Interesting Links for 04-07-2023

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Interesting Links for 10-04-2023

Apr. 10th, 2023 12:00 pm
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1. The risk of various autoimmune diseases is substantially higher in people who have had Covid
(tags:Pandemic immune_system doom )
2. Woman swims with family of Orcas and makes global headlines
(tags:newzealand aieeee! dolphins swimming )
3. Tories and Labour face off in rush to the bottom for 'law and order' (and they can both fuck off)
(tags:law authoritarianism labour conservatives politics UK OhForFucksSake )
4. Hear the words of the final Nuremberg prosecutor to die
(tags:Holocaust law history video )
5. The billionaires you've never heard of bankrolling America's far right
(tags:USA fascism wealth politics )
6. Could Keir Starmer stop visiting bigoted churches?
(tags:LGBT bigotry labour OhForFucksSake )
7. What were the defining characteristics of the 2010s?
(tags:history )
8. It is amazing how simple a tiny cheap device can make security violations
(tags:security technology )
9. ChatGPT's inconsistent moral advice corrupts its users' judgment
(tags:morality ai Doom viaPatrickHadfield )
10. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) won't give its reasons for failing to release annual assessments of the safety of nuclear weapons in Scotland so as not to "prejudice relations between the UK and Scottish governments".
(tags:nuclearweapons Scotland OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 09-07-2022

Jul. 9th, 2022 12:00 pm
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1. Our problems don't end with Boris Johnson, our political system needs an overhaul
(tags:politics uk reform )
2. Today's Robotic Surgery Turns Surgical Trainees Into Spectators - So They Don't Get To Make Mistakes (And Learn How To Recover From Them)
(tags:robots mistakes surgery healthcare )
3. Compared with standard care, a water birth significantly reduced the use of epidurals as well as pain and heavy bleeding after the birth
(tags:water childbirth )
4. Autonomous Drones Could Soon Monitor the UK's Energy Grid
(tags:drone electricity uk )
5. London sitcoms - on Google Maps
(tags:Google maps comedy viaPatrickHadfield )
6. Gender Critical Beliefs - Where the law stands following the decisions in Mackereth and Forstater v CGD
(tags:LGBT transgender law bigotry OhForFucksSake )
7. Undersea cable laid to link Shetland to UK energy grid
(tags:UK electricity Scotland )
8. How Do Dolphins Choose Their Name?
(tags:dolphins names )
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Interesting Links for 25-01-2022

Jan. 25th, 2022 12:00 pm
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What are the most watched TV shows of the 21st century so far? (in the UK)
(tags:TV uk )
Accountability needs transparency, and both need to be enforceable by legal remedies
(tags:law politics )
No, £30 for a leg of lamb isn't expensive. Quite the opposite
(tags:meat food economics )
How botnets pushed a bigoted hashtag to Westminster
(tags:bigotry LGBT internet fraud Twitter )
How big was the Tonga eruption? (visualised over various countries)
(tags:visualisation volcano explosions )
Imam appointed to define Islamophobia has had no meaningful engagement from ministers
(tags:Islam bigotry conservatives )
Chicago sets its train tracks on fire when it's this cold
(tags:trains weather fire )
Boris Johnson praised a seven-year-old who cancelled their birthday party - and then had his own less than three months later
(tags:uk BorisJohnson party pandemic Conservatives )
North Korea has communist dolphin soldiers poised and ready to attack!
(tags:NorthKorea dolphins military )
Militarized Dolphins Protect Almost a Quarter of the US Nuclear Stockpile
(tags:nuclearweapons dolphins usa )
Why chefs are turning to artificial intelligence to discover new flavours
(tags:taste food ai )
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Interesting Links for 11-01-2022

Jan. 11th, 2022 12:00 pm
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What are the biggest non-diet causes of diabetes, cancer, heart disease, etc?
(tags:society sleep stress disease weight diabetes )
Leaked email shows 100 No 10 staff were invited to a party during lockdown restrictions
(tags:UK conservatives Pandemic law OhForFucksSake )
Repeat after me: Covid doesn't spread on surfaces
(tags:Pandemic cleanliness )
Adversarial Wordle
(tags:games language )
Serotonin selectively influences moral judgment and behavior through effects on harm aversion
(tags:morality serotonin psychology )
Male elite chess players are quicker to quit when dominated by a female player
(tags:men behaviour psychology games sexism )
"Why I went from being an actor to a clowndoctor"
(tags:acting children comedy )
In 1st, US surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient
(tags:pigs organs surgery )
UK health officials misinterpreted US guidance on Covid self-isolation period
(tags:pandemic )
Dolphin females have working clitoris
(tags:sex dolphins clitoris )
Beautiful trees
(tags:trees beautiful )
Impressive shepherding
(tags:dogs birds impressive training )
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Interesting Links for 19-10-2021

Oct. 19th, 2021 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 12-06-2019

Jun. 12th, 2019 01:37 pm
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A thread of gay lions in religious children's books
(tags:lions lgbt children religion books )
Testing An Evo Psych Theory Outside Of The Lab: Prestige And Dominance-Based Social Hierarchies Emerge Even Amongst Cornish Choirs And Chess Clubs
(tags:psychology behaviour )
IBM and the Holocaust - some details
(tags:ibm Holocaust Technology history viaSwampers )
Canada to ban keeping whales, dolphins in captivity
(tags:whales dolphins canada )
Don't start pining for Theresa May: she was unspeakably dire and this disaster's on her
Well, and David Cameron.
(tags:uk europe politics Conservatives )
Brexit: Labour announce bid to block new Tory PM from suspending parliament to force through no-deal
(tags:UK Europe parliament )
Today's 75-year-olds didn't fight the war - so why do we think they did?
(tags:UK history age wwii )
Rough Consensus: How Do You Make Good Decisions Efficiently in a Flat Organization?
(tags:organisation decisions )
It was the biggest disaster in the history of the music business — and almost nobody knew. This is the story of the 2008 Universal fire.
(tags:music history epicfail )
Organ donation is now opt-out in Scotland
(tags:Scotland organdonor GoodNews )
Fantasy's Widow: The Fight Over The Legacy Of Dungeons & Dragons 
(tags:dungeonsanddragons history death sad )
How trans-hostile activists are leveraging a small group of people worldwide to drive their agenda
(tags:transgender lgbt twitter OhForFucksSake )
Scientists close in on hidden Scottish meteorite crater
(tags:Scotland meteor )
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Interesting Links for 29-08-2018

Aug. 29th, 2018 12:00 pm
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UK replicates 1 of the 300 trade agreements it already has. At a cost of £4,000,000,000
(tags: trade africa uk )
The housing crisis will not be solved by curbing speculation alone
(tags: housing uk )
Facebook put conversion therapy ads in young gay users’ feeds
(tags: lgbt Facebook advertising OhForFucksSake )
UK/EU talks have completely stalled. Have you started stockpiling yet?
I'm planning on stockpiling in January, if they haven't got things moving by then. Not at all confident they will, as the NI border issue seems unfixable.
(tags: NorthernIreland uk europe doom )
Irish people mostly consider themselves Catholic, disagree with church on most things
(tags: Ireland religion catholicism )
Close ties with fathers help daughters overcome loneliness
(tags: loneliness daughter children girls fatherhood )
Cannabis is not a cause of schizophrenia - it's self-medication for schizophrenia sufferers
(tags: schizophrenia marijuana )
In upstate New York, a DMT-inspired psychedelic temple rises
DMT was one of those things that I always wanted to try, but never got the chance
(tags: psychedelics drugs religion usa architecture )
UK carbon emissions in 2017 fell to levels last seen in 1890 (no, that's not a typo)
(tags: co2 globalwarming uk GoodNews )
Xi Jinping sees some pushback against his iron-fisted rule
(tags: china politics )
There are people with names that computers won't accept. Here they commiserate. Hilariously.
(tags: names computers Facebook funny viaSwampers )
Pod of dolphins spotted swimming off Portobello
(tags: edinburgh dolphins )
Edinburgh University students to be given gender pronoun badges during freshers week
(tags: language gender Edinburgh University identity )
Air pollution causes huge reduction in intelligence
(tags: intelligence pollution doom )
16 states want to be able to fire employees for being transgender
(tags: law usa transgender OhForFucksSake lgbt )
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Interesting Links for 10-01-2018

Jan. 10th, 2018 12:00 pm
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What Is MicroLED and When am I Going to Get It?
(tags: tv Technology led thefuture )
Koreas agree military talks to defuse border tension
(tags: korea NorthKorea GoodNews )
Just-Eat replaces credit-card charge with...service charge
(tags: money food uk )
Luxury retirement village in Granton (Edinburgh) given green light
(tags: edinburgh scotland housing uk )
The Edinburgh neighbourhood that's home to billions of pounds of illegal activity and money laundering
(tags: edinburgh money OhForFucksSake )
Brain Surgery in 3-D: Coming Soon to the Operating Theater
(tags: surgery 3d Technology )
No tracking, no revenue: Apple's privacy feature costs ad companies millions (yay!)
(tags: advertising Apple privacy GoodNews )
Virgin West Coast train firm stops selling Daily Mail
(tags: DailyMail virgin trains )
"The day I accidentally killed a little boy"
(tags: death children cars accident )
Prime Minister has to tell apparently grown adults that bullying people is not ok.
(tags: bullying politics society )
How to Take a Picture of a Stealth Bomber Over the Rose Bowl
(tags: photography airplanes impressive )
Lessons from the history of radio, and why the internet needs to learn them.
(tags: internet radio technology communication Nazis war propaganda surveillance )
How George Lucas influenced Star Wars: The Last Jedi
(tags: StarWars georgelucas )
Andrew Hickey reads Fire and Fury so you don't have to
(tags: usa politics OhForFucksSake review )
Why dolphins are deep thinkers (They work for fish - and then learn how to game the system)
(tags: dolphins Intelligence )
In contrast to Theresa May: here’s how Clement Attlee went about a sacking
(tags: politics jobs history )
The Subtle Misogyny in Anti-Goth Makeovers
(tags: goth fashion society patriarchy )
Some friends are on a cruise around the antarctic. Some of the photos are awesome.
(tags: antarctic photos )
This is my favourite 2016 election map
(tags: maps politics elections usa xkcd )
Designing consent for the GDPR is onerous - and that's a good thing
(tags: consent privacy web surveillance europe )
In 1936 a doctor injected King George V so his death would be in time for the morning papers
(tags: royalty uk death history )
Institutional racism is when changing your name from "Jasmeet" to "Millie" means you suddenly get job interviews...
(tags: names racism uk jobs )
Tim Sweeney on the First Version of the Unreal Editor
(tags: games tools Technology )
Researchers have tested ways to reduce the collective blaming of Muslims for extremism
(tags: psychology islam terrorism )
Michael Barnier asks important questions about Brexit and what comes after
(tags: uk europe )
The Fight For Patent-Unencumbered Media Codecs Is Nearly Won
(tags: videos Technology patents GoodNews )
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