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Interesting Links for 06-08-2025
Aug. 6th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Scientific fraud has become an industry, alarming analysis finds
- (tags:science research publishing fraud OhForFucksSake )
- 2. An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine (Finds that less than 2% of the money raised goes to the candidates)
- (tags:democrats fundraising corruption )
- 3. Didn't Take Long To Reveal The UK's Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About
- (tags:UK privacy censorship politics OhForFucksSake )
- 4. World Athletics' mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know - I discovered the relevant gene in 1990
- (tags:genetics sports gender )
- 5. Tech billionaires are arguing amongst themselves about how exactly humanity should go extinct
- (tags:extinction humans ai thefuture )
- 6. When Disney Went Digital (earlier than you'd think)
- (tags:Disney history computers technology art animation movies )
- 7. Labour got a bunch of former-Conservative voters in Scotland, and are now in danger of shedding them to Reform (might explain a few things)
- (tags:scotland politics Conservatives labour )
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Interesting Links for 15-06-2025
Jun. 15th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. U.K. lesbians are resisting state-mandated transphobia
- (tags:LGBT lesbians transgender )
- 2. Cray supercomputer Vs Raspberry Pi
- (tags:computers history )
- 3. In San Francisco, Waymo Has Now Bested Lyft. Uber Is Next
- (tags:USA automation driving taxi )
- 4. For some people chronic pain could be an autoimmune disorder
- (tags:pain immune_system )
- 5. People asking LLM AIs about their medical issues get the right result ⅓ of the time (Vs ½ the time for doing their own research)
- (tags:ai medicine )
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Interesting Links for 31-05-2025
May. 31st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. What does "Undecidable" mean, anyway (in computing terms)
- (tags:computers logic )
- 2. Survey on the impact of school working hours on parents and businesses in Edinburgh
- (tags:edinburgh school time )
- 3. Edinburgh's LEZ one year on: More walking and cycling, less pollution and fewer fines
- (tags:pollution transport Edinburgh GoodNews )
- 4. The Two Extremists Driving Israel's Policy
- (tags:religion Israel genocide Judaism )
- 5. The secrets to incredible photos taken inside musical instruments
- (tags:photography music )
- 6. He Won the Nobel Prize for Physics. Then He Changed His Mind.
- (tags:physics )
Interesting Links for 08-05-2025
May. 8th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Mike Pence's takedown of Trump shows how lost traditional Republicans are
- (tags:politics republicans doom usa )
- 2. 'I did stunts for my own pleasure': The terrifying feats of French film legend Jean-Paul Belmondo
- (tags:history france stunts movies viaKenny )
- 3. Europeans Have Realized Their Error About Russia
- (tags:russia europe war ukraine )
- 4. Trump blows a hole in Ed Miliband's wind farm plan
- (tags:usa uk politics windpower OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Vagus Nerve Stimulation Erases PTSD
- (tags:ptsd GoodNews )
- 6. Digitising NHS and adult social care 'will cost £21bn over the next five years'
- (tags:computers nhs healthcare uk )
- 7. How do we deal with Reform?
- (tags:politics uk )
- 8. A map of electromagnetic warfare happening in real time over Ukraine and parts of Russia
- (tags:war electronics russia ukraine radio )
Interesting Links for 08-04-2025
Apr. 8th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. North of Scotland electricity network to have £450m upgrade
- (tags:electricity scotland )
- 2. Online fashion sales generated 941 million plastic bags in the UK alone last year - 2.6 million bags every day.
- (tags:plastic uk postage )
- 3. 20 years of Git. Still weird, still wonderful.
- (tags:versioncontrol history computers )
- 4. South Korea is doomed
- (tags:population Korea thefuture doom video )
- 5. First baby born in UK to woman with transplanted womb
- (tags:childbirth organdonor uk )
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Interesting Links for 31-03-2025
Mar. 31st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado
- (tags:USA computers FBI )
- 2. Youth Demand reacts to arrest for plans to 'shut down London'
- (tags:protests UK London )
- 3. Which of us has never thought "My vacuum cleaner is okay, but it would be awesome if it could make phone calls!"
- (tags:viaPatrickHadfield cleaning phone wtf )
Interesting Links for 21-03-2025
Mar. 21st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. EU sends Apple first DMA interoperability instructions for apps and connected devices
- (tags:Europe apple regulation )
- 2. Big drop in overseas students at Scottish universities (driven by changes in immigration visas)
- (tags:scotland university uk migration visa doom )
- 3. "We'll deport you if we have evidence against you, and if we do not" - An extraordinary witness statement by the US government
- (tags:usa migration OhForFucksSake law )
- 4. New study reveals bacterial vaginosis is actually a sexually transmitted infection
- (tags:sex disease women viaDrJon )
- 5. Vivian Jenna Wilson on Being Elon Musk's Estranged Daughter, Protecting Trans Youth and Taking on the Right Online
- (tags:LGBT transgender ElonMusk USA politics bigotry )
- 6. PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now
- (tags:games computers )
- 7. Tesla cars disengage autopilot if you're about to crash
- (tags:Tesla automation OhForFucksSake driving crash )
- 8. Battery storage is dramatically reshaping the California grid, and finally moving it away from gas
- (tags:batteries electricity GoodNews California )
- 9. What evidence does the CIA have that Hitler was still alive in South America in the 1950s?
- (tags:history hitler USA cia colombia wtf )
- 10. Apple Is Losing Over $1 Billion per Year on Streaming Service, Has 45 Million Apple TV+ Subscribers
- (tags:Apple TV business )
- 11. I thankfully don't have to worry about dating apps. But I do find it fascinating what kind of person makes them work for them.
- (tags:dating advice )
- 12. Germany and Britain issue warnings about traveling to America
- (tags:usa travel germany uk )
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Interesting Links for 10-01-2025
Jan. 10th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. On the Depressing Doings of Trillion Dollar Companies, January 2025 Edition
- (tags:facebook twitter politics socialnetworking )
- 2. Edinburgh's Gorgie farm: New operators set to be approved (no animals on the site)
- (tags:farm Edinburgh )
- 3. How Elon Musk seized on baseless memo claim to create wave of misinformation
- (tags:fraud ElonMusk UK children rape OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Leaked Meta Training: Users Are Free to Post "Mexican Immigrants Are Trash!" or "Trans People Are Immoral"
- (tags:bigotry Facebook OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Tiny anime girl cyberprison shown at CES
- (tags:funny anime relationships review dolls )
- 6. Posts shared across Facebook claim to show the average energy costs for different European countries. They don't.
- (tags:disinformation energy money europe )
- 7. Price of resale tickets to be capped under plans to tackle touts
- (tags:uk business economics music concerts tickets )
- 8. Can a Dutch case about RSS teach us anything about AI copyright?
- (tags:ai copyright rss law computers europe )
- 9. The metabolism myth - and why exercise won't make you thinner
- (tags:exercise metabolism diet health )
- 10. How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days
- (tags:history germany nazis politics democracy )
- 11. The British Empire Was Much Worse Than You Realize
- (tags:uk empire history )
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Interesting Links for 12-11-2024
Nov. 12th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. A portrait of the fascist as a young gamer
- (tags:gaming bigotry )
- 2. The UK has a £47bn bill in outstanding compensation claims
- (tags:uk money )
- 3. Want to shoot down a drone fleet? You need a machine gun, a camera, and some automation
- (tags:technology drone guns automation )
- 4. How a stubborn computer scientist accidentally launched the deep learning boom
- (tags:ai computers neurons images )
- 5. Israel's Smotrich tells authorities to prepare for West Bank annexation
- (tags:Israel )
- 6. What Britain's £100m bat tunnel can tell us about why Britain can't build infrastructure
- (tags:UK infrastructure bureaucracy hs2 epicfail )
- 7. Water expands a ridiculous amount when it turns into steam, and you do not want to be nearby if it happens very quickly
- (tags:video water heat )
- 8. I have been reading Sophia these jokes and she has been explaining to me, one by one, why they make no sense.
- (tags:jokes children )
- 9. Chi-Fi Tuning - Why It Sounds So Damn Piercing To Western Ears?
- (tags:china music Technology sound )
- 10. Expert Explains Why, Essentially, You're Fucked
- (tags:video doom funny )
- 11. Why I Will Always Be Angry About Software Engineering (or anything else that's badly managed)
- (tags:life programming organisation systems anger )
- 12. Do Not Obey In Advance
- (tags:fascism bureaucracy heroism )
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Interesting Links for 02-07-2024
Jul. 2nd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. The UK's taxes are too low to pay for the kind of society people want
- (tags:uk tax society nhs )
- 2. AI and the Meaning of Life
- (tags:life meaning computers comic funny )
- 3. People seem to have forgotten that it was Johnson who began the steep decline of the Tories
- (tags:conservatives BorisJohnson viaDanielDWilliam )
- 4. Why tactical voting in this election could change the nature of the UK's political debate
- (tags:voting uk politics libdem viaDanielDWilliam )
- 5. How the Git version control software came to be
- (tags:git history )
Interesting Links for 23-05-2024
May. 23rd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Google's AI work is driven by fear of being left behind rather than any actual user need.
- (tags:ai google )
- 2. If you're away on the 4th of July (which is in the school holidays in Scotland) then please sign up for a postal vote. It doesn't take long.
- (tags:voting UK )
- 3. Why politicians are Against Waste
- (tags:politics waste efficiency uk video )
- 4. The evidence on rent control is mixed and flawed.
- (tags:rental economics )
- 5. Half of Amazon's workers struggle to afford food and housing
- (tags:amazon pay poverty )
- 6. Here's what's really going on inside an LLM's neural network
- (tags:language ai models )
- 7. How computers encode every character in the world
- (tags:unicode text computers )
Interesting Links for 29-04-2024
Apr. 29th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. American Airlines keeps mistaking 101-year-old passenger for baby
- (tags:computers age )
- 2. Police use of forensics slashed as budgets cut
- (tags:forensics police UK austerity )
- 3. The telemetry data from the Apollo missions may be very nearly beyond retrieval
- (tags:archive moon space NASA history doom )
- 4. Law to ban politicians from lying backed by two-thirds of public - Wales is looking at this right now
- (tags:lying politics law wales )
- 5. Transgender Athletes Could Be At A Physical Disadvantage, New Research Funded by the International Olympic Committee Finds
- (tags:transgender sports olympics lgbt )
- 6. The Millennial CAPTCHA
- (tags:age demographics funny history )
Interesting Links for 01-04-2024
Apr. 1st, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. The AI industry has spent $50Bn on chips to generate $3Bn in revenue
- (tags:ai business doom )
- 2. I don't know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility (a short story)
- (tags:simulation computers quantum )
- 3. How do giant turbines travel on rural Scottish roads?
- (tags:Scotland transport windpower )
- 4. How the amazing Sagrada Família came to be
- (tags:architecture Spain history )
- 5. Tory mismanagement of the NHS kills 250 people each week in 2023 - and that's just in A&E
- (tags:conservatives austerity NHS OhForFucksSake murder )
- 6. Stuff that is backwards in Australia
- (tags:Australia )
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Interesting Links for 20-03-2024
Mar. 20th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. 10% of people think they're allergic to penicillin. Testing found that 97% of them were wrong.
- (tags:antibiotics allergies )
- 2. The degree to which the Acropolis Museum is designed to shame the British Museum is spectacular
- (tags:museums history Greece UK theft )
- 3. Can you stab things with an arrow? And should you?
- (tags:weapons video )
- 4. The first 'cyberflasher' is convicted under England's new law and gets more than 5 years in prison
- (tags:sex abuse UK law prison )
- 5. Long-term leisure computer use linked to increased erectile dysfunction risk
- (tags:penis sex computers genetics )
- 6. Is this the worst economic inheritance since WW2?
- (tags:politics labour economics history )
- 7. Root cause of Alzheimer's may be fat buildup in brain cells
- (tags:alzheimers fat brain )
- 8. Cars are secretly spying on drivers and upping their insurance rates
- (tags:surveillance cars insurance )
Interesting Links for 08-02-2024
Feb. 8th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. What does it mean that BlueSky is designed to be more open?
- (tags:socialnetworking design computers )
- 2. Rishi Sunak Refusing To Apologise For Trans Jibe In Front Of Murdered Trans Teen's Mum
- (tags:transgender Conservatives bigotry OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Man from Dildo takes photo of iceberg shaped like a penis. In Conception Bay
- (tags:penis Canada photos iceberg names )
- 4. Lothian bus journeys increased by over 17% from 94 million in 2022 to 110 million last year (I wonder what it was in 2019)
- (tags:buses transport Edinburgh GoodNews )
- 5. EU sets maximum bank transfer time to 10 seconds
- (tags:Europe banking regulation time )
- 6. After Libs of TikTok posted, at least 21 bomb threats followed
- (tags:terrorism USA )
- 7. Beard-seconds, Chains, Pirate-Ninjas, and other Units of Measure
- (tags:measurement viaSwampers )
- 8. Mimas' surprise: Saturn's tiny moon hides a young ocean beneath its icy shell
- (tags:moon saturn ocean water )
- 9. 13 Worst Bike Lanes in the World (Edinburgh is #1! Woohoo!)
- (tags:edinburgh cycling epicfail )
- 10. Poll Shows 74 Percent of Republicans Like Donald Trump's Dictator Plan
- (tags:usa dictators doom )
- 11. Apple releases an AI to help you edit images
- (tags:apple ai images editing )
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Interesting Links for 29-01-2024
Jan. 29th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. "Lena" isn't about uploading (it's a great short story though)
- (tags:scifi society technology )
- 2. "My son says he is not a book person. Where did my parenting go wrong?"
- (tags:books children funny computers parenting )
- 3. What does the ICJ ruling mean for Gaza and Israel? Cambridge professor explains
- (tags:rights law Palestine Israel )
- 4. Why You've Never Been In A Plane Crash (the no-blame culture of crash investigations)
- (tags:airplanes disaster organisation )
- 5. Pavement parking crackdown begins in Edinburgh
- (tags:cars Edinburgh )
- 6. Edinburgh roads: Through traffic to be banned from key routes across city centre
- (tags:transport edinburgh roads cars )
- 7. Talking points for calling your Senators about KOSA
- (tags:politics usa OhForFucksSake internet regulation )
- 8. How a Worldcon happens, and what might happen to them next
- (tags:conventions hugo china scifi )
Interesting Links for 06-01-2024
Jan. 6th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Very soon, handwriting will only be for the eccentric and the old
- (tags:writing obsolescence )
- 2. Starmer backs change in law on assisted dying
- (tags:euthenasia labour )
- 3. Researchers Create First Functional Semiconductor Made From Graphene
- (tags:Technology computers graphene )
- 4. What animals like running around in wheels the most? (mice and... slugs??)
- (tags:mice exercise research weird )
- 5. It's a Wonderful Life: Organisational Perspective
- (tags:business christmas movies )
- 6. Water firm drives 240 truckloads of sewage a day through town to pump into the sea
- (tags:UK waste ocean OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 22-11-2023
Nov. 22nd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. One in three Brits miss work while waiting for healthcare
- (tags:uk nhs doom work )
- 2. Paternity leave alters the brain — suggesting daddies are made, not born
- (tags:parenting fatherhood brain )
- 3. Giant batteries drain economics of gas power plants
- (tags:gas batteries electricity economics business )
- 4. No evidence screen time is negative for children's cognitive development and well-being
- (tags:Technology tv computers children development )
- 5. Solving climate change will have side effects. Get over it
- (tags:globalwarming Doom technology thefuture )
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Interesting Links for 16-11-2023
Nov. 16th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. People think white AI-generated faces are more real than actual photos
- (tags:ai faces reality )
- 2. Scottish photographer big award for a small photo
- (tags:photography )
- 3. I disagree with James Cleverly over a great many things, but he clearly has a good leadership style
- (tags:leadership )
- 4. Google snippets falsely claimed eating glass has health benefits (because it shared text generated by an AI)
- (tags:google ai glass health fraud OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Iceland volcano in pictures: Steam pours from cracks, sinkholes collapse roads as eruption feared imminent
- (tags:iceland volcano photos )
- 6. AI outperforms conventional weather forecasting for the first time
- (tags:ai weather )
- 7. The company whose systems didn't do DST
- (tags:time xml summer computers wtf )
