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Interesting Links for 14-04-2026
Apr. 14th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. How much co2 does training AI models produce?
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- 2. Consuming artificial sweeteners may raise diabetes risk for your children and grandchildren by modifying gene expression (in mice)
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- 3. Iconic Edinburgh city centre toy shop "Wonderland Models" set to close after plans to turn shop into two restaurants approved
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- 4. Birds do not, in fact, hit wind turbines
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- 5. 'Bloodborne' Video Game Getting R-Rated Animated Movie Adaptation
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Interesting Links for 17-03-2026
Mar. 17th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. "Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don't rewrite an Iran missile story"
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- 2. Subnautica 2 Publisher Followed ChatGPT's Advice On How To Break The Law
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- 3. Nvidia's Next-Gen Photo-Realistic Lighting looks, frankly, amazing
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- 4. Regression, Not Progress: A Response to World Athletics' Return to Sex Testing
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- 5. Have some simple but inspiring images about growth through making mistakes
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- 6. Almost 25 years ago, a war game exercise had an Iran-stand in use asymmetric warfare to obliterate a US military force. So they re-ran it to force a US victory.
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Interesting Links for 14-03-2026
Mar. 14th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. This 18-year-old Afghan girl had offers from York and Reading - thanks to Shabana Mahmood, she will now never escape the Taliban
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- 2. AI toys for children misread emotions and respond inappropriately
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- 3. PEGI to give 16 age rating to games with loot boxes (amongst several other changes)
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- 4. Have two people being *ridiculously* good at a Dance Pad game
Streamed live at: https://www.twitch.tv/tomatoniumWorld 1st PG on Sarabande CoopP1: ElijahTSP2: Tomatonium
(tags:games dancing video viamybrothermike )- 5. New NHS England Review Excluded 97% Of All Trans Studies To Say Care Doesn't Work
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- 6. Tracing the lobbying behind age verification laws
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Interesting Links for 11-03-2026
Mar. 11th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. The neurons playing Doom are actually testing a theory of intelligence
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- 2. Stay Classy (a history of the awfulness of Prince Andrew)
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- 3. How good are you at spotting colour differences? (I scored 0.006 - see if you can get yours lower)
- What was particularly interesting was that on some of them I had to let my eyes "settle". They'd see a wall of colour, get overloaded, and then after about 10 seconds I'd easily see the line.
Oh, and I'm much better with shades of green than with shades of blue.
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Interesting Links for 18-02-2026
Feb. 18th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. U.K. government covered up dramatic spike in trans youth suicides
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- 2. WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out
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- 3. Ancient bacteria found frozen in cave resistant to 10 types of antibiotics
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- 4. Fake law: Barrister suing Dan Neidle relied on cases from ChatGPT
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- 5. The association between academic pressure and adolescent depressive symptoms and self-harm
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- 6. Using Origami to Imagine Emergency Shelters That Are Sturdy, Cost-Efficient and Easy to Deploy
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- 7. Amazon are cracking down on erotica
- (tags:erotica publishing Amazon OhForFucksSake )
- 8. How "Remote Assistance" works with Waymo's autonomous taxis.
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- 9. Inside Horden, the County Durham town failed by politics (if you were wondering why people are turning to Reform)
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- 10. New Silent Hill game inspired by tiny fishing village in Fife
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Interesting Links for 16-02-2026
Feb. 16th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Good Omens Season 3 Release Date Confirmed By Prime Video To Close Out Hit Show
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- 2. On the immorality of bad jokes
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- 3. I don't understand why people are using the internet less
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- 4. In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud
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- 5. Shingles Vaccine Linked to Slower Biological Aging
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- 6. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy stage show - a review
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- 7. What Exact Products Do Games Sell, Two Case Studies
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- 8. A brief history of "Mysterioso Pizzicato" - one of the most famous pieces of music you may not have thought about.
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Interesting Links for 02-02-2026
Feb. 2nd, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Vitamin D cuts heart attack risk by 52%. Why?
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- 2. Democrats flip Texas state Senate seat in shock upset
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- 3. Evidence beats ideology: What Hampstead Ponds tells us about trans inclusion
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- 4. Who Goes Nazi? (A newspaper article from 1941)
- (tags:nazis history viaKenny )
- 5. Why was the Puppet Masters movie so bad?
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- 6. I have no mouth and I must scream at Black people: Scott Adams, 1957-2026
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- 7. Following the link about a "running a bookshop" holiday, I was recommended the game "Tiny Bookshop"
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- 8. A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words! |
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- 9. Did people drink water in the Middle Ages?
- One of the oddest myths about the Middle Ages is that people did not drink water.
(tags:water history ) - 10. Inside the Salford secondary school where every pupil gets a job when they leave (because they're properly supported)
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Interesting Links for 27-01-2026
Jan. 27th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. The behavioral cost of personalized pricing
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- 2. Television is 100 years old today
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- 3. More Brits now watch YouTube than the BBC
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- 4. Elden Ring! Vs! Nietzsche!
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- 5. A judge has ruled that RuneScape gold pieces are real property, which is bad news for the ex-dev accused of stealing 705 billion of them
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- 6. The mountain that weighed the Earth
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- 7. Nobody Likes Ice (as told by meteorologists)
- (tags:usa politics fascism video funny viaKalimac weather ice )
- 8. How they fix potholes in Cambridgeshire
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Interesting Links for 20-01-2026
Jan. 20th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Emergency services called after explosion at Rockstar North offices
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- 2. This database tracks legal decisions in cases where generative AI produced incorrect information
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- 3. Time spent on gaming and social media not to blame for teen mental health issues
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- 4. What Have Unions Done For Us?
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Interesting Links for 25-12-2025
Dec. 25th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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- 2. There's no such thing as a fake feather
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- 3. Dutch Tesla Fleet Goes Bankrupt After Betting on Musk's Self-Driving Promises
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- 4. Super Mario Bros. and Yoshi Games' Affordance of Childlike Wonder and Reduced Burnout Risk in Young Adults
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- 5. Why Britain doesn't have enough dentists
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Interesting Links for 20-12-2025
Dec. 20th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The British Medical Association comes out for trans rights
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- 2. Transphobe Allison Bailey loses her case against Stonewall - again
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- 3. Fairytale of New York but all the lyrics are 'it was christmas eve babe'
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- 4. Merry Skealmas everybody!
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Interesting Links for 02-12-2025
Dec. 2nd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Cattle tuberculosis; badgers finally in the clear
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- 2. After 40 years of adventure games, Ron Gilbert pivots to outrunning Death
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- 3. There are many more weight-loss drugs coming.
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- 4. Tales From The Multiverse (An animated short film by Tumblehead)
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- 5. "We built a database of 290,000 English medieval soldiers - here's what it reveals"
- (tags:war military history viaZornhau )
- 6. Large surge in Scottish flu cases as new strain takes hold
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- 7. Sleeping Beauty Vs the Planet of the Insomniacs
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- 8. The People Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI
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Interesting Links for 28-11-2025
Nov. 28th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Two-thirds of Scots support independent pupil opt-out for religious observance
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- 2. Valve block Steam game with queer art in Russia after state censor attacks it for "promoting non-traditional sexualities"
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- 3. How the UK's property taxes compare to other countries
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- 4. Tick bites can cause red meat allergy
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- 5. Tech firms battle for undersea dominance with submarine drones
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- 6. 250MWh 'Sand Battery' to start construction in Finland, for both heating and ancillary services
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- 7. Keir Starmer's shock at homophobia is absurd and ignorant
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Interesting Links for 26-11-2025
Nov. 26th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. How Ferrari's Formula One Pit Stop Team saved the lives of thousands of children
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- 2. EU's Top Court landmark judgment: Member States Must Recognise Same-Sex Marriages from Other EU Countries
- (tags:Europe LGBT marriage GoodNews law )
- 3. Suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%
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- 4. Justice secretary wants most jury trials scrapped
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- 5. Lammy Furiously Backed Campaign for 'Vital' Jury Trials 'To Prevent Bias and Ensure Justice' - before deciding to get rid of them
- (tags:law UK labour hypocrisy )
- 6. Concept Art for Characters That Ended Up as Blonde White Women
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- 7. BBC accused of censoring Trump line from historian's lecture
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Interesting Links for 24-11-2025
Nov. 24th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Russia Today and the Fremen Mirage
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- 2. Thorium-uranium Conversion Makes Breakthrough
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- 3. Dance teacher Melissa Revell wins payout after yoga course triggers emotional breakdown
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- 4. Valve Issues Black Ops 7 Refund Over Undisclosed AI Materials
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- 5. Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
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- 6. The voice of the New York subway is now transgender
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- 7. How top level mathematicians are using AI
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- 8. Disney loses the rights to Roger Rabbit characters, as they revert to original author of novel
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- 9. Leftist and Moderate Democrats Are Trying to Be More Alike
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- 10. College Students Furious When Their Course Is Taught by AI Instead of a Professor
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Interesting Links for 21-11-2025
Nov. 21st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. 2% of people are just bastards
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- 2. Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source
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- 3. Women Keep Ruining the Workplace!!
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- 4. "We Didn't Start The Fire" The Silmarillion Edition
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Interesting Links for 18-11-2025
Nov. 18th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. There has to be a better way to make titanium
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- 2. Reselling tickets above face value set to be banned by UK government
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- 3. Legendary game designer, programmer, Space Invaders champion, and LGBTQ trailblazer Rebecca Heineman has died
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Interesting Links for 29-10-2025
Oct. 29th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Labour Deputy Lucy Powell says EHRC's single-sex spaces draft is 'not right'
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- 2. Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows
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- 3. A satellite runs Doom from orbit, using Ubuntu on Arm
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