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Interesting Links for 08-07-2024

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1. How are the British like the Japanese?: (tags:UK Japan society )
2. Edinburgh council rules out pneumatic underground bins: (tags:Edinburgh waste technology )
3. 'All the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order': The riddle of the 'Pulborough Area' torc from Sussex. (And how much effort it takes to find a fraud): (tags:history archeology fraud )
4. Meta is now allowing lies about the 2020 election in political ads: (tags:facebook advertising fraud politics usa OhForFucksSake )
5. Transforming the future of music creation with AI: (tags:music ai )
6. Elephants might give each other names: (tags:elephants names )
7. for babies born before 34 weeks, delaying the clamping of the cord for a minimum of 60 seconds after birth reduces death by nearly a third: (tags:babies death )
8. Young Animator of the Year UK - an impressive piece for anyone, but for a 16 year old...: (tags:animation children impressive video )
9. Are you a victim of Executive Function Theft: (tags:behaviour work )
10. 'Nimona' breaks LGBT barriers and survives to tell the tale: (tags:LGBT movies animation Disney )
11. Apple announces RCS support for iMessage: (tags:Apple sms communication )
12. Google confirms they will disable uBlock Origin in Chrome in 2024: (tags:adblock Google Chrome web OhForFucksSake )
13. IBM suspends ads on X after they appeared next to Nazi posts: (tags:Twitter Nazis ibm advertising )
14. Nihilist Penguin (Werner Herzog): (tags:penguin video )
15. Incredible video of Starling murmuration: (tags:video birds )
16. World-first gene therapy that aims to cure sickle-cell disease: (tags:genetics disease GoodNews )
17. Royal Mail owner says 'reform is urgent' after group slumps to a £319m loss: (tags:royalmail uk )
18. People living in Europe are about to get a much better Windows 11: (tags:europe windows regulation )
19. Archaeologists discover previously unknown ancient language (3,000 years old, transliterated into Hittite): (tags:language archeology )
20. From toy to tool: DALL-E 3 is a wake-up call for visual artists—and the rest of us: (tags:Technology ai art )
21. 'I was deported for wearing tinted moisturiser': Qatar's new LGBT crackdown: (tags:qatar lgbt OhForFucksSake )
22. Why are some jobs so "greedy"?: (tags:jobs )
23. South Korea announces plans to ban consumption of dog meat: (tags:dogs korea food )

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Interesting Links for 30-03-2023

1. Giant meatball grown in a vat from extinct mammoth DNA unveiled by food firm: (tags:food extinction elephants technology headline )
2. The German far-right are funnelling money to the Conservatives: (tags:politics germany Conservatives )
3. The people who trained and funded Kate Forbes, who nearly became First Minister of Scotland, are deeply deeply unpleasant bigots: (tags:bigotry LGBT Scotland Christianity religion )
4. Now ChatGPT is being (mis)used to do peer review: (tags:ai research publishing OhForFucksSake fraud )
5. Customer service jobs may be safe from AI for a bit: (tags:ai work fail )
6. Covid may be bringing cancer forward decades: (tags:Pandemic inflammation cancer Doom )
7. Conservatives and Brexit continue to be deeply unpopular with the British public: (tags:UK polls politics Europe )
8. The "Pause AI!" letter making the rounds is full of AI hype: (tags:ai hyperbole viaPatrickHadfield )
9. Inside Britain's anti-abortion training camps: (tags:abortion UK conspiracy )
10. The UK government clearly *wants* to have cyber security issues: (tags:security UK jobs pay Doom )

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Interesting Links for 11-03-2023

1. Scientists complete first map of an insect brain: (tags:insects brain )
2. HP have updated their printers to outright ban 'non-HP' ink: (tags:printing OhForFucksSake )
3. Toy preferences between boys and girls is a classic example of societal debates relying on tiny scraps of data: (tags:research statistics gender toys psychology )
4. Jamie Lee Curtis launches campaign urging U2 and Bruce Springsteen to do matinee shows: (tags:music time )
5. Magnificent mosques of India: (tags:religion architecture Islam India viaDanielDWilliam )
6. Elephants have learned highway robbery: (tags:elephants crime video )
7. Long-Term Cannabis Use, Cognitive Decline, and the Hippocampus: (tags:Intelligence marijuana brain )
8. Full list of pundits boycotting BBC football shows over the Gary Lineker censorship: (tags:asylum censorship bbc football )
9. Evidence of a predictive coding hierarchy in the human brain listening to speech: (tags:speech language brain ai )

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Interesting Links for 13-12-2022

1. Researchers thought weight and education had shared genetic roots - turns out that educated people tended to marry thin people: (tags:education weight genetics family )
2. How many times does Hidetaka Miyazaki have to tell an interviewer that Armored Core 6 isn't a Soulsborne game?: (tags:games interview mecha )
3. Reminder that "Eskimo" is a slur.: (tags:Inuit language abuse )
4. The 10 Most Promising Breakthrough Innovations of 2022: (tags:science viaDanielDWilliam )
5. Renewables are set to triple over the next three years, and overtake coal to be the largest source worldwide: (tags:renewables GoodNews viaBenWerdmuller )
6. Probably the geekiest drinking game of all time: (tags:games alcohol geekery Windows )
7. When your nose gets cold it loses its ability to fight infections: (tags:disease cold temperature noses )
8. Disney now hiding LGBT content from kids, irrespective of age rating: (tags:LGBT children Disney )
9. Independent blockchain news site turns out to be funded by fradulent crypto company: (tags:fraud journalism blockchain )
10. The amusement park rides in The Centrifuge Brain Project deeply unsettled me: (tags:video gravity physics movie documentary )
11. It is very hard to keep a straight face while an elephant is fondling it: (tags:elephants cute video funny )
12. I'm not sure if my advice would be to never interview the Muppets live, or always interview the Muppets live.: (tags:muppets interview funny video )

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Interesting Links for 07-12-2022

1. An update on leap seconds: (tags:time standards )
2. It's a mistake to think of the election as just LAB vs CON: (tags:uk elections )
3. 'I was sent to jail for refusing to hand over a sexual assault victim's therapy notes - I'd do it again': (tags:rape counselling law australia )
4. Dwarf Fortress' graphical upgrade provides a new way into a wildly wonky game: (tags:games ux )
5. 20,000 Pounds of Trash Removed From Pacific Garbage Patch: 'Holy mother of god. It worked!': (tags:waste ocean GoodNews )
6. You too can learn fascinating facts about elephant eggs from AI: (tags:ai elephants eggs )
7. The Ocean Cleanup Project Could Destroy the Neuston: (tags:ocean waste life viaSteer )
8. What abortion restrictions and laws look like in every state in the U.S.: (tags:abortion viaBenWerdmuller visualisation )
9. What 4 year old girl doesn't want their own 12 foot skeleton?: (tags:girls horror children cute video )

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Interesting Links for 11-06-2022

1. Watch from Inside the Nest as a Pair of Kestrels Raise a Family: (tags:birds video )
2. The COVID Event Horizon (or: How many Covid infections can a person have?): (tags:pandemic disease doom )
3. There are early signs of Covid infections trending back up the way: (tags:pandemic doom )
4. Jacob Rees-Mogg refuses to debate why he blocked bill that would have spared elephants from torture: (tags:elephants torture conservatives OhForFucksSake )
5. 40% of the UK is heading for fuel poverty: (tags:heating poverty electricity gas )
6. Green light for £21m Scottish plastic-to-hydrogen plant: (tags:plastic hydrogen energy )
7. The best book ever about computers is getting a second edition. I may need to update: (tags:books computers )
8. The Sriracha Shortage Is The Next Harbinger of Climate Change: (tags:globalwarming food )
9. Sex with your distant ancestors: bestiality or not?: (tags:bestiality sex prehistory evolution )
10. The perception of rhythm in language (read it out loud): (tags:poetry language research awesome )
11. How Tesla tries to avoid its autopilot being on for crashes: (tags:Tesla automation OhForFucksSake cars driving )

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Interesting Links for 28-02-2022

Russians troops are disoriented, hungry, and don't understand why they're invading: (tags:Russia Ukraine OhForFucksSake )
EU Plans To Send Weapons To Ukraine After Putin Escalates Nuclear Threat: (tags:nuclearweapons Ukraine Europe Russia war )
How Ikea gets you to buy more stuff: (tags:IKEA marketing business )
The salt-mining elephants of Africa: (tags:elephants mining salt Africa )
I would not have believed the levels of Russian incompetence if you'd told me last week: (tags:Russia Ukraine incompetence video )
Words known better by men women, and vice versa: (tags:gender language English )
How Putin made the EU great again: (tags:Russia Europe )
Sid Meier warns the games industry about monetisation (30th anniversary of Civilization interview): (tags:games business money )
I love the Childline "Nobody is normal" video: (tags:children video )
UK pledge to take Ukrainian refugees with family in Britain excludes brothers, sisters, adult children and parents: (tags:ukraine uk refugee OhForFucksSake )
Tumblr will now let you be the customer, rather than advertisers being the customer. I am *delighted* and wish Facebook/Twitter would do likewise: (tags:tumblr advertising business )
What do parents' houses really look like?: (tags:homes children parenting mess )

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Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3976493.html

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Interesting Links for 26-12-2020

How children are fooled into believing in Santa Claus: (tags:belief Christmas children psychology )
Why Jews eat Chinese food at Christmas: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1342314651778953216.html
(tags:food China Jews history )
Elephant decline revealed by shipwreck cargo: (tags:history elephants Doom )
The Metaphysics of the Muppet Movies: (tags:muppets movies philosophy )
In study, paracetamol (acetaminophen) makes risky moves seem less dangerous: (tags:psychology drugs risk behaviour )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3675054.html

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Interesting Links for 03-04-2018

The simplified history of human history, with the inexorable move from roving band, to tribe, to city, to civilisation, is simply wrong.: (tags: history humans architecture prehistory society sociology agriculture )
Teachers warn of growing poverty crisis in British schools: (tags: UK poverty food OhForFucksSake )
Why autistic people are frequently denied the healthcare they need.: (tags: autism healthcare )
Cars face ban from parts of Edinburgh’s city centre in major shake-up: (tags: edinburgh GoodNews transport cars )
Satellite images from highly oblique angles are pretty mindblowing: (tags: photos space )
Grindr Shares Personal Information (like HIV status) With Third-Parties: (tags: LGBT dating privacy surveillance )
Reaping the wind with the biggest turbines ever made: (tags: windpower )
Sale of ivory to be banned in the UK as part of government plan to help protect elephants: (tags: elephants law uk )
Spaniard raised by wolves disappointed with human life: (tags: wolves humans life viaSwampers spain )
Another nail in the coffin for learning styles: (tags: learningstyles research learning fail )
What's going on with Jeremy Corbyn and Jewdas?: (tags: Jews labour politics )
Personal data has gone from being "the new oil" to "the new uranium": (tags: data privacy )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3648170.html

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Interesting Links for 21-05-2017

The U.S. is waging a massive shadow war in Africa: (tags: africa usa military )
The Physicist Who Denies Dark Matter: (tags: physics )
I am not planning on seeing Alien:Covenant.: (tags: aliens review fail movies )
Many virtual pet rabbits will die in Second Life on Saturday: (tags: animals computers law wtf )
Black man will spend six years in Georgia prison despite jury finding him 'not guilty': (tags: usa law OhForFucksSake )
Killing Twelve C.I.A. Informants, China Crippled U.S. Spying Operations: (tags: USA china spying fail )
Tories bow to wealthy antiques dealers and drop ban on elephant ivory in manifesto: (tags: elephants Conservatives OhForFucksSake )
The Sexual Life of Savages: (tags: belief sex children relationships society )
Welsh battery scheme may aid growth of green energy: (tags: energy batteries electricity wales )
Mount Everest's famous Hillary Step destroyed, mountaineers confirm: (tags: mountains )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3545462.html

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Interesting Links for 20-01-2017

34 Year Old Man Realises Nothing Will Ever be as Good as Necromunda: (tags: games life funny )
The BBC are making the Gaiman/Pratchett novel "Good Omens" into a TV show.: I really hope it's not shit. I haven't been able to bear any of the Discworld dramatisations.
(tags: bbc tv terrypratchett neilgaiman )
The new Logan trailer looks just as good as the first one.: (tags: xmen movies trailer )
Higher levels of estrogen may protect against PTSD: (tags: ptsd stress estrogen hormones women )
A little discussed effect of therapy: it changes your personality: (tags: therapy personality psychology )
Amazing story of Napoleonic rabbits: (tags: rabbits history fail )
Investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot shows 40% crash rate reduction: (tags: driving automation transport GoodNews )
Popular photo app Meitu is sending your identifying data to their servers: (tags: privacy apps data )
Villagers knit jumpers for Indian elephants to protect them from near-freezing temperatures: (tags: elephants knitting temperature india )
Patrick Stewart to voice poo emoji in The Emoji Movie (Surely the pinnacle of western civilisation?): (tags: PatrickStewart movies faeces wtf )
Minecraft link to net's biggest botnet: (tags: minecraft ddos )
American farmers secretly feed cows defective skittles because they are cheaper than corn, truck crash reveals: (tags: cows food usa wtf )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3539630.html

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Interesting Links for 31-12-2016

Africa's naming traditions: (tags: africa names )
Insurance firm to replace human workers with AI system: (tags: japan ai insurance jobs )
Nobody should ever do business with this company: (tags: xkcd business data funny names )
Russia vows to delete all White House videogame saves: (tags: games funny satire russia usa hacking )
Inside the Lab that Grows Human Skin to Test Cosmetics: (tags: testing cosmetics makeup humans bodies )
25 Masterpieces That Prove 2016 Was an Incredible Year for Architecture: (tags: architecture design )
Once mocked, Facebook’s $1 billion acquisition of Instagram was a stroke of genius: (tags: facebook photos business )
Foxconn aims to totally automate its factories: (tags: automation manufacturing )
China announces ban on ivory trade by end of 2017: (tags: china elephants GoodNews )
How Watership Down was written: (tags: writing creativity rabbits stories uk history )
The History of Keeping the Damned Women Out (of university): (tags: history Education uk women viaFanf )
The Guardian’s Summary of Julian Assange’s Interview Was Completely False: (tags: guardian OhForFucksSake JulianAssange news )
White House fails to make case that Russian hackers tampered with election: (tags: russia usa hacking fail )
5 Rules for Hosting a Crappy Dinner Party (and Seeing Your Friends More Often): (tags: food social )
Saudi Arabia jails man for a year after he publically called for end of male control over women: (tags: women saudiarabia rights OhForFucksSake )
There's nothing less electable than "electability": (tags: politics )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3375992.html

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Interesting Links for 07-12-2015

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Interesting Links for 17-08-2015