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Interesting Links for 26-03-2026
Mar. 26th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. UK 'runs out' of warships - leaving Germany to take over key Nato mission
- (tags:uk germany nato navy )
- 2. UK confirms ban on cryptocurrency donations and limit on foreign donors in blow for Reform
- (tags:UK politics money reform regulation )
- 3. Final analysis of 2025 Iberian blackout: Policies left Spain at risk
- (tags:regulation electricity spain )
- 4. UK university students are being paid to support Chinese propaganda
- (tags:china uk propaganda university )
- 5. Antimatter has been transported for the first time ever — in the back of CERN's truck
- (tags:physics antimatter viaSwampers )
- 6. Democrat wins Florida state seat containing Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate (over 20% change)
- (tags:hope elections USA politics )
- 7. UK car and steel firms fear being frozen out of 'Made in Europe' deals by EU
- (tags:Europe UK trade manufacturing doom )
- 8. The Revolutionary Guards are taking over Iran (control has fragmented and there is nobody to negotiate with)
- (tags:Iran military USA OhForFucksSake war )
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Interesting Links for 04-03-2026
Mar. 4th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. China's 450km/h bullet train is the fastest ever built
- (tags:trains speed china )
- 2. Two Major Studies, 125,000 Kids: The Social Media Panic Doesn't Hold Up
- (tags:children socialmedia )
- 3. AI-generated art can't be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines to review the rule
- (tags:art ai copyright law usa )
- 4. Beyond Oil: The Strait Of Hormuz And The Global Food Risk
- (tags:food trade middle_east doom USA Iran war )
- 5. This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won't (check the date)
- (tags:politics USA middle_east history )
- 6. The Siege of Cuba
- (tags:cuba usa oil )
Interesting Links for 18-01-2026
Jan. 18th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Map Of Human Settlements That Have No Settlement Further North With A Greater Population
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- 2. Trump says 8 European nations (including UK) will face a 10% tariff for Greenland stand - rising to 25% in June
- (tags:Europe UK USA Greenland )
- 3. GWAR cover "Pink Pony Club" by Chappell Roan
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- 4. Canada's deal with China signals it is serious about shift from US
- (tags:canada china trade usa )
- 5. EU and South-American Bloc Mercosur sign trade deal after 25 years of negotiations
- (tags:SouthAmerica europe trade )
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Interesting Links for 16-01-2026
Jan. 16th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Making it illegal to buy sex hurts sex workers the most
- (tags:sexwork decriminalization scotland OhForFucksSake law )
- 2. Open Infrastructure Map (cool to see how much stuff is being built off the coast of the UK right now)
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- 3. Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and Solar Buildout
- (tags:windpower solarpower renewables photos china infrastructure )
- 4. UK offshore wind prices come in 40% cheaper than gas in record auction
- (tags:windpower economics )
- 5. Student arrested for eating AI art in protest
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Interesting Links for 24-11-2025
Nov. 24th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Russia Today and the Fremen Mirage
- (tags:politics society war history Russia Ukraine )
- 2. Thorium-uranium Conversion Makes Breakthrough
- (tags:thorium nuclearpower China )
- 3. Dance teacher Melissa Revell wins payout after yoga course triggers emotional breakdown
- (tags:mentalhealth yoga )
- 4. Valve Issues Black Ops 7 Refund Over Undisclosed AI Materials
- (tags:ai games fraud valve )
- 5. Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
- (tags:twitter usa politics fraud )
- 6. The voice of the New York subway is now transgender
- (tags:LGBT transgender voice newyork video )
- 7. How top level mathematicians are using AI
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- 8. Disney loses the rights to Roger Rabbit characters, as they revert to original author of novel
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- 9. Leftist and Moderate Democrats Are Trying to Be More Alike
- (tags:democrats usa politics economics )
- 10. College Students Furious When Their Course Is Taught by AI Instead of a Professor
- (tags:university ai OhForFucksSake )
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- twitter,
- ukraine,
- university,
- usa,
- valve,
- video,
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- war,
- yoga
Interesting Links for 09-11-2025
Nov. 9th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Women are three times more likely than men to get severe long COVID
- (tags:women Pandemic )
- 2. We've found a biomarker for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
- (tags:babies death )
- 3. Chinese Authorities Shut Down Film Festival in New York (By harrassing filmmakers and their families)
- (tags:china censorship movies usa OhForFucksSake )
- 4. The modern homes hidden inside ancient ruins
- (tags:architecture history )
- 5. What do voters think would count as Labour breaking their promises on tax?
- (tags:tax labour polls politics uk )
- 6. A Gene Editing Therapy Cut Cholesterol Levels by Half (trial only lasted 60 days)
- (tags:genetics health )
- 7. Interactive Time-Lapse Map Shows How the U.S. Took More Than 1.5 Billion Acres From Native Americans
- (tags:history USA maps visualisation )
- 8. Why didn't Democrats codify Roe v. Wade when Obama had a fillibuster proof majority in 2009?
- (tags:abortion politics USA )
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Interesting Links for 16-10-2025
Oct. 16th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Trying to make sense of the nonsensical decision to drop the Chinese spying prosecutions
- (tags:spying china uk law government )
- 2. Keir Starmer's 'Brexit Is Bad, Let's Make It a Bit Worse' Strategy
- (tags:labour economics europe doom uk politics )
- 3. Flapping-wing robot achieves bird-style self-takeoff (see movie S5 in the supplementary materials)
- (tags:birds robots )
- 4. They traveled to Thailand. They wound up cyber scam slaves in Myanmar.
- (tags:Thailand fraud crime )
- 5. Rice weevil on a grain of rice wins 2025 Nikon Small World contest
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- 6. NPR's veteran Pentagon reporter warns new media policy stifles journalism
- (tags:USA military journalism censorship )
- 7. What the Chinese spying case witness statements reveal
- (tags:law china spying uk )
Interesting Links for 16-08-2025
Aug. 16th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. This is how the Swiss would have done HS2
- (tags:Switzerland infrastructure hs2 investment )
- 2. The ease of collective action induces more egalitarian behavior by individuals in a position of power and makes those without power less willing to accept unfairness.
- (tags:unions community society equality power psychology )
- 3. Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ figure Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor
- (tags:facebook bigotry lgbt )
- 4. Photos: Wildfires Rage Across Southern Europe (CW: burned animal about 20 pictures down)
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- 5. Are you ready for polyaninmosity in your life?
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- 6. There's something I love about stories that take a very simple concept and push it a far as they can
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- 7. Sauron the Economist
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- 8. Chinese economists recruit Ray Dalio and MMT in their battle over deficit spending
- (tags:economics china )
- 9. The Electric Fence Stopped Working Years Ago - A metaphor for friendship
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- 10. Once Again, Oil States Thwart Agreement on Plastics
- (tags:plastic pollution doom diplomacy )
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Interesting Links for 11-07-2025
Jul. 11th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Everything tech giants will hate about the EU's new AI rules
- (tags:ai technology regulation Europe )
- 2. Photos: The Scale of China's Solar Power Projects
- (tags:solarpower photos china )
- 3. What kind of video games do different fantasy races make?
- (tags:games funny fantasy )
- 4. Fake signs and graffiti, frequently science-fiction related, from Glasgow
- (tags:Glasgow scifi graffiti sign art funny viaSwampers )
- 5. The Marks & Spencer hack was down to TCS having *terrible* security processed on their helpdesk.
- (tags:security epicfail OhForFucksSake incompetence )
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Interesting Links for 06-07-2025
Jul. 6th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Forced participation in religious activities to be classified as child abuse in Japan
- (tags:religion abuse children Japan )
- 2. 'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers
- (tags:ai research )
- 3. Xi Has Spent Decades Preparing for a Cold War With the U.S.
- (tags:china USA trade )
- 4. Seine reopens to Paris swimmers after century-long ban
- (tags:France Paris water pollution sewage )
Interesting Links for 05-07-2025
Jul. 5th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Kent council bans transgender books in children's library section
- (tags:bigotry lgbt transgender uk library )
- 2. The story behind George Lucas rewriting/reshooting Anakin's turn to the dark side after principal photography had concluded on Revenge of the Sith
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- 3. Capybara! On! Ice!
- (tags:ice cute animals video )
- 4. Scotland pupils show rising reading comprehension
- (tags:Scotland reading GoodNews children )
- 5. Hundreds of robots move Shanghai city block
- (tags:robots china cities architecture video )
- 6. You will own nothing and be happy (Stop Killing Games)
- (tags:games technology history )
Interesting Links for 01-07-2025
Jul. 1st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Jaws (1975) | Modern Trailer
- (tags:movies trailer sharks video )
- 2. Everything I Thought I Knew About Nasal Congestion Is Wrong
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- 3. Edinburgh's GDP per Capita now outpaces London
- (tags:edinburgh london gdp economy scotland uk )
- 4. Microsoft claims their new AI framework diagnoses 4x better than doctors. Here's why this is both impressive AND misleading
- (tags:ai medicine Microsoft )
- 5. China is cracking down on young women who write gay erotica
- (tags:china censorship LGBT 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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- usa,
- virus,
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Interesting Links for 27-05-2025
May. 27th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The US health system is now overseen by vaccine deniers. The effects are entirely predictable
- (tags:disease pandemic usa vaccines doom )
- 2. Hong Kong children urged to get Covid jabs as 'whole paediatric ward full'
- (tags:pandemic HongKong china children doom vaccination )
- 3. An Oral History of 'Lilo & Stitch' (the original)
- (tags:animation movies Disney Hawaii history )
- 4. German court rules cookie banners must offer "reject all" button (if they have an "accept all" button)
- (tags:cookies surveillance germany dataprotection GoodNews )
- 5. It makes no sense to cut funding to mental health services when that costs you money in the long run.
- (tags:mentalhealth money edinburgh )
- 6. How much energy does AI use?
- (tags:ai electricity )
- 7. Owls! in! Towels!
- (tags:owls cute photos )
- 8. Explaining a 31-month sentence for a tweet
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Interesting Links for 11-05-2025
May. 11th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Building a "free energy" engine and showing how it really works
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- 2. Why running just two minutes a day will help you live longer
- (tags:exercise health )
- 3. Analysis of the Cass report finds it presents claims without evidence, misrepresents quotes, has significant methodological problems, and applies a double standard.
- (tags:bigotry lgbt transgender uk research )
- 4. In the wake of tariffs, cargo at the Port of LA is down 35% (will take 4-6 weeks to filter through to shops)
- (tags:usa china trade doom )
- 5. 'It cannot provide nuance': UK experts warn AI therapy chatbots are not safe
- (tags:uk ai counselling doom )
- 6. London's Low Emission Zone reduces sick leave by 18%
- (tags:pollution cars London health )
- 7. Ireland given two months to begin implementing hate speech laws or face legal action from EU
- (tags:bigotry Ireland law Europe )
Interesting Links for 01-05-2025
May. 1st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Port of Los Angeles sees shipping volume down 35% next week as tariffs bite
- (tags:USA trade doom china )
- 2. Council Tax is broken - It's time to fix it
- (tags:politics tax uk )
- 3. A Criminal, Social, And Linguistic Rollercoaster (and a historical mugging in Glasgow)
- (tags:Scotland language crime funny Glasgow )
- 4. Solar panels on (nearly) all new UK homes by 2027 under new Labour plan
- (tags:solarpower housing GoodNews labour )
- 5. US judge rules Apple violated order to reform App Store
- (tags:apple law usa )
- 6. Ukraine agrees crucial minerals and economic investment deal with US
- (tags:usa ukraine trade mining )
- 7. Brexit led to 1,500 deaths a year as EU nurses left UK
- (tags:uk europe healthcare nhs death OhForFucksSake )
- 8. How Labour strategist Morgan McSweeney used 'any means necessary' to destroy Corbyn as leader and install Starmer.
- (tags:Labour corruption )
- 9. A robot that can fold laundry! (This is actually massive - handling flexible/floppy fabrics is incredibly hard)
- (tags:robots clothing video impressive )
Interesting Links for 30-04-2025
Apr. 30th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Trump plans to put military on the streets to catch criminals (See section 4)
- (tags:usa police military doom fascism )
- 2. Another Periodic Suggestion to Try, Just Try, Switching to Kagi for Search
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- 3. Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre loses his own seat in Canadian Parliament
- (tags:canada Conservatives politics funny )
- 4. Burying cables costs 10x-20x more than pylons
- (tags:electricity infrastructure )
- 5. "Induced Atmospheric Vibration" may have caused the outages across Spain and Portugal. But what is it?
- (tags:electricity )
- 6. People eat more when given ultra-processed foods than when given unprocessed food.
- (tags:diet food weight )
- 7. White House hits back at Amazon plan to show tariff price rises
- (tags:Amazon economics business politics USA )
- 8. Popular LLMs Found to Produce Vulnerable Code by Default
- (tags:security ai fail )
- 9. Trump is the Godfather in Reverse
- (tags:politics economics usa canada china )
- 10. Why translating Chinese food names into English is 'an impossible task'
- (tags:translation language china English food )
- 11. The British Government is not taking climate threats seriously
- (tags:uk globalwarming doom )
Interesting Links for 26-04-2025
Apr. 26th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. 'It's everything': 5-year-high pork cancellation signals China weaning off US farm goods
- (tags:pork china USA trade )
- 2. Debunking various transgender myths
- (tags:transgender myths faq )
- 3. Trump's use of the Enemy Alien Act is pure fascism
- (tags:fascism USA republicans )
- 4. Help challenge the Supreme Court's judgment on trans rights
- (tags:UK law bigotry rights Europe )
- 5. Reminder that Senior Officials Quit Britain's Equalities Watchdog EHRC Over Transphobia last year
- (tags:bigotry UK LGBT OhForFucksSake transgender )
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