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1. Scotland's first electric HGV starts making trips: (tags:scotland transport electricity )
2. Photoshop's new "Generative Fill" feature is really impressive.: (tags:ai photoshop )
3. The science around babies and sleep is, frankly terrible. (And the article assumes you'll be doing sleep training at all): (tags:research babies sleep )
4. Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People: (tags:Intelligence ai society )
5. The cultural bias of "ultra-processed food": (tags:food society )
6. Edinburgh tram time-lapse shows route extension (opening today!): (tags:Edinburgh trams timelapse video )
7. UK government ignored that major drinks companies, retailers, and trade bodies, as well as the Environment Agency wanted glass to be included in the deposit return scheme.: (tags:uk recycling OhForFucksSake glass )
8. Your Reminder that "AI" Will Just Flat-Out Make Things Up: (tags:ai fraud )
9. Who wants to eat a giant isopod from the depths of the ocean?: (tags:animals food weird taiwan )

1. Dot Dot Dot - the finest review in the history of reviews (and a throwback to an earlier age of the internet): (tags:games review funny video )
2. The art school reject who became one of the world's top glass artists: (tags:art glass scotland )
3. The Bitter Lesson for AI - it's better to design general learning systems and wait for processing power to catch up than to try and simulate human approaches: (tags:ai history computers )
4. The sound of the dialup, pictured (For very old people, who remember when the internet had a sound): (tags:modem sound visualisation )
5. Why health-care services are in chaos everywhere: (tags:healthcare doom pandemic )
6. UK government blocks Scotland's gender reform bill in constitutional first: (tags:UK bigotry LGBT transgender Scotland OhForFucksSake conservatives )
7. Lasers used to guide lightning strikes to a safe target: (tags:lasers lightning technology cool )
8. Every so often I'm reminded that I'm really glad I don't have to date men: (tags:dating men wtf viaSwampers )
9. Toddlers inventing words is cute and funny: (tags:funny children language viaClare )
10. I'm sure that Apple used to at least *pretend* to do user friendly design: (tags:Apple ux epicfail OhForFucksSake )
11. What's the method that Westminster is using to block Scottish gender reform law?: (tags:Scotland UK law viaDanielDWilliam )
12. Amazon! Cancels! Clarkson!: (tags:TV Amazon )
13. Dreamwidth is updating its anti-spam approach - please ensure your email address is confirmed: (tags:dreamwidth spam email )
14. A raccoon tries to catch falling snow: (tags:raccoon snow video cute )
15. NHS will be 'no better off' under Labour than the Tories, say GPs amid backlash over Keir Starmer comments: (tags:nhs healthcare uk labour OhForFucksSake )
16. Lethal radiation from space played role in Earth's biggest mass extinction: (tags:radiation space extinction )
17. Netflix Has Created A Self-Fulfilling Cancelation Loop With Its New Shows: (tags:netflix doom business tv )

1. Switching to plant-based cheese can reduce carbon emissions by 50 per cent compared to the dairy version: (tags:dairy cheese co2 )
2. After millennia of agricultural expansion, the world has passed 'peak agricultural land': (tags:agriculture farming viaDanielDWilliam )
3. How a Glaswegian responds to a killer whale: (tags:Scotland water animals )
4. Biden's top Middle East adviser has a history of cosying up to autocrats: (tags:middle_east USA diplomacy OhForFucksSake )
5. The Telegraph doesn't pay its contributors: (tags:telegraph newspapers money UK OhForFucksSake )
6. Artist who made Nazi art turns out to be a Nazi: (tags:nazis art )
7. Don't Wordle - can you avoid winning?: (tags:language games )
8. Prince Rupert's Drop Exploding in Epoxy Resin at 456,522 fps: (tags:slowmotion video glass explosions )
9. The Tories gave Boris Johnson the power to call an election whenever he likes. Now they're worried he'll use it.: (tags:elections BorisJohnson conservatives )
10. After Xinjiang Revelations, Germany's Ties to China Are Under the Microscope: (tags:germany trade rights )
11. New rules ban many single-use plastics in Scotland: (tags:plastic environment scotland )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4078827.html

Major U.K. science funder to require grantees to make papers immediately free to all: (tags:science research publishing uk GoodNews )
Four officers who defended U.S. Capitol against attack have died by suicide: (tags:suicide USA police )
Xsolla fires 150 employees using big data and AI analysis, CEO's letter causes controversy. (and rightly so): (tags:work OhForFucksSake redundancy technology ai )
What did Margaret Thatcher have to say about climate change?: (tags:margaretthatcher conservatives globalwarming environment pollution )
'Tortured phrases' give away fabricated research papers (what are journals paid for again?): (tags:research publishing fraud translation ai OhForFucksSake )
Global Warming: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity': (tags:globalwarming doom )
Exams remain the best way to guarantee standards, says The Commission on School Reform: (tags:exams school scotland )
Nicaraguan liberals forcibly disbanded by Ortega regime: (tags:nicaragua democracy liberal )
Chinese scientists develop world's strongest glass that's as hard as diamond: (tags:glass china )
Lorry driver showing off his 1337 skills: (tags:tea driving impressive ViaDrCross video )
Vodafone to bring back roaming charges from January: (tags:uk europe phones )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4070998.html

Texas Governor Signs Law Banning Teachers From Talking About Racism: (tags:racism USA OhForFucksSake )
Doctor invents a hiccup-curing straw with a 90% success rate: (tags:hiccups )
The Caucasian's Guide to Celebrating Juneteenth: (tags:USA racism holidays )
Does Your Daughter Know It's OK To Be Angry?: (tags:women anger emotion patriarchy society )
Injection-Molded Glass Breakthrough Shatters Ceiling Of Work Methods: (tags:glass technology viaNancyLebov )
North Carolina tells retired engineer he can't talk about engineering: (tags:engineering USA regulation )
Brexit red tape stops Royal British Legion selling poppies in the EU online: (tags:Europe UK charity OhForFucksSake )
Brexit farmer faces the consequences of his own actions: (tags:UK Europe farming Doom video )
The efforts to make text-based AI less racist and terrible: (tags:racism bigotry ai )
Lecturer loses job in London over being a rabbi while also a woman: (tags:women judaism academia UK OhForFucksSake )
G7 summit was 'super spreading' event for Cornwall as cases rocket 2,450% after Johnson and Biden visit: (tags:pandemic OhForFucksSake )
Assisted dying bill to be lodged at Scottish Parliament: (tags:Scotland euthanasia )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4051560.html

Here's Britain's beloved royal family selling access to Putin: (tags:UK monarchy Russia corruption )
Serious questions for the Electoral Commission tonight as inexplicable ruling appears to have robbed the Greens (and thus the pro-independence camp) of two seats they should have won: (tags:elections GreenParty Scotland OhForFucksSake names viaDanielDWilliam )
Gravity is a double copy of other forces: (tags:gravity physics mathematics )
Tory 'Blue Wall' in south starting to crumble, claim Liberal Democrats: (tags:England politics libdem Conservatives )
Edinburgh ghost tour guide doesn't give a fuck: (tags:Edinburgh scary video funny true )
Why Did It Take So Long to Accept the Facts About Covid Transmission?: (tags:pandemic epicfail who virus history )
Freeport firms won't be able to export without paying huge tariffs: (tags:trade WTF UK )
Three new horror novels which take motherhood and birth as their starting point: (tags:motherhood childbirth children horror books viaClare )
Glass walkway in China loses panels in high winds, looks even more terrifying than usual: (tags:glass bridge scary China wind )
Justice League: Gal Gadot Confirms Threats To Her Career Were Made By Joss Whedon: (tags:JossWhedon OhForFucksSake movies )
The Animal is tired: (tags:age )
Buyer sought for £250m hydro scheme at Glenmuckloch: (tags:scotland hydroelectric storage electricity )
Boris Johnson being investigated over Caribbean holiday and flat renovation: (tags:BorisJohnson corruption )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4034669.html

Cuttlefish can delay gratification: (tags:psychology fish )
UK announces it will unilaterally change Brexit deal with EU, risking new confrontation with Brussels: (tags:UK Europe Ireland NorthernIreland )
The US branch of the transphobes are also antisemitic conspiracy theorists: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1366489983574413317.html
(tags:bigotry Jews USA transgender LGBT )
Architects not caring about the people who use their buildings: glass floor edition: (tags:architecture design glass OhForFucksSake viaPatrickHadfield )
U.S. House cancels Thursday session after police warn of possible plot on Capitol: (tags:USA politics terrorism )
Loyalists withdraw support for Good Friday Agreement: (tags:NorthernIreland terrorism UK Europe )
Duck queue: (tags:ducks video )
Vaccines Tweaked To Fight New Covid-19 Variants Can Be Developed In Just A Few Months: (tags:vaccine pandemic GoodNews )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4009212.html

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3851685.html

Jeremy Corbyn 'will keep free movement of people' in Brexit U-turn: (tags:Labour immigration GoodNews )
Bond Film Anagrams. Very nicely done: (tags:JamesBond language funny )
Microsoft's Project Silica offers robust thousand-year storage: (tags:glass storage )
When you have already lied to a judge, for god's sake stop digging!: (tags:lying law USA OhForFucksSake )
Neil Gaiman confirms that work is already underway on Sandman season 2: (tags:sandman tv neilgaiman )
On historical women's fashion, patriarchy, and ease of movement: (tags:women history clothing )
Whom the fuck?: (tags:language swearing )
Welcome to Britain (WWII Orientation Film for US servicemen arriving in the UK): (tags:USA UK history video wwii )
Italy Holocaust survivor Liliana Segre under guard amid death threats: (tags:Holocaust Jews Italy OhForFucksSake )
Man has chip implanted in his brain to help tackle opioid addiction: (tags:cyborg addiction )
Penis-and-scrotum transplant patient reports near-normal erections, orgasms: (tags:penis organdonor )
MRP models and tactical voting: (tags:statistics data voting advice polls )
Massive Facebook document leak gives ammunition to investigators: (tags:facebook )
It keeps going: 1 meter sea-level rise by 2300 is now inevitable: (tags:globalwarming ocean )
A New Floating Solar Farm Shows That Renewables Can Be Easy: (tags:solarpower viaDanielDWilliam water )
Why are India's Twitter users moving to Mastodon?: (tags:twitter india decentralisation socialnetworking censorship )
'Ice eggs' cover Finland beach in rare weather event: (tags:ice eggs finland weird weather )
My friend Kenny takes gorgeous photos, including some great cosplay and concert pics: (tags:photography cosplay music )
When he supported the Norway option: The Brexit policy Farage would rather forget: (tags:UK Europe Norway )
The tech of PIXAR: Piper (modelling millions of grains of sand): (tags:pixar sand cgi animation )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3839503.html

Lothian Buses staff vote for strike action in Edinburgh: (tags:buses transport edinburgh unions )
How Oxford university shaped Brexit â€” and Britain's next prime minister: (tags:Oxford university politics UK epicfail )
Why brilliant people lose their touch (reversion to the mean after a lucky streak): (tags:luck success sports investment gambling )
Do EU rules stop Britain re-nationalising its railways? It depends what you mean by 'nationalise': (tags:uk europe transport trains regulation )
Alas, I am unlikely to grow horns: (tags:research bone phones )
I'm adding this to the list of things Sophia is not allowed to do in the house: (tags:chemistry awesome video )
Swedish Couple Builds Greenhouse Around Home: (tags:glass housing design food plants )
Ends of the Urth - Neil Gaiman considers the most remarkable science fiction work of the past fifty years: (tags:scifi neilgaiman )
Giant Squid, Phantom of the Deep, Reappears on Video: (tags:squid video )
Mystery as pagan altar and symbol unearthed in Edinburgh's Holyrood Park: (tags:Edinburgh paganism weird )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3801270.html

RemainEU.org - Voting Strategy for the 2019 EU Elections: (tags:europe elections uk voting )
Tactical Voting in the UK in the EU Elections 2019 - Why is it so difficult?: (tags:elections europe voting advice )
Britain goes week without coal power for first time since Industrial Revolution: (tags:coal globalwarming uk electricity GoodNews )
Edinburgh University's response to the climate emergency: (tags:edinburgh university globalwarming )
Scotland's bottle return scheme deposit to be set at 20p: (tags:scotland money plastic glass environment )
New Scottish rail timetables to ease commuter misery: (tags:Scotland trains transport )
New Type of Dementia Identified: (tags:dementia alzheimers brain age )
HBO drops first teaser for its upcoming Watchmen series: (tags:tv watchmen )
'Avengers: Endgame': The Screenwriters Answer Every Question You Might Have: (tags:movies writing marvel )
Conversations I can look forward to having with my daughter: (tags:parenting children comic funny )
BBC staff during independence referendum thought "that our responsibility was to produce a series of pieces to demonstrate how foolish it would be to vote Yes": (tags:Scotland bbc independence bias )
The Muslim who saved the (Marvel) Universe: (tags:marvel Islam movies )
??200m fund to replace unsafe cladding in wake of Grenfell Tower fire: (tags:UK safety fire housing )
The bears and the dogs are in cahoots!: (tags:bears dogs )
Tactical voting advice for the European elections. (backed up by polling): (tags:UK europe voting advice )
Work on the Edinburgh tram extension to begin this month: (tags:edinburgh trams transport )
Facebook Algorithms Make It Harder to Catch Extremists: (tags:socialmedia facebook WarCrimes )
The Brexit party is a post-politics entity: (tags:uk europe politics )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3788035.html

Six reasons why Edinburgh trams project was so badly run: (tags: edinburgh trams OhForFucksSake )
Our Statement from Jewdas On Their Seder: (tags: Jews labour )
Ten Simple Ways To Make Renting Less Awful: (tags: rental UK OhForFucksSake )
US law enforcement officers beat their wives or girlfriends at nearly double the rate of the rest of the population: (tags: police assault USA OhForFucksSake )
Pasta may not be as bad as other carbohydrates: (tags: carbohydrates pasta food )
Long-term caffeine worsens Alzheimer’s disease: (tags: caffeine alzheimers )
Most people have no idea what the letter g looks like: (tags: letter writing )
Be careful what you copy: Invisibly inserting usernames into text: (tags: security text )
Three-month-old infants can learn abstract relations before language comprehension: (tags: language thinking babies )
Orange Order in Scotland is on the brink of collapse: (tags: bigotry religion Ireland NorthernIreland Scotland GoodNews )
The UK has no trade strategy, and the government is in chaos: (tags: UK government europe fail OhForFucksSake )
What’s The Deal With Transparent Aluminum?: (tags: materials glass )
The genealogy of the Saudi royal family is...tricky to validate: (tags: family saudiarabia names )
And a member of Jewdas on Corbyn and antisemitism: (tags: Jews labour )
On systemic racism in the romance publishing world: (tags: romance publishing racism )
Japanese couple apologise for ignoring work pregnancy timetable by conceiving ‘before their turn’: There are a lot of things I've heard about Japanese business practices that make me sure I wouldn't want to live there
(tags: Japan pregnancy OhForFucksSake work viaSwampers )
'Bill And Ted 3' Now Has A Title, A Director, And More: (tags: movies )
Brexit Committee MPs demand Norway-style deal with the EU: (tags: uk europe norway )
How not to fix the Irish border problem: (tags: ireland europe uk borders trade )
How to interpret breaking news: (tags: news )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3675150.html

Which Anonymous Sources Are Worth Paying Attention To?: (tags: politics reporting media advice )
A neat video showing how Google Glass helps people with manual/technical work: (tags: work glass google Technology )
Another cool video, talking to people who use Google Glass for their jobs (wire assemblies for planes): (tags: google glass Technology work airplanes )
Producing animated "art" faces based on real video and example art: (tags: art video faces )
Arguing against xkcd on free speech: (tags: freespeech xkcd comics )
Reducing lead levels in children reduces violent crime by a staggering amount: (tags: lead crime behaviour )
Analyzing the Gender Representation of 34,476 Comic Book Characters: (tags: gender comics analysis visualisation )
What Happens To Pornhub During Game Of Thrones: (tags: gameofthrones porn statistics visualisation )
State pension age increase brought forward (I'll be working an extra year): (tags: pensions uk viaSwampers )
Lost Time - on Proust and Science Fiction: (tags: time scifi writing )
A common underlying genetic basis for social behavior in dogs and humans: (tags: dogs humans genetics socialisation personality )
Cop’s body cam films him planting drugs—he obviously didn’t know it was recording: (tags: transparentsociety police cameras )
Sea cave preserves 5,000-year snapshot of tsunamis: (tags: sea cave tsunami earthquake history )
How Devastating was the Black Death?: (tags: history death disease )
Guillermo del Toro's "The Shape of Water" looks beautiful: (tags: movies GuillermoDelToro trailer video )
"Gef! The Strange Tale of an Extra Special Talking Mongoose": I can only conclude that many people are _so_ desperate to believe things that they will do so no matter what. This is not, of course, a new observation.
(tags: magic belief history weird )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3600001.html

How Google Glass became a success: (tags: google glass Technology )
Openreach mulls full fibre rollout for 10 million in UK: Gosh. That took a whole four months from being made separate from BT.
(tags: internet uk )
Every Place We Used to Think Was a Planet (Until We Knew Better): (tags: planets space language )
It’s always windy somewhere: Balancing renewable energy in Europe: (tags: Europe windpower renewables )
The Dark Side of the Moon lands at Dynamic Earth: I really want to see this. Anyone else in Edinburgh fancy joining me?
(tags: music edinburgh festival )
Fusion energy pushed back beyond 2050: (tags: fusion nuclearpower )
I'm really cheered by the responses to this rant about the evils of a female Doctor: (tags: drwho women )
All charges for paying by card to be banned: A quick dig discovered that banks are only allowed to charge 0.2% fees to process the charge, so making the businesses just include that in their prices seems reasonable.
(tags: payment money uk )
Rick And Morty Creators On Season 3, Delays, And The April Fools' Premiere: (tags: tv animation )
For one week these women recorded all the times they were objectified sexually: (tags: psychology research women society sex )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3599373.html

Edinburgh's Ross Bandstand designs shortlisted: (tags: design music edinburgh )
A Neural Network Turned a Book of Flowers Into Gorgeous Dinosaur Art: (tags: dinosaurs plants ai pretty )
Amazon Prime Wardrobe lets you try on and return clothes free: (tags: Amazon clothing )
Older fathers have geekier sons: (tags: geek age fatherhood children )
Sherlock's Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat to get their teeth into Dracula: (tags: Dracula tv StevenMoffat bbc )
The story of music is the story of humans: Are there any other animals that dance? Because "song" seems reasonably common in some senses, but rhythm seems specific to humans
(tags: music humans prehistory )
I had never heard of deck prisms. Ingenious idea.: And copied cheaply in poor areas nowadays using a plastic bottle full of water
(tags: lighting history glass Technology )
Gangs of aggressive killer whales are shaking down Alaska fishing boats for their fish: (tags: fish sharks usa )
The Philosophy Force Five vs the Scientismists: (tags: comic science philosophy funny )
Maze converted to Spanning Tree (nice visualisation/animation): (tags: visualisation animation trees )
She May Be The Most Unstoppable Scientist In The World: (tags: yemen women science war )
If people can see an immediate payoff they'll take it, even if it means they make less in the long term: (tags: money psychology games information )
It's reading posts like this that make me feel much more secure in my competence as a programmer: I remember a job interview where the interviewer handed me a page of printout from halfway through a program, and asked me to explain it. I said "Well, this is a loop, and it's doing something with a 'salary' variable, and calculating tax in some way, but it's calling off to a function that's not on this page, so I'm not sure what. I'm sorry, I can't tell much more than that, what am I missing?" And they said "You're the fourth person I've interviewed for this coding job, and the first one who wasn't lying about being able to program."
(tags: programming fail OhForFucksSake )
Man sent home from work for wearing shorts in over 30°C heat comes back in a dress: (tags: clothing gender heat )
The world's oldest still-used bridge: (tags: architecture history bridge greece )
US Supreme Court Says You Can't Ban People From The Internet, No Matter What They've Done: (tags: usa law freespeech internet )
Queen's Speech summary: Bill-by-bill at a glance: (tags: politics uk Conservatives )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3590432.html

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