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Interesting Links for 04-05-2023

1. Edinburgh Council has a critical shortage of staff: (tags:edinburgh work doom )
2. Who do LGBTQ people vote for in the next UK general election: (tags:lgbt uk politics )
3. AI-generated beer commercial contains joyful monstrosities, goes viral: (tags:alcohol advertising ai weird )
4. Apple, Google partner on an industry specification to address unwanted tracking: (tags:apple google tracking surveillance )
5. Mozilla acquires review-checking, scammer-spotting service Fakespot for Firefox: (tags:firefox fraud )
6. FBI former agent arrested over Jan. 6 (more than 1,000 people arrested so far): (tags:fbi usa politics crime )
7. it's a(door)able - a one-minute minigame.: (tags:love games )
8. The Internet Isn't Meant To Be So Small: (tags:web internet socialmedia )
9. The most draconian assault on free speech in living memory is now UK law: (tags:uk law freespeech protests )
10. Port of Aberdeen welcomes UK government funding for world's first liquid hydrogen autonomous vessel project: (tags:automation shipping scotland hydrogen viaJane )
11. The web's most important decision: (tags:internet web history computers opensource )

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Interesting Links for 13-01-2022

Covid loses almost all its ability to infect after 20 minutes.: (tags:pandemic virus )
Lorries stuck at checkpoints for four days due to terrible new Brexit red tape: (tags:uk europe trade )
Having just finished re-reading Sandman I enjoyed this person documenting their re-read.: (tags:sandman comics neilgaiman )
Using American spellings is cheating, Wordle told: (tags:language words spelling usa uk satire )
Atomic mushroom clouds are big. Really big. You might think it's a long way up Mount Everest, but that's peanuts compared to an atomic mushroom cloud: (tags:size nuclearweapons visualisation viaSwampers )
Firefox bug is causing it to hang. Here's the solution: (tags:Firefox bug viaSwampers )
How a livestreamed roleplaying game's bid to make an animated version became the biggest kickstarter campaign ever, and got a Prime deal out of it.: (tags:tv animation roleplaying amazon streaming )
Satisfying simulations of bouncing balls obeying physical laws; for a fleeting moment during the simulation, the balls pass through a beautiful regular pattern: (tags:physics simulation maths video )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4005428.html

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Interesting Links for 24-02-2021

The bitcoin blockchain is helping keep a botnet from being taken down: (tags:bitcoin malware )
Firefox enables Total Cookie Protection to stop you being tracked: (tags:Firefox privacy )
Chip shortage may threaten PlayStation 5 supplies at Christmas: (tags:PlayStation CPU )
Robot lumberjacks are terrifyingly impressive: (tags:robots trees video )
It is staggeringly hard for small businesses to export to the EU: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1364137289165791232.html
(tags:trade UK europe Doom )
Why can't we unlock now the most vulnerable are vaccinated?: (tags:pandemic vaccination )
Why the high court was right to deny standing to members of parliament to bring public law claims: (tags:law UK )
Nursing home deaths spike after private equity acquisitions: (tags:death age care OhForFucksSake viaCharlesStross )
Learning to program increases your creativity, maths, and ability to reason: (tags:thinking programming education )
50 terrible terrible sets of stairs: (tags:housing stairs design fail )
Scientists create new class of Turing patterns in colonies of E. coli: (tags:patterns biology AlanTuring )
Edinburgh councillors back call for buffer zones to protect women from abortion clinic protesters: (tags:abortion protest Edinburgh GoodNews Scotland )
Slug filmed descending from vertical thread of slime in never seen before behaviour: (tags:animals )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3873253.html

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Interesting Links for 13-03-2020

UK Influenza Pandemic Preparedness Strategy: (tags:disease UK government )
Boris Johnson's hero is the mayor in Jaws who keeps the beach open while a shark eats the citizens: (tags:BorisJohnson politics death sharks )
The NHS is doing a really really shit job of testing people for coronavirus: (tags:disease NHS OhForFucksSake epicfail )
How KaiOS Is Becoming the 3rd Major Mobile OS (from 2018, but they just announced a deal with Mozilla to improve the OS further): (tags:phones mozilla firefox )
The Contagion screenwriter on watching his movie become reality. (It's an excellent movie, I recommend it): (tags:movies disease reality )
Star Trek: The Conference Call: (tags:StarTrek technology communication fail funny )
Singapore was ready for COVID-19—other countries, take note: (tags:disease singapore )
Mass events ban in Scotland. Schools to remain open: (tags:schools disease Scotland )
FactCheck: why hasn't Britain closed its schools?: (tags:UK disease school )
How to prepare the world for after the apocalypse: (tags:games apocalypse funny )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3833886.html

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Interesting Links for 23-10-2019

London Ultra Low Emission Zone cuts toxic air pollution by a third: (tags:London pollution GoodNews )
The replies to this are *perfect*: (tags:society gender funny )
UK to use Â£1bn meant for green energy to support fracking in Argentina: (tags:uk fracking argentina OhForFucksSake )
How fast fashion hurts the planet through pollution and waste: (tags:fashion clothing waste plastic environment )
PM to pull Brexit bill if timetable not approved: (tags:UK Europe elections )
Simple "Hypocrisy Intervention" Reduces Collective Blaming Of Muslims For Extremism, With Long-Lasting Effects: (tags:psychology bigotry islam )
Dramatically reduced power usage in Firefox 70 on macOS: (tags:Apple Firefox web browser )
Nokia, the hand held console, and Goatse: (tags:design console goatse nokia )
The Eldritch One, Jolene: (tags:Cthulhu music tumblr )
Dazzling Night Sky When the Milky Way Collides with Andromeda in 4B Years: (tags:space thefuture )
Watch amazing drone footage of the Edinburgh St James Centre as it reaches 'one year to go' milestone: (tags:Edinburgh construction architecture video drone )
Sandy Hook father to receive $450,000 from conspiracy theorist: (tags:conspiracy guns murder children )
Blind auditions and gender discrimination: (tags:bias interview research statistics music )
Claim Brexit is about concealing offshore accounts is baseless: (tags:UK Europe tax )
Richard Burgon says Labour will back general election before Christmas if EU grants Brexit delay: (tags:elections uk europe labour )
Decriminalisation: Parliament's health committee finally grasps the need for drug reform: Of course nothing will be done
(tags:drugs UK politics )
Original Irn Bru to relaunch in stores across Scotland: (tags:drink Scotland )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3805577.html

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Interesting Links for 09-07-2019

MT-DNN Achieves Human Performance in General Language Understanding Benchmark: (tags:language ai )
For 40 Years, Crashing Trains Was One of America's Favorite Pastimes: (tags:history trains usa )
Young women in academia - this clothing will guarantee you respect!: (tags:clothing women funny )
'Babylon 5' is great, so why does it look so bad?: (tags:TV cgi OhForFucksSake money )
NHS waiting lists soar as doctors stop working overtime in pension row: (tags:tax pensions doctors nhs )
AI pilot 'sees' runway and lands automatically: (tags:airplanes ai )
"I ran a bookies for 12 years - they deserve no sympathy for these store closures": (tags:gambling UK business )
Earth's eighth persistent lava lake found on remote sub-Antarctic island: (tags:geology lava )
Bitcoin mining on an Apollo Guidance Computer: (tags:bitcoin computers space history NASA )
If you're not careful then your children will spend hundreds of pounds gambling for football players: (tags:gambling children games football )
Stricken Russian Nuke Sub Crew Prevented 'Planetary Catastrophe': (tags:nuclearpower submarine ocean OhForFucksSake firefox )
Labour's message to Remainers: "Don't vote for us": (tags:Labour UK europe )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3804616.html

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Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3770622.html

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Interesting Links for 05-03-2019

Keith Flint death: Prodigy front man dies aged 49: (tags:music UK death )
The World Wide Fund for Nature Funds Guards Who Have Tortured And Killed People: (tags:nature charity OhForFucksSake )
Ministers halt discussion of tax transparency bill - because it was going to impose transparency on Jersey, Guernsey, and the Isle of Man: (tags:tax uk )
Tobacco giants say getting rid of packaging pictures of diseased organs will cost them millions after Brexit: (tags:uk europe cigarettes viaSwampers )
This is the best memorial to Keith Flint.: (tags:childbirth music death )
Virgin Atlantic removes make-up requirement from cabin crew: (tags:airlines makeup work women GoodNews )
UK government doesn't understand how EU works, says its former ambassador to Brussels: (tags:europe uk doom )
Artists Become Famous through Their Friends, Not the Originality of Their Work: (tags:art Fame socialnetworking )
Incredible shift in immigration attitudes in the UK: 64% were negative in 2011, now down to 26%.: (tags:immigration polls uk )
UK patient free of HIV after stem cell treatment: (tags:aids GoodNews stem_cells )
The BBC is running a positive transgender story. I do hope this is part of a change in the awful media approach that's been going on: (tags:lgbt transgender bbc uk )
Mozilla fears DarkMatter misuse of browser certificates for hacking: (tags:security browser firefox )
Star Wars, edited into five minutes. (been making the rounds this week, well worth a look): (tags:StarWars video )
Winter - a touching poem. Somewhat about poo.: (tags:faeces poetry relationships )
Plans for Edinburgh's biggest new park in over a century revealed: (tags:edinburgh nature park )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3689652.html

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Interesting Links for 25-05-2018

Counteracting US trade sanctions on Iran: the EU Blocking Regulation: (tags: Europe usa Iran trade )
Ulster Bank to put vertical bank notes into circulation: (tags: NorthernIreland money design )
Morgan Freeman accused of inappropriate behavior, harassment: (tags: MorganFreeman OhForFucksSake abuse )
Firefox addon to bypass paywalls: (tags: firefox newspapers )
Full Brexit set to take seven years as Theresa May seeks extra transition period: (tags: UK europe thefuture )
Pennsylvania school enforces smiling, while bullying gets ignored: (tags: OhForFucksSake usa school )
To save the world, archeology must be banned: (tags: archeology scifi funny apocalypse )
GDPR Hall of Shame: (tags: privacy )
Analogue phones, 1876 to 2025, RIP: Although still a lot of work to do.
(tags: phones )
Apple has rejected iOS version of Steam Link app, Valve says: (tags: Apple valve steam games )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3667737.html

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Interesting Links for 13-03-2018

Effortless French: Mt. Gox and Bitcoin’s roller coaster ride: (tags: bitcoin fraud documentary )
Church of England says schools 'should promote celibacy', can fuck right off: (tags: schools sex ChurchOfEngland OhForFucksSake )
Marijuana seems to help with blood sugar control: (tags: insulin diabetes marijuana )
Children with higher working memory are more inclined to finger count (and less able kids should be encouraged to do the same): (tags: children numbers memory )
Married couple in China discover they appeared in same photograph as teenagers: (tags: china photo viaSwampers )
Study Identifies 4 Types Of Facebook Users. (I'm sometimes a town crier, but a relationship builder to a much smaller group of people): (tags: facebook personality viaSwampers )
Carbon Taxes Are Coming, and We Have Colleges to Thank: (tags: co2 globalwarming university tax usa )
National Geographic: For Decades, Our Coverage Was Racist. To Rise Above Our Past, We Must Acknowledge It: (tags: racism usa media history )
Girls' guide to what a 'normal' vulva looks like - so that less of them want plastic surgery: (tags: genitals women )
Husband of anti-cannabis UK Drugs Minister grows cannabis: (tags: conservatives marijuana OhForFucksSake )
Can pursuing happiness make you unhappy?: (tags: happiness psychology )
University vice-chancellors are paid far more than public sector peers: (tags: pay academia )
The truth about Somali Pirates: (tags: somalia pirates )
Lead exposure linked to 412,000 premature deaths in US each year: (tags: lead death usa )
A Doctor Who fan has not only made a police box, but a *whole control room* too. And they're linked!: (tags: drwho awesome )
Mozilla working on in-page popup blocker for Firefox: (tags: firefox advertising )
Across Myanmar, Denial of Ethnic Cleansing and Loathing of Rohingya: A couple of hours outside Yangon, the country’s largest city, U Aye Swe, an administrator for Sin Ma Kaw village, said he was proud to oversee one of Myanmar’s "Muslim-free" villages, which bar Muslims from spending the night, among other restrictions. "Kalar are not welcome here because they are violent and they multiply like crazy, with so many wives and children," he said. Mr. Aye Swe admitted he had never met a Muslim before, adding, "I have to thank Facebook because it is giving me the true information in Myanmar."
(tags: bigotry facebook islam genocide )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3634495.html

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Interesting Links for 15-11-2017

How One Woman's Digital Life Was Weaponized Against Her: (tags: abuse Technology OhForFucksSake )
The ice ceiling that held women back from Antarctic exploration: (tags: antarctic women history )
A New Study of Economics as a Science Says It's Still Dismal: (tags: research fail economics )
Firefox 57 gets a Preference to open bookmarks in a new tab: (tags: firefox )
Star Wars: Battlefront II is, basically, Pay-To-Win: (tags: games StarWars OhForFucksSake )
The Words Men and Women Use When They Write About Love: (tags: gender writing love )
Edinburgh needs 3,000 new homes a year (for the next twenty years): (tags: housing edinburgh scotland )
Nigel Farage forced to retract remarks about anti-fascist charity Hope Not Hate after losing £100k legal battle: (tags: law UK UKIP )
Estate agent says millennials buy too many sandwiches: (tags: housing OhForFucksSake )
Germany Is Burning Too Much Coal: Interesting news on cap & trade too
(tags: Germany coal globalwarming )
What Did 17th Century Food Taste Like?: (tags: food history )
Deliveroo claims victory in self-employment case: (tags: law jobs uk )
Down with the negation sign!: (tags: mathematics )
Mutant gene found in Amish people that makes them live 10 years longer: (tags: age death genetics )
Australians back marriage equality in non-binding vote: (tags: lgbt australia marriage )
Zimbabwe's Military in Apparent Takeover, Says It Has Custody of President: (tags: zimbabwe )
Grading foxes: (tags: fox cute )
Horses: dragons in disguise?: (tags: horses dragons )
If you enjoy the tearing apart of terrible vampire fiction...: (tags: vampires fiction awful )
Explaining the proportions on Neolithic statues of women: (tags: archaeology art women )
Former British MI6 spy reveals how to remember information without writing it down: (tags: memory spying )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3624276.html

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Interesting Links for 11-10-2017

Heads-up, ceos: Corporate social responsibility may get you fired: (tags: society work success )
The Absurdly Underestimated Dangers of CSV Injection: (tags: security data google microsoft )
Frankie Muniz doesn't remember starring on 'Malcolm in the Middle': (tags: tv memory brain )
When did it become unacceptable for celebrities to rape people? and is political correctness to blame?: (tags: rape society celebrity )
The whole web at maximum FPS: How WebRender gets rid of jank: (tags: Firefox graphics computers browser )
The Rock Test: A Hack for Men Who Don’t Want To Be Accused of Sexual Harassment: (tags: assault harassment advice men satire )
The Lush Billion-Tree Spectacle of China's Great Green Wall: (tags: China desert trees )
MPs shocked to discover how many jobs work: (tags: work uk )
A list of myths about the European Union: (tags: Europe myths )
US Drug ads gloss over risks with a mind trick—that’s backed by the FDA: (tags: drugs safety usa advertising )
Viking Age script deciphered – is ancient Arabic, and mentions ‘Allah’ and ‘Ali’: (tags: islam viking history )
Huge effect of ethnicity on life chances revealed in official UK figures: (tags: uk ethnicity society work success )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3616870.html

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Interesting Links for 16-09-2017

Why has Donald Trump's behaviour changed?: tl;dr his media handlers have changed to people who aren't as horrific racists as before.
(tags: politics USA )
Swedish politician Patrik Liljeglod raped for his beliefs: (tags: rape politics sweden OhForFucksSake )
Labour MSPs calling for 'groundwork' on SNP-Labour deal: It would be nice to see them cooperating against the Conservatives
(tags: politics scotland snp labour )
Better-off areas asked to build up to 40% more homes: Which I'm generally in favour of. If that's where people are living then that's where we should be building homes.
(tags: housing uk )
Extreme Parenting For The One Percent: (tags: parenting autism children transparentsociety )
Put your multiple personalities in Firefox Multi-Account Containers: (tags: firefox )
Build, gather, brawl, repeat: The history of real-time strategy games: (tags: games history rts )
New Poll Finds Majority Oppose White Supremacists—Even While Sharing White Supremacist Views: (tags: USA poll racism )
Writing off student debt cheaper than claimed, says IFS: (tags: student debt uk )
Public opinion in the UK is changing on immigration: (tags: immigration UK polls )
Divinity: Original Sin 2 verdict – face-robbing, limb-chomping, heart-breaking: Adored the first one. Really must make time for this.
(tags: games review )
Christians in U.S. Military ‘Serve Satan’ If They Tolerate Other Religions, Air Force Chaplain Says: (tags: religion usa military OhForFucksSake )
America's Unregulated Sex Toy Problem: (tags: usa sextoys safety )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3610117.html

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Interesting Links for 23-08-2017

Sadly many people today, often in without realizing it, endorse a key tenet of Hitler's social project: the theory of "degenerate art".: (tags: art nazis criticism )
Your kids will see internet porn. Deal with it: (tags: porn children society )
The Web’s Most Toxic Trolls Live in … Vermont?: (tags: troll usa maps )
There is no such thing as the true self, but it’s still a useful psychological concept: (tags: identity psychology )
Sperm Count in Western Men Has Dropped Over 50 Percent Since 1973: (tags: reproduction men )
Home Office used charity data map to deport rough sleepers: (tags: UK homelessness immigration )
Yoga and meditation improve mind-body health and stress resilience: (tags: stress meditation )
14 per cent of the variance in social skills comes from two genes: (tags: genetics social sociability )
Greetings from Liverpool, where one of the world's greatest ever bands have sort of reformed: (tags: music klf )
"I've got questions about the Rainbow Cinematic Universe": (tags: children tv funny )
People worry far too much about the Eclipse: (tags: sun eyes )
"My Personal Feminism": (tags: feminism )
The great free speech online debate: (tags: freespeech )
Noel Edmonds new TV show is "the worst idea in the world, stretched out for all eternity": (tags: tv review )
Game of Thrones theory: what does the Night King really want?: (tags: gameofthrones )
Unable to get a domain, racist Daily Stormer retreats to the Dark Web: (tags: web censorship nazis )
Driver’s license facial recognition tech leads to 4,000 New York arrests: (tags: crime faces identity usa )
Branch Prediction - how computer processors guess what they're going to do next: (tags: processor computer Technology )
Inside a super fast CSS engine: (tags: firefox web performance )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3606513.html

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Interesting Links for 11-08-2017

Bank of England to keep animal fat in banknotes despite complaints: (tags: animals money uk )
Nepal criminalises banishing menstruating women to huts (When will Britain follow suit?): But what if they attract bears? Or wolves? Will nobody think of the children?
(tags: menstruation nepal )
I've finally worked out what kind of goth I am! (Bottom of the post): (tags: goth dogs )
Polish villagers hold Jewish wedding without Jews: (tags: Jews history Poland )
The only way to understand the Kremlin is to understand their paranoia: (tags: russia politics history )
Crafting Plausible Maps: (tags: maps advice )
Why do stars like Adele keep losing their voice? (blame Wagner): (tags: music singing health )
Saudi Arabia is to execute 14 young men for protesting for democracy: (tags: saudiarabia democracy death )
Calculating CSS Font-Size Is Unexpectedly Complex: (tags: web css firefox font )
Income gap between people from rich and poor backgrounds has almost doubled: (tags: inequality uk )
In a remote Irish town, a goat reigns supreme: (tags: Ireland festival Goats )
Salt shaker *still* not internet enabled? Now's your chance!: BUY ONE! BUY FIVE! BUY FIVE FOR EACH OF YOUR FRIENDS!
(tags: food technology internet OhForFucksSake )