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Interesting Links for 09-02-2024
Feb. 9th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Debunking common attacks on transgender people
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- 2. Survey of 90,000 trans people shows increased life satisfaction after transition
- (tags:transgender happiness psychology society USA )
- 3. Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED
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- 4. Blizzard are an absolutely terrible company and nobody should ever work for them
- (tags:games jobs OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 22-12-2023
Dec. 22nd, 2023 12:00 pmTags:
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Interesting Links for 19-12-2023
Dec. 19th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Reminder that just because you've been asked a question it doesn't mean you have to accept it as valid.
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- 2. Facebook Is Being Overrun With Stolen, AI-Generated Images That People Think Are Real
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- 3. What is a two state solution and do Israelis and Palestinians want one?
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- 4. Looks like a colour version of Mickey Mouse also goes into the public domain at the end of the year
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- 5. Oh Good, Hurricanes Are Now Made of Microplastics
- (tags:wind plastic doom environment )
Interesting Links for 03-12-2023
Dec. 3rd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. DNA-researcher: It's not 'woke' to portray prehistoric Europeans with dark skin. It's evolution.
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- 2. Reminder that you don't own any streaming content that you "bought" and it can be removed at any point
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- 3. "I Rewatched Love Actually and Am Here to Ruin It for All of You"
- (tags:love romance movies society OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Israel intercepted step-by-step Hamas massacre plan over a year ago - but dismissed it
- (tags:Israel Palestine terrorism intelligence epicfail )
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Interesting Links for 01-11-2023
Nov. 1st, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Israeli Intelligence Ministry 'concept paper' proposes transferring Gazans to Egypt's Sinai
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- 2. Hw locational pricing could save businesses (and everyone) on electricity bills
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- 3. Sports (and competitions) shouldn't worry about keeping themselves simple, learning the complications keeps experienced fans interested
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(tags:fandom sports competition viaDanielDWilliam ) - 4. I'm glad Neil Gaiman liked this post about Sandman, which meant I got to think about bits of it in ways I hadn't before
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- 5. Edinburgh's Gorgie Farm Site: Community Consultation Questionnaire
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- 6. Black 4.0 Is The New Ultrablack
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- 7. Samhuinn Fire Festival - photos as hundreds gather in Edinburgh to mark beginning of winter at Holyrood Park
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- 8. What The Goddamn Hell Is Going On In The Tech Industry? (So very very badly run)
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Interesting Links for 21-07-2023
Jul. 21st, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Lord of the Rings, but with the characters dressed as other roles their actors have played
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- 2. Edinburgh pink door woman finally wins paint colour approval
- (tags:Edinburgh colour housing Scotland )
- 3. NYPD Body Cam Data Shows the Scale of Violence Against Protesters
- (tags:police cameras transparentsociety violence )
- 4. Did you know that the discovery that mental imagery varies dramatically from person to person occurred in 1880?
- (tags:psychology history )
- 5. Apple says it would remove iMessage and FaceTime in the UK rather than break end-to-end encryption
- (tags:apple encryption surveillance uk )
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Interesting Links for 28-06-2023
Jun. 28th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Hybrid working has not hurt civil service productivity
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- 2. Just how big is 52 factorial?
- (tags:mathematics video )
- 3. Thinking of yourself as being responsible for the animal (which is also you) can be a really powerful metaphor
- (tags:advice happiness animals training )
- 4. Colour-cycling pixel art is gorgeous
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- 5. John Roberts has wrested back control of the US Supreme Court.
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Interesting Links for 01-04-2023
Apr. 1st, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT
- (tags:ai Italy privacy Europe regulation )
- 2. Where Stands Scotland after the SNP Leadership Election?
- (tags:Scotland LGBT politics religion snp )
- 3. My cultural dimensions are most like the Netherlands. I can live with that
- I object to the "feminine" bit, by the way. At no point are you asked if you think if women are better. It's all about "Are women real people like men are?"
(tags:Netherlands society quiz ) - 4. Europe's first remotely operated underwater laboratory is taking shape 2.5 km under the sea
- (tags:research physics ocean Europe )
- 5. How Chaos Control Is Changing The World
- (tags:chaos control ai video viaNancyLebov )
- 6. This kind of abuse is what Keir Starmer wants for trans children
- (tags:LGBT school labour OhForFucksSake )
- 7. Energy Saving Road Lighting in Norway Dims To 20% When No Cars Are Nearby
- (tags:lighting energy roads Norway )
- 8. Coloring LGBT history
- (tags:lgbt history photos colour )
Interesting Links for 03-02-2023
Feb. 3rd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. James Gunn's plans for the DC Movie Universe look very sensible - and might actually be good!
- (tags:tv movies dc comics )
- 2. The topologist's world map
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- 3. Timelapse of the future: A Journey to the End of Time
- (tags:thefuture visualisation video timelapse space awesome )
- 4. An Astonishing Regularity in Student Learning Rate (Students seem to get better at about the same speed as each other)
- (tags:Education speed psychology )
- 5. Squid skin inspires novel "liquid windows" for greater energy savings
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Interesting Links for 20-10-2022
Oct. 20th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Netflix: Big hits reverse subscriber losses
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- 2. Men Can Be Single Without Murdering Anybody
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- 3. In case you were wondering where all the masculine men are
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- 4. Sleepy lions playing ball
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- 5. A new AI colorizer does very impressive work (I tried it out on B&W photos of my parents)
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- 6. Baby VS Intimacy
- (tags:babies sex comic funny )
- 7. Brexit reduced overall EU-UK goods trade flows by almost one-fifth
- (tags:uk europe trade doom )
- 8. "Liz Truss laughed at me as she sacked me … and sold our 2.2million veterans down the river"
- (tags:military uk Conservatives OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 10-08-2022
Aug. 10th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. The effect of renewable electricity generation on the value of cross-border interconnection
- (tags:electricity trade renewables viaDanielDWilliam )
- 2. Spiders Seem to Have REM-like Sleep and May Even Dream
- (tags:spiders dreams )
- 3. The productivity tax you pay for context switching
- (tags:productivity psychology )
- 4. If you're wondering why the South of England has a water shortage, the government has been blocking new reservoirs for over a decade
- (tags:water UK Doom OhForFucksSake )
- 5. 'Gingerism': the last socially acceptable form of bullying?
- (tags:colour hair bullying uk )
- 6. It's now fair to ask: what the hell is Keir Starmer thinking?
- (tags:labour politics UK Doom )
- 7. France experiencing worst drought on record
- (tags:France water Doom )
- 8. Why your friends get sick before you
- (tags:disease connection friends graphs )
- 9. What if life first evolved in hydrothermal vents *before* there even were genes?
- (tags:genetics life prehistory biology chemistry )
- 10. The crisis at the heart of the Conservative party
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Interesting Links for 28-07-2022
Jul. 28th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Wildfires Are Setting Off 100-Year-Old Bombs on WWI Battlefields
- (tags:wwi explosives fire weather europe war )
- 2. What does Johnson have to say (and not say) about meeting with ex-KGB members?
- (tags:russia spying BorisJohnson )
- 3. Meta trying to decide if Facebook should have more harmful health misinformation
- (tags:fraud health Pandemic Facebook )
- 4. Bar charts as imagined by an AI in a variety of styles. My favourite is tentacles
- (tags:graphs ai viaPatrickHadfield )
- 5. West London faces new homes ban as electricity grid hits capacity due to data centres
- (tags:london data electricity computers housing )
- 6. The world has become less colourful
- (tags:colour visualisation )
- 7. Colour & Shape: Using Computer Vision to Explore the Science Museum's Collection
- (tags:history colour Technology )
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Interesting Links for 08-06-2022
Jun. 8th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Deal reached on making USB C the mandatory connector for electronic devices in the EU
- (tags:phones Technology usb europe )
- 2. Disney as religion
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- 3. People trying to put Blockchain into games clearly don't actually enjoy playing games at all
- (tags:games Blockchain OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Bigots are terrified of pastels
- (tags:colour patriarchy bigotry )
- 5. Please, don't build another Large Hadron Collider.
- (tags:physics research thefuture )
- 6. The Women Who Ran Genghis Khan's Empire
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- 7. How Flesh Penetrating Sound Waves Could 3D Print Implants Directly Inside You
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- 8. Third of windfall tax cash raised could be handed back to oil firms
- (tags:oil gas OhForFucksSake uk politics )
- 9. HS2: Government scraps plans for £3bn West Coast Main Line link
- (tags:trains hs2 uk OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 17-03-2022
Mar. 17th, 2022 12:22 pm- Why comments are usually terrible, and how to make them better
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- I can see 29 distinct colours. How about you?
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- The happiness of love turns to sadness when unspent.
- (tags:love dogs death sadness grief )
- Disney employees are staging walkouts over company's response to the 'Don't Say Gay' bill
- (tags:Disney LGBT )
- Ukraine-Russia peace talks make significant progress as 15-point plan to end war drawn up by officials
- (tags:Ukraine Russia war )
- Americans overestimate how big minorities are (I'd be very surprised if Brits didn't think the same)
- (tags:USA minorities polls demographics viaJennieRigg )
- His software sang the words of God. Then it went silent.
- (tags:Jews singing religion computers death lgbt )
- UK sets out action plan to tackle inequality based on recommendations from a commission that concluded there was no systemic racism in Britain.
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- Why Russians Support Putin's War Against Ukrainians
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- France ends gas heaters subsidies, boosts heat pumps in bid to cut Russia reliance
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- Russian war in Ukraine 'largely stalled on all fronts', UK claims
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- In-flight surgery with a coat-hanger and silverware
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Interesting Links for 17-02-2022
Feb. 17th, 2022 12:00 pm- Fox making 'Bloom County' Animated TV Series
- (tags:comics BloomCounty tv viaMyBrotherHugh )
- Ukraine: Nato to send new battle groups to eastern Europe as Russia fails to de-escalate
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- DeepMind Has Trained an AI to Control Nuclear Fusion
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- The many colours of the sky
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- Australia's biggest coal power plant is being replaced by batteries
- (tags:electricity coal GoodNews Australia viaDanielDWilliam )
- The Door Into Summer - review of the Japanese movie based on the Heinlein novel
- (tags:heinlein japan movies review )
- Labour want the police to hassle people and shoot before asking questions
- (tags:labour crime OhForFucksSake )
- Russians accused of corruption or Kremlin links have bought £1.5bn of UK property
- (tags:russia corruption uk OhForFucksSake )
- A brief introduction to Russian demography
- (tags:russia society viaDanielDWilliam )
- Ælfgif-who? (Biographies of early medieval English women, every two weeks)
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Interesting Links for 02-01-2022
Jan. 2nd, 2022 12:00 pm- 100 Hue Color Vision Test (I scored 4, how about you?)
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- How effective are the booster vaccines against Omicron?
- (tags:vaccine vaccination UK Pandemic )
- China's Ban on 'Sissy Men' Is Bound to Backfire (as well as being genuinely awful)
- (tags:China society gender OhForFucksSake )
- Lothian buses reduces services until the 22nd because of covid-related staff absences
- (tags:Edinburgh buses transport )
- The ice grizzlies of Yukon (they look stunning and sound like chandeliers)
- (tags:Bears ice photos )
Interesting Links for 05-12-2021
Dec. 5th, 2021 12:00 pm- Reported plan for 2p pre-election cut in income tax 'indefensible', says expert
- (tags:UK tax OhForFucksSake )
- The economy has done better under Labour than the Conservatives
- (tags:economy labour conservatives UK )
- UK Government to overhaul drug policy to focus on getting users healthcare
- (tags:UK drugs GoodNews )
- If you have a cat that intermittently pees in unlikely places then I recommend this UV torch which makes it glow in the dark.
- (tags:cats light urine )
- Moose are wild animals. Do not get close to them. Really really don't let your kids pet them
- (tags:animals Canada OhForFucksSake video )
- People matching artworks
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- Watch the progress made on Edinburgh's Tram Network as two year anniversary arrives
- (tags:trams Edinburgh transport video )
- Tories break ranks on immigration to demand safe routes to UK for asylum seekers
- (tags:asylum politics UK )
- The age profile for Omicron is pretty scary
- (tags:Pandemic Doom age )
- Did you know that starfish walk with hundreds of tiny feet?
- (tags:fish feet video viaDanielDWilliam )
Interesting Links for 27-11-2021
Nov. 27th, 2021 12:00 pm- The Highest City in the World Celebrates Its Indigenous Culture with Neo-Andean Architecture
- (tags:design Bolivia architecture colour )
- Boris Johnson bridge to Northern Ireland would cost over £300bn and should not be built, government review finds
- (tags:uk NorthernIreland trains )
- Edinburgh's tram extension: Leith Walk faces longer closure after project hits problems (still within overall budget and timescales though)
- (tags:construction Edinburgh trams )
- Study: How Conservative Think Tanks are Destroying the Planet
- (tags:globalwarming Doom apocalypse conspiracy conservatives republicans )
- I'm starting to think that the UK government is *trying* to collect all the variants
- (tags:Pandemic southafrica OhForFucksSake )
- Disney TV channels are losing about 10% of their viewers per year. I wonder if that applies generally to broadcast TV
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- "Count To Ten" - a short animated comic I rather enjoyed, about taking the wrong road
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- Visually-impaired artists share their world
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- Novel mind-body program outperforms other treatments for chronic back pain
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- The Internet is Held Together With Spit & Baling Wire
- (tags:internet design security )
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Interesting Links for 06-10-2021
Oct. 6th, 2021 12:00 pm- 'No alternative' to rising inflation, Boris Johnson says
- (tags:inflation economics uk BorisJohnson Conservatives )
- Yes, it's a big deal when Facebook goes down. This is why
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- UK Supreme Court upholds challenge to two Scottish bills (I am completely unsurprised)
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- Covid pass to be introduced in Wales after Tory MS misses vote due to Zoom error (This feels wrong to me, not sure what the answer would be)
- (tags:politics Technology failure wales )
- You are allowed to leave
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- Sunlight affects whether languages have a word for 'blue'
- (tags:light colour biology )
- Henrietta Lacks heirs sue biotech firm for stealing her cells
- (tags:racism research medicine intellectual_property rights women viaSwampers )
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