Interesting Links for 05-06-2025

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Interesting Links for 12-11-2024

Nov. 12th, 2024 12:00 pm
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1. A portrait of the fascist as a young gamer
(tags:gaming bigotry )
2. The UK has a £47bn bill in outstanding compensation claims
(tags:uk money )
3. Want to shoot down a drone fleet? You need a machine gun, a camera, and some automation
(tags:technology drone guns automation )
4. How a stubborn computer scientist accidentally launched the deep learning boom
(tags:ai computers neurons images )
5. Israel's Smotrich tells authorities to prepare for West Bank annexation
(tags:Israel )
6. What Britain's £100m bat tunnel can tell us about why Britain can't build infrastructure
(tags:UK infrastructure bureaucracy hs2 epicfail )
7. Water expands a ridiculous amount when it turns into steam, and you do not want to be nearby if it happens very quickly
(tags:video water heat )
8. I have been reading Sophia these jokes and she has been explaining to me, one by one, why they make no sense.
(tags:jokes children )
9. Chi-Fi Tuning - Why It Sounds So Damn Piercing To Western Ears?
(tags:china music Technology sound )
10. Expert Explains Why, Essentially, You're Fucked
(tags:video doom funny )
11. Why I Will Always Be Angry About Software Engineering (or anything else that's badly managed)
(tags:life programming organisation systems anger )
12. Do Not Obey In Advance
(tags:fascism bureaucracy heroism )
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Interesting Links for 14-10-2024

Oct. 14th, 2024 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 23-09-2024

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Interesting Links for 05-09-2024

Sep. 5th, 2024 12:00 pm
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1. The UK's last coal power station is closing at the end of this month
(tags:coal power electricity uk GoodNews environment )
2. More than 20% of people who get Covid take more than 90 days to recover
(tags:pandemic )
3. "I made a documentary about Zelensky - he is funny, fascinating and ruthless"
(tags:Ukraine TV interview documentary )
4. "Debilitating a Generation": Expert Warns That Long COVID May Eventually Affect Most Americans
(tags:pandemic doom )
5. Evidence for sugar addiction: Behavioral and neurochemical effects of intermittent, excessive sugar intake
(tags:sugar addiction )
6. Ukrainian drones now spray 2,500° C thermite streams right into Russian trenches
(tags:drone Russia Ukraine war )
7. Amazon tells delivery drivers they can't sing along to music (or move their lips too much)
(tags:driving music amazon dystopia OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 12-08-2024

Aug. 12th, 2024 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 07-08-2024

Aug. 7th, 2024 12:00 pm
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1. Bionic Bay looks like a gorgeous platformer with fascinating puzzles and high-speed physics-based gameplay.
(tags:games video )
2. The anti-islam riots in this country are a product of the media, Tories, and Labour. All should be held responsible.
(tags:Labour conservatives media UK bigotry Islam riots )
3. Russia and Ukraine both have drones controlled by really really long fibre-optic cables
(tags:drone fibreoptics russia ukraine )
4. Tim Walz Took Historic Action To Protect Trans People, Now He's The Dem VP Choice
(tags:democrats GoodNews transgender USA politics LGBT )
5. If your workplace doesn't have a Muppet ethics AI then you are *totally* behind the times
(tags:ai muppets ethics wtf )
6. JD Vance's Wife: My Husband Only Meant to Insult People Who Actively Choose Not to Have Kids, Not People Who Are Trying but Are Unsuccessful
She did not touch on his claim that people who don't have kids are more sociopathic.
(tags:relationships politics USA EpicWTF )
7. How to Survive Mercury in Retrograde
(tags:astronomy astrology mercury )
8. In hospital emergency rooms, female patients are less likely to receive pain medication than male patients who reported the same level of distress
(tags:misogyny pain healthcare OhForFucksSake )
9. The wife of a Conservative councillor has been arrested after she called for hotels with asylum seekers to be set on fire.
(tags:UK racism conservatives )
10. Wind and solar overtake EU fossil fuels in the first half of 2024
(tags:renewables solarpower windpower electricity Europe coal gas hydroelectric )
11. COVID-19 making worrying comeback WHO warns, amid summertime surge
(tags:pandemic doom )
12. I did not know it was possible to make friends with a moray eel!
(tags:fish video friendship )
13. Scottish wildcat kitten caught on thermal imaging camera
(tags:scotland cats nature video )
14. Ukrainian forces take Russian border city that they don't want
(tags:russia ukraine war )
15. Elon Musk believes advertisers should be forced to spend money on him
(tags:ElonMusk advertising twitter wtf )
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Interesting Links for 31-10-2023

Oct. 31st, 2023 12:00 pm
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1. Which UK university towns have the highest cost of living?
(tags:university edinburgh money uk )
2. The future of warfare: A $400 drone destroying a $2M tank
(tags:war drone )
3. People with autism less likely to succumb to bystander effect
(tags:psychology autism )
4. Getting angry may help you achieve your goals, so long as they are hard ones.
(tags:anger achievement psychology )
5. What Happens to a Werewolf on the Moon? - a call for research!
(tags:viaSimonTatham wolves supernatural funny research moon space )
6. Use your own controller to work with an Xbox? Not if Microsoft has anything to do with it!
(tags:Microsoft OhForFucksSake consoles )
7. Woman uses man's name on delivery app, notices marked change in service
(tags:patriarchy food OhForFucksSake )
8. To find out how wildlife is doing, scientists used AI to listen to the forest
(tags:sound nature ai birds )
9. Facebook and Instagram launch ad-free subscription tier in EU (not UK though)
(tags:facebook socialnetworking advertising GoodNews )
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Interesting Links for 01-09-2023

Sep. 1st, 2023 12:00 pm
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1. Neil Gaiman almost inadvertently prevented Terry Pratchett's unfinished work from being steamrolled
(tags:terrypratchett neilgaiman death writing )
2. Las leyes de la física son inquebrantables.
(tags:physics funny video )
3. RSPB boss apologises after charity points out government lies
(tags:lies conservatives charity UK politics )
4. Ukraine unveils 'terminator' land drones that can fire machine guns and cross minefields
(tags:drone ukraine war Russia )
5. Comic Book Character Says "Bollocks" Every Once in a While so You Don't Forget He's English
(tags:swearing english UK writing comics funny )
6. Patients treated by female surgeons are less likely to die
(tags:surgery women death )
7. Bessie Watson, the incredible life story of the "Suffragette Piper Girl"
(tags:Edinburgh history music women voting Scotland wwi viaDanielDWilliam )
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Interesting Links for 28-08-2023

Aug. 28th, 2023 12:00 pm
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1. The EU's Digital Services Act is now in effect: here's what that means
(tags:internet Europe regulation )
2. Prigozhin, going, gone - what, if anything, will the reaction be in Russia?
(tags:Russia assassination )
3. Women working in Antarctica say they were left to fend for themselves against sexual harassers
(tags:abuse USA antarctic OhForFucksSake women )
4. Ukraine uses Australian drones... made of cardboard! (These were reportedly used in an attack on a Russian airfield in Kursk)
(tags:Ukraine Australia drone paper )
5. Using economic theory to find lost cites of the Bronze Age
(tags:viaDanielDWilliam trade prehistory economics cities )
6. Seven-fold increase in adult ADHD prescriptions in Scotland over 10 years, as people finally get the help they need
(tags:scotland adhd )
7. Donald Trump says civil war can't be ruled out as racial and political violence rises in the US
(tags:usa civilwar )
8. Israel to have partial laser defenses by next year
(tags:israel lasers )
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Interesting Links for 02-08-2023

Aug. 2nd, 2023 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 23-05-2023

May. 23rd, 2023 12:00 pm
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1. Bakhmut before-and-after: Satellite images of the city destroyed in the Russia-Ukraine war
(tags:ukraine cities war russia OhForFucksSake )
2. Post-Brexit boom in UK companies setting up in Germany
(tags:uk europe trade OhForFucksSake )
3. Damning Video Proves Greece Abandons Migrants at Sea
(tags:greece migration asylum OhForFucksSake )
4. Weapons expert cut from government event because he's against other government policies
(tags:uk censorship government OhForFucksSake )
5. Royal Navy divers help autonomous underwater vehicles clear the Baltic Sea of unexploded ordnance
(tags:navy weaponry europe drone )
6. How silverback gorillas solved an argument with cold air
(tags:gorillas society argument )
7. AI writers and seawater gold extraction have something in common
(tags:gold sea ai writing money )
8. Turning cats into kittens
(tags:cats cute )
9. Brain signals can predict how much pain a person is in
(tags:pain nerves )
10. Number of Scottish people who can speak some Gaelic doubles from 15% to 30%
(tags:Scotland language Gaelic )
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Interesting Links for 11-05-2023

May. 11th, 2023 12:00 pm
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1. Your parents may have helped you, but they made everything more expensive for everyone else
(tags:inheritance uk inequality )
2. Tories Blame Too Much Housebuilding For Local Election Losses
(tags:Conservatives housing wtf uk politics )
3. What Happens When a Woman Walks Like a Man? (I have observed this a *lot* - and been guilty of it myself when I wasn't thinking about it)
(tags:gender patriarchy walking women men )
4. Anyone here care about Good Omens season 2?
(tags:TV neilgaiman )
5. Edinburgh Tram Inquiry: Final report sent to printers
(tags:edinburgh trams )
6. Autonomous underwater drones are now crossing the English channel
(tags:uk france drone sea video )
7. Renewable energy projects worth billions stuck on hold because the grid isn't ready for them.
(tags:renewables electricity infrastructure co2 environment uk )
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Interesting Links for 12-04-2023

Apr. 12th, 2023 12:00 pm
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1. How Nicola Sturgeon's departure has helped to open the floodgates for anti-trans policy in UK politics
(tags:politics uk transgender lgbt OhForFucksSake bigotry )
2. 'Alien Calculus' Could Save Particle Physics From Infinities
(tags:quantum mathematics )
3. Russia's civilian economy is down around 50% as the country shifts to a war economy
(tags:russia war economics )
4. Voters want more compassionate politicians, survey suggests amid Labour ad row
(tags:politics uk OhForFucksSake )
5. Wind turbine blades recycling breakthrough
(tags:windpower recycling GoodNews )
6. No, current AI is not the solution to healthcare
(tags:healthcare ai )
7. Europe and Ukraine have repulsed Russia's attempts to weaponize energy - so far.
(tags:energy russia europe ukraine war )
8. UK economy to shrink by 0.3% this year, the worst performance in the G7
(tags:uk economy doom )
9. Nearly three quarters of Conservative voters want the UK to build more social housing
(tags:UK housing conservatives polls )
10. Truck carrying 40,000 pounds of toxic soil from East Palestine train derailment site crashes on highway (if you made this up then nobody would believe you)
(tags:environment usa incompetence WTF pollution )
11. Why does Outlook map Ctrl+F to Forward instead of Find, like all right-thinking programs?
(tags:software ux )
12. Traffic police roll out new way to catch reckless motorists - drones
(tags:drone traffic driving safety police UK )
13. EVE Online player uses obscure rule to pull off the biggest heist in the game's history (by buying shares and voting themselves into management)
(tags:games crime mmorpg EveOnline )
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Interesting Links for 06-10-2022

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Interesting Links for 19-07-2022

Jul. 19th, 2022 12:00 pm
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1. Forests Now Cover 2% of Iceland (up 6x since 1990)
(tags:iceland forests )
2. A new milestone in augmented reality: Functional contact lenses
(tags:augmentedreality contact_lenses Technology impressive )
3. Want to be an artist? Having millionaire parents *really* helps!
(tags:wealth inequality art )
4. Keir Starmer rules out 'any agreement' with the Lib Dems after next election
(tags:labour libdem OhForFucksSake )
5. Mint is not a necessary part of toothpaste. If you don't like it then feel free to use other flavours
(tags:teeth health )
6. The future of sports: Revealed!
(tags:sports technology funny video )
7. Ballet imposes gender roles on dancers
(tags:gender dance ballet )
8. Audiobooks or Reading? To Our Brains, It Doesn't Matter
(tags:reading audio brains psychology books )
9. Stray, a game where you play as a cat in a world populated by robots is clearly not going to make any money at all
(tags:games cats review video )
10. Scientists design contraceptives to limit grey squirrels
(tags:squirrel UK contraceptive fertility )
11. Cheese reduces the risk of type 2 diabetes, heart failure, coronary heart disease, hypertension, and ischemic stroke
(tags:cheese health heart diabetes )
12. Heat wave kills more than 1,100 people in Spain and Portugal
(tags:heat globalwarming death spain portugal )
13. UK set to have world's biggest automated drone superhighway
(tags:drone uk )
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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 12-05-2022

May. 12th, 2022 12:00 pm
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1. Pediatric Acute Liver Failure Due to Type 2 Autoimmune Hepatitis Associated With SARS-CoV-2 Infection
(tags:Pandemic liver immune_system children )
2. Ethan Hawke is right about movie genres and what makes the best kind of movies
(tags:movies culture video )
3. Brits versus American people
(tags:UK USA video sports )
4. Remote Scottish islands to get post by drone
(tags:drone mail royalmail Scotland )
5. One of the amazing things about modern life is getting you see updates from Ukrainian troops on the front line
(tags:Twitter war Russia Ukraine )
6. I wish people demonising formula milk would understand how many babies used to die for lack of it
(tags:food babies breastfeeding history )
7. Inflammatory response to acute pain protects against the development of chronic pain (in mice)
(tags:pain inflammation mice )
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Interesting Links for 06-05-2022

May. 6th, 2022 12:00 pm
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1. Boris Johnson shelves plan ensure restaurant workers keep tips
(tags:money work uk Conservatives OhForFucksSake )
2. NY Times says Wordle drove tens of millions of new users, record growth
(tags:words games newspapers newyork )
3. Transphobes refused permission to appeal over puberty blocker treatment
(tags:LGBT transgender law GoodNews )
4. Tory-linked group that campaigns against net zero climate action is funded by US oil interests
(tags:UK conservatives globalwarming OhForFucksSake )
5. Why society owes a debt of gratitude to a gay psychiatrist in a clown mask
(tags:history lgbt gay psychiatry usa )
6. Protesters block Edinburgh immigration detentions
(tags:immigration Scotland )
7. No, local Conservatives aren't any better than the ones in Westminster
(tags:conservatives OhForFucksSake )
8. Transphobes taking legal action against sexual violence charities
(tags:LGBT transgender bigotry )
9. Swarming drones autonomously navigate a dense forest (and chase a human)
(tags:drone )
10. Are Sins Finite
(tags:sin religion funny comic )
11. A Vast Underground Water System Helps Drive Antarctica's Glaciers
(tags:antarctic water )
12. Where Americans Stand On Abortion, In 5 Charts
(tags:abortion usa polls )
13. The UK's justice minister wants to take personal control of who gets parole. This is dangerous nonsense.
(tags:politics law uk OhForFucksSake )
14. "Bambi" Is Even Bleaker Than You Thought (and its Jewish author more interesting)
(tags:history Jews Disney books movies deer nature )
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Interesting Links for 26-04-2022

Apr. 26th, 2022 12:00 pm
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1. The West is finally giving Ukraine the weapons it needs to win
(tags:Ukraine Russia war weaponry )
2. Turkish airspace closed to planes carrying troops from Russia to Syria
(tags:Ukraine Russia Turkey )
3. Alex Salmond lawyer guilty of professional misconduct
(tags:law Scotland )
4. Channel migrant boats: Ministers drop plans to turn back vessels
(tags:UK migration )
5. Elegant Six-Page Proof Reveals the Emergence of Random Structure
(tags:random mathematics )
6. Elon Musk is going to *hate* running Twitter. I wonder how long he'll last
(tags:Twitter ElonMusk Doom socialnetworking )
7. How does your part of the UK do in the Sausage Roll Index?
(tags:economics food uk )
8. Warning over health impacts as Scotland's lochs and reservoirs heat up due to climate change
(tags:globalwarming scotland water )
9. Drones Have Transformed Blood Delivery in Rwanda
(tags:drone rwanda blood )
10. Why didn't our ancient ancestors get cavities?
(tags:teeth prehistory archeology society farming )
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