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1. It's Not Just Loot Boxes: Predatory Monetization Is Everywhere in Gaming: (tags:games money gambling )
2. AlphaFold reveals the structure of the protein universe: (tags:biology protein ai )
3. Drought and disease exposure led to Europeans adapting to milk consumption: (tags:milk evolution humans europe )
4. The Fallout From Apple's Bizarre, Dogged Union-Busting Campaign: (tags:apple unions OhForFucksSake )
5. Why Google Sued the Descendants of a Railroad Tycoon and a Civil War General (tiny plots of land in inconvenient places): (tags:google property law )
6. Typical UK families are £8,800 poorer than their counterparts in comparable countries: (tags:inequality uk OhForFucksSake )
7. Keir Starmer has shown his true colours as a pound-shop Blair, reheating Tory dogma about unions: (tags:unions labour politics uk OhForFucksSake )
8. Putin's occupation of Ukraine falters as bankers, doctors and metal workers boycott key jobs: (tags:russia ukraine )
9. The French Data Protection Commission bans Google Analytics: (tags:france dataprotection europe )
10. UK's only gender identity clinic for children is being replaced by eight of them: (tags:LGBT transgender youth children healthcare )
11. Scientists reanimate dead spiders as robot gripping claws: (tags:spiders death technology cyborg )
12. Edinburgh Council wants to know what you think about the licensing of short term rental accommodation: (tags:Edinburgh housing rental viaDanielDWilliam )
13. A poem about science fiction authors by CS Lewis: (tags:CSLewis poetry scifi )
14. Upscaling and an Important Note About Photo "AI": (tags:photos photoshop ai )

Anansi Boys TV show under way: (tags:TV neilgaiman )
Here's a lovely story.: (tags:LGBT love lesbians relationships )
Boycotts are terrorism now, apparently: (tags:IceCream Israel terrorism )
Tolkien, Lewis, and Gygax play Dungeons and Dragons together: (tags:Tolkien CSLewis dungeonsanddragons funny )
24 photos showing the massive changes to Edinburgh's St James district down the decades: (tags:edinburgh construction history )
Catholic priest quits after "anonymized" data revealed alleged use of Grindr (a great example of why "anonymous" data isn't!): (tags:data location lgbt religion OhForFucksSake )
No Covid is not the most infectious respiratory disease: (tags:pandemic virus infection )
Why hasn't "herd immunity" stopped Covid in the UK? (Detailed and fascinating): (tags:infection pandemic uk )
Me on an obstacle course: (tags:dogs funny video viaSwampers )
People In Positions Of Power Are More Likely To Blame And Punish Others For Poor Performance: (tags:psychology power work )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4063815.html

If you work at a university, here's why you should join the strike: (tags: UK university strike pensions )
Cognitive decline sets in at 45. (Ban old people from voting!): (tags: age Intelligence )
Please, please stop saying that "Autistic people lack empathy": (tags: autism empathy OhForFucksSake )
For 1300 years Europeans thought that Queen Bees were Kings. Here's how that changed: (tags: science gender bees history society patriarchy )
‘Black Panther': choose your weapons.: (tags: weapons marvel movies )
If you look at the economics, it's completely reasonable for university lecturers to strike over pension changes: (tags: pensions regulation academia uk strike )
Genetic contribution to neuroticism associated with affluence, health, longevity: (tags: genetics emotion psychology success health money )
A 19th-century painting of Narnia - or as close as we can get: (tags: narnia CSLewis art history oxford uk )
i agree with Nigel Farage: (tags: politics borders nationalism )
Starlings Obscure Sky Over Rome in Dystopic Viral Photo: (tags: birds Rome italy )
What is the evolutionary purpose of having periods?: (tags: menstruation evolution humans )
How poverty changes your mind-set: (tags: poverty psychology )
What is happening in the Arctic is now beyond words, so here are the pictures: (tags: globalwarming OhForFucksSake arctic ice )
How Gun Laws Could Change Even If Republicans Don’t Embrace Restrictions: (tags: usa guns )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3663465.html

Great Moments in Peaceful Protest History: (tags: society history comic satire )
A Crash Course in Brazil's Corruption Crisis: (tags: corruption brazil video )
This nicely illustrates why I'm uncomfortable about the "sealioning" meme: (tags: conversation discussion comic )
Regions that expelled the Jews have lower GDP than those that didn't (Daily Mail): (tags: Jews history economics )
Bosses admit they would discriminate against women not wearing makeup: (tags: women makeup OhForFucksSake )
Good advice for next time you don't feel effective.: (tags: advice )
With No Inkling of the Contents: Viewing Narnia Through a Hindu Lens: (tags: CSLewis writing india religion narnia )
When Did Porn Become Sex Ed?: (tags: sex Education porn )
Easter Goodies vs. Hydraulic Press: I think it's the laugh that makes this for me. That and the squishination, of course.
(tags: video fun chocolate )
Apparently Edinburgh is having a surge of burglaries at the moment: (tags: crime police edinburgh )
On Gender - and not caring about things that mean a lot to other people: (tags: gender society video )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3430834.html

An admirer of CS Lewis reads John C Wright.
- (tags: scifi CSLewis Christianity )
Why "White" is complicated in Europe
- (tags: race Europe )
Amazon just went several places up my "Companies to never, ever work for" list.
- (tags: Amazon work )
Voters more likely to back Labour if Jeremy Corbyn is leader, poll suggests
- (tags: polls Labour )
My favourite #fieldworkfails
- (tags: science fail )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3326873.html

Hermit crab moves into Lego shell
(tags: lego crabs )
Autonomous System Numbers: The _other_ unique numbers on the internet undergoing a shortage
(tags: internet )
Why DRM isn't in publishers' interests.
(tags: publishing drm rights copyright business amazon apple )
Best 404 ever
(tags: html internet funny link )
In praise of. text files and protocols
(tags: text data files computers technology programming )
An illuminating (and occasionally funny) piece on Unicode. I feel much better educated than I did.
(tags: unicode text computers )
Education, Skills & Slavery... and why we're probably screwed.
(tags: education uk skills society )
How to recognise the moods of Game of Thrones’ Jon Snow
(tags: gameofthrones funny )
Totally inept losers confident they can lock down the internet
(tags: internet privacy uk government )
Four and Half Years On - Stephen Fry gives a brief history of the smartphone
(tags: apple android iphone google smartphone mobile_phones technology . stephenfry blackberry palm )
The wheels are coming off the online monitoring bandwagon
(tags: government uk privacy )
Good news on civil liberties from the Daily Mail
(tags: law uk rights dailymail )
Is it time to outlaw soap operas?
(tags: funny crime media drama )
Arizona doesn't believe in freedom of speech
(tags: usa freespeech )
Anti-Choice Senator: No Talking about Abortion on the Internet
(tags: usa freespeech abortion internet )
C. S. Lewis' five rules of writing
(tags: CSLewis writing )
Clegg proposes way to end big money political donations
(tags: money politics uk )
Lib Dems will not support proposals for secret courts
(tags: uk law politics rights )
Carrier bag charges in Wales cut usage by up to 90%
(tags: plastic environment wales uk )
Are we slim yet - a graph of how Firefox's memory is going down.
(tags: visualization firefox memory )
On the impact of choice and competition on the NHS
(tags: nhs choice competition uk healthcare )
Walking: it’s time to take action on this major terrorist threat
(tags: walking satire terrorism )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/2689048.html

Depression makes it more likely you'll do overtime
(tags: work depression psychology )
Cars Kill Cities
(tags: cars transport cities )
Android and iPhone neck and neck in the US smartphone market
(tags: iphone apple android mobile )
Apple still dominates the tablet market, but Android narrows the gap
(tags: apple android tablets Technology )
Pressure is being applied to raise the tax threshold for low earners further and faster
(tags: poverty tax uk libdem politics money )
Do the weather forecasters used by the Daily Mail actually exist?
(tags: weather fraud DailyMail )
This is how I feel about people on minimum wage paying tax
(tags: poverty uk tax )
Why McDonald's second biggest market is...France
(tags: food mcdonalds )
Neil Gaiman on Lewis, Tolkien and Chesterton
(tags: writing CSLewis GKChesterston neilgaiman Tolkien )
Tetris Furniture
(tags: games design furniture tetris )
Douglas Adam's letter to the studio exec responsible for getting Hitchiker's to the screen.
(tags: HHG2G hh douglasadams movies )
US government covering up an epidemic.
(tags: weird disease usa )
I laughed a lot at this video of programming language strangeness. If you're a geek you might do too.
(tags: video funny ruby javascript code programming )
Mail Online overtakes NY Times as top online newspaper. Now that's terrifying.
(tags: internet web news DailyMail )
Graphene can now distill alcohol. Is there anything it can't do?
Of course, I'm still waiting for anything graphene related to make it into the shops.
(tags: graphene Technology alcohol )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/2639157.html

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