Interesting Links for 28-04-2024
Apr. 28th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. IT used to take six hours to divert traffic from the Queensferry Crossing onto an alternative route - now they can do it in 19 minutes.
- (tags:roads bridge Scotland )
- 2. Good write-up of what's going on with the SNP
- (tags:politics Scotland snp )
- 3. ITV says it lost more than £1m on hit TV drama Mr Bates vs Post Office (because there's no international appeal)
- (tags:TV money itv business )
- 4. Real techies don't care about forced eugenics
- (tags:technology Holocaust society )
- 5. Rats will learn how to drive remarkably quickly when food is on the line
- (tags:rats driving video )
Interesting Links for 14-03-2024
Mar. 14th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Did you know there was an old rifle range under Edinburgh's Waverley Station? (6 minutes in to this video)
- (tags:guns edinburgh history trains )
- 2. What's been going on with Boeing? (they seem to have forgotten that making planes requires attention to detail)
- (tags:airplanes safety epicfail OhForFucksSake engineering manufacturing )
- 3. A global network of violent predators is hiding in plain sight, targeting children on major internet platforms, grooming them, and extorting them to commit horrific acts of abuse.
- (tags:internet abuse crime )
- 4. Giant redwoods: The world's largest trees are thriving in the UK. (Except for not reproducing)
- (tags:trees UK )
- 5. The economics of all-you-can-eat buffets
- (tags:food business economics )
- 6. The Existential Relief of Having Children
- (tags:philosophy anxiety stress parenting children life )
- 7. The Abyss 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray UK release | The BBFC comments on its cancellation
- (tags:rats abuse animals movies jamescameron BluRay )
- 8. Do your pets help you make food? You ain't seen nothing yet!
- (tags:food cows video funny )
- 9. LGBTQ+ Identification in U.S. Now at 7.6% (and dramatically higher in Gen Z)
- (tags:demographics LGBT USA )
- 10. AI reveals prostate cancer has two distinct subtypes
- (tags:ai cancer prostate )
- 11. The full version of Tenacious D's - ...Baby One More Time cover is out. And even more awesome than you'd expect
- (tags:music video BritneySpears awesome panda )
- 12. Yes, the Tories are outrageously racist and sexist - but Labour is guilty too (writes Diane Abbott)
- (tags:politics racism UK Labour conservatives )
- 13. Giant 'sand battery' holds a week's heat for a whole town
- (tags:sand heat battery finland )
- 14. The only other mammals to go through the menopause live longer because of it
- (tags:menstruation whales longevity )
- 15. New ONS figures show how Edinburgh's share of short term lets is massive by comparison to practically everywhere else in the UK
- (tags:edinburgh rental holidays housing tourism )
- 16. New extremism definition unveiled by British government. Is very vague.
- (tags:uk government language )
- 17. I see that J.K. Rowling is now engaging in anti-trans Holocaust denial
- (tags:transgender Holocaust jkrowling OhForFucksSake bigotry lgbt )
- 18. Assisted dying in Canada is accepted - but the UK should tread carefully
- (tags:euthanasia canada )
- 19. I was getting bored of running - then I found joggling
- (tags:juggling running jogging exercise edinburgh )
Interesting Links for 10-04-2023
Apr. 10th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. The risk of various autoimmune diseases is substantially higher in people who have had Covid
- (tags:Pandemic immune_system doom )
- 2. Woman swims with family of Orcas and makes global headlines
- (tags:newzealand aieeee! dolphins swimming )
- 3. Tories and Labour face off in rush to the bottom for 'law and order' (and they can both fuck off)
- (tags:law authoritarianism labour conservatives politics UK OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Hear the words of the final Nuremberg prosecutor to die
- (tags:Holocaust law history video )
- 5. The billionaires you've never heard of bankrolling America's far right
- (tags:USA fascism wealth politics )
- 6. Could Keir Starmer stop visiting bigoted churches?
- (tags:LGBT bigotry labour OhForFucksSake )
- 7. What were the defining characteristics of the 2010s?
- (tags:history )
- 8. It is amazing how simple a tiny cheap device can make security violations
- (tags:security technology )
- 9. ChatGPT's inconsistent moral advice corrupts its users' judgment
- (tags:morality ai Doom viaPatrickHadfield )
- 10. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) won't give its reasons for failing to release annual assessments of the safety of nuclear weapons in Scotland so as not to "prejudice relations between the UK and Scottish governments".
- (tags:nuclearweapons Scotland OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 11-02-2023
Feb. 11th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Ban on Edinburgh lap dancing clubs overturned
- (tags:law sexwork Edinburgh Scotland GoodNews )
- 2. AI-powered Bing Chat spills its secrets via prompt injection attack
- (tags:Microsoft ai fail )
- 3. Musk fired top engineer for explaining why his tweet views are down
- (tags:Twitter Doom )
- 4. Wikipedia's Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust
- (tags:history Holocaust Poland OhForFucksSake fraud )
Interesting Links for 15-01-2023
Jan. 15th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. The truth about Scotty
- (tags:StarTrek funny Scotland )
- 2. Suella Braverman refuses to apologise to Holocaust survivor who points out the dangers of her language
- (tags:language Holocaust migration conservatives nazis )
- 3. Long Covid: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations
- (tags:disease Pandemic disability )
- 4. "Strong Opinions Loosely Held" Might be the Worst Idea in Tech
- (tags:technology belief communication )
Interesting Links for 16-12-2022
Dec. 16th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Tax rates to rise for higher earners in Scotland
- (tags:Scotland tax )
- 2. Reminder that "First They Came For..." is about the importance of solidarity between all oppressed groups
- (tags:bigotry poetry holocaust oppression )
- 3. Genders.WTF (a collection of terrible gender dropdowns)
- (tags:gender ui epicfail funny viaSwampers )
- 4. Elon Musk's $5.7 Billion Mystery Gift Went to...His Own Charity
- (tags:ElonMusk charity tax )
- 5. A quarter of private UK rented homes do not meet standards
- (tags:uk rental housing OhForFucksSake )
- 6. I see the British army has been covering up war crimes again
- (tags:WarCrimes UK military )
- 7. EU leaders grant Bosnia candidate status to join the bloc
- (tags:Europe Bosnia )
- 8. Peak ScotRail fares to be scrapped for six months
- (tags:Scotland trains money )
- 9. UN expert backs Scottish government's gender recognition reforms
- (tags:UnitedNations gender transgender reform Scotland GoodNews )
- 10. Weight loss drug semaglutide has really significant effects - but the side effects sound unpleasant
- (tags:weight drugs )
- 11. SNP budget may go down in left-leaning history
- (tags:Scotland politics budget tax )
Interesting Links for 13-11-2022
Nov. 13th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. A material normally only found in meteorites has now been made artificially, and may solve our issues with some rare earth metals
- (tags:materials meteor space technology viaSwampers )
- 2. German transphobe also a Holocaust denier
- (tags:Holocaust transgender Germany viaSwampers LGBT )
- 3. Iran Votes to Execute Protesters (there are 15,000 in prison right now)
- (tags:Iran protest death_penalty OhForFucksSake )
- 4. English people encounter pizza for the first time
- (tags:pizza history )
- 5. Discovery of bronze statue rewrites Italy's Etruscan-Roman history
- (tags:history archeology Italy )
- 6. Why do so few women excel at maths? Sexism, of course
- (tags:sexism women mathematics )
- 7. Major ad firm Omnicom recommends clients pause Twitter ad spend (clients include Apple and McDonalds, and 5,000 more)
- (tags:Twitter advertising Doom )
- 8. How "Wordle editor" became a real job at The New York Times
- (tags:games language )
Interesting Links for 11-11-2022
Nov. 11th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Twitter has already started suffering minor issues, it's going to get a lot worse
- (tags:Twitter engineering Doom viaPatrickHadfield )
- 2. Animating over reality with pens, transparencies, and white-out
- (tags:animation video )
- 3. KFC apologises after German Kristallnacht promotion (for *cheesy chicken* of all things!)
- (tags:chicken kfc Holocaust OhForFucksSake Jews )
- 4. Does Twitter Have Any Employees Left Who Remember That The Company Is Under A Strict Consent Decree With The FTC?
- (tags:Twitter law Doom )
- 5. Highlighting the many "successes" of Twitter's new identify verification system
- (tags:Identity Twitter epicfail )
- 6. Inside the Twitter meltdown
- (tags:Twitter Doom viaPatrickHadfield )
- 7. Clearly the best artist's assistant
- (tags:dog video art viaSwampers )
Interesting Links for 08-09-2022
Sep. 8th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. What next for art in a post-AI world?
- (tags:art ai comics comic )
- 2. Supreme Court allows SNP to intervene in indyref2 court case
- (tags:snp law uk independence scotland )
- 3. New technique shows old temperatures were much hotter than thought
- (tags:co2 prehistory globalwarming ocean )
- 4. Turns out that going woke does not inevitably lead to going broke
- (tags:money niceness )
- 5. Liz Truss plunged into constitutional crisis on day one as UK blocks Bermuda from legalising cannabis
- (tags:marijuana legalisation UK law constitution )
- 6. Scottish government to make £500m in spending cuts
- (tags:Scotland money )
- 7. Poland's Demand for German Damages Includes Crimes Committed Against Jews by Poles
- (tags:Poland Germany Holocaust Jews money wtf )
- 8. Liz Truss Is Trying to Block Scotland's Trans Reforms
- (tags:conservatives bigotry UK Scotland law LGBT transgender )
- 9. Leaked list of US anti government extremist Oath Keepers includes hundreds of cops, dozens of elected officials
- (tags:USA terrorism corruption terrifying police government )
- 10. Scientists Have Made a Human Microbiome From Scratch
- (tags:microbiome )
- 11. Edinburgh's South Sub railway: Here's why forgotten railway closed 60 years ago today
- (tags:edinburgh trains transport history )
- 12. Four Sisters. Forty Years. Forty Portraits.
- (tags:photos history )
Interesting Links for 29-06-2022
Jun. 29th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. What is a Section 30 order, and how does it affect the legality of another Scottish independence referendum
- (tags:Scotland independence law UK )
- 2. Chris Pratt Never Been to Hillsong Church, Not Religious Person
- (tags:LGBT religion marvel movies celebrity )
- 3. Making Calton Hill, Edinburgh in the Far Cry 5 game engine
- (tags:games video Edinburgh architecture )
- 4. The Japanese Tea Ceremony is an *experience*. None more than this one
- (tags:Japan tea funny )
- 5. Two Edinburgh Labour councillors didn't support giving power to the Tories. The party suspended them
- (tags:Labour Edinburgh conservatives )
- 6. 101-year-old Nazi concentration camp guard jailed for murdering thousands
- (tags:Holocaust )
Interesting Links for 21-06-2022
Jun. 21st, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Why is Switzerland's public transport system so effective?
- (tags:transport Switzerland )
- 2. Stolperstein - the world's largest decentralised memorial
- (tags:Holocaust history )
- 3. 36 Methods of Mathematical Proof
- (tags:mathematics funny proof )
- 4. Number 10 Intervened Before Carrie Johnson Job Story Pulled From The Times
- (tags:news UK corruption BorisJohnson )
- 5. World's largest freshwater fish found in Mekong
- (tags:fish Cambodia )
Interesting Links for 08-04-2022
Apr. 8th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. On nationalism in Ukraine
- (tags:Ukraine nationalism )
- 2. Welcome to 'Le Monde' in English!
- (tags:France newspapers English )
- 3. Finland to clarify next steps on possible NATO entry within weeks
- (tags:Finland NATO Russia )
- 4. British scientists stumped by mini epidemic in child hepatitis cases
- (tags:disease children uk )
- 5. Google will soon hide neglected apps in the Play Store
- (tags:apps android )
- 6. 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas' Set Holocaust Education Back by Decades. Now It's Getting a Sequel
- (tags:Holocaust books OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 18-02-2022
Feb. 18th, 2022 12:00 pm- Weird symbols in your Twitter user name make life harder for people with screen readers
- (tags:sight disability Twitter )
- Legal challenge to Scottish census sex question thrown out
- (tags:census lgbt scotland transgender law )
- Occasionally, Dark Souls gets ridiculously epic
- (tags:video fighting animation games )
- Scotland paid less for its PPE and sourced much of it in country, unlike England
- (tags:Scotland Pandemic manufacturing )
- Elon Musk tweets, then deletes, Hitler joke
- (tags:Holocaust Hitler ElonMusk OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 19-06-2020
Jun. 19th, 2020 12:00 pm- Warren Ellis Accused Of Sexual Coercion
- (tags:WarrenEllis abuse OhForFucksSake comics )
- UK virus-tracing app switches to Google-Apple privacy-centric model
- (tags:apple google pandemic apps uk privacy )
- Trump Facebook Ad Openly Using a Nazi Symbol For "Political Prisoner"
- (tags:republicans nazis Holocaust wtf OhForFucksSake USA viaSwampers )
- NHS coronavirus app to be scrapped after only detecting 4% of contacts on iPhones
- (tags:privacy apple Google pandemic apps )
- Masked arsonist might've gotten away with it if she hadn't left Etsy review
- (tags:police review Etsy wtf )
- This kind of shit is why you can't trust it when people "Just want to ask a few questions"
- (tags:OhForFucksSake communication fraud )
- How are TV subtitles made? Are they done by a human or a machine? (I could not do this job)
- (tags:technology BBC subtitles )
- FizzBuzz: One Simple Computing Interview Question
- You'd be astounded how many people fail this. People going for computer jobs who actually can't program.
(tags:interviews jobs computers ) - Vegetarian? Jewish? Muslim? Government food parcels may not be much use to you
- (tags:food pork UK government )
- Social progress is at the heart of community politics
- (tags:politics community )
- UK health ministry has no records on Turkish PPE fiasco and won't say if files destroyed
- (tags:UK pandemic OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 12-06-2020
Jun. 12th, 2020 12:00 pm- UPnP flaw exposes millions of network devices to attacks over the Internet
- (tags:security internet epicfail )
- Turns out that if you get rid of the police you get warlords
- (tags:USA violence police )
- The AskHistorians subreddit banned Holocaust deniers, and Facebook should too.
- (tags:Holocaust debate censorship )
- JK Rowling and The Reasonable-Sounding Bigotry
- (tags:bigotry jkrowling LGBT transgender uk )
- There's a vacuum at the heart of the British government, and that's not good for anyone.
- (tags:UK Europe Doom )
- If you're good enough at conspiracy theories you can turn anything into one
- (tags:conspiracy pandemic viaSwampers )
- Plastic Rain Is the New Acid Rain (hundreds of millions of tons of it)
- (tags:plastic rain environment pollution )
- The Right Wing's Favourite 'Crazy Scientist' - Professor Karol Sikora
- (tags:healthcare OhForFucksSake pandemic doctors )
- Autism, Gender, and Queerness - We're here. We're weird. Get used to it.
- (tags:LGBT autism )
- "Being comfortable in my body" - on gender presentation and being non-binary
- (tags:LGBT gender clothing )
- Generation X and Trans Lives
- (tags:age demographics transgender LGBT )
Interesting Links for 25-01-2020
Jan. 25th, 2020 12:00 pm- EU draws map for Boris Johnson of where customs checks he says don't exist will go
- (tags:UK Europe NorthernIreland trade doom )
- Astronauts bake space's first ever cookies - and are surprised by how long it takes
- (tags:cooking space food )
- Hydrogen injected into UK gas grid for first time in groundbreaking UK trial to reduce carbon
- (tags:hydrogen carbon heating uk )
- Tesco to stop sale of plastic-wrapped multipacks in stores - saving 350 tons per year
- (tags:plastic supermarkets environment )
- The best co-op games on PC
- (tags:games cooperation )
- Maternity ward dads: Kick them out or welcome them in?
- I was sent home at 10pm, when we'd both been up since 4am, and Jane was still recovering from the birth. I wish we'd had the option for me to stay and support her.
(tags:children childbirth scotland ) - Police begin operational use of Live Facial Recognition in London
- (tags:london faces Technology police )
- For Nancy Drew's 90th birthday they're killing the beloved girl detective so that her male counterparts, the Hardy Boys, can investigate her death.
- (tags:comics wtf gender )
- Man who called his shop "Singh'sbury" says 'it's just a coincidence'
- (tags:sainsbury's shopping intellectual_property UK )
- The romance writer who saved Jews from the Nazis
- (tags:viaDanielDWilliam Jews history romance writers Holocaust refugee )
- Someone forced a bot to read over 1,000 Garfield strips and then asked it to write an episode of its own. Here is what it looks like
- (tags:garfield AI video funny weird )
- Watch as 19th century time capsule discovered in Edinburgh Robert Burns statue is opened
- (tags:Edinburgh history trams )
- I would love to know the gender ratio of assholes
- (tags:relationships gender wtf )
- Boris Johnson warned chances of securing Japanese trade deal hangs on Brussels agreement
- (tags:trade UK Europe Japan )
Interesting Links for 08-11-2019
Nov. 8th, 2019 08:28 pm- 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 )
Interesting Links for 12-06-2019
Jun. 12th, 2019 01:37 pm- A thread of gay lions in religious children's books
- (tags:lions lgbt children religion books )
- Testing An Evo Psych Theory Outside Of The Lab: Prestige And Dominance-Based Social Hierarchies Emerge Even Amongst Cornish Choirs And Chess Clubs
- (tags:psychology behaviour )
- IBM and the Holocaust - some details
- (tags:ibm Holocaust Technology history viaSwampers )
- Canada to ban keeping whales, dolphins in captivity
- (tags:whales dolphins canada )
- Don't start pining for Theresa May: she was unspeakably dire and this disaster's on her
- Well, and David Cameron.
(tags:uk europe politics Conservatives ) - Brexit: Labour announce bid to block new Tory PM from suspending parliament to force through no-deal
- (tags:UK Europe parliament )
- Today's 75-year-olds didn't fight the war - so why do we think they did?
- (tags:UK history age wwii )
- Rough Consensus: How Do You Make Good Decisions Efficiently in a Flat Organization?
- (tags:organisation decisions )
- It was the biggest disaster in the history of the music business — and almost nobody knew. This is the story of the 2008 Universal fire.
- (tags:music history epicfail )
- Organ donation is now opt-out in Scotland
- (tags:Scotland organdonor GoodNews )
- Fantasy's Widow: The Fight Over The Legacy Of Dungeons & DragonsÂ
- (tags:dungeonsanddragons history death sad )
- How trans-hostile activists are leveraging a small group of people worldwide to drive their agenda
- (tags:transgender lgbt twitter OhForFucksSake )
- Scientists close in on hidden Scottish meteorite crater
- (tags:Scotland meteor )
Interesting Links for 04-05-2019
May. 4th, 2019 02:50 pm- Emergency stop signs projected onto waterfalls at road tunnel entrances
- (tags:sign driving Technology water light )
- Boris Johnson lies about voting Conservative
- (tags:Conservatives BorisJohnson lying )
- The Jewish population in 2019 is still lower than it was in 1939
- (tags:Holocaust Jews history )
- Botanical Sexism Cultivates Home-Grown Allergies
- (tags:allergies gender plants )
- Zionists And Anti-Zionists Don't Agree About What Zionism Is
- (tags:Israel Jews nationality )
- How EU and member-state officials view Brexit.
- (tags:europe uk politics france )
- Why Labour's local election losses will be more significant for UK and Brexit than the bigger Tory losses
- (tags:labour UK europe )
- DUP elects first gay candidate in local elections
- (tags:dup NorthernIreland wtf lgbt lesbians )
- How to Calm a Crying Baby Like a Mesopotamian
- (tags:history babies advice archeology )
- Corbyn says local elections show voters want deal done on Brexit (he can fuck off)
- (tags:labour UK europe OhForFucksSake )
- Why the media messaging from Conservatives and Labour is making no sense
- (tags:Labour conservatives media politics )
- Pornhub wants to buy Tumblr and restore site to former porn-filled glory
- (tags:tumblr porn )
- Beavers given protected status in Scotland
- (tags:beavers Scotland )