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1. A tech guru is waging a war on major media outlets across three continents, hiring a “media assassin” law firm to kill stories connecting him to “hacks-for-hire” controversy.: (tags:Technology hacking india censorship )
2. Animation vs. Physics: (tags:physics animation video )
3. Baby It’s Cold Outside discourse is the same as Macbeth discourse.: (tags:shakespeare funny )
4. NHS dentistry as we know it 'gone for good': (tags:UK NHS teeth OhForFucksSake )
5. Why MAs at Oxford had to swear an oath against a man who'd been dead for over 500 years.: (tags:history university uk oxford murder viaPatrickHadfield )
6. New income tax band for people in Scotland earning over £75,000: (tags:scotland income tax )
7. Teams are more creative when they're sitting next to each other: (tags:creativity teams work psychology )
8. Iceland volcano erupts leaving 2.5-mile crack (with live video): (tags:iceland volcano )
9. Tom Bombadil and The Ring, a Christmas story: (tags:Christmas lotr fanfic )
10. Lord of the Rings fan fiction writer tries to sue Amazon/Tolkien, gets countersued into a smoking crater: (tags:copyright fanfic EpicStupidity lotr Tolkien )
11. A series of charts showing how awful the Conservatives are for the economy: (tags:UK economy conservatives Labour )
12. Tory attempts to ban social transitioning in schools held up by lack of evidence showing it causes any problems: (tags:LGBT law schools UK )

1. Psychedelics plus psychotherapy can trigger rapid changes in the brain: (tags:psychedelics therapy psychology )
2. Lead poisoning causes far more death, IQ loss than thought: (tags:iq death lead )
3. British parents are less interested in their children being obedient, more interested in them being independent and hard-working: (tags:children society uk )
4. All Labour's Economic Pledges Announced By Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves: (tags:labour economy politics uk )
5. This year, why not give the Sleeptober challenge a go?: (tags:sleep funny )
6. Edinburgh Council has broad support from the public for plans to cut traffic and parking: (tags:Edinburgh transport )
7. 23andMe user data targeting Ashkenazi Jews leaked online: (tags:Jews genetics hacking )
8. All of Labour's net zero policies, and whether they'll actually work: (tags:labour globalwarming )
9. The Israel-Hamas War Is Drowning X in Disinformation: (tags:israel palestine war disinformation twitter )
10. Internet Vs Ocean: the essential wires we never think about: (tags:maps internet video )

1. cripes does anybody remember Google People (a short story): (tags:short_story Google technology AI scifi horror )
2. The world's oldest trigonometry table (1,500 years before the Greeks): (tags:archaeology mathematics )
3. Extreme Misogyny in Incels Probably Not Caused by Sexual Frustration (instead caused by trying to show how much inceller they are than any of their terrible friends): (tags:misogyny psychology )
4. How Insect Brains Melt and Rewire During Metamorphosis: (tags:insects brain )
5. U2 at the Sphere in Vegas looks mind-blowing: (tags:u2 video concert technology )
6. The 'Center of Edinburgh' Bollard: (tags:Edinburgh postoffices )
7. You cannot design a productive city around car transport: (tags:cars transport cities viaDanielDWilliam )
8. Animation vs. Math: (tags:mathematics animation video )
9. Oxford University Mathematician reacts to "Animation vs. Math": (tags:mathematics video animation )
10. The Untold Story of NotPetya, the Most Devastating Cyberattack in History: (tags:security Technology epicfail hacking )

1. Russia using Wagner in Africa to displace the West and erode democracies: (tags:russia africa corruption )
2. Global warming increases ocean temperatures, stripping the seas of oxygen: (tags:oxygen ocean fish doom )
3. People are publishing AI books with real authors' names.: (tags:ai writing publishing fraud )
4. Covid testing in Scottish hospitals, care homes and prisons to end: (tags:scotland pandemic )
5. Norway fines Facebook owner Meta $100k/day over privacy breaches: (tags:norway facebook privacy regulation )
6. SUSE, the German Linux company, appear to be deeply anti-semitic: (tags:Jews linux OhForFucksSake )
7. Inside Keir Starmer's plan to 'annihilate the left' and appoint 'middle-class and dull' candidate MPs: (tags:labour politics )
8. The electoral breach in the UK was all Microsoft's fault: (tags:uk hacking microsoft )
9. Complex ape-man culture, with burial practices, may have existed in Africa 300,000 years ago: (tags:africa humans evolution society culture death )
10. Gender disparity in the rate of partner abandonment in patients with serious medical illness: (tags:cancer divorce gender )

1. Netflix sees massive subscriber jump after password-sharing crackdown: (tags:Netflix passwords business )
2. ChatGPT recommends software packages that don't exist - so hackers created them to take control of people's computers: (tags:malware hacking ai )
3. There are some really weird underwater creatures out there: (tags:nature ocean video weird )
4. 'It was the worst pain': Women still face agonising coil fittings despite pain relief guidance: (tags:pain women contraception NHS OhForFucksSake )
5. Democrats work to protect abortion, trans rights with combined laws: (tags:usa democrats abortion transgender GoodNews )
6. Five Things that Boris Johnson Might Be Up Too: (tags:BorisJohnson politics Conservatives viaDanielDWilliam )
7. This is why I can't play Diablo for the next couple of years: (tags:games time children )
8. Star Trek engineering rap: (tags:music video funny StarTrek ViaDrCross )
9. Kate Forbes says she can't choose to stop being a bigot and that non-bigoted Christians aren't really properly Christian: (tags:bigotry religion Christianity politics Scotland LGBT )

1. Labour comes out against Tory 'war on woke' bigotry: (tags:lgbt labour GoodNews )
2. Why ADHD people have so many unfinished projects, and how to reframe that: (tags:adhd )
3. Stack Overflow has made its moderators very very angry: (tags:forum ai communication volunteers doom )
4. Delays to new bus tracker system costs Edinburgh council over £1.5million: (tags:buses edinburgh location )
5. The trailer for John Finnemore's new TV show (Good Omens Season 2) is out!: (tags:TV trailer neilgaiman video davidtennant )
6. The dangerous power of cross examination: (tags:law viaDanielDWilliam psychology )
7. We have hit the great oil plateau: (tags:oil viaDanielDWilliam economics )
8. No, breastfeeding doesn't make kids smarter: (tags:intelligence breastfeeding )
9. The Dutch government wants to automatically gain permission to target victims of hackers: (tags:netherlands hacking law )
10. A detailed explanation of the government's judicial review of the Covid Inquiry - and why this judicial review is so significant: (tags:law pandemic )
11. Australian government set to introduce national ban on Nazi symbols: (tags:australia nazis censorship )
12. Why we shouldn't hold referendums: (tags:referendum )

1. Why did the Southern States secede?: (tags:USA history civilwar slavery )
2. When a Far Right Shitposter Runs a Social Media Platform: (tags:USA politics fraud disinformation socialmedia ElonMusk Twitter )
3. The Dangers of Google’s .zip TLD. Can you quickly tell which of the URLs is fraudulent?: (tags:hacking security web )
4. Alastair Campbell seems to have come around on fixing the voting system: (tags:politics voting reform labour )
5. Titanic: First ever full-sized scans reveal wreck as never seen before: (tags:titanic 3d scanning )
6. Why did the UK do so badly at Eurovision?: (tags:eurovision music UK )
7. Meet the people who carry out virtual relationships for money - two minutes at a time: (tags:relationships fraud business )
8. 94% of people don't want to be tracked online - why are sites still asking for consent to do so?: (tags:cookies surveillance web )
9. Post-Brexit India deal could cut thousands of jobs in Leave-voting areas, and hike food prices: (tags:uk europe india trade rice )
10. Edinburgh's Water of Leith nature project sees floating habitats placed to support wildlife: (tags:edinburgh rivers nature )
11. The EU's new Cyber Resilience Act is about to tell us how to code: (tags:europe security software )

1. Misogyny in Scotland - QC reports to the Scottish government: (tags:Scotland misogyny )
2. Covid: Discharging hospital patients to care homes 'unlawful': (tags:UK Pandemic OldAge death )
3. Russia Is Being Hacked at an Unprecedented Scale: (tags:hacking Russia Ukraine )
4. A puzzling phenomenon: Patients report a rebound of COVID-19 symptoms after taking the antiviral Paxlovid (still better than not taking it though): (tags:Pandemic virus treatment )
5. Behold: The Sign War!: (tags:sign funny )
6. A deep dive into the cases of hepatitis amongst kids in the UK: (tags:children disease Pandemic uk )
7. The untold story of Britain's first black school teacher: (tags:Scotland race school history )
8. "I Animated My Watercolors": (tags:animation painting art viaClare )
9. Opinions divided over reintroduction of lynx to Scotland: (tags:cats wildlife Scotland )
10. Central African Republic Adopts Bitcoin as Legal Tender: (tags:Africa bitcoin )
11. Pupils boost memory and fitness from fifteen minutes of daily activity: (tags:exercise )
12. Why we should sanction Putin's favourite conductor: (tags:music corruption Russia Ukraine war )
13. Making rope by hand from hemp looks like a lot of hard work: (tags:manufacturing video )

Men: Why can't they shut up?: (tags:women men talking communication psychology )
Warren Ellis issues apology over how he treated women. Waiting to see how this goes.: (tags:WarrenEllis women apology )
Why has the sea off part of Scotland turned turquoise?: (tags:scotland sea colour )
New blood test can find 50 types of cancer (accuracy levels are problematic, but it's an interesting start): (tags:cancer blood )
It's True: Stress Does Turn Hair Gray (And It's Reversible): (tags:stress hair colour )
The military's top officer schools congressmen on critical race theory, 'white rage' and communism: (tags:USA military racism politics )
"I Was Taught From a Young Age to Protect My Dynastic Wealth": (tags:wealth tax society epicfail )
Brighton Palace Pier: Hundreds overcharged £2,100 for rides (system mixed up date and amount): (tags:epicfail money computers )
Russia's Gigantic Submarine, Belgorod, Sails For The First Time: (tags:Submarine Russia )
New solar is cheaper to build than to run existing coal plants in China, India and most of Europe: (tags:viaDanielDWilliam renewables )
NFC flaws let researchers hack an ATM by waving a phone: (tags:hacking banks technology )
Explaining Derek Chauvin's sentencing: (tags:law USA prison )
Smart screens on fridge doors in shops is a terrible idea: (tags:technology awful shopping advertising )
Even mild COVID in young people often leads to long-term symptoms: (tags:Pandemic Doom )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4054402.html

New vaccine 77% effective against malaria: (tags:malaria vaccine GoodNews )
Warning over major Android 'package delivery' scam: (tags:apps scam Android UK )
Scientific paper that claimed smokers less likely to contract Covid retracted over tobacco industry links: (tags:smoking pandemic OhForFucksSake )
Post Office scandal: What the UK's most widespread miscarriage of justice is all about: (tags:UK postoffices law epicfail OhForFucksSake )
The Post Office case is damning, but do not blame 'computer error' - it is very much the fault of human error of Post Office managers: (tags:postoffices law OhForFucksSake )
The problem with automated systems with no human oversight is that when someone hacks it you're fucked (NFT edition): (tags:art hacking security fail viaPatrickHadfield )
The British pop star who had two careers in different decades, neither one as himself: (tags:music UK history )
'I felt like my life was over.' How sex tapes turn famous women into punchlines: (tags:sex videos women celebrity )
Colombo meets Star Wars: (tags:StarWars funny )
Gravity-based batteries try to beat their chemical cousins (I'm still sceptical, but we'll see): (tags:batteries gravity )
Magnet fishing allowed on Scotland's canals: (tags:Scotland canal magnets )
The Bible as Dungeons and Dragons game: (tags:Bible religion dungeonsanddragons funny )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4026920.html

Russian Lord Of The Rings TV Adaptation Surfaces On YouTube After 30 Years: (tags:russia lotr )
Netflix Made Record Profits in 2020, Paid a Tax Rate of Less than 1 Percent - President Biden has a plan to fix that: (tags:tax usa netflix )
Janet Yellen to call for global minimum tax rate in first major address: (tags:tax usa )
Yoda was Flanderized: (tags:StarWars language )
Academic blog pointing out that Scotland could be a little normal independent nation deleted, as it was "not the view of the Government": (tags:censorship Scotland independence UK government )
Thandiwe Newton reverts to original spelling of first name (from Thandie): (tags:names movies actors )
Was your data in the massive Facebook breach?: (tags:Facebook data hacking )
A Covid-contaminated surface has under 1 in 10,000 chance of causing an infection: (tags:Pandemic infection GoodNews )
Transphobia was always going to end up as crude, old-fashioned homophobia: (tags:LGBT transgender parenting )
Have I Been Pwned: Check if your email has been compromised in a data breach: (tags:email data hacking )
Why ranking employees by performance backfires: (tags:work organisation epicfail viaPatrickHadfield )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4020175.html

World religious leaders unite to demand ban on gay conversion therapy: (tags:LGBT religion bigotry )
Scottish government sets out plans to hit net-zero emissions: (tags:Scotland co2 globalwarming thefuture )
How Scientists Tracked Down a Mass Killer (of Salmon): (tags:fish poison USA )
All job interviews should give the questions out in advance: (tags:Jobs interviews )
For the first time in its history UNICEF will help feed children in the UK: (tags:UK poverty OhForFucksSake )
Republicans are furious with Trump for pocketing the money they need for the Georgia runoffs: (tags:republicans usa politics money )
What a 3d picture of a snowflake really looks like: (tags:snow photo )
Ultra High Resolution Photos of Snowflakes: (tags:photos snow )
COVID-19 vaccine rollout may be delayed - with IT system 'failing constantly': (tags:pandemic vaccine computers OhForFucksSake )
Academics turn RAM into Wi-Fi cards to steal data from air-gapped systems: (tags:technology WiFi hacking security genius )
Tax cuts for rich don't 'trickle down,' study of 18 countries finds: (tags:tax inequality )
Waste, Negligence and Cronyism: Inside Britain's Pandemic Spending: (tags:corruption UK pandemic )
Facebook are terribly angry about Apple giving its users control over privacy. They can fuck off.: (tags:privacy Apple Facebook )
What works enter the Public Domain in 2021?: (tags:publicdomain )
Poll shows Scottish independence support surging to joint record levels as SNP set for majority: (tags:Scotland polls independence )
Long Covid alarm as 21% report symptoms after five weeks: (tags:pandemic Doom )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3972272.html

I can think of nothing more likely to make people stockpile than telling them not to: (tags:food UK Europe trade Doom shopping )
A collection of awesome, frequently unlikely, maps: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1337489374452183040.html
(tags:maps )
Repurposing Soviet jokes as Brexit jokes: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1337837601835933696.html
(tags:jokes Russia funny UK )
Donation change to allow more gay and bisexual men to give blood: (tags:lgbt blood donations )
Haynes Stops Printing Famous Workshop Manuals: (tags:cars design books )
Suspected Russian hacking attack breached multiple parts of the US government: (tags:hacking Russia USA )
Europe's Biggest Vertical Farm Will Be Powered by Wind and Planted by Robots: (tags:robots farming netherlands windpower )
European Union law and the United Kingdom - an obituary: (tags:law UK Europe )
Don't work unpaid overtime, even if you love your job: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1338240765605109762.html
(tags:work working_hours planning )
Sizewell C: Government in talks to fund £20bn nuclear plant: (tags:UK nuclearpower globalwarming )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3970510.html

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