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Interesting Links for 29-05-2026
May. 29th, 2026 12:00 pmTags:
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- europe,
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- regulation,
- safety,
- trade,
- usa
Interesting Links for 01-05-2026
May. 1st, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. A 25-Year-Fight Over a 2-Second Sample
- (tags:samples music copyright law europe )
- 2. Why Law Is Law-Shaped
- (tags:law language history )
- 3. A forest-based yard improved the immune system of daycare children in only a month
- (tags:immune_system nature children play )
- 4. The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed
- (tags:linux security epicfail doom )
- 5. How ChatGPT got obsessed with goblins
- (tags:fantasy language ai )
- 6. An interview with Scottish Travellers.
- (tags:roma travel history Scotland society )
- 7. Renters' Rights Act: What it means for the England's tenants and landlords
- (tags:rental housing law england )
- 8. Beltane Fire Festival 2026: 15 incredible pictures of Edinburgh's Calton Hill lit up to celebrate the changing seasons
- (tags:beltane photos )
Interesting Links for 21-02-2026
Feb. 21st, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Full scan of 1 cubic millimeter of brain tissue took 1.4 petabytes of data, equivalent to 14,000 4K movies
- (tags:brain scanning )
- 2. The political effects of X's feed algorithm (a swing to the right of nearly 5%)
- (tags:politics socialmedia USA twitter )
- 3. What happens when you don't proofread your emails
- (tags:language epicfail funny )
Interesting Links for 20-01-2026
Jan. 20th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Emergency services called after explosion at Rockstar North offices
- (tags:games explosions edinburgh )
- 2. This database tracks legal decisions in cases where generative AI produced incorrect information
- (tags:law ai epicfail )
- 3. Time spent on gaming and social media not to blame for teen mental health issues
- (tags:mentalhealth socialnetworking teenagers children )
- 4. What Have Unions Done For Us?
- (tags:unions )
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Interesting Links for 27-11-2025
Nov. 27th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The Budget - what it says
- (tags:tax budget economics uk )
- 2. The Pope is not in favour of AI
- (tags:ai pope )
- 3. British children shorter than other five-year-olds in Europe (since austerity)
- (tags:uk europe austerity children hunger food height )
- 4. How a flawed idea is teaching millions of American kids to be poor readers
- (tags:reading children epicfail USA OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Man offended by NatWest Pride flags told to use online banking
- (tags:LGBT bigotry )
- 6. Voters back restricting trial by jury (but not for themselves)
- (tags:law polls uk )
Interesting Links for 20-11-2025
Nov. 20th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Town's Huge Christmas Mural Was Generated Using AI, Resulting in Ghastly Chthonic Horrors
- (tags:AI Christmas epicfail )
- 2. The 10 most important life lessons to master in your 30s
- (tags:life advice )
- 3. Building on Ruins: The Russification of Mariupol, One Apartment Block at a Time
- (tags:Ukraine Russia OhForFucksSake )
- 4. UK Supreme Court rules Christian-focused RE taught in NI schools is unlawful
- (tags:law UK religion christianity GoodNews NorthernIreland )
- 5. Worrying about UPFs is extremely premature
- (tags:research food health )
- 6. Christian school objects to children singing about demons. Even about the hunting thereof.
- (tags:singing christianity religion uk )
- 7. The U.S.'s first out trans diplomat was once considered a hero. Now she may never come home.
- (tags:LGBT transgender USA bigotry OhForFucksSake )
- 8. Pfizer's mRNA flu shot outperforms standard flu vaccine in late-stage trial
- (tags:flu vaccine )
- 9. The Patent Office Is About To Make Bad Patents Untouchable
- (tags:patents usa OhForFucksSake intellectual_property )
- 10. Aging Out of Fucks: The Neuroscience of Why You Suddenly Can't Pretend Anymore
- (tags:women age psychology )
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- intellectual_property,
- law,
- lgbt,
- life,
- links,
- northernireland,
- ohforfuckssake,
- patents,
- psychology,
- religion,
- research,
- russia,
- singing,
- transgender,
- uk,
- ukraine,
- usa,
- vaccine,
- women
Interesting Links for 04-11-2025
Nov. 4th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Dungeons & Dragons is great for brain health (particularly the elderly and people with disabilities)
- (tags:dungeonsanddragons mentalhealth entertainment )
- 2. NHS threatens GP practice over trans care
- (tags:transgender UK bigotry healthcare OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Cambridge University's oldest women-only college, Newnham, stands firm for trans inclusion
- (tags:transgender Cambridge university GoodNews )
- 4. Novel peanut allergy vaccine shows promise to transform allergy care
- (tags:allergies vaccine )
- 5. Petition to make schools in Scotland safe for pupils with allergies
- (tags:allergies scotland school petition )
- 6. 20% of US UTIs are caused by contimated meat
- (tags:usa meat food infection )
- 7. When Stick Figures Fought (A history of the stick figure combat flash animations of the early 200s)
- (tags:history fighting animation web Flash )
- 8. The password for the Louvre's Video Surveillance System was "Louvre"
- (tags:art museums security epicfail france )
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- healthcare,
- history,
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- meat,
- mentalhealth,
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- ohforfuckssake,
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- scotland,
- security,
- transgender,
- uk,
- university,
- usa,
- vaccine,
- web
Interesting Links for 25-10-2025
Oct. 25th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The nerdiest music video of all time
- (tags:wargames video music history uk france )
- 2. The Reform Backlash: Caerphilly By-Election Result Shows Nigel Farage's Party Is Much Weaker Than It Looks
- (tags:politics uk wales )
- 3. 'Mind-boggling' poker fraud used X-ray tables, high-tech glasses and NBA players
- (tags:poker fraud mafia )
- 4. Armed police surround teen after AI mistakes crisp packet for gun
- (tags:ai guns epicfail )
- 5. Bad therapy is causing 'emotional Thatcherism'
- (tags:therapy counselling society )
- 6. What the new Northern Cyprus election result means
- (tags:Cyprus turkey )
- 7. ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web
- (tags:viaPatrickHadfield browser OhForFucksSake ai )
- 8. Bosses of Dungeons & Dragons club in £150k court fight sparked by alleged 'dungeonmaster cuddle'
- (tags:roleplaying business law UK )
Interesting Links for 06-10-2025
Oct. 6th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Scientists Reveal Biological Basis of Long Covid Brain Fog
- (tags:Pandemic brain disease )
- 2. Fire destroys Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available
- (tags:Korea data epicfail backup )
- 3. Disastrous South Korean data centre fire is connected to North Korean hacking
- (tags:NorthKorea korea hacking sabotage )
Interesting Links for 22-07-2025
Jul. 22nd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. HS2 was doomed to be a mess before it began, say insiders
- (tags:hs2 uk regulation trains planning epicfail )
- 2. Is it cake? M&S vs HMRC tax edition
- (tags:uk tax food cake viaSwampers )
- 3. In a Major Reversal, the World Bank Is Backing Mega Dams
- (tags:hydroelectric investment renewables )
- 4. UK's Biobank, the biggest human imaging study scans its 100,000th volunteer
- (tags:uk mri health research )
- 5. ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries
- (tags:ai inequality women pay OhForFucksSake )
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- planning,
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- renewables,
- research,
- tax,
- trains,
- uk,
- viaswampers,
- women
Interesting Links for 11-07-2025
Jul. 11th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Everything tech giants will hate about the EU's new AI rules
- (tags:ai technology regulation Europe )
- 2. Photos: The Scale of China's Solar Power Projects
- (tags:solarpower photos china )
- 3. What kind of video games do different fantasy races make?
- (tags:games funny fantasy )
- 4. Fake signs and graffiti, frequently science-fiction related, from Glasgow
- (tags:Glasgow scifi graffiti sign art funny viaSwampers )
- 5. The Marks & Spencer hack was down to TCS having *terrible* security processed on their helpdesk.
- (tags:security epicfail OhForFucksSake incompetence )
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- ohforfuckssake,
- photos,
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- scifi,
- security,
- sign,
- solarpower,
- technology,
- viaswampers
Interesting Links for 08-07-2025
Jul. 8th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. 7 Engineers Suspended After $2.3 Million Bridge Includes Bizarre 90-Degree Turn
- (tags:architecture design epicfail India )
- 2. Edinburgh Airport liquid limit increased from 100ml to two litres
- (tags:airport security Technology )
- 3. The Time Someone Plagiarized Calvin & Hobbes and Nobody Noticed or Cared
- (tags:comics plagiarism history art ai )
- 4. Turns out a great way to get children to want to learn their times tables is to set them to pop songs
- (tags:numbers video music )
- 5. Employers to be banned from silencing harassed or abused staff
- (tags:regulation abuse work UK law )
- 6. Some English children are living in 'Dickensian' poverty, says commissioner
- (tags:england poverty children OhForFucksSake )
- 7. Electricity from large solar arrays with batteries now cheaper than from fossil plants in Germany
- (tags:electricity solarpower batteries germany GoodNews )
- 8. O Fortuna Misheard Lyrics
- (tags:music hearing words illusion funny video )
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- ai,
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- architecture,
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- children,
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- england,
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- funny,
- germany,
- goodnews,
- hearing,
- history,
- illusion,
- india,
- law,
- links,
- music,
- numbers,
- ohforfuckssake,
- plagiarism,
- poverty,
- regulation,
- security,
- solarpower,
- technology,
- uk,
- video,
- words,
- work
Interesting Links for 20-06-2025
Jun. 20th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Rachel Reeves Promised Oil Industry 'Quid Pro Quo' Over Windfall Tax in Private Meeting
- (tags:pollution Labour tax globalwarming )
- 2. How to waste £37bn on HS2, from botched contracts to political meddling
- (tags:hs2 trains politics transport uk epicfail )
- 3. New emissions guidance published for North Sea oil and gas projects
- (tags:globalwarming oil gas uk )
- 4. Scoring Computer Games (Ori's Ginso Tree Escape)
- (tags:music games video )
- 5. Britons support rejoining the EU by 56% to 34% (but think it's not the top priority)
- (tags:UK Europe polls )
- 6. If you get a body party amputated you can apply to keep it!
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(tags:bodies video )
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 27-04-2025
Apr. 27th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Law students organize to give Trump-caving firms a recruitment problem
- (tags:protest politics USA law jobs )
- 2. Statement on the Genocidal Nature of the Gender Critical Movement's Ideology and Practice
- (tags:genocide transgender LGBT )
- 3. Recreating the Mini Motorways game as a functional 3D printed map
- (tags:games transport 3dprinting viaSwampers )
- 4. Genre Creators for Trans Rights in the UK and USA (raising money through an auction)
- (tags:scifi fandom auctions transgender rights LGBT )
- 5. The record-breaking tunnel being built from Denmark to Germany
- (tags:Denmark Germany tunnel )
- 6. Mike Lindell's lawyers used AI to write brief—judge finds nearly 30 mistakes
- (tags:law ai epicfail )
- 7. Stimming increases self-efficacy in autistic people
- (tags:psychology autism )
- 8. "I have lived on an Edinburgh canal boat for nearly five years and I have no plans to jump ashore"
- (tags:housing boats Edinburgh Scotland )
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
- (tags:pandemic vaccination )
- 2. Eight Psychiatric Disorders Share the Same Genetic Causes
- (tags:autism anorexia ADHD anxiety genetics schizophrenia bipolar depression )
- 3. Washington Post opinion chief quits as Bezos makes new editorial demands
- (tags:USA journalism doom )
- 4. TypeScript types can run DOOM (ridiculous and nerdy)
- (tags:doom type-systems wtf impressive video )
- 5. Musk tweets about a Mexican telecoms owner cost him billions
- (tags:telecoms ElonMusk business epicfail )
- 6. Consultation on Edinburgh's Seafield regeneration plan.
- (tags:edinburgh housing )
- 7. Edinburgh's Seafield sewage works records 165 spills in a year
- (tags:edinburgh sewage )
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- anorexia,
- anxiety,
- autism,
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- elonmusk,
- epicfail,
- genetics,
- housing,
- impressive,
- journalism,
- links,
- pandemic,
- schizophrenia,
- sewage,
- telecoms,
- type-systems,
- usa,
- vaccination,
- video,
- wtf
Interesting Links for 14-01-2025
Jan. 14th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The woman who gave herself a caesarean - and survived!
- (tags:childbirth surgery women aieeee! viaElfy )
- 2. The Dark Secrets Behind the Neil Gaiman Abuse Accusations
- (tags:neilgaiman abuse )
- 3. Joss Whedon drives the final nails into the coffin of his own legacy
- (tags:JossWhedon )
- 4. The UK government's push for AI is down to Tony Blair and made up numbers
- (tags:UK ai OhForFucksSake )
- 5. World's hottest year: 2024 first to pass 1.5C of warming
- (tags:globalwarming doom )
- 6. "Project Russia," Unknown in the West, Reveals Putin's Playbook
- (tags:russia )
- 7. Why poor households are worse off in the UK than they are in the EU (housing is 44% more expensive than the average)
- (tags:uk inequality housing )
- 8. Dragonflies swim to cool down and then do somersaults to dry off
- (tags:insects flying impressive )
- 9. The Sonos App went so badly wrong that their CEO just had to resign - here's the technical reasons why
- (tags:music Technology epicfail )
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- impressive,
- inequality,
- insects,
- josswhedon,
- links,
- music,
- neilgaiman,
- ohforfuckssake,
- russia,
- surgery,
- technology,
- uk,
- viaelfy,
- women
Interesting Links for 13-12-2024
Dec. 13th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. A single example of how women's healthcare is treated appallingly badly
- (tags:healthcare women OhForFucksSake epicfail uk nhs )
- 2. Possibly the best Seal-themed 5-minute long browser skiing game (best played full-screen)
- (tags:games music funny )
- 3. Uncontrollable giant feral hogs closing on Inverness
- (tags:Scotland pigs headline )
- 4. The mystery of Ireland's worst driver
- (tags:ireland names driving funny )
- 5. I am delighted by Labour's direction on housebuilding
- (tags:housing UK labour )
- 6. Deadpool and Kidpool Help Sick Kids
- (tags:children charity video funny comics )
Interesting Links for 11-12-2024
Dec. 11th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. The Scottish government is to back a move to bar MSPs from also sitting as MPs or members of the House of Lords
- (tags:scotland politics )
- 2. Next-generation datacenters consume zero water for cooling
- (tags:water cool heat Technology )
- 3. Israel targets Syria: 480 strikes in 48 hours after Assad's ouster as they destroy weapons caches
- (tags:Israel Syria weaponry )
- 4. "I'm a Syrian in the UK - here's what Britons don't understand about my country"
- (tags:syria war civilwar asylum )
- 5. Google's new AI predicts weather and the risks of extreme conditions better than the existing state-of-the-art
- (tags:ai weather )
- 6. Medical misogyny leaving women in pain for years without a diagnosis for common conditions including endometriosis, heavy periods and chronic UTI
- (tags:women misogyny uk nhs epicfail healthcare )
- 7. "My boyfriend sent me a heartfelt message - then I learned he'd used ChatGPT"
- (tags:relationships ai writing )
Interesting Links for 22-11-2024
Nov. 22nd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. What good cycling infrastructure looks like when it interacts with roads and pavements
- (tags:cycling netherlands infrastructure design roads )
- 2. Why were two Scottish ferries 6 years late and four times over budget?
- (tags:scotland ships epicfail )
- 3. How Democrats killed #MeToo
- (tags:politics misogyny democrats USA )
