Interesting Links for 31-03-2025

Mar. 31st, 2025 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 06-03-2024

Mar. 6th, 2024 12:00 pm
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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 )
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Interesting Links for 09-06-2023

Jun. 9th, 2023 12:00 pm
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1. Edinburgh short-term lets plan ruled unlawful
(tags:edinburgh rental law housing scotland )
2. Researchers discover that COVID-19 can cause brain cells to fuse
(tags:brain Pandemic viaPatrickHadfield Doom )
3. 30 Terrible Designs Created By People Who Don't Have To Clean Them
(tags:design cleanliness cleaning )
4. "Here's All The Titles Leaving Plex This Month Because My Hard Drive Is Full"
(tags:streaming funny satire viaJohnBobShaun )
5. How Russia just destroyed the agricultural lands of Ukraine
(tags:Ukraine Russia farming agriculture water canal Doom war )
6. Nanoplastic Ingestion Causes Neurological Deficits In Mice
(tags:plastic mice brain doom environment )
7. Common diabetes medication Metformin reduces the risk of developing long Covid by 40%
(tags:inflammation pandemic diabetes medicine )
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Interesting Links for 06-05-2023

May. 6th, 2023 12:00 pm
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1. For the first time ever, the Green Party run an English council
(tags:politics green uk england )
2. the bumbling WW2 German espionage attempt that was stopped in its tracks at Edinburgh's Waverley Station
(tags:wwii history spying germany uk viaDanielDWilliam )
3. Is there anything finer than watching the Conservatives descending into civil war?
(tags:conservatives politics )
4. The Harmful Side Effect of Cleaning Up the Ocean
(tags:ocean waste cleaning life )
5. If you can't fart in front of your partner, what the hell are you doing together?
(tags:relationships )
6. Science Fiction Movie Lettering
(tags:movies scifi font )
7. Babylon 5 animated movie on the way
(tags:movies Babylon5 animation )
8. Essays on Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies
(tags:movies font scifi viaFanf )
9. Waymo are running a successful driverless taxi service. Why is it expanding so slowly?
(tags:driving automation business )
10. Republican protesters being arrested ahead of coronation
(tags:monarchy protests OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 01-05-2023

May. 1st, 2023 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 26-02-2023

Feb. 26th, 2023 12:00 pm
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1. A reason why Mac speakers sound better and louder than most
(tags:Apple speakers technology sound )
2. Supermarkets all out of turnips after shoppers told to eat them amid veg shortage (another lovely week here on normal Island)
(tags:UK food Doom )
3. The NYT is apparently fine fabricating sources
(tags:nytimes fraud OhForFucksSake jkrowling transgender bigotry )
4. Britain's failure to act on Russian dirty money will see us forever labelled hypocrites
(tags:Russia money OhForFucksSake uk )
5. There is basically no research on how often to sterilise baby bottles, and advice varies *dramatically*
(tags:babies food cleaning )
6. Hilariously appalling questions that tech employees have asked at public sessions
(tags:technology work questions OhForFucksSake )
7. Food shortages in the UK - what's missing from shelves and why?
(tags:trade food uk Doom )
8. James Bond books rewrite will remove 'offensive' references
(tags:books JamesBond offensive writing publishing )
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Interesting Links for 12-08-2022

Aug. 12th, 2022 12:00 pm
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1. Incredible video of a FireTornado
(tags:fire wind weather video viaPatrickHadfield )
2. The latest drought exposes the abject failure of Tory water privatisation
(tags:water privatisation UK epicfail )
3. The Daily Express is now actively trying to kill its readership
(tags:chemistry cleaning death journalism epicfail )
4. What motivates ordinary Russians about the Ukraine invasion?
(tags:Russia war Ukraine trade )
5. Vegetarian women have 33 per cent higher risk of breaking a hip
(tags:vegetarian bone health women )
6. Queensland researchers find overlap in pathology of long COVID and chronic fatigue syndrome
(tags:pandemic disease ChronicFatigueSyndrome viaLilysea )
7. Public display of Nazi flags and memorabilia bearing swastikas banned in New South Wales following parliamentary inquiry
(tags:nazis censorship GoodNews )
8. Energy prices: UK must move to renewable power to avoid future crisis
(tags:renewables uk electricity )
9. Copyright infringement in artificial intelligence art
(tags:art ai copyright )
10. 'Meeting my rapist was the hardest thing I've done, but restorative justice gave me my life back'
(tags:rape justice crime )
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