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Interesting Links for 22-09-2026
Sep. 22nd, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. The government wants UK households to stock up on food in case of extreme weather, cyber attacks, and war
- (tags:UK food war doom OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Men aren't lonelier than everyone else. Poor people are.
- (tags:inequality loneliness society usa )
- 3. U.S. small biz can't ship to the EU anymore
- (tags:trade usa Europe )
- 4. Astley Ainslie hospital is being sold off - Consultation on the draft plan
- (tags:Edinburgh hospital planning consultation )
- 5. Has inequality ever been worse? (with lots of stats)
- (tags:video inequality economics history )
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Interesting Links for 18-09-2026
Sep. 18th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Speedrun Nvidia's climate talking points
- (tags:Nvidia globalwarming ai doom video )
- 2. Scottish Government issues new data centre planning rules
- (tags:Scotland ai regulation planning )
- 3. Work to reduce stench from Edinburgh's Seafield wastewater site begins
- (tags:Edinburgh waste sewage GoodNews smell )
- 4. Scotland's bike lane networks break new records
- (tags:cycling Edinburgh bicycles GoodNews )
- 5. The end of the age of (mathematical) heroes
- (tags:mathematics research ai )
Links of Interest - 2026-09-16
Sep. 16th, 2026 02:22 pm- 1. US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons
- (tags:weaponry space usa OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Pubs in England and Wales to allow digital ID apps to prove age
- (tags:uk identity age pubs )
- 3. What it really feels like to debate your existence
- (tags:bigotry LGBT transgender TV )
- 4. The Oil Supply Crisis - What's happening to the price and when will we run out?
- (tags:oil doom war USA Iran )
- 5. An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations
- (tags:art birds sound ai e-ink )
Interesting Links for 11-09-2026
Sep. 11th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. 300th anniversary of the Edinburgh man who discovered deep time
- (tags:prehistory edinburgh time history )
- 2. Universal Child Care pays for itself
- (tags:childcare economics )
- 3. Nudge or tax? At last, some data
- (tags:economics tax behaviour )
- 4. August 2026 Was the Hottest Month Ever Recorded (so far)
- (tags:globalwarming doom )
- 5. Tusk warns of future attacks after 'direct threat' averted at Poland-Ukraine border
- (tags:Russia Poland Ukraine war )
- 6. SCP-8980 is one of the more horrifying things I've read
- (tags:abuse short_story scifi )
- 7. Edinburgh's Doors Open Days are in two weeks. Definitely worth seeing what's available!
- (tags:edinburgh tourism )
Interesting Links for 09-09-2026
Sep. 9th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Aphantasia and autism
- (tags:autism vision imagination )
- 2. 15-year-olds who use AI for schoolwork are on average a year behind ones who don't
- (tags:education AI doom )
- 3. Thousands of teens missing education without that appearing on official reports
- (tags:UK children education doom )
- 4. Scottish watchdog calls for police to stop using Tasers on children in custody
- (tags:Scotland children police )
- 5. France and Canada join UK in issuing trade sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements
- (tags:UK Canada France Israel trade )
- 6. Labour Government Did Not Pursue Legal Advice On Uyghur Genocide Despite Pre-Election Pledge
- (tags:china genocide uk lies labour )
- 7. UK public support for disability benefits remarkably strong
- (tags:disability welfare uk polls )
Interesting Links for 2026-08-07
Aug. 27th, 2026 01:02 pm- 1. Picking apart the effect of AI on jobs.
- (tags:jobs ai )
- 2. How Thailand resisted colonization
- (tags:history society Thailand )
- 3. PIP whistleblowers in tears over pressure to cut benefits
- (tags:welfare disability uk OhForFucksSake )
- 4. How many hobbits do you need to solve your problems?
- (tags:lotr funny )
- 5. Tim Curry, star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, dies aged 80
- (tags:obituary viaSwampers )
- 6. Andrew Tate is just a bloke who lies on the Internet for money, insists Andrew Tate
- (tags:fraud lies bigotry misogyny satire )
- 7. Spain wants data centres on 80% renewables every hour, or no grid connection
- (tags:technology renewables Spain regulation )
- 8. Toilet paper prices rise in the US amid trade tensions with Canada
- (tags:USA toilets trade Canada doom )
- 9. VMs won't contain cyber-capable agents
- (tags:ai technology security )
- 10. Why the UK's financial watchdog is warning Britons not to take AI investment advice
- (tags:ai finance advice )
- 11. Young people with anxiety and ADHD to be offered taxpayer-funded jobs
- (tags:jobs mentalhealth uk )
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Interesting Links for 26-08-2026
Aug. 26th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Doug Ford vs Donald Trump - FIGHT!
- (tags:canada usa politics )
- 2. AI won't replace radiologists, but it will dramatically change their jobs
- (tags:ai cancer xrays healthcare doctors )
- 3. The Jews Who Voted for Hitler
- (tags:Jews Nazis Germany history )
- 4. The Climate: More Fucked Today than Yesterday
- (tags:globalwarming doom )
- 5. This interview, with a record-breaking Canadian swimmer, is just fantastic. I giggled multiple times.
- (tags:Canada swimming viaNWhyte interview funny )
- 6. US removes Syria from terrorism sponsor list, lifting major investment obstacle
- (tags:syria usa trade terrorism )
- 7. Vapes help more people quit smoking than other methods
- (tags:smoking Technology )
Interesting Links for 18-08-2026
Aug. 18th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. There's a huge space launch crunch right now, and it will probably get worse
- (tags:space transport doom Spacex )
- 2. Ordinary WiFi can now identify you with near-perfect accuracy
- (tags:wifi recognition surveillance )
- 3. It's How You Ask: Gender-Associated Linguistic Bias in LLMs
- (tags:gender ai language )
- 4. We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility (where they were destroyed as part of the scanning process)
- (tags:books ai amazon )
- 5. Disabled man just one more benefit cut from having sufficient incentive to walk again, insists Reform
- (tags:disability satire politics uk )
- 6. Edinburgh venue accepts it discriminated against Jewish comedian Philip Simon when it cancelled show
- (tags:Jews bigotry Edinburgh festival )
- 7. Universal Health Coverage Could Save the USA $1 Trillion (20%) and 114,000 Lives Every Year
- (tags:USA healthcare economics )
- 8. Autism self-diagnosis - validity and methods
- (tags:autism diagnosis viaPatrickHadfield )
- 9. People with ADHD function very well when under stress
- (tags:stress ADHD neurodiversity viaSwampers )
- 10. Fairly Ranking the Most Brilliant Birds
- (tags:birds colour visualisation )
- 11. Britain has a migration crisis (we're totally dependent on it, and government policy is causing chaos)
- (tags:migration uk labour doom )
- 12. The Color Recession May Be Permanent
- (tags:colour design fashion )
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- viapatrickhadfield,
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Interesting Links for 10-08-2026
Aug. 10th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. How the 'fecal revolution' changed Earth's ecosystems and caused the Cambrian Explosion
- (tags:evolution faeces )
- 2. The Human-Origin Story Is Being Radically Revised
- (tags:humans evolution prehistory )
- 3. Photos of Norwich show the increasing environmental impact of the drought
- (tags:UK drought globalwarming doom England )
- 4. Finding the Princes Street fire shop owner (who seem to be *very* good at covering their tracks)
- (tags:edinburgh fraud shops london fire )
Interesting Links for 02-08-2026
Aug. 2nd, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Why does every mammal get 1 billion heartbeats in their life? And what does that tell us about the efficiency of cities?
- (tags:life nature heart mathematics )
- 2. Has Scotland's 48% tax rate really reduced public revenue?
- (tags:economics tax Scotland )
- 3. Global Warming has killed over 1,000 people in England and Wales this year. So far.
- (tags:globalwarming death England Wales OhForFucksSake doom )
- 4. AI opens new era in cognitive studies of wild primates
- (tags:ai primates research )
- 5. Newborn deaths are surging among world's most vulnerable. The West's aid cuts are partly to blame
- (tags:UK poverty aid doom children death )
Interesting Links for 31-07-2026
Jul. 31st, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. In pictures: Scale of drought across England as rivers dry up
- (tags:water nature UK drought photos doom )
- 2. New technologies could help cut years-long wait for endometriosis diagnosis
- (tags:diagnosis healthcare nhs GoodNews )
- 3. Translator Of Original 'Minions' Epic Poem Slams 'Sexless, Bloodless' Film Adaptation
- (tags:translation movies satire funny )
- 4. Fructose identified as surprise driver of cancer spread
- (tags:cancer fructose )
- 5. I missed that Andy Burnham isn't a Labour MP - he's a Co-operative Party MP!
- (tags:labour politics cooperation uk )
- 6. The European models which could inspire Burnham's National Care Service
- (tags:europe care politics tax )
- 7. The social physics of conversation
- (tags:conversation communication )
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Interesting Links for 30-07-2026
Jul. 30th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Air filters don't stop you catching infectious respiratory diseases
- (tags:air virus disease )
- 2. Major unions boycott Labour Women's Conference over trans ban
- (tags:unions lgbt transgender GoodNews women labour bigotry )
- 3. Farage loses a popularity contest against every other national party leader
- (tags:uk polls politics )
- 4. A malicious word document read in to CoPilot can spread itself to new documents and maliciously alter others.
- (tags:ai virus doom microsoft )
- 5. Princes Street to remain shut for three weeks as safety work carried out
- (tags:Edinburgh fire transport )
- 6. Baseload is a myth
- (tags:electricity myths )
- 7. Scotland's 48% top rate: is it raising any money at all?
- (tags:tax Scotland economics )
- 8. Covid infection leads to destruction of the blood brain barrier and activates Alzheimer's-related genes (in mice)
- (tags:alzheimers Pandemic brain doom mice viaKenny )
- 9. Europe turns to goats to prevent wildfires
- (tags:nature fire Goats )
- 10. Britain is in denial on the prisons crisis
- (tags:uk prison government )
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Interesting Links for 28-07-2026
Jul. 28th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. A modest proposal for a new tax
- (tags:tax satire care age UK money )
- 2. Edinburgh Trams in numbers as passengers and losses hit all-time high
- (tags:Edinburgh trams business )
- 3. Safeguarding the Constitution: Key Steps to Strengthen UK Democratic Resilience
- (tags:constitution uk politics )
- 4. Artist sues AI meme generator for selling deeply personal comic as ad template
- (tags:copyright intellectual_property meme comic )
- 5. $45 million for AI text messages: Inside Israel's push to shape US opinion
- (tags:israel usa ai propaganda )
- 6. France Records Its First-Ever Pyrocumulonimbus Cloud Amid Record-Smashing Fires
- (tags:fire france globalwarming doom cloud )
- 7. The Illusion of Explanatory Depth (when you think you understand more about the world than you really do)
- (tags:politics belief knowledge psychology explanations )
- 8. When a hit book is probably AI generated
- (tags:publishing books ai )
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Interesting Links for 24-07-2026
Jul. 24th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Scarlet Deer Inn - a mevieval folk tale game which made its sprites in a very unusual way
- (tags:games craft )
- 2. Trans civil servants may have to out themselves in new guidelines
- (tags:uk privacy rights lgbt bigotry transgender OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Russia halts bond auctions because nobody is buying them. Not a good sign for their economy.
- (tags:russia economics doom )
- 4. 'There is no way AI could take over government computers and start a nuclear war' insists T-800 with fingers crossed
- (tags:ai terminator satire doom )
- 5. CalMac ship bridge visits paused over passenger's secret filming with smart glasses
- (tags:surveillance technology privacy )
- 6. Behold: the megaflag!
- (tags:flags art )
- 7. Failing quango Homes England causing a hidden council house crisis
- (tags:housing uk government fail )
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Interesting Links for 23-07-2026
Jul. 23rd, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Yemen's Houthi's just closed the Bab al-Mandeb Strait so oil tankers can't get to Saudi Arabia's West coast. (East coast already out of action because Hormuz is closed). I hope none of you are in economies reliant on oil.
- (tags:oil saudiarabia yemen trade doom )
- 2. New homeownership measure puts people first
- (tags:statistics housing homes )
- 3. The age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history
- (tags:reading society Technology )
- 4. What Emily Bender Really Meant by "Stochastic Parrots"
- (tags:Technology language ai )
- 5. Ukraine's New Drone Tactic Doesn't Drop Bombs—It Drops Bomb-Carrying Robots
- (tags:robots drone ukraine russia war )
- 6. Landmark Official Dutch Review Recommends Trans Youth Care, Call For Expanding Treatment
- (tags:Netherlands transgender healthcare children LGBT )
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- ukraine,
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Interesting Links for 22-07-2026
Jul. 22nd, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. AliExpress gets record €550m fine from EU for allowing sale of illegal products
- (tags:china business regulation europe )
- 2. Trump Insists Frequent Naps Necessary To Protect U.S. Interests In Dreamland
- (tags:sleep politics usa )
- 3. Todd Kelin looks at the Watchmen Logo/Cover Design
- (tags:design logo comics art )
- 4. Judge approves a $1.5B Anthropic settlement over books used to train Claude
- (tags:piracy intellectual_property ai law )
- 5. AI under test hacks its way out of its containment and into a remote system to find answers to the questions it's been set.
- (tags:ai hacking security doom )
- 6. Software to help you train your aiming in games - the science is fascinating
- (tags:games training science bodies )
- 7. Seven Things Mistaken for an Incoming Nuclear Attack (including...a bear)
- (tags:nuclearweapons epicfail armageddon doom )
- 8. UK's largest wind farm to be rebuilt with fewer, larger turbines - doubling its capacity
- (tags:glasgow uk windpower )
- 9. Nigel the Lonely Gannet - a metaphor for AI
- (tags:birds loneliness ai art )
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Interesting Links for 20-07-2026
Jul. 20th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Transgender youths prescribed puberty blockers had approximately half the odds of mood disorders and one-fifth the odds of suicidal thoughts and behaviors
- (tags:puberty healthcare transgender children )
- 2. Tell a sad video game story in three words
- (tags:games business sad )
- 3. Scotland is spending 4 times more on affordable housing than England
- (tags:Scotland England UK housing )
- 4. European Court Confirms Ethical Veganism Is a Protected Philosophical Belief in Europe
- (tags:Europe echr vegan )
- 5. Mathematicians still don't know the fastest way to multiply numbers
- (tags:mathematics computation )
- 6. Some people have naturally low levels of GLP-1 and respond extremely well to drugs like Mounjaro
- (tags:hormones weight )
- 7. Carbon dioxide overload, detected in human blood, suggests a potentially toxic atmosphere within 50 years
- (tags:co2 doom blood )
- 8. English and Welsh couples will free to marry at the beach or the pub under new plans - and Humanists will be able to carry them out
- (tags:england wales marriage reform )
- 9. Trump Media to sell fast feed of 'market-moving' posts to Wall Street
- (tags:corruption usa politics )
Links (Interesting) - 2026-07-11
Jul. 11th, 2026 02:12 pm- 1. Two bacteria identified as possible causes of multiple sclerosis
- (tags:ms disease bacteria viaKenny )
- 2. How dementia is being defeated
- (tags:dementia alzheimers GoodNews healthcare )
- 3. Scrapers are destroying the open internet
- (tags:internet doom )
- 4. Man Binge-Watches Entire Movie In One Sitting
- (tags:satire movies funny )
- 5. The Channel ‘choke point’ trapping Putin as shadow tankers veer away fearing seizure
- (tags:Russia UK trade oil )
- 6. What if It’s Not the Phones Making Children Unhappy?
- (tags:society technology children )
