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Interesting Links for 03-06-2025
Jun. 3rd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Musk Weighs Return To Politics After 60th Death On 'Elden Ring Nightreign' Tutorial
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- 2. Download festival clarifies stance after being slammed by Manchester band in trans bathroom row
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- 3. Vodafone and Three UK Officially Complete £16bn Merger
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- 4. Brits think that we should spend more on defence, but we shouldn't raise taxes or cut other spending to pay for it.
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Interesting Links for 09-05-2025
May. 9th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Elon Musk is responsible for killing the world's poorest children, says Bill Gates
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- 2. Human transcribers significantly more accurate than AI
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- 3. Woman accused of illegal abortion cleared by jury
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- 4. Wizardry and the medieval church
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- 5. A brief explanation of the new pope
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- 6. UK announces fresh Russia sanctions aimed at Putin's shadow fleet
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- 7. AI use damages professional reputation
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- 8. Who wants an edible robot cake?
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- 9. "My abuser would be charged under new Scottish law"
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- 10. Michael Ellam: The EU Sherpa Resetting The UK-EU Relationship
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- 11. Gaza will be concentration camp, declares Netanyahu
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Interesting Links for 20-04-2025
Apr. 20th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. In Gaza, we are seeing the normalisation of evil
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- 2. On language and trans people, some tips
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- 3. Life before the Equalities Act 2010
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- 4. The lead civil servant on drafting the Equality Act says the aim was to include trans people.
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- 5. The Minister who introduced the Gender Recognition Bill in the House of Lords in 2003 made it clear that "a transsexual person would have protection under the Sex Discrimination Act [the predecessor to the Equality Act] as a person of the acquired sex or
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- 6. Settlers of Catan - Globe Edition
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- 7. Thousands of trans rights protesters on Edinburgh streets following court ruling
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- 8. Musk to Force Pentagon to Build and Then Pay Him to Use Network of Killer Satellites
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- 9. Hungary's Orbán urges Hungarians to vote against Ukraine's membership of EU
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- 10. The UK is going to have to start making choices about Europe and the USA
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- 11. Fusion power plants would require titanic amounts of lithium.
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- 12. "Masking Is Life": Experiences of Masking in Autistic and Nonautistic Adults
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Interesting Links for 22-03-2025
Mar. 22nd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Gut health study of world's oldest person finds anit-inflammatory microbiome
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- 2. Unparliamentary language - as used in the NZ parliament
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- 3. Scottish Greens MSP Maggie Chapman to be new Dundee University rector
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- 4. DOJ Designates Posting Photos Of Balding Elon Musk As Domestic Terrorism
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- 5. What it's really like to be a boy in 2025, in their own words
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Interesting Links for 21-03-2025
Mar. 21st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. EU sends Apple first DMA interoperability instructions for apps and connected devices
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- 2. Big drop in overseas students at Scottish universities (driven by changes in immigration visas)
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- 3. "We'll deport you if we have evidence against you, and if we do not" - An extraordinary witness statement by the US government
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- 4. New study reveals bacterial vaginosis is actually a sexually transmitted infection
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- 5. Vivian Jenna Wilson on Being Elon Musk's Estranged Daughter, Protecting Trans Youth and Taking on the Right Online
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- 6. PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now
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- 7. Tesla cars disengage autopilot if you're about to crash
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- 8. Battery storage is dramatically reshaping the California grid, and finally moving it away from gas
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- 9. What evidence does the CIA have that Hitler was still alive in South America in the 1950s?
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- 10. Apple Is Losing Over $1 Billion per Year on Streaming Service, Has 45 Million Apple TV+ Subscribers
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- 11. I thankfully don't have to worry about dating apps. But I do find it fascinating what kind of person makes them work for them.
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- 12. Germany and Britain issue warnings about traveling to America
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Interesting Links for 05-03-2025
Mar. 5th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Reminder on how the UK went out of its way to ignore any Russian influence on Brexit
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- 2. How the U.K. Broke Its Own Economy
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- 3. 25 Random Thoughts about 25 Years of LinkMachineGo
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- 4. Eleanor Rykener: A medieval trans woman
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- 5. Facebook Cybertruck Owners Group Copes With Relentless Mockery
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Interesting Links for 28-02-2025
Feb. 28th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Waymo is the only Western company with an autonomous taxi service. Here are their expansion plans for 2025.
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- 2. A nice video explanation for why you can't go faster than the speed of light
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- 3. Are they, or were they? Use of tense when referring to death.
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- 4. LGBTQ+ Purges In the US Government Begin
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- 5. Elon Musk's Starlink Is Keeping Modern Slavery Compounds Online
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Interesting Links for 27-02-2025
Feb. 27th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Covid shots protect kids from long Covid —and don't cause sudden death
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- 2. Eight Psychiatric Disorders Share the Same Genetic Causes
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- 3. Washington Post opinion chief quits as Bezos makes new editorial demands
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- 4. TypeScript types can run DOOM (ridiculous and nerdy)
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- 5. Musk tweets about a Mexican telecoms owner cost him billions
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- 6. Consultation on Edinburgh's Seafield regeneration plan.
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- 7. Edinburgh's Seafield sewage works records 165 spills in a year
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Interesting Links for 30-01-2025
Jan. 30th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The one critic Elon Musk can't counter: his daughter
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- 2. A really simple guide to self-care
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- 3. OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us
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- 4. Edinburgh theatre run of Coraline scrapped over sexual misconduct allegations involving author Neil Gaiman
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- 5. Friends make tasks seem easier
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- 6. Good Omens Graphic Novel Kickstarter will not be giving Neil Gaiman any money.
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- 7. Elon Musk can't even play computer games
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- 8. 55% of Britons support rejoining the EU. Only 30% think we were right to leave.
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- 9. Sicko game developers keep returning to reinvent Tetris
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- 10. Waymo to test its autonomous taxis in 10 new cities in 2025, starting with Las Vegas and San Diego
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Interesting Links for 13-01-2025
Jan. 13th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Truth & Lies (a very satisfying rant on Elon Musk and the child rape enquiry he's been pushing for)
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- 2. A Rare Alignment of 7 Planets Is About to Take Place in The Sky
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- 3. The history of "Cargo Cult" is quite different to how it's usually used
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- 4. UK is starting to roll out open-book exams. On-screen exams are coming.
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Interesting Links for 10-01-2025
Jan. 10th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. On the Depressing Doings of Trillion Dollar Companies, January 2025 Edition
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- 2. Edinburgh's Gorgie farm: New operators set to be approved (no animals on the site)
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- 3. How Elon Musk seized on baseless memo claim to create wave of misinformation
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- 4. Leaked Meta Training: Users Are Free to Post "Mexican Immigrants Are Trash!" or "Trans People Are Immoral"
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- 5. Tiny anime girl cyberprison shown at CES
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- 6. Posts shared across Facebook claim to show the average energy costs for different European countries. They don't.
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- 7. Price of resale tickets to be capped under plans to tackle touts
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- 8. Can a Dutch case about RSS teach us anything about AI copyright?
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- 9. The metabolism myth - and why exercise won't make you thinner
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- 10. How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days
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- 11. The British Empire Was Much Worse Than You Realize
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Interesting Links for 06-01-2025
Jan. 6th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Dell barred employees from promotion unless they returned to the office. More than half of them stayed at home anyway.
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- 2. Elon Musk Is Posting Nonstop Falsehoods About 'Grooming Gangs'
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- 3. The UK's first official consumption room for illegal drugs including heroin and cocaine will open in Glasgow later this month
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- 4. Government unveils plan to reduce NHS England waiting list backlog
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Interesting Links for 21-12-2024
Dec. 21st, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Unionist parties to pull Stormont Brake for first time
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- 2. Doctors Without Borders exposes Israel's campaign of total destruction
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- 3. Waymo Autonomous Vehicles Are Safer Than Latest-Generation Human-Driven Vehicles
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- 4. Poll: Scottish Independence support at 59% if Scotland ditches monarchy
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- 5. Elon Musk Took $190 Million Away From Kids With Cancer
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Interesting Links for 06-12-2024
Dec. 6th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. People will share misinformation that sparks "moral outrage"
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- 2. The artist who uses mountains as his canvas
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- 3. Israel bans Islamic call to prayer
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- 4. LA Times Owner To Personally Review Opinion Headlines To Avoid Offending Elon Musk
- (tags:ElonMusk journalism USA OhForFucksSake censorship viaPatrickHadfield )
- 5. Democrats must combat Trump's culture wars, new progressive chair says
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- 6. Amnesty report concludes Israel's actions against Palestinians in Gaza constitute genocide
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- 7. Labour's childcare plan won't work due to funding crisis, nurseries say
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- 8. Bitter Americans React to UnitedHealthcare CEO's Murder: 'My Empathy Is Out of Network'
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- 9. See how lab-grown diamonds are made, step by step
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- 10. Happy 20th anniversary to Numa Numa!
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Interesting Links for 17-11-2024
Nov. 17th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. From the time Musk endorsed Trump Republicans started getting boosts on X/Twitter
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- 2. What's going on with New Zealand and treaties with the Maori?
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- 3. "I fixed my lactose intolerance -- by chugging ALL the lactose"
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Interesting Links for 10-10-2024
Oct. 10th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. The future of mining is giant autonomous electric trucks
- (tags:automation mining australia viaElfy )
- 2. Consultation on the Visitor Levy (tourist tax) for Edinburgh
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- 3. Ants learned to farm fungi during a mass extinction
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- 4. Entirely New Ecosystem Discovered Beneath The Ocean Floor
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- 5. Elon Musk is piling onto all the hurricane disinformation, hampering relief efforts
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- 6. Wealth distribution in the United States
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- 7. Cards Against Humanity Is Paying People To Come Out Against Trump
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Interesting Links for 21-09-2024
Sep. 21st, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Men's education deficit is increasingly becoming an employment, earnings and outcomes gap, with significant repercussions
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- 2. Cards Against Humanity sues SpaceX, alleges invasion of land on US/Mexico border
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- 3. How the battle over 'normal' births is still damaging NHS maternity care (and killing people)
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- 4. Farage and his mortifying dimwit entourage represent no-one but themselves
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Interesting Links for 21-08-2024
Aug. 21st, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. A story about a created being who wants more time.
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- 2. My brother's working on a new game that's just been announced
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- 3. Giant spiders the size of rats are coming to the UK - but not to your garden
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- 4. Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover Is Now the Worst Buyout for Banks Since the Financial Crisis
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