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Interesting Links for 05-12-2023

1. Scottish Greens vote to ban 'Behaviour Modification' practices for disabled people: (tags:Scotland disability autism abuse GreenParty )
2. Edinburgh council statement on their house emergency: (tags:edinburgh housing homelessness )
3. Harvard Gutted Initial Team Examining Facebook Files Following $500 Million Donation from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative: (tags:Facebook corruption USA research academia )
4. Possibly the worst customer service of all time (cancelled plane edition): (tags:airplanes kenya epicfail )
5. Liz Truss to propose law banning biological males from single-sex spaces: (tags:lgbt bigotry OhForFucksSake conservatives UK )
6. Did you know that the *Real* version of the Muppet Christmas Carol is on Disney+ (hidden in a submenu): (tags:Muppets Christmas Disney )
7. Happy Clair Cameron Patterson day! He did a lot more than most to improve the world (by fighting to remove lead from so many things): (tags:lead health )
8. Neurons in your eye help keep your view stable: (tags:neuroscience eyes humans )
9. UK police are using AI data analysis to spot crimes. And they want to start predicting them.: (tags:ai data predictions crime police uk )
10. Bye bye to the Edinburgh Zoo pandas: (tags:edinburgh zoo panda )
11. "My $500M Mars Rover Mistake: A Failure Story": (tags:mars space epicfail )

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Interesting Links for 25-07-2022

1. Anyone I know want to be a Data Scientist for Full Fact: (tags:FactCheck data job viaDanielDWilliam )
2. Hungarian PM is a racist: (tags:Hungary racism OhForFucksSake )
3. Whenever I see the web3 people get involved in a medium it makes me feel like they've never actually enjoyed it for itself: (tags:books Blockchain OhForFucksSake )
4. When did children's songs start sounding like the kind of thing I danced to in the 00s?: (tags:music children video wtf )
5. Neil Gaiman Breaks Down 'The Sandman' Official Trailer: (tags:trailer neilgaiman sandman TV )
6. The "nice" option for the Conservative Leadership election is referencing Nigel Farage on immigration: (tags:immigration conservatives OhForFucksSake asylum )
7. British teachers give lower marks to children perceived to be working class, British doctors deny them pain relief.: (tags:uk Education class psychology OhForFucksSake healthcare )

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Interesting Links for 14-04-2022

1. Hard drives we didn't want or need - and what have they got to do with juggling trillions of chainsaws?: (tags:data video funny Technology silly )
2. Why the UK parliament's standards committee is powerless on Boris breaking the law and then lying about it: (tags:politics UK parliament lies )
3. Lifting of Scottish face mask laws confirmed for Monday: (tags:Pandemic Scotland )
4. Far-UVC (222 nm) light should be staggeringly effective against airborne viruses: (tags:virus light )
5. Elden Ring Looks Tiny, Adorable With 'Tilt-Shifted' Camera (and like it was directed by Henry Selick): (tags:games cute viaSwampers )
6. Fantastic Beasts: Inside Scandals, Controversies Plaguing the Series (along with it not being very good): (tags:jkrowling transgender bigotry harrypotter fail movies business )
7. Nobody knows why this Unicode character exists: (tags:Unicode )
8. Autopsies suggest COVID's smell loss is caused by inflammation, not virus: (tags:inflammation virus smell brain )

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

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Interesting Links for 22-07-2021

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/4033276.html

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Interesting Links for 07-05-2021

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4031612.html

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Interesting Links for 03-05-2021

UK sends 1,000 ventilators to Covid-stricken India but pressure grows to let it keep vaccines: (tags:India pandemic vaccination UK )
Some advice on children: (tags:children advice )
The minimalistic way that Timpson uses data is fascinating: (tags:data business )
Some examples of male privilege: (tags:gender privilege )
Director's cut of Prince blowing minds on 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' now has more Prince: (tags:music video )
GPs have now been told that they would not receive further first dose supply in the weeks commencing 26 April and 3 May: (tags:vaccine UK )
Amazon Q1 2021 - some thoughts: (tags:Amazon business money )
What would a Scottish National Care Service look like?: (tags:care age Scotland budget politics )
Millions on universal credit offered half price broadband from BT: (tags:broadband UK welfare )
When the key to success is trusting your employees: (tags:trust business viaDrDoug )
What conspiracy theorists don't believe is more important than what they do: (tags:conspiracy psychology belief media )
The most important question about Dune: (tags:scifi worm comic )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4020175.html

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Interesting Links for 06-04-2021

Russian Lord Of The Rings TV Adaptation Surfaces On YouTube After 30 Years: (tags:russia lotr )
Netflix Made Record Profits in 2020, Paid a Tax Rate of Less than 1 Percent - President Biden has a plan to fix that: (tags:tax usa netflix )
Janet Yellen to call for global minimum tax rate in first major address: (tags:tax usa )
Yoda was Flanderized: (tags:StarWars language )
Academic blog pointing out that Scotland could be a little normal independent nation deleted, as it was "not the view of the Government": (tags:censorship Scotland independence UK government )
Thandiwe Newton reverts to original spelling of first name (from Thandie): (tags:names movies actors )
Was your data in the massive Facebook breach?: (tags:Facebook data hacking )
A Covid-contaminated surface has under 1 in 10,000 chance of causing an infection: (tags:Pandemic infection GoodNews )
Transphobia was always going to end up as crude, old-fashioned homophobia: (tags:LGBT transgender parenting )
Have I Been Pwned: Check if your email has been compromised in a data breach: (tags:email data hacking )
Why ranking employees by performance backfires: (tags:work organisation epicfail viaPatrickHadfield )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4018966.html

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Interesting Links for 04-04-2021

Appeals for calm after fourth night of loyalist riots in Derry: (tags:NorthernIreland riots viaPatrickHadfield )
A video with a side-by-side of the two cuts of Justice League. I'm not likely to ever watch either, but I liked Snyder's cut more for everything except the colour grading and picture size: (tags:movies video comics DC superman batman WonderWoman flash viaSwampers )
Stolen Data of 533 Million Facebook Users Leaked Online: (tags:Facebook data OhForFucksSake )
We don't use chemical weapons because they're really ineffective: (tags:weaponry war history viaDanielDWilliam chemistry )
The New Standard That Killed the Loudness War: (tags:music sound streaming GoodNews )
How Much Polish Is There in Yiddish (and How Much Yiddish Is There in Polish)?: (tags:Poland Jews language history )
Why do we incorrectly think that pagans celebrated the solstices and equinoxes, and how was Ostara named?: (tags:paganism history )
Novel HIV vaccine produces antibodies in 97% of people: (tags:hiv vaccine GoodNews )
Voters want international climate agreements to be made legally binding: (tags:globalwarming law )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4016530.html

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Interesting Links for 29-03-2021

Amazon Driver Quits, Saying Final Straw Was New AI Truck Cameras: (tags:ai surveillance Amazon driving )
Brain injuries are startlingly common among those who have committed crimes: (tags:crime injury brain viaPatrickHadfield )
Leaving Money on the Table: Why is There No New D&D Fiction Being Published?: (tags:fiction publishing dungeonsanddragons money )
How the brains of informed psychedelic users are different: (tags:psychedelics psychology )
Convicted perjurer Tommy Sheridan joins Alex Salmond's new party (both work for Kremlin-backed news sources, of course): (tags:Scotland politics independence )
Using metric paper to double (and halve) our way to the limits of the universe: (tags:space physics quantum video )
Alba are having an all woman safe space event to discuss their policies. Any women want to attend and see what they're planning?: (tags:women Scotland politics )
Scottish pet shelters at capacity with unwanted lockdown pets: (tags:pets scotland pandemic )
Non-Fungible Muggers. Clearly the future of...well, hopefully nothing: (tags:funny cryptography art comic )
Livejournal switches to taking payments in rubles (not that I've given them any money for a few years): (tags:livejournal russia )
What do you buy when you buy an NFT?: (tags:cryptography data copyright ownership contracts )
School abuse claims could be the next UK national scandal: (tags:uk school abuse )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3959510.html

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Interesting Links for 19-11-2020

Pfizer: COVID-19 shot 95% effective, seeking clearance soon: (tags:vaccine pandemic GoodNews )
So, it turns out we can produce a vaccine in less than a year if we really work at it. Multiple ones, even. Shame we don't do that more often...: (tags:pandemic vaccine )
If you've ever wondered why I bang on about trans rights, this is why.: (tags:transgender LGBT )
Right to scrap First Past the Post won for Welsh councils: (tags:elections reform Wales )
#DisneyMustPay Alan Dean Foster: (tags:Disney money writing publishing )
Openstreetmap is having a moment: (tags:OpenStreetMap data maps )
School LGBT bullying projects axed by UK government: (tags:UK school bullying lgbt OhForFucksSake )
UK-Japan deal dismantles UK's privacy protections: (tags:privacy UK Japan trade OhForFucksSake )
Unseen JRR Tolkien essays on Middle-earth coming in 2021: (tags:lotr Tolkien )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3928108.html

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Interesting Links for 15-09-2020

Apparently there are empty Covid testing centres in England which are turning people away because the booking systems are fucked.: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1305208471273566208.html
(tags:testing pandemic epicfail uk OhForFucksSake )
JK Rowling's latest book is about a murderous cis man who dresses as a woman to kill his victims: (tags:jkrowling OhForFucksSake )
Why political parties can't just be based on "what people think": https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1305434347852517376.html
(tags:polls politics UK )
Arm's fired China CEO refuses to leave, company reps banned from Arm China premises: (tags:business China wtf computers )
Microsoft's underwater data centre resurfaces after two years: (tags:Ocean data Microsoft technology Scotland )
Brexit and the break-up of the UK: (tags:UK Europe Doom )
Public Health Wales had a data breach of Covid sufferers: (tags:pandemic dataprotection fail OhForFucksSake wales )
Whistleblower: There Were Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Facility: (tags:crime USA OhForFucksSake )
A Massachusetts Judge Asked Harvard to Find Out Why So Many Black People Were In Prison. They Could Only Find 1 Answer: Systemic Racism: (tags:USA crime racism police )
Beautifully preserved cave bears emerge from Siberian permafrost: (tags:Russia Bears prehistory )
There's an awful lot of overclocking out there: (tags:Windows computers fail )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3893576.html

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Interesting Links for 03-06-2020

Why Our Intuition About Sea-Level Rise Is Wrong: Turns out that reality is complex
(tags:ocean earth globalwarming complexity )
Financial Times shares its Coronavirus excess mortality data: (tags:viaPatrickHadfield pandemic data )
Bournemouth Beach tells us how doomed we all are: (tags:pandemic OhForFucksSake uk )
Simplifying Board Games (you know, for kids!): (tags:children games design )
The UK Now has the Highest Health Worker Deaths in Europe: (tags:UK death pandemic OhForFucksSake )
Here's the correct process to follow if you're upset about police violence in the USA: (tags:USA police violence )
Bread was invented as a way to store the ingredients for beer: This is, of course, just one theory. But a pretty reasonable one, from somd additional reading.
(tags:alcohol prehistory bread food )
The American Right is infected with Neo-Confederate apocalypticism.: (tags:politics religion USA republicans )
Travel in Scotland may be restricted after hundreds flout rules: (tags:Scotland pandemic OhForFucksSake )
Northern Ireland is not impressed with Boris Johnson: (tags:BorisJohnson pandemic NorthernIreland polls )
Maps show which UK pavements are not wide enough for social distancing: (tags:pandemic roads UK maps )
75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice: (tags:racism society USA )
Who needs to see the cutest thing on earth?: (tags:cute animals )
Nissan: UK factory still under threat from no-deal Brexit: (tags:uk europe manufacturing doom cars )
Urban foxes are becoming more like domesticated dogs: (tags:foxes evolution urban )
Last Person to Receive Civil War-Era Pension Dies: (tags:pensions civilwar usa history )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3880803.html

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Interesting Links for 22-02-2020

No raw data, no science: another possible source of the reproducibility crisis: (tags:data fraud research transparency viaNancyLebov )
Treating fever in children: paracetamol or ibuprofen?: (tags:drugs children illness )
Moore's Law is holding up pretty darn well: (tags:processor computers technology video history )