Entries tagged with freespeech

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Interesting Links for 02-05-2025

1. The Summerisle Arcana - Wicker Man Inspired Tarot: (tags:tarot horror movies )
2. Seattle Worldcon science fiction convention vets panelists with ChatGPT: (tags:ai conventions scifi OhForFucksSake )
3. No One Knows What's Inside the Smallpox Vaccine: (tags:disease history vaccines cows horses )
4. The White House's Plan For Reversing The Declining Birth Rate: (tags:satire children usa politics )
5. For Women Scotland: a legal critique of the recent judgment on transgender rights: (tags:LGBT transgender rights law UK )
6. US abandons $350bn debt claim in Ukraine minerals deal - but Trump hasn't noticed: (tags:usa ukraine war trade )
7. AI extends the career of a porn actress. Also Jack Nicklaus, Snoop Dog, and KISS: (tags:ai celebrity business )
8. 100 Men vs. 1 Gorilla: Primatologists Explain Who Would Win: (tags:gorillas violence funny internet ViaDrCross )
9. How the UK Establishment Crushed Trans Rights: (tags:LGBT transgender guardian DailyMail journalism UK politics bigotry )
10. How would zonal energy pricing work? (And why it would lower *everyone'ss* prices): (tags:electricity uk economics )
11. Rector wins appeal over St Andrews University Gaza row: (tags:Scotland Israel gaza Palestine genocide university StAndrews freespeech )
12. Waymo automated taxies make the roads safer for bikes and pedestrians: (tags:driving automation safety )
13. I finally understand why all those Soulslike bosses hated me so much, thanks to The Dark Queen of Mortholme, which pits you up against some plucky upstart who just keeps coming back: (tags:games review )
14. Don't watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits: (tags:headline dragons law EpicWTF )
15. Do any of you like puzzles?: (tags:puzzles )

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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 08-03-2023

1. Britons waiting twice as long for sickness benefits under Tories: (tags:uk Conservatives disability austerity OhForFucksSake )
2. Children of same-sex couples fare as well as or better than heterosexual ones: (tags:lgbt parenting )
3. We don't have a blasphemy law, but we have a system that punishes it: (tags:blasphemy uk freespeech police )
4. How the UN's ocean treaty, decades in the making, will transform the way we protect the seas: (tags:UnitedNations ocean nature GoodNews )
5. Scientists decode why people are scared of clowns: (tags:phobia fear humans faces )
6. Are modern superhero comics missing the ordinary people?: (tags:comics writing superheroes )
7. I suspect the court case over this will cost Elon Musk a small fortune: (tags:ElonMusk disability OhForFucksSake )
8. Labour retreats from pledge to nationalise energy, water and mail if it wins next general election: (tags:labour privatisation politics UK OhForFucksSake )
9. Edinburgh Council backs bid to ban vehicles from parts of Leith: (tags:Edinburgh cars transport )

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Interesting Links for 14-10-2022

1. When the police are injured at Notting Hill Carnival how did it happen?: (tags:police festival assault )
2. Oblivion Mod Lets Players Order A Pizza Straight From the Game: (tags:pizza games )
3. Why the Chancellor of Exchequer should read the book he wrote: (tags:UK politics history conservatives epicfail )
4. "Free speech" networks and anti-semitism: (tags:freespeech bigotry Jews )
5. What's expected of us (a short story about free will and time travel): (tags:timetravel FreeWill short_story scifi )
6. Scientists identify gene associated with strong immune response to Covid jabs (30% of UK people have it): (tags:pandemic vaccination genetics )
7. A dish of neurons may have taught itself to play Pong (badly): (tags:neuroscience games brain )
8. Having a baby? Sorry, your social life is over for the next 15 years (I'm very glad that I was 45 when it happened, and didn't mind too much): (tags:babies funny life )

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Interesting Links for 03-09-2022

1. Dreamwidth are moving away from Cloudflare, after Cloudflare refused to stop supporting sites that threaten people's physical safety: (tags:dreamwidth freespeech GoodNews abuse )
2. What would it be like for you if your life had a sports commentator?: (tags:sports narrative life )
3. Everywhere, no matter how boring it looks, has a history: (tags:edinburgh history scotland viaSwampers )
4. Russian oil energy price cap agreed by G7: (tags:russia oil )
5. Diablo Immortal whales face massive orb debt after third-party refunds (I find all of this hilarious, in-between wishing I didn't know what it meant): (tags:viaSwampers games diablo fraud )
6. The UK welfare system is cruel, disgusting, and murderous: (tags:UK welfare murder OhForFucksSake conservatives )
7. Nuclear explosions in the style of various artists: (tags:nuclearweapons art ai viaPatrickHadfield )
8. Modern cars are much safer than old ones: (tags:safety cars )
9. AI is getting better at generating porn.: (tags:porn ai )
10. Worker says her job would rather replace her with 6 people than give her a raise,: (tags:work OhForFucksSake )
11. Entrance to forgotten square revealed by huge fire in Edinburgh: (tags:history Edinburgh architecture viaPatrickHadfield )
12. Valve bars Steam developer who posted anti-trans rant in patch notes: (tags:games bigotry LGBT valve Steam transgender )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4140579.html

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Interesting Links for 24-01-2022

How does it feel when someone uses your life as a basis for fiction?: (tags:writing relationships life viaSwampers )
The Price Cap is not responsible for the demise of UK energy companies - they were behaving riskily: (tags:electricity UK investment economics )
Endometriosis care in Scotland not meeting 'base level' - average diagnosis takes over 8 years: (tags:women healthcare Scotland OhForFucksSake )
No 10 officials admit holding back information from partygate inquiry after being frightened into silence: (tags:party conservatives bullying corruption UK Pandemic )
The funny thing all those demanding "free speech" have in common: (tags:freespeech bigotry libdem )
Shield badges for Scots to distance from Covid: (tags:Pandemic Scotland )
Is COVID's omicron variant the fastest spreading virus in history?: (tags:Pandemic speed )
Swordle: (tags:swords words comic funny games )
A fascinating bit of lore from behind the scenes of the Star Trek movies: (tags:StarTrek movies william_shatner )
What do Asian people *really* look like?: (tags:Asia humans art )
EU, US seek coordinated response to Russia over Ukraine crisis: (tags:Russia UK Ukraine USA war )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4056980.html

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Interesting Links for 20-02-2021

Monkeys having a diving competition: (tags:monkeys video water viaSwampers )
Why Uber lost their case, and why it's so important: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1362723609006006274.html
(tags:taxi apps work UK law )
Petition · Embra Cooncil: Pit Googly Eyes Oan The Jobby: (tags:petition funny Edinburgh hotel architecture viaSwampers )
Scientists have discovered how to break into people's dreams and leave them messages: (tags:dreams )
Mars becomes the 2nd planet that has more computers running Linux than Windows: (tags:computers Mars space Linux Windows )
How Antidepressants Work, at Last?: (tags:antidepressants psychology brain )
If you've ever wondered what it's like supporting ancient code in a big company...: (tags:software funny OhForFucksSake )
Pfizer vaccine can cope without ultra-cold storage for two weeks longer than we thought: (tags:vaccine temperature pandemic GoodNews )
There is nothing funny about the British army, at all: (tags:military UK video funny true )
Draw an iceberg and see how it will float.: (tags:iceberg water )
Being a female tech lead at Mailchimp: (tags:Jobs technology OhForFucksSake )
UK government cites US anti-LGBT hate group in free speech proposals: (tags:LGBT abortion freespeech OhForFucksSake )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3994131.html

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Interesting Links for 02-02-2021

With the SNP civil war kicking off I've just joined so I get a vote in whoever gets to run it next: (tags:politics Scotland SNP )
EU Says A Post-Brexit Shellfish Export Ban Is Indefinite, After Government Claimed It Was Only Temporary (thousands of tons of oysters with nowhere to go): (tags:seafood UK Europe trade )
Science! Confirms! The! Obvious!: Worth doing, in case you were wondering, because obviousness is neither universal nor necessarily correct
(tags:science CommonSense )
Evan Rachel Wood and Others Make Allegations of Abuse Against Marilyn Manson: (tags:abuse music )
Some potentially positive news on the Hate Speech bill front: (tags:freespeech hate law Scotland transgender LGBT )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3928921.html

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Interesting Links for 16-09-2020

How the British government sabotaged Birmingham: (tags:UK OhForFucksSake cities )
All Women's Aid & Rape Crisis services in Scotland are trans inclusive & have been for many years.: (tags:rape abuse LGBT transgender Scotland )
Coronavirus: Ebbsfleet Covid-19 test centre shut to become Brexit lorry park: (tags:UK Europe pandemic Doom )
The perils of a cross-disciplinary PhD: (tags:phd )
More than two-thirds of young Scots now back independence: (tags:Scotland independence polls )
The British Medical Association affirms trans and non-binary rights in healthcare (and that gender recognition should be by sworn statement): (tags:LGBT doctors UK transgender )
"An English Period Drama" (pretty much exactly what they look like to me): (tags:TV satire funny comedy video )
A curated list of TikToks.: (tags:video )
Fascism is Not an Idea to Be Debated, It's a Set of Actions to Fight: (tags:fascism freespeech debate )
Police Scotland criticised over leadership and diversity training: (tags:police Scotland )
Man using a snake 'as face covering' seen riding bus in Greater Manchester: (tags:Manchester snake transport pandemic )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3899756.html

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Interesting Links for 18-07-2020

The reactionary liberalism of Tim Farron: (tags:liberal freespeech politics libdem uk )
Almost one-third of Florida children tested are positive for the coronavirus: (tags:disease Florida OhForFucksSake )

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Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3863273.html

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Interesting Links for 05-02-2020

New government plans could see you jailed for life over propaganda: (tags:UK terrorism censorship propaganda crime )
Heartbeats and bunnies, how simple repeating patterns lead to chaos (and back again): (tags:mathematics video patterns )
'The Good Place,' 'BoJack Horseman,' and the Audacity of Committing to Decency: (tags:TV morality )
The EU has released a Q & A on the draft negotiating directives: (tags:Europe UK trade )
Brexit fuelling surge in support for Scottish independence, but work still to be done on currency and economics: (tags:UK Europe Scotland independence polls )
Children as young as 9 locked up by Indian police for speech violation: (tags:India police freespeech children )
Graham Linehan is compiling a horrifying database of conversion therapists willing to abuse young trans people: (tags:abuse LGBT transgender OhForFucksSake )
Symptomless coronavirus spreader had symptoms after all: (tags:disease )
I'd give this prosthetic three thumbs up: (tags:cyborg technology prostheses video )
'Happy Brexit Day' Norwich flat residents unite to show support: (tags:society GoodNews racism UK )
What is SAP? And how are they worth $163Bn?: (tags:business organisation software )
Cats! On! Statues!: (tags:cats statue )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3833430.html

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Interesting Links for 06-11-2018

Discovered a lovely word today: “apricity.”: (tags: language sun temperature )
Irish government says Dominic Raab’s Brexit backstop plan not worth the paper it's written on: (tags: uk europe ireland NorthernIreland doom )
Iceland recognises Palestinian state: (tags: iceland palestine israel )
The Conservative Party will break Theresa May at the worst possible moment: (tags: Conservatives doom )
I can't tell if Stacksort is the worst programming thing ever, or the funniest.: (tags: stackexchange funny programming )
Why women receive less CPR from bystanders: (tags: health women society OhForFucksSake )
Labour will vote against a customs union - unless it's permanent: I've completely lost track of whether there's enough votes for _anything_ right now. Frankly, I'm not sure there is.
(tags: labour politics europe uk )
Google’s AI creates its own inhuman encryption: (tags: encryption google ai )
Prejudice against women in power is greater than we think: (tags: sexism society )
Voters' preexisting opinions shift to align with political party positions: (tags: politics OhForFucksSake )
Llama “nanobodies” might grant universal flu protection: (tags: llama flu disease medicine )
Air pollution linked to autism: (tags: autism pollution china )
Categorising male authors: (tags: men authors funny satire )
Right-Wing Social-Networking site Gab comes back after a week offline. Users blame the Jews.: (tags: socialnetworking politics freespeech racism )
Sci-Fi Writer Greg Egan and Anonymous Math Whiz Advance Permutation Problem: (tags: mathematics )
This is how psychotherapy for depression changes the brain: (tags: brain counselling neuroscience )
Ten changes to help save the planet: (tags: globalwarming advice )