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Interesting Links for 21-03-2024

1. Diane Abbott is a political pawn in Labour's farcical disciplinary process: (tags:politics labour racism OhForFucksSake )
2. Paris Preserves Its Mixed Society by Pouring Billions Into Public Housing: (tags:Paris housing )
3. Banning the purchase of sex increases cases of rape: evidence from Sweden: (tags:sweden rape prostitution sexwork )
4. Elon Musk's X Is Suspending Accounts That Reveal a Neo-Nazi Cartoonist's Identity: (tags:nazis twitter ElonMusk OhForFucksSake )
5. The cutest baby thing I've seen in a long time: (tags:cute babies video )
6. Vernor Vinge (1944-2024) - Author and creator of the concept of The Singularity: (tags:scifi singularity obituary writers )
7. Neuralink video shows patient playing chess using brain implant: (tags:brain video cyborg )
8. NIH Researchers Identify Brain Connections Associated With ADHD in Youth: (tags:adhd brain )
9. An Anthropocene Worth Having: (tags:ecology environment humans )

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Interesting Links for 21-01-2023

1. How is life in the UK? (Top 1% have grabbed nearly ⅔ of all growth in the last 2 years): (tags:UK Doom OhForFucksSake economy )
2. AI is being used by students to produce essays and projects - how should the education system respond?: (tags:education ai )
3. Total whiteout on Ben Macdui - what it's like climbing Scotland's second-highest mountain in snowy weather: (tags:snow winter mountains Scotland video )
4. Church of England refuses to back marriage equality, declares that marriage is between "one man and one woman for life" (despite their Supreme Governor being divorced): (tags:marriage religion ChurchOfEngland LGBT OhForFucksSake uk )
5. How ironic are Ricky Gervais' views on transgender people?: (tags:comedy RickyGervais transgender bigotry LGBT )
6. Driverless bus takes passengers across Forth Road Bridge in UK first: (tags:Edinburgh automation driving buses transport Scotland )
7. The pianist with the bionic hands: (tags:cyborg piano music history )
8. Could Ultrasound Replace the Stethoscope?: (tags:ultrasound healthcare technology )

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Interesting Links for 29-07-2022

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 )

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Interesting Links for 08-06-2022

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: (tags:religion Disney )
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: (tags:mongolia history women )
7. How Flesh Penetrating Sound Waves Could 3D Print Implants Directly Inside You: (tags:3dprinting Technology cyborg )
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 09-02-2022

An EU border across britain: Scotland's borders after independence: (tags:europe uk scotland borders )
Women led the Bronze Age immigration to Orkney: (tags:scotland prehistory genetics women migration )
When, exactly, were tattoos the exclusive domain of the sailor?: (tags:tattoos history society )
Jacob Rees-Mogg Says It Could Take 50 Years To Reap The Benefits Of Brexit: (tags:UK Europe Doom )
Archaeological Detective: the game where you're trying to track down whoever it was who raided all these tombs!: (tags:games indianajones funny archeology )
Snowy Scottish mountains are quite pretty.: (tags:photo mountains Scotland )
Massive new Edinburgh £19.4m Roseburn to Leith cycle route work gets underway: (tags:bicycles transport Edinburgh )
Autistic sons trapped in Scottish psychiatric hospitals: (tags:scotland autism OhForFucksSake )
The English test that ruined thousands of lives: (tags:uk immigration testing OhForFucksSake language )
Stimulating spinal cord helps paralysed people to walk again: (tags:nerves Technology cyborg disability impressive )
Gut microbe linked to depression in large health study: (tags:microbiome depression )
Disney's Filmmaking Process (in-depth and fascinating): (tags:Disney animation howto movies )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3963579.html

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Interesting Links for 28-11-2020

Glad to see the Conservative Party are as well run as ever: (tags:corruption conservatives )
How accurate is The Crown?: (tags:tv facts funny history royalty uk )
"Why I Think Elvis Was Autistic": (tags:autism history music )
Short films recorded in the far north of Scotland at the start of the 20th century: (tags:history scotland video viacmcmck )
Why the rivets on a tape measure are so important: (tags:measurement video interesting )
R number for UK (just) below 1 for first time since August: (tags:UK pandemic GoodNews )
The Home Office must be destroyed: (tags:UK immigration OhForFucksSake )
Analysing the prevalence of Covid through reviews of scented candles: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1332398737604431874.html
(tags:reviews smell pandemic statistics )
Bionic gloves help injured concert pianist to play again.: (tags:piano cyborg bionic music )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3950661.html

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Interesting Links for 31-10-2020

Loathing of Boris Johnson fueling surge in support for Scottish independence: (tags:Scotland independence BorisJohnson politics polls )
Deaths per hundred thousand people - 156 countries do better than the UK, only 10 do worse: (tags:pandemic UK OhForFucksSake )
"Oh Jeeeesus": Drivers react to Tesla's full self-driving beta release: (tags:driving automation Tesla Doom )
I'm fairly sure I danced to this at Infest: (tags:music birds video )
A New Way to Plug a Human Brain Into a Computer: through your veins: (tags:cyborg blood brain )
Coronavirus Deaths Are Highly Likely To Exceed The Government's Worst Case Scenario, According To New Sage Analysis: (tags:pandemic doom )
"Not just a virus that kills people"—WHO spotlights long-term COVID-19: (tags:pandemic Doom )
On the suspension of Jeremy Corbyn: (tags:labour UK )
"Why Biden May Be the Best Bet to Beat Trump" (prescient, from last year, explaining things very well): (tags:politics USA demographics democrats )
Gene Roddenberry on whether Kirk and Spock were lovers: (tags:StarTrek fanfic relationships )
The Biden campaign bus is being harassed by gun toting Trump supporters: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1322336226792321025.html
(tags:politics USA harassment OhForFucksSake )
Covid job losses lead MPs to call for trials of universal basic income: (tags:GuaranteedIncome UK pandemic )
What does future world population growth look like?: (tags:population growth thefuture )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3932562.html

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Interesting Links for 23-09-2020

How legendary weekly British comic, 2000 AD, survived Covid-19 and thrived: (tags:comics business pandemic uk )
How to choose the ideal form of government: (tags:government comic funny names )
Insurance firms will be forced to give renewing customers the same price as new ones (banning introductory offers): (tags:insurance regulation uk )
Coronavirus in the UK: Boots suspends new flu jab bookings due to unprecedented demand: (tags:flu disease pandemic UK )
China sharply expands mass labour program in Tibet: (tags:China Tibet )
The Tech Behind the Mind-Reading Pangolin Dress Could Lead to Wireless—and Batteryless—Exoskeleton Control: (tags:technology brain cyborg clothing )
Covid in Scotland: Indoor household visits now banned: (tags:Scotland pandemic )
Covid-19: Scottish surge in cycling continues (43% up on last year): (tags:Scotland cycling bicycles )
Ranked-choice voting will be used in Maine's presidential election: (tags:voting USA )
Older people have become younger: physical and cognitive function have improved meaningfully in 30 years: (tags:age health )
Serco Have Subcontracted Contact Tracing Jobs To The Company Embroiled In The Tax Credits Scandal And Debt Collection Companies: (tags:UK pandemic outsourcing )
Loose Ends: A Literary Supercut of Sci-Fi Last Sentences: (tags:scifi writing remix )
"Every Streaming Service" - a funny look at the various services looking for your money: (tags:streaming video funny viaSwampers )
In case you were wondering how long it takes trucks to get in to the EU from outside...: (tags:trade Europe Russia Doom )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3919370.html

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Interesting Links for 28-08-2020

Labour refused a deal with the Lib Dems at the last election: "If people are so desperate to stay in the EU rather than have a socialist government that's their choice"
(tags:politics libdem labour OhForFucksSake )
Netflix drop Warren Ellis over sexual coercion: Reminder for those who missed the website set up by the women he groomed: https://www.somanyofus.com/
(tags:WarrenEllis netflix women abuse )
Scotland is undergoing depopulation in mainly rural and island council areas: (tags:scotland demographics urban )
Police probe after body found on Edinburgh's Salisbury Crags: (tags:death edinburgh )
The Quest For Lab-Grown Breast Milk: (tags:milk )
Computers are not good at helping people approximate: (tags:mathematics computers )
Racism, sexism, and transphobia in the computer industry: (tags:computers bigotry OhForFucksSake )
The Pentagon is training an army of bomb-sniffing cyborg locusts.: (tags:cyborg explosives USA military insects )
Wind and solar are 30-50% cheaper than previously thought, admits UK government: (tags:UK renewables solarpower windpower )
Principles for the Application of Human Intelligence: (tags:behaviour satire Intelligence decisions ai algorithms )

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Interesting Links for 20-05-2020

Who had Michael Bay in the "making a movie about the pandemic far too soon" sweepstakes?: (tags:movies michaelbay pandemic )
Recovered COVID-19 patients test positive but not infectious: (tags:virus pandemic )
The public do not??understand logarithmic graphs used to portray COVID-19: (tags:visualisation communication pandemic )
Why some Animal Crossing players are restarting Islands they've put hundreds of hours into: (tags:games stress pandemic viaSwampers )
Life in lockdown - from a seven-year-old's perspective!: (tags:poetry children Scotland pandemic video )
In the history of Disney animated movies there have been exactly 18 types of songs: (tags:music Disney ontology )
Neil Gaiman: An apology: (tags:neilgaiman apology pandemic )
Blind people 'read' letters that are traced on their brains with electricity: (tags:cyborg sight technology blindness )
UK government hasn't banned gay conversion therapy two years after pledge to end practice: (tags:LGBT UK OhForFucksSake )
South Korean football team apologises for using sex dolls to fill stands: (tags:headline football sex korea )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3863273.html

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Interesting Links for 05-02-2020

New government plans could see you jailed for life over propaganda: (tags:UK terrorism censorship propaganda crime )
Heartbeats and bunnies, how simple repeating patterns lead to chaos (and back again): (tags:mathematics video patterns )
'The Good Place,' 'BoJack Horseman,' and the Audacity of Committing to Decency: (tags:TV morality )
The EU has released a Q & A on the draft negotiating directives: (tags:Europe UK trade )
Brexit fuelling surge in support for Scottish independence, but work still to be done on currency and economics: (tags:UK Europe Scotland independence polls )
Children as young as 9 locked up by Indian police for speech violation: (tags:India police freespeech children )
Graham Linehan is compiling a horrifying database of conversion therapists willing to abuse young trans people: (tags:abuse LGBT transgender OhForFucksSake )
Symptomless coronavirus spreader had symptoms after all: (tags:disease )
I'd give this prosthetic three thumbs up: (tags:cyborg technology prostheses video )
'Happy Brexit Day' Norwich flat residents unite to show support: (tags:society GoodNews racism UK )
What is SAP? And how are they worth $163Bn?: (tags:business organisation software )
Cats! On! Statues!: (tags:cats statue )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3840937.html

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Interesting Links for 14-11-2019

Tesla opens Gigafactory in Berlin. "Brexit made it too risky to put a Gigafactory in the UK": (tags:uk europe germany factory manufacturing OhForFucksSake )
Jeremy Corbyn U-turns on Scottish independence as he rules out fresh referendum for five years: (tags:scotland labour OhForFucksSake independence )
White House senior policy adviser is a white nationalist: (tags:racism USA politics )
How Disco Elysium's Skill Tree Teaches You Valuable Life Lessons: (tags:roleplaying games life advice socialisation )
Terminally ill scientist 'transforms himself into world's first full cyborg': (tags:cyborg )
Corbyn rows back on ruling out indyref2 in first term: (tags:Labour Scotland independence )
The battle over Luna Younger, a 7-year-old trans girl in Texas, explained: (tags:transgender USA LGBT )
Lib Dems vow to act on Gender Recognition Act reforms: (tags:libdem transgender LGBT )
Neutrinos lead to unexpected discovery about eigenvectors and eigenvalues: (tags:mathematics physics )
A brief history of Jury Nullification: (tags:law history USA )
The hidden truth: Polling shows the public are open to free movement: (tags:UK Europe immigration )
UK government loses supreme court fight over bedroom tax: (tags:tax disability welfare UK GoodNews law )
An EU negotiator on why any new agreement between the EU and the UK will take years: (tags:UK Europe trade )
The rise of 'facadism' in London: (tags:architecture london OhForFucksSake )
Scientists find eternal Nile to be more ancient than previously thought: (tags:egypt rivers prehistory )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3839503.html

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Interesting Links for 08-11-2019

Jeremy Corbyn 'will keep free movement of people' in Brexit U-turn: (tags:Labour immigration GoodNews )
Bond Film Anagrams. Very nicely done: (tags:JamesBond language funny )
Microsoft's Project Silica offers robust thousand-year storage: (tags:glass storage )
When you have already lied to a judge, for god's sake stop digging!: (tags:lying law USA OhForFucksSake )
Neil Gaiman confirms that work is already underway on Sandman season 2: (tags:sandman tv neilgaiman )
On historical women's fashion, patriarchy, and ease of movement: (tags:women history clothing )
Whom the fuck?: (tags:language swearing )
Welcome to Britain (WWII Orientation Film for US servicemen arriving in the UK): (tags:USA UK history video wwii )
Italy Holocaust survivor Liliana Segre under guard amid death threats: (tags:Holocaust Jews Italy OhForFucksSake )
Man has chip implanted in his brain to help tackle opioid addiction: (tags:cyborg addiction )
Penis-and-scrotum transplant patient reports near-normal erections, orgasms: (tags:penis organdonor )
MRP models and tactical voting: (tags:statistics data voting advice polls )
Massive Facebook document leak gives ammunition to investigators: (tags:facebook )
It keeps going: 1 meter sea-level rise by 2300 is now inevitable: (tags:globalwarming ocean )
A New Floating Solar Farm Shows That Renewables Can Be Easy: (tags:solarpower viaDanielDWilliam water )
Why are India's Twitter users moving to Mastodon?: (tags:twitter india decentralisation socialnetworking censorship )
'Ice eggs' cover Finland beach in rare weather event: (tags:ice eggs finland weird weather )
My friend Kenny takes gorgeous photos, including some great cosplay and concert pics: (tags:photography cosplay music )
When he supported the Norway option: The Brexit policy Farage would rather forget: (tags:UK Europe Norway )
The tech of PIXAR: Piper (modelling millions of grains of sand): (tags:pixar sand cgi animation )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3828677.html

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Interesting Links for 04-10-2019

IPv4 Address Pricing: 2019 and Beyond: (tags:ip internet technology business )
The world's oldest love poem.: (tags:love prehistory poetry funny viaSwampers )
Protesters lose control of fake blood hose: (tags:blood protest headline )
Uber, Lyft Drivers Routinely Cancel Black, LGBTQ Riders (2-3 times as often as straight white people): (tags:homophobia racism lgbt taxi )
In America, young adults are now more likely to live with parents than spouses: (tags:visualisation viaSwampers housing OhForFucksSake )
Boris has destroyed what is left of UK's credibility: (tags:UK Europe BorisJohnson OhForFucksSake )
China laying tracks for 1,000km/h maglev trains (testing if vacuum tube trains are feasible): (tags:trains magnets China vacuum )
Paralysed man moves in mind-reading exoskeleton: (tags:cyborg technology )
UK wildlife species dying out and many will soon vanish if urgent action not taken: (tags:nature UK doom )
Cosmic web, thought to give the universe its structure, glimpsed by scientists: (tags:space physics )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3806828.html

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Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3744726.html

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Interesting Links for 26-11-2018

Puberty for the Middle-Aged Woman: (tags: menstruation age women )
The ‘feel-good’ horror of late-stage capitalism: (tags: usa rights OhForFucksSake )
What's actually going on with the Gibraltar Brexit negotiations: (tags: UK europe Spain Gibraltar )
EU warns that Britain will not have any decision-making role in the EU's foreign and security policy: (tags: europe uk )
All the ways your rich friends won't get it.: Including me, I'm sad to say.
(tags: inequality university )
Why you shouldn't be anti self-diagnosis: (tags: diagnosis healthcare )
On November 26th, a mole will land on Mars: (tags: mars space comic )
Should you buy "The Fall of Gondolin"?: (tags: Tolkien lotr review )
Jo Walton’s review of Holy Bible: King James Version: (tags: bible religion christianity review )
How machine learning can reinforce systemic racism: (tags: racism ai )
Some actual data and context about the prevalence of trigger warnings: (tags: Education )
What did the UN Rapporteur say about the Scottish government and poverty?: (tags: austerity poverty scotland )
May’s Brexit deal is already doomed. Here’s how the Christmas meltdown could play out: (tags: UK europe doom )
Anyone who thinks the centre-left needs to “get a handle on immigration” in order to defeat the rise of the far-right clearly hasn’t heard of New Labour.: (tags: immigration fascism OhForFucksSake )
Russian vessels open fire on Ukrainian warships: (tags: Ukraine Russia doom )
Motorists Punish Helmet-Wearing Cyclists With Close Passes, Confirms Data Recrunch: (tags: cycling safety )
Ohio becomes the first state to accept bitcoin for tax payments: (tags: bitcoin tax Ohio usa )
Natural gas firms have a proposal to convert home heating to hydrogen: (tags: hydrogen heating uk )
What court cases related to Brexit are currently underway?: (tags: UK europe law )
Cortical control of a tablet computer by people with paralysis: (tags: disability cyborg Technology )
For these people with depression, all treatment approaches had failed, but then they adopted a pet...: (tags: depression dogs cats pets )
One million Chinese people move into Muslim homes to report on Islamic or unpatriotic beliefs: (tags: islam china OhForFucksSake )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3737279.html

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Interesting Links for 01-11-2018

Agency worker has contract terminated after breaking leg: (tags: health work uk OhForFucksSake )
Waymo’s excruciatingly gradual self-driving launch process, explained: (tags: cars automation )
Potential flaw in our assumptions about unknown opinions of others: (tags: psychology )
Antibiotics and stomach acid medicine in childhood increase obesity risk (by interfering with stomach bacteria): (tags: microbiome children weight )
What billionaires want: the secret influence of America’s 100 richest: (tags: politics wealth inequality )
Deliberately scaring ourselves can calm the brain, leading to a “recalibration” of our emotions: (tags: horror emotion fear psychology )
12 Young People on Why They Probably Won’t Vote: (tags: youth voting politics OhForFucksSake )
How to cook a dumpling in three seconds: (tags: video cooking funny )
Bendy-screen phone unveiled: (tags: design phone screens )
There are three types of depression - one of which doesn't respond to SSRIs: (tags: depression neuroscience psychology serotonin )
Spinal implant helps three paralysed men walk again: (tags: nerves cyborg technology health disability )
Avengers characters Falcon and Winter Soldier uniting for Marvel TV show: (tags: tv marvel )
19 photos of Thor which demonstrate what having a period is like: (tags: menstruation marvel )
Working out what sex people are is more complex than you'd think: (tags: sex biology )
Designing houses around trees: (tags: architecture trees design )
Axing tuition fees would help richest students at least twice as much as poorest: (tags: tuition fees inequality UK )
You can alter your personality. But only if you work at it: (tags: personality psychology )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3729415.html

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Interesting Links for 04-10-2018

The Super-Rich Are Stockpiling Wealth in Black-Box Charities: (tags: wealth inequality charity )
Why Are Enterprises So Slow?: (tags: Technology organisation business )
Weetabix wars and X-Men: welcome to the wacky world of trade post-Brexit: (tags: trade uk xmen )
YouGov | How good is “good”?: (tags: language viaPatrickHadfield )
Do we really live longer than our ancestors?: (tags: lifespan LifeExpectancy history )
On McNeil Island, the only residents are dangerous sex offenders. They've served their sentence, but can never leave: (tags: rape murder prison mentalhealth usa )
The first “social network” of brains lets three people transmit thoughts to each other’s heads: (tags: cyborg thefuture Technology brain amazing )
Irish forced-birth doctors causing problems ahead of abortion legalisation: (tags: abortion ireland OhForFucksSake )