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Interesting Links for 07-08-2025
Aug. 7th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The U.S. Constitution website has removed important sections limiting states rights and removing Writ Habeas Corpus or the right to due process.
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- 2. JK Rowling calls for M&S boycott because a tall woman spoke to a girl
- (tags:jkrowling bigotry shops )
- 3. I just sent a supportive email to Marks and Spencer over the ridiculous bigotry being sent their way. If you want, you can do that here.
- (tags:shopping communication bigotry LGBT transgender MarksAndSpencer )
- 4. Dispelling harmful misinformation about M&S 'trans' bra fitting row
- 5. ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome linked to your genetics
- (tags:genetics ChronicFatigueSyndrome viaKenny )
- 6. Brown 'functionally inaccessible' for trans students after Trump deal
- (tags:university bigotry transgender LGBT USA )
- 7. Older people react less strongly to colours.
- (tags:colour age )
- 8. Watchdog Group Downgrades U.S. From Democracy To Whatever Political System Lobsters Have
- (tags:politics usa satire lobsters )
- 9. Politicians have been lying to the British public about the economy for decades. At some point we'll have to stop.
- (tags:economics uk politics )
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Interesting Links for 23-07-2025
Jul. 23rd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Labour has brought back Section 28, here's how it will harm children
- (tags:children education Labour OhForFucksSake bigotry transgender UK )
- 2. The Louder the Monkey, the Smaller Its Balls, Study Finds
- (tags:monkeys genitals science )
- 3. Labour ministers lying about Scottish water quality to make it look like privatisation isn't the problem
- (tags:Scotland UK England Labour lies water privatisation )
- 4. French Press Association journalists in Gaza are starving to death
- (tags:Israel gaza Palestine OhForFucksSake journalism food )
- 5. metabolite produced by gut bacteria is a driver of atherosclerosis, the disease behind most heart attacks and strokes.
- (tags:heart disease microbiome )
- 6. Why Facts Don't Change Minds in the Culture Wars—Structure Does
- (tags:belief discussion communication )
- 7. The US is erasing women from the top ranks of the military
- (tags:usa military misogyny OhForFucksSake )
- 8. Why you can't color calibrate (deep) space photos
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- 9. Countries across the world see food price shocks from climate extremes
- (tags:food prices doom globalwarming )
- 10. If somebody is doing a good thing, and you try to force them to do a different, better thing, they usually end up doing neither
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- 11. Whites-only communities are spreading in the USA
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Interesting Links for 17-07-2025
Jul. 17th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The UK is stuck in a fiscal corner (The only way I see out of it is the trade bump we'd get from rejoining the EU)
- (tags:uk economics doom viaKenny )
- 2. Babies from three people's DNA prevents heriditary disease
- (tags:disease genetics babies )
- 3. Damage to the prefrontal cortex increases utilitarian moral judgements
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- 4. Which of us has not been woken at night by a religious leader dressed as a yeti, so that we can swear a blood oath?
- (tags:catholicism wtf )
- 5. Police participation in pride ruled unlawful
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Interesting Links for 15-07-2025
Jul. 15th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem
- (tags:people comics ai doom communication )
- 2. How old are you in your head? (Mid 30s for me)
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- 3. Reddit will start verifying the age (but not the identity) of UK redditors
- (tags:uk age reddit regulation internet )
- 4. "Autism" is at least 4 different syndromes, each with distinct biological and genetic pathways.
- (tags:autism genetics )
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Interesting Links for 14-07-2025
Jul. 14th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Stardew Valley is now Steam's top-rated game, surpassing Portal
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- 2. Most people in France, Germany, Italy and Spain want UK to rejoin EU, poll finds - but on new terms. Britons want to rejoin, but on their old terms.
- (tags:UK Europe )
- 3. 'I'm being paid to fix issues caused by AI'
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- 4. Cranes, once hunted to extinction returning to Scotland after 500 years
- (tags:birds extinction Scotland )
- 5. How GLP-1s Are Breaking Life Insurance
- (tags:weight medicine insurance health )
- 6. I've found it! The most dystopian AI thing! Gig workers pretending to be the AIs that people have fallen in love with!
- (tags:relationships ai business doom )
Interesting Links for 04-07-2025
Jul. 4th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Five baby beavers born at Cairngorms National Park in Scottish Highlands spotted for first time
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- 2. Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean, with key climate implications
- (tags:globalwarming ocean doom )
- 3. Deafness reversed: Single injection brings hearing back within weeks | ScienceDaily
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- 4. High-Fidelity Simultaneous Speech-To-Speech Translation
- (tags:translation ai )
- 5. Ita O'Brien: Up close and professional with the world's leading intimacy coordinator
- (tags:sex acting safety tv movies )
- 6. Trump seems to have decided that America should be more like Rome
- (tags:usa fighting republicans EpicWTF )
- 7. The perfect, but slow, way to boil an egg - according to science
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Interesting Links for 03-07-2025
Jul. 3rd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Lemkin Institute Anti-genocide group issues 'red flag' to UK over transgender rights
- (tags:lgbt transgender UK rights OhForFucksSake bigotry )
- 2. The UK has an extremely low rate of homes per person
- (tags:UK housing doom )
- 3. Israel limits entry of baby formula in Gaza as infants die of hunger
- (tags:Israel babies murder Hunger genocide gaza Palestine )
- 4. Poor internet and offices partly to blame for length of Edinburgh Tram Inquiry
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- 5. TikTok is being flooded with racist AI videos generated by Google's Veo 3
- (tags:ai racism videos socialmedia )
Interesting Links for 25-06-2025
Jun. 25th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Elon Musk doesn't want you to know Tesla's response to the NHTSA's Robotaxi questions
- (tags:Tesla automation driving OhForFucksSake )
- 2. US safety regulators contact Tesla over erratic robotaxis
- (tags:USA automation safety Tesla driving doom )
- 3. Some fascinating discussion on Romeo and Juliet
- (tags:shakespeare women history )
- 4. New bat viruses discovered in China raise concerns about potential pandemic
- (tags:virus bats china )
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Interesting Links for 22-06-2025
Jun. 22nd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. How Christopher Priest wrote for Doctor Who, and what happened next
- (tags:drwho history scifi bbc writing )
- 2. Trans woman swims topless in protest at being forced to swim with men
- (tags:bigotry lgbt transgender swimming )
- 3. Scottish government to remove WhatsApp from phones
- (tags:transparency phones communication government Scotland )
- 4. Giving a wide range of researchers the same data and the same hypothesis to test gives a massive range of results
- (tags:research doom statistics )
- 5. Denmark Let Amateurs Dig for Treasure—And It Paid Off
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- 6. The FDA Just Approved a Long-Lasting Injection to Prevent HIV (2 injections a year have 99.9% effectiveness)
- (tags:hiv vaccine GoodNews )
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Interesting Links for 30-05-2025
May. 30th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Quakers refuse to exclude trans people from their facilities: 'This is what Love requires of us'
- (tags:religion transgender love )
- 2. Global warming is now destroying Swiss villages
- (tags:globalwarming Switzerland doom )
- 3. Quakers first British church to state belief that genocide underway in Gaza
- (tags:religion genocide gaza Palestine )
- 4. Walkers' Sensations Poppadoms vs HMRC: the Chip of Theseus
- (tags:tax food ontology potato uk law )
- 5. Make money to cover competing at the Olympics? Not if you do it sexily!
- (tags:money sexwork Olympics OhForFucksSake )
- 6. AI video just took a startling leap in realism. Are we doomed?
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- 7. Your next gaming dice could be shaped like a dragon or armadillo
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- 8. Scotland's travellers suffered 'cultural genocide', report finds
- (tags:Scotland society history )
- 9. Scientists finally crack mystery of how clapping generates sound
- (tags:sound physics )
- 10. Attorney General compares Reform and Tories' policy to actions of Nazi Germany
- (tags:law UK Nazis history )
- 11. UnitedHealth reportedly paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers
- (tags:USA healthcare OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 27-05-2025
May. 27th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The US health system is now overseen by vaccine deniers. The effects are entirely predictable
- (tags:disease pandemic usa vaccines doom )
- 2. Hong Kong children urged to get Covid jabs as 'whole paediatric ward full'
- (tags:pandemic HongKong china children doom vaccination )
- 3. An Oral History of 'Lilo & Stitch' (the original)
- (tags:animation movies Disney Hawaii history )
- 4. German court rules cookie banners must offer "reject all" button (if they have an "accept all" button)
- (tags:cookies surveillance germany dataprotection GoodNews )
- 5. It makes no sense to cut funding to mental health services when that costs you money in the long run.
- (tags:mentalhealth money edinburgh )
- 6. How much energy does AI use?
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- 7. Owls! in! Towels!
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- 8. Explaining a 31-month sentence for a tweet
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Interesting Links for 20-05-2025
May. 20th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. News on the search for the solar system's ninth planet
- (tags:space solarsystem viaJamesNicoll )
- 2. AI Chatbots Are Becoming Even Worse At Summarizing Data (5 times worse results than human-written summaries)
- (tags:ai writing epicfail )
- 3. Several conferences relocate north of the border as Canadians refuse to travel to the U.S.
- (tags:usa canada academia conferences )
- 4. UK, France, Canada speak out on Israel's actions in Gaza. (Not actually doing anything about it, mind you)
- (tags:UK France Israel Canada gaza )
- 5. What's the state of using AI for science?
- (tags:ai research physics )
- 6. It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System
- (tags:ai Education school doom )
- 7. Sex worker 'terrified' by plans for new Scottish prostitution law
- (tags:sexwork scotland OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 13-05-2025
May. 13th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. How Gandalf Proved Mightiest: Spiritual Power in Tolkien
- (tags:lotr Tolkien magic viaDanielDWilliam )
- 2. ScotRail trials wi-fi using Elon Musk's Starlink satellites
- (tags:Scotland trains internet )
- 3. Continuous glucose monitors reveal variable glucose responses from the same people to the same meals
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- 4. The charts showing the big flaw in Starmer's immigration plan
- (tags:migration economy uk doom )
- 5. Moderna's combo Covid and flu mRNA shot outperforms current vaccines in large trial
- (tags:vaccine pandemic flu )
- 6. Despair at Starmer's divisive language as he channels Enoch Powell
- (tags:bigotry immigration UK Labour OhForFucksSake )
- 7. US Copyright Office head fired after reporting AI training isn't always fair use
- (tags:ai copyright USA politics )
- 8. Edinburgh traffic bans in city centre to be made permanent following trial
- (tags:traffic transport Edinburgh )
- 9. Top UK Special Forces general oversaw blocking of Afghan war-crime witnesses to Britain
- (tags:UK military crime war OhForFucksSake Afghanistan )
- 10. How the news feels right now
- (tags:news satire doom )
- 11. Mass vote losses to Lib Dems and Greens would cost Labour twice as many seats as mass Reform switch
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- 12. Getting to know 'Reform curious Labour voters'
- (tags:Labour politics UK )
- 13. Zodiac Killer Revealed by His Love of Comic Books, Author Says
- (tags:comics murder usa history )
- 14. London, Brighton, Birmingham and Manchester Prides suspend political parties from taking part (over trans rights)
- (tags:lgbt transgender protest uk politics )
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Interesting Links for 12-05-2025
May. 12th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Statue of Motörhead singer Lemmy Kilmister unveiled in Burslem
- (tags:HeavyMetal statue UK )
- 2. Please dispose of your expired magic carefully
- (tags:magic video funny viaSwampers )
- 3. Would you like to see an Irish person be *very* excited by a potato dish?
- (tags:potato Ireland food video viaSwampers )
- 4. Reminder that Labour has made it impossible for refugees to become British citizens
- (tags:labour refugee OhForFucksSake citizenship )
- 5. Right to buy surge set to wipe out 18,500 UK council homes
- (tags:uk housing OhForFucksSake )
- 6. Dear Keir, there are other options than pandering to prejudice
- (tags:bigotry migration uk OhForFucksSake labour )
- 7. Why Kids Aren't Falling in Love With Reading
- (tags:Education reading books doom usa )
Interesting Links for 11-05-2025
May. 11th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Building a "free energy" engine and showing how it really works
- (tags:fraud energy video )
- 2. Why running just two minutes a day will help you live longer
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- 3. Analysis of the Cass report finds it presents claims without evidence, misrepresents quotes, has significant methodological problems, and applies a double standard.
- (tags:bigotry lgbt transgender uk research )
- 4. In the wake of tariffs, cargo at the Port of LA is down 35% (will take 4-6 weeks to filter through to shops)
- (tags:usa china trade doom )
- 5. 'It cannot provide nuance': UK experts warn AI therapy chatbots are not safe
- (tags:uk ai counselling doom )
- 6. London's Low Emission Zone reduces sick leave by 18%
- (tags:pollution cars London health )
- 7. Ireland given two months to begin implementing hate speech laws or face legal action from EU
- (tags:bigotry Ireland law Europe )
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 07-05-2025
May. 7th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. How to reduce the spread of crypto
- (tags:cryptography virus funny newzealand )
- 2. Dozens of clubs fight back against FA ban on trans women
- (tags:football transgender women uk )
- 3. Fear and intimidation at Newark airport, as a Palestinian-American re-enters the USA
- (tags:usa palestine OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Peak rail fares to be scrapped by Scottish government
- (tags:trains GoodNews )
- 5. Hugo Administrators Resign in Wake of ChatGPT Controversy
- (tags:Hugo awards conventions ai OhForFucksSake )
- 6. Scientists issue new warning linking microplastics with strokes
- (tags:plastic stroke )
- 7. The county that shows how benefits cuts and bills drove voters from Labour to Reform
- (tags:politics economics uk poverty )
- 8. Orsted pulls plug on Hornsea 4 windfarm (one of the world's largest)
- (tags:windpower doom )
- 9. Scottish 'Hollow Mountain' hydro power plant expansion put on hold
- (tags:hydroelectric scotland doom )
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Interesting Links for 04-05-2025
May. 4th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The first driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes
- (tags:automation driving delivery )
- 2. "I like being autistic": Assessing the benefit of autistic-led psychoeducation for autistic children
- (tags:autism education children )
- 3. Snake enthusiast survived hundreds of bites. Now his blood is aiding the search for a universal antivenom
- (tags:snakes immune_system genetics viaKenny )
- 4. They Sent the Message. But Did They Write It? (How AI is disrupting actual communication)
- (tags:communication ai doom )
- 5. Love in the time of cancer
- (tags:cancer love death )
- 6. Creating Bluey: Tales from the Art Director
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