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Interesting Links for 16-08-2025

1. This is how the Swiss would have done HS2: (tags:Switzerland infrastructure hs2 investment )
2. The ease of collective action induces more egalitarian behavior by individuals in a position of power and makes those without power less willing to accept unfairness.: (tags:unions community society equality power psychology )
3. Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ figure Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor: (tags:facebook bigotry lgbt )
4. Photos: Wildfires Rage Across Southern Europe (CW: burned animal about 20 pictures down): (tags:fire europe photos )
5. Are you ready for polyaninmosity in your life?: (tags:polyamory satire video funny )
6. There's something I love about stories that take a very simple concept and push it a far as they can: (tags:scifi video fiction short_story )
7. Sauron the Economist: (tags:lotr comic economics funny )
8. Chinese economists recruit Ray Dalio and MMT in their battle over deficit spending: (tags:economics china )
9. The Electric Fence Stopped Working Years Ago - A metaphor for friendship: (tags:advice friendship )
10. Once Again, Oil States Thwart Agreement on Plastics: (tags:plastic pollution doom diplomacy )

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Interesting Links for 10-01-2025

1. On the Depressing Doings of Trillion Dollar Companies, January 2025 Edition: (tags:facebook twitter politics socialnetworking )
2. Edinburgh's Gorgie farm: New operators set to be approved (no animals on the site): (tags:farm Edinburgh )
3. How Elon Musk seized on baseless memo claim to create wave of misinformation: (tags:fraud ElonMusk UK children rape OhForFucksSake )
4. Leaked Meta Training: Users Are Free to Post "Mexican Immigrants Are Trash!" or "Trans People Are Immoral": (tags:bigotry Facebook OhForFucksSake )
5. Tiny anime girl cyberprison shown at CES: (tags:funny anime relationships review dolls )
6. Posts shared across Facebook claim to show the average energy costs for different European countries. They don't.: (tags:disinformation energy money europe )
7. Price of resale tickets to be capped under plans to tackle touts: (tags:uk business economics music concerts tickets )
8. Can a Dutch case about RSS teach us anything about AI copyright?: (tags:ai copyright rss law computers europe )
9. The metabolism myth - and why exercise won't make you thinner: (tags:exercise metabolism diet health )
10. How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days: (tags:history germany nazis politics democracy )
11. The British Empire Was Much Worse Than You Realize: (tags:uk empire history )

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Interesting Links for 08-01-2025

1. All 105 large developments going on in Edinburgh in 2025, on Google Earth.: (tags:google map construction edinburgh )
2. Edinburgh Development Summary 2025: (tags:edinburgh construction )
3. Five key ways to tackle child sex abuse that still haven't been implemented: (tags:children rape politics uk )
4. Cuts to England's bus network cost economy £2.6bn a year: (tags:england economics buses transport )
5. Is *your* TV too high?: (tags:tv height )
6. How a populist think tank is stoking Scotland's culture war: (tags:hungary bigotry Scotland )
7. JK Rowling Slammed After Claiming That 'There Are No Trans Kids' In Hateful Rant: (tags:jkrowling transgender bigotry children )
8. Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have 'Mental Illness': (tags:Facebook OhForFucksSake bigotry LGBT )
9. How do we know how Latin was pronounced, and how did the official church pronunciation come to be different to that?: (tags:Latin history language )
10. Landlords to be banned from demanding several months' rent in advance: (tags:rental England )
11. Stats for the Omni-Centre cycle lane in Edinburgh show that usage is up 40% in a year: (tags:cycling edinburgh )
12. 'I realised I had autism when my children were diagnosed': (tags:autism scotland )
13. Trump threatens Nato, Hamas, Greenland, Panama, and Canada in press conference: (tags:politics usa )
14. Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams in Classical Latin: (tags:music video latin )
15. Six things you must know about how the grooming gangs scandal was handled: (tags:rape children religion racism uk government )

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Interesting Links for 31-12-2024

1. Facebook aiming to fill itself with AI-generated characters sharing AI-generated content: (tags:ai Facebook OhForFucksSake )
2. The political spectrum is a myth: (tags:politics video )

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Interesting Links for 03-08-2024

1. Olympics to ban literally every athlete in order to avoid controversy around competitors with 'genetic advantages': (tags:genetics olympics satire )
2. Seven things to know before forming an opinion on boxing's Olympics gender row: (tags:gender Olympics sports )
3. Thousands of unused affordable homes sitting empty because housing associations can't afford to take them on: (tags:housing UK OhForFucksSake )
4. Fully-automatic robot dentist performs world's first human procedure: (tags:dental automation )
5. The Untold Story of How Ridley Scott Saw 'Star Wars'—and Ended Up Making 'Alien': (tags:movies StarWars history alien RidleyScott )
6. Cycling trips on Leith Walk double - 9% of trips are now by bike: (tags:cycling Edinburgh Scotland transport )
7. Digital Apartheid in Gaza: Unjust Content Moderation at the Request of Israel's Cyber Unit: (tags:Israel Palestine socialmedia )
8. Old News, New Reality: A Year of Meta's News Ban in Canada: (tags:Facebook news Doom )
9. The Emperor Claudius and the eclipse on his 54th birthday: (tags:Rome eclipse history )
10. What are Labour and the Tories talking about on tax in the UK?: (tags:tax UK Labour conservatives )

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Interesting Links for 19-04-2024

1. This is how crime reporting feels to me nowadays: (tags:crime comics journalism )
2. The "Gender Game Test" and the distribution of money: (tags:psychology gender equality money children )
3. Author granted copyright over book with AI-generated text—with a twist: (tags:copyright ai )
4. EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy: (tags:privacy facebook europe regulation )
5. Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of bitcoin than the building of the pyramids of Giza: (tags:Egypt history )
6. Netflix Accused of Using AI Photos in True Crime Documentary: (tags:fraud documentary netflix crime AI )
7. U.S. blocks Palestinian request for full UN membership: (tags:USA Palestine nationality UnitedNations )
8. Sleeping flushes junk out of the brain: (tags:sleep brain )
9. The Scale of the Universe (zoom in from the largest objects to the smallest): (tags:universe size visualisation )
10. Sweden passes law lowering age to change legal gender from 18 to 16 and greatly simplifying the process: (tags:LGBT transgender Sweden GoodNews )

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Interesting Links for 02-03-2024

1. Edinburgh parking: New permits for carers to be introduced in Capital: (tags:Edinburgh driving )
2. CNN leak shows internal distress about double standards on Israel coverage: (tags:Israel cnn journalism Palestine bias )
3. As banks buy up bitcoins, who else are the 'Bitcoin whales'?: (tags:bitcoin investment banks )
4. Waymo Will Bring Autonomous Taxis to Los Angeles—Its Biggest Challenge Yet: (tags:automation cars taxi USA )
5. Rock star: I've spent 30 years making a Scotland map from pebbles: (tags:rocks geology scotland )
6. Who *doesn't* want Tenacious D covering Britney Spears?: (tags:music video cover BritneySpears )
7. On the genetic basis of tail-loss evolution in humans and apes: (tags:genetics humans evolution )
8. Facebook, Instagram, X and Telegram fail to remove posts selling date rape drugs: (tags:drugs rape Facebook twitter OhForFucksSake )

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Interesting Links for 07-12-2023

1. The internet helps solve an X-Files question that fans have been wondering about for 25 years: (tags:x-files music Twitter )
2. Why are movies full of CGI lying about it?: (tags:cgi movies fraud )
3. Incidence and burden of long COVID in Africa - the rates are *staggering*: (tags:Africa Pandemic Doom )
4. Building end-to-end security for Facebook Messenger: (tags:Facebook communication encryption )
5. No, having a cat doesn't increase your risk of developing schizophrenia. Probably.: (tags:cats schizophrenia ToxoplasmaGondii )
6. Services across England now lag far behind East Germany, as experts call for 'universal basic infrastructure' in UK: (tags:uk germany OhForFucksSake infrastructure austerity )
7. Commuting longer than 30 minutes os associated with depression: (tags:travel work depression mentalhealth )
8. Can the new Rwanda bill work and what could stop it?: (tags:law immigration uk rights echr )