revolution
- (tags:bicycles Paris transport cities environment )
- 6. Can South Cambridgeshire council get its work done in four days?
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Interesting Links for 29-12-2025
Dec. 29th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Why all the Criticism of Good Men Fighting for Healthier Masculinity?
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- 2. German journalist on flotilla accuses Israeli guards of rape
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- 3. Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI
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- 4. My Open Letter To That Open Letter About AI In Writing And Publishing - Chuck Wendig
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- 5. Tiny! Cute! Bat!
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Interesting Links for 19-12-2025
Dec. 19th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Combining over 650 "Greatest Comic Book" lists to find the critical consensus on the 200 Greatest Comics of All Time
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- 2. Jury trial reforms: How did the court backlog get so bad?
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- 3. Facebook tests £9.99 monthly subscription for sharing more than two links
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- 4. Heart and Kidney Diseases, plus Type 2 Diabetes, May Be One Illness
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- 5. Christian couple who believe homosexuality is 'wrong' blocked from fostering children (case went to the high court)
- (tags:bigotry adoption LGBT UK religion )
- 6. 2025 in polls
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- 7. £100 UK contactless card limit to be lifted from March
- (tags:uk money Technology )
- 8. YouTube bans two popular channels that created fake AI movie trailers
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- 9. How Dinosaurs Thrived in the Snow
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Interesting Links for 18-12-2025
Dec. 18th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Why Do Commercial Spaces Sit Vacant?
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- 2. What Happens When Netflix Buys Warner Bros. (nothing good)
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- 3. UK energy costs likely to halve by 2050, says system operator
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- 4. Teachers to be trained to spot early signs of misogyny in boys
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- 5. One month to go: Edinburgh-Fife rail upgrades begin soon (closing the line for a week)
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- 6. Pumped Hydro Energy Storage Is Having a Renaissance
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Interesting Links for 12-12-2025
Dec. 12th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations
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- 2. Where Are School Uniforms Common?
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- 3. Disney making $1 billion investment in OpenAI, will allow characters on Sora AI video generator
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- 4. Revealed: UK's 'racist' system of stripping citizenship (more people than any other country other than Bahrain and Nicaragua)
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- 5. Are economic bubbles good, actually?
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Interesting Links for 21-11-2025
Nov. 21st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. 2% of people are just bastards
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- 2. Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source
- (tags:games history Microsoft opensource )
- 3. Women Keep Ruining the Workplace!!
- (tags:women work society satire funny USA )
- 4. "We Didn't Start The Fire" The Silmarillion Edition
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Interesting Links for 05-11-2025
Nov. 5th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. EU moves to prevent 'Trojan horses' from joining bloc
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- 2. Confused about JCVI and COVID shots
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- 3. Elon Musk does not understand The Lord Of The Rings
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- 4. Tolkien, Lewis, and The Silver Chair Theory
- (tags:Tolkien CSLewis history writing lotr narnia relationships )
- 5. What happens when you try to meet transphobes halfway
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- 6. Takeaways from Tuesday's US elections
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- 7. 3/4 of CEOs believe they have to have an AI strategy or they'll be replaced (which explains why there's so much investment into it)
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- 8. Why is land reform on the agenda in Scotland?
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- 9. Covid jabs gave under-18s heart problems - but were less risky than catching virus
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Interesting Links for 25-10-2025
Oct. 25th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The nerdiest music video of all time
- (tags:wargames video music history uk france )
- 2. The Reform Backlash: Caerphilly By-Election Result Shows Nigel Farage's Party Is Much Weaker Than It Looks
- (tags:politics uk wales )
- 3. 'Mind-boggling' poker fraud used X-ray tables, high-tech glasses and NBA players
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- 4. Armed police surround teen after AI mistakes crisp packet for gun
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- 5. Bad therapy is causing 'emotional Thatcherism'
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- 6. What the new Northern Cyprus election result means
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- 7. ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web
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- 8. Bosses of Dungeons & Dragons club in £150k court fight sparked by alleged 'dungeonmaster cuddle'
- (tags:roleplaying business law UK )
Interesting Links for 03-10-2025
Oct. 3rd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3b in income, $13.5b in loss
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- 2. Features of autism can affect age of diagnosis — and so can genes
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- 3. UK plummets down rankings for LGBTQ+ rights (from 1st place a decade ago to 22nd place today)
- (tags:uk bigotry rights lgbt OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 27-09-2025
Sep. 27th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Ancestry and the NRS - when the corporate genealogy world turns ugly
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- 2. Heritage Foundation Uses Bogus Stat to Push a Trans Terrorism Classification
- (tags:transgender bigotry USA politics murder guns )
- 3. Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance
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- 4. The Right Wants to Exterminate Trans People. "Liberals" Are Helping
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Interesting Links for 09-08-2025
Aug. 9th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. How to make a carpet (hypnotizing video)
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- 2. How Britain became the libel capital of the world
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- 3. A business card that runs a fluid simulation
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- 4. Research: When Juggling Work and Family, Women Offer More Emotional Support Than Men
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- 5. Germany halts military exports to Israel for use in Gaza
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- 6. Students who listened to material scored worse than those who read it
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- 7. The new ChatGPT is less personal sounding than the old one. The women with AI boyfriends are not happy.
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Interesting Links for 14-07-2025
Jul. 14th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Stardew Valley is now Steam's top-rated game, surpassing Portal
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- 2. Most people in France, Germany, Italy and Spain want UK to rejoin EU, poll finds - but on new terms. Britons want to rejoin, but on their old terms.
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- 3. 'I'm being paid to fix issues caused by AI'
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- 4. Cranes, once hunted to extinction returning to Scotland after 500 years
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- 5. How GLP-1s Are Breaking Life Insurance
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- 6. I've found it! The most dystopian AI thing! Gig workers pretending to be the AIs that people have fallen in love with!
- (tags:relationships ai business doom )
Interesting Links for 24-06-2025
Jun. 24th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Mechanical Watch: Exploded View
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- 2. Language is complicated (Japanese star edition)
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- 3. Reminder that you can be lovely to your friends and family and still a disgustingly awful genocidal murderer
- (tags:Nazis history people )
- 4. What Britain looks like after Brexit (written in 2016, about 2025). Anyone want to assign it marks for accuracy?
- (tags:UK Europe OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Voyager 2 Illuminates Boundary of Interstellar Space
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- 6. Upcycling plastic into painkillers: Microbes transform everyday waste into acetaminophen
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- 7. Some great photos from Edinburgh's Pride March
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- 8. Businesses still gatekeep jobs for graduates - it's harmful and cruel
- (tags:business academia university OhForFucksSake )
- 9. What does the new Industial Strategy mean for Scotland?
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- 10. The USA is definitely not at war. Probably. Maybe. Kinda.
- (tags:war USA Iran Israel video funny )
Interesting Links for 23-06-2025
Jun. 23rd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Publishers are facing existential threat from AI
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- 2. Video of Lava Fountains Likely Setting New Record For Kilauea Eruption (June 20, 2025)
- (tags:lava volcano Hawaii video )
- 3. New EU rules for durable, energy-efficient and repairable smartphones and tablets
- (tags:Technology phones europe regulation )
- 4. The Largest Camera Ever Built Releases Its First Images of the Cosmos
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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
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- 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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