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Interesting Links for 01-05-2024
May. 1st, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Trans women have been on female wards for decades. Kier Starmer wants to end that
- (tags:LGBT NHS transgender labour OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Many Welsh anti-20mph campaign groups are run by Tory politicians.... who live in England....and support 20mph where they live....
- (tags:conservatives Wales speed hypocrisy )
- 3. How to increase your chances of survival from a heart attack when alone
- (tags:heart health )
- 4. Who dresses better - Piers Morgan or Kermit The Frog?
- (tags:clothing Muppets )
- 5. U.S. to require automatic emergency braking on new vehicles in 5 years
- (tags:cars safety usa regulation )
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- ohforfuckssake,
- regulation,
- safety,
- speed,
- transgender,
- usa,
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Interesting Links for 11-03-2024
Mar. 11th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Children with lazy eyes at higher risk of developing diabetes, heart disease and other serious health conditions later in life
- (tags:disease eyes heart )
- 2. Plastic Found Inside More Than 50% of Plaques From Clogged Arteries (increases risk of strokes and heart attacks more than 4x)
- (tags:plastic heart stroke disease doom )
- 3. Really in-depth look at the past, present and future of Moore's Law
- (tags:technology history thefuture cpu processor )
- 4. Princess of Wales: Kate image withdrawn by four news agencies amid manipulation concerns
- (tags:monarchy UK fraud photo )
- 5. "This is just weird": BuzzFeed News' former royals reporter on Kate Middleton, Palace PR, and distrust in the media
- (tags:journalism monarchy conspiracy UK )
- 6. "AI gives the news you need" (a short story)
- (tags:ai short_story scifi )
- 7. CaltonHillitus - this chronic condition affects hundreds of photographers.
- (tags:photography photos edinburgh )
- 8. Lead in gasoline blunted IQ of half the U.S. population, study says
- (tags:lead Intelligence usa )
- 9. LocaLSend - Share files to nearby devices. Free, open-source, cross-platform. (Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android)
- (tags:sharing Technology )
- 10. One quarter of adult children estranged from a parent
- (tags:children parents )
- 11. Single dose of LSD provides immediate, lasting anxiety relief
- (tags:anxiety lsd )
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Interesting Links for 06-03-2024
Mar. 6th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. French decision to protect right to abortion shows 'real fear far-right populists could gain power'
- (tags:abortion rights France )
- 2. How much effort it takes to clean a professional kitchen (and how much the cook will hate you if you walk in 10 minutes before closing)
- (tags:restaurant cleaning )
- 3. More than one-quarter of scholarly articles are not being properly archived and preserved
- (tags:research academia fail viaPatrickHadfield )
- 4. Why Edinburgh's potholes are winning
- (tags:edinburgh roads weight )
- 5. How Hugo ballots used to be counted
- (tags:software hugo awards )
- 6. Sugary drinks increase your risk of a heart condition by 10%. Drinks with sweeteners raise it by 20%
- (tags:sugar drink heart doom )
- 7. The man who spends £8,500 a year to live on a train
- (tags:trains germany viaDanielDWilliam )
- 8. This is The Longest Train Route in the World (as of 2024)
- (tags:trains china Russia Spain Portugal )
- 9. What is your objective?
- (tags:advice life )
- 10. European Court of Human Rights Confirms: Weakening Encryption Violates Fundamental Rights
- (tags:encryption privacy Europe rights )
- 11. Racism is embedded in LLMs (in this case, based on dialect)
- (tags:racism ai )
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Interesting Links for 25-10-2023
Oct. 25th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Cap on bankers' bonuses to be scrapped next week in post-Brexit shake-up of financial rules
- (tags:tax bonus uk banking )
- 2. COVID's Damage Lingers in the Heart
- (tags:pandemic inflammation heart )
- 3. Amazon Let Its Drivers' Urine Be Sold as an Energy Drink
- (tags:amazon urine )
- 4. Large language models and copyright, what next?
- (tags:copyright ai )
- 5. Women's Pockets are Inferior. As proven with science!
- (tags:women clothing patriarchy viaPatrickHadfield )
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Interesting Links for 01-10-2023
Oct. 1st, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Megget Reservoir: The valley quenching Edinburgh's thirst
- (tags:history Edinburgh water Scotland )
- 2. Netflix ships last DVD
- (tags:Netflix DVD )
- 3. Everything Should Be As Easy to Upgrade As the Steam Deck
- (tags:technology hardware regulation )
- 4. Short-term lets licensing scheme comes into force in Scotland
- (tags:Scotland rental housing GoodNews )
- 5. Covid infection triggers inflammatory responses in human coronary vessels
- (tags:blood heart Pandemic inflammation )
- 6. 17 Edinburgh transport projects coming down the track
- (tags:Edinburgh transport thefuture )
Interesting Links for 02-09-2023
Sep. 2nd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. MPs call for magic mushrooms and psychedelic drugs to be downgraded (and consumption rooms to be trialled)
- (tags:psychopath drugs law UK )
- 2. Astoundingly, giving money to homeless people helps them.
- (tags:GuaranteedIncome homelessness )
- 3. Musk's changes at Twitter helped spread Russian propaganda
- (tags:Russia propaganda Twitter )
- 4. The algorithm that blew up Italy's school system
- (tags:computers teaching Italy OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Higher Intakes of Potassium and Magnesium, but Not Lower Sodium, Reduce Cardiovascular Risk
- (tags:heart health )
- 6. US, UK: Please take a moment to contact your elected officials!
- (tags:uk usa censorship web )
- 7. Our Human Ancestors Very Nearly Went Extinct 900,000 Years Ago, Genetics Suggest, With A Population of less than 1,300
- (tags:prehistory genetics humans )
- 8. The 'bank of family' is deeply unfair - and not the answer to the housing crisis
- (tags:uk housing inequality )
- 9. Will post-Brexit food checks ever happen?
- (tags:food uk europe )
- 10. Happy 20th birthday to Badger Badger Badger!
- (tags:meme badgers history viaEatSoylentGreen )
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Interesting Links for 22-02-2023
Feb. 22nd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. I could hear the Indiana Jones music watching this, even with the sound off
- (tags:video indianajones music )
- 2. The seven ways the matter of Brexit and the island of Ireland can be ultimately resolved
- (tags:Ireland UK Europe trade )
- 3. Brexit and the UK's tomato shortage
- (tags:UK Europe trade vegetables epicfail )
- 4. CNN on Rowling's history of anti-trans comments
- (tags:lgbt transgender jkrowling bigotry )
- 5. Why disabled people answer questionnaires wrongly. (Because they're supposed to be filled in by medical professionals, but cutbacks mean they aren't)
- (tags:disability questions OhForFucksSake austerity autism )
- 6. Unvaccinated more likely to have heart attack, stroke after COVID
- (tags:vaccination heart health Pandemic )
- 7. Three social failure modes
- (tags:social fail communication )
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Interesting Links for 23-11-2022
Nov. 23rd, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Nigel Farage Has Praised Keir Starmer's Speech On Immigration
- (tags:immigration labour UKIP OhForFucksSake )
- 2. The Return of James Cameron, Box Office King (and his movie, that will almost certainly not make a profit)
- (tags:movies jamescameron space )
- 3. Red panda eating grapes is terribly cute
- (tags:cute panda video )
- 4. Tesla builds Europe's largest battery near Dogger Bank offshore wind power landfall
- (tags:batteries UK windpower Tesla )
- 5. God of War: Ragnarok contains a tribute to the real life love, and death, of one of their developers
- (tags:death love games )
- 6. The Scottish government cannot hold an independence referendum without UK government's consent, the Supreme Court has ruled
- (tags:scotland independence uk law )
- 7. More relaxed immigration policies could win over UK swing voters
- (tags:immigration uk polls GoodNews )
- 8. Meta researchers create AI that masters Diplomacy, tricking human players
- (tags:games diplomacy ai )
- 9. Brain structure changes during pregnancy, returning to its original state a year after birth
- (tags:brain pregnancy )
- 10. Studies on "good" cholesterol only included white participants, the results don't seem to hold more generally
- (tags:race research health heart )
Interesting Links for 10-10-2022
Oct. 10th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Note that the Tories aren't suggesting cheaper childcare or more child benefit. They're suggesting tax cuts. Tells you who they want to have kids
- (tags:children conservatives OhForFucksSake tax )
- 2. Cool bird time lapse
- (tags:birds timelapse viaPatrickHadfield )
- 3. Tala the nonbinary alien, and how I got my library to go easy on gender
- (tags:gender children libraries )
- 4. 10l of water, 40g of powder, and Sophia is having "The best day ever!" in a slime bath
- Half an hour later and I just had to help the most slippery 4 year old ever out of the bath to go to the toilet, while her feet had no friction whatsoever.
And then I had to wash slime off of *everything*, including the hair trap in the shower, which was full of very slimy hair!
She's currently showering off the last of the slime, and has already told me she's looking forward to next time...
(tags:baths fun ) - 5. Juggling seen from above
- (tags:juggling video )
- 6. A Drum Machine With Congenital Heart Disease
- (tags:heart art children health )
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Catch-up links for 12/9/2022
Sep. 15th, 2022 09:01 am- 1. Even in death the Queen's taste in music is impeccable
- (tags:music Queen video funny )
- 2. Depluralising films
- (tags:language mathematics movies funny )
- 3. Persistent cardiac symptoms in individuals with mild initial COVID-19
- (tags:Pandemic heart Doom )
- 4. A collection of black girls seeing The Little Mermaid trailer
- (tags:Disney race children trailer video )
- 5. Arrested after asking "who elected him?" at the proclamation of King Charles
- (tags:democracy protests monarchy uk OhForFucksSake police )
- 6. This is now my favourite story about The Queen
- (tags:queen tourism video )
Interesting Links for 28-08-2022
Aug. 28th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Some bleak truths for Britain
- (tags:UK Doom economics )
- 2. 'A Dream of a Thousand Cats' - from comic to fully painted animation
- (tags:animation cats sandman painting TV )
- 3. Trump: national security threat - 30 examples
- (tags:security politics republicans USA viaPatrickHadfield )
- 4. Netflix's main criteria for renewal is number of people who complete a series in 28 days. Savouring a show thus leads to its cancellation
- (tags:Netflix algorithms OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Britain's civil rights history is often overshadowed by America's, but we had a bus boycott too
- (tags:UK rights racism history )
- 6. Cardiac patients die less when their doctors are away at conferences
- (tags:heart healthcare )
- 7. Derinkuyu: Strange underground city found in man's basement
- (tags:Turkey cities archeology )
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Interesting Links for 19-07-2022
Jul. 19th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Forests Now Cover 2% of Iceland (up 6x since 1990)
- (tags:iceland forests )
- 2. A new milestone in augmented reality: Functional contact lenses
- (tags:augmentedreality contact_lenses Technology impressive )
- 3. Want to be an artist? Having millionaire parents *really* helps!
- (tags:wealth inequality art )
- 4. Keir Starmer rules out 'any agreement' with the Lib Dems after next election
- (tags:labour libdem OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Mint is not a necessary part of toothpaste. If you don't like it then feel free to use other flavours
- (tags:teeth health )
- 6. The future of sports: Revealed!
- (tags:sports technology funny video )
- 7. Ballet imposes gender roles on dancers
- (tags:gender dance ballet )
- 8. Audiobooks or Reading? To Our Brains, It Doesn't Matter
- (tags:reading audio brains psychology books )
- 9. Stray, a game where you play as a cat in a world populated by robots is clearly not going to make any money at all
- (tags:games cats review video )
- 10. Scientists design contraceptives to limit grey squirrels
- (tags:squirrel UK contraceptive fertility )
- 11. Cheese reduces the risk of type 2 diabetes, heart failure, coronary heart disease, hypertension, and ischemic stroke
- (tags:cheese health heart diabetes )
- 12. Heat wave kills more than 1,100 people in Spain and Portugal
- (tags:heat globalwarming death spain portugal )
- 13. UK set to have world's biggest automated drone superhighway
- (tags:drone uk )
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Interesting Links for 09-03-2022
Mar. 9th, 2022 12:00 pm- Replace saturated fats with unsaturated ones, not with carbs and sugars
- (tags:fat heart health diet carbohydrates sugar )
- The most complete family tree of all of humanity has been created
- (tags:humans family genetics )
- Gender pay gap bot lets you know how hypocritical employers are on International Women's Day
- (tags:women pay inequality viaSwampers bots )
- Some polling on whether Russians support the Ukraine invasion
- (tags:Ukraine Russia polls war )
- Endurance: Shackleton's lost ship is found in Antarctic
- (tags:antarctic history ship )
- 'Genius' Twitter 'bot' reveals gender pay gaps of brands celebrating International Women's Day
- (tags:gender pay inequality funny )
- To understand Russia, you need to understand that it's a Mafia-run economy
- (tags:russia crime mafia economy viaDanielDWilliam )
- EU Buried Its Own $400,000 Study Showing Unauthorized Downloads Have Almost No Effect On Sales (2017)
- (tags:europe piracy copyright business )
- Scientists reverse ageing in elderly mice by rejuvenating their tissues
- (tags:age mice )
- Mouse born from unfertilised egg - without sperm - survives to adulthood, gives birth to healthy pups
- (tags:childbirth biology mice )
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Interesting Links for 12-02-2022
Feb. 12th, 2022 12:00 pm- In A Sports World Segregated By Gender, Figure Skating Has Often Blurred Those Lines
- (tags:sports gender history )
- One in three Americans have high levels of toxic weed-killing chemical in their bodies
- (tags:usa hormones toxic pesticide )
- COVID-19 takes serious toll on heart health—a full year after recovery
- (tags:pandemic heart )
- Underwater Photographer of the Year winner revealed
- (tags:photography water viacmcmck )
- How hard it is to get to Mars—and then to live there (very)
- (tags:mars spacex space )
- Chalk drum from 5,000 years ago is the most important UK art find in a century
- (tags:uk prehistory archaeology art )
- A villain of Twitter: Redeemed!
- (tags:Twitter reading pubs alcohol books )
- Researchers confirm newly developed inhaled vaccine delivers broad protection against SARS-CoV-2, variants of concern
- (tags:Pandemic vaccine GoodNews )
- UK exports to EU plunge £20bn in first full year after Brexit
- (tags:UK Europe trade Doom )
- Two former legal directors of the EHRC point out that it's draft guidance is unlawful
- (tags:law LGBT transgender UK rights )
- YouTube's Olympics Highlights Are Riddled With Propaganda
- (tags:China Olympics propaganda YouTube )
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Interesting Links for 07-01-2022
Jan. 7th, 2022 12:00 pm- Electric cars and batteries: how will the world produce enough?
- (tags:batteries electricty cars )
- Johann Hari is talking nonsense about attention spans
- (tags:attention research fraud )
- It takes an average of three days for people to test positive on a nasal-based lateral flow test after their first positive PCR result for Omicron
- (tags:noses testing Pandemic Doom )
- Drone carrying a defibrillator saves its first heart attack patient in Sweden
- (tags:heart drone Sweden )
- The latest Moonfall trailer is even more ridiculous than the previous one! So looking forward to this!
- (tags:movies moon trailer )
- Wordle Is a Love Story
- (tags:words games english language )
- Dealing with Student Deceptions: What to do with 'Death in the Family' Excuses
- (tags:death university lies )
Interesting Links for 02-12-2021
Dec. 2nd, 2021 12:00 pm- Study links high cholesterol, cardiovascular disease to pthalates (present in many plastics) - in mice
- (tags:plastic pthalates mice fat heart health )
- Crows are really fucking smart
- (tags:crows intelligence shape )
- New plan to pay British farmers who protect winter soil
- (tags:environment UK farming )
- Watching TV in the age of streaming
- (tags:TV streaming video funny )
- A Matter Of Factories (really well done song about a computer game about stripmining planets)
- (tags:capitalism environment manufacturing space games video music funny )
Interesting Links for 29-08-2021
Aug. 29th, 2021 12:00 pm- Statins are apparently not a lot of use
- (tags:heart medication )
- Neil Gaiman has some Instructions to keep you safe
- (tags:fairytale neilgaiman advice )
- Carrot Vs Mr Curly the garden hose : Clarinet fight!
- (tags:music video )
- I did not know this was what you were supposed to do with bottles of cooking oil
- (tags:food video )
- Sweet-taste perception changes as children develop
- (tags:sweets sugar taste food adult children age )
Interesting Links for 10-02-2021
Feb. 10th, 2021 12:00 pm- Disney Closing Down Blue Sky Studios, Creators Of 'Ice Age' (Nimona is cancelled, which is hugely frustrating)
- (tags:animation business Disney )
- Cops are playing music while citizens are filming to trigger copyright filters
- (tags:copyright police transparentsociety OhForFucksSake )
- Coffee seems to reduce heart attack risk (by quite a significant amount)
- (tags:coffee heart health )
- When She Says Woman, She Doesn't Mean Me (stories of sex work and how supposed feminists refuse to listen to the women who do it)
- (tags:sexwork feminism )
- Europe's oldest person survives Covid just before 117th birthday
- (tags:age Europe pandemic GoodNews )
Interesting Links for 05-02-2021
Feb. 5th, 2021 12:00 pm- The "Brain in a jar" approach to transgender theory
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1357147969049423872.html
(tags:lgbt transgender gender psychology ) - Ministers refusing to open talks to solve Brexit exports crisis to make EU feel 'pain', industry leader says
- (tags:UK Europe trade OhForFucksSake )
- The neo-Troubles and media manipulation (what's going on with Northern Ireland right now)
- (tags:UK Europe trade NorthernIreland Ireland borders )
- Joanna Cherry and other Alex Salmond supporters are waging civil war within SNP at precisely the wrong time
- (tags:snp bigotry LGBT politics Scotland )
- Why the UK is still arguing about Brexit, and is likely to continue doing so indefinitely
- (tags:UK Europe NorthernIreland borders trade video )
- Google doesn't want to tell Apple users how it's violating their privacy
- (tags:Apple Google privacy )
- Egg consumption lowers risk of coronary artery disease.
- (tags:eggs heart health )
- Things British people do that baffle people
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1357329669981413376.html
(tags:UK weird ) - Animation shows week in life of blue whale as it tries to avoid fishing ship congestion
- (tags:wales ocean visualisation video ship )
- How will the global computer chip shortage affect you?
- (tags:cpu manufacturing fail )
- Brian Bolland on Alan Moore and the Killing Joke
- (tags:art comics alanmoore history batman )
- Oumuamua: Avi Loeb says it's aliens. Every other astronomer disagrees. Here's why.
- (tags:space astronomy aliens )
- Who fancies some Victorian superhero women (a trailer for "The Nevers")
- (tags:tv women trailer superheroes victorian )
- Nevada bill would allow tech companies to create governments
- (tags:USA business government )
- "Not enough dead people" say Conservatives
- (tags:UK pandemic conservatives OhForFucksSake )
- There's been an alarming number of infections among care home residents who have received only one dose of the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine.
- (tags:vaccination UK Doom pandemic )
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