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Interesting Links for 19-02-2024
Feb. 19th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Can ChatGPT edit fiction? 4 professional editors asked AI to do their job - and it ruined their short story
- (tags:ai editing fail viaMarrog )
- 2. Mercury: Council and Parliament strike a deal to completely phase out mercury in the EU
- (tags:Europe dental mercury lighting )
- 3. There's a fascinating discussion in this article about who "the Celts" were
- (tags:prehistory Europe language society )
- 4. 2023 Hugo winner announces that they no longer consider themselves to have won
- (tags:Hugo awards china fraud )
- 5. All new NHS building projects in Scotland put on hold
- (tags:Scotland NHS money building )
- 6. Rabbit Test - the short story that won* a Hugo
- (tags:hugo abortion rights women scifi )
- 7. Fertility doctor uses own sperm to impregnate lots of women, leading to incest
- (tags:usa fertility incest OhForFucksSake healthcare fraud )
- 8. The Fifteenth Doctor audition piece
- (tags:tv drwho acting RusselTDavies )
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Interesting Links for 07-02-2023
Feb. 7th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Star Wars, The Osmonds, and Twincest Predictions
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- 2. Scientists suggest way to help children get desensitised to peanut allergy (effective for 80% of them)
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- 3. Call of the Void: Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight 370?
- (tags:airplanes crash Malaysia )
- 4. How damaging is the trans prisoners row for the SNP?
- (tags:transgender lgbt snp scotland )
- 5. The kindest way to break up with a friend is to ghost them
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- 6. What actually helps reduce bullying?
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- 7. LGBTQ: Plan to make it easier to change gender in Wales
- (tags:lgbt wales transgender GoodNews )
- 8. I have regularly thought that more computing education should be as apprenticeships. I suspect the same is true of many other jobs.
- (tags:apprentices Education uk )
- 9. China is building a staggering amount of solar power, here's how
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Interesting Links for 22-01-2023
Jan. 22nd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. The IRS, Fake Populism (and the fallacy that we are in a war of ideas that can be won through argument)
- (tags:politics republicans lies )
- 2. The inevitable enshittification of Tiktok
- (tags:socialmedia business capitalism Amazon monopoly economics viaPatrickHadfield )
- 3. Mercedes Becomes First Automaker To Get Approval For Level 3 Autonomy In The U.S.
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- 4. The BBC chairman helped to arrange a guarantee on a loan of up to £800,000 for Boris Johnson weeks before the then prime minister recommended him for the role
- (tags:UK viaPatrickHadfield BorisJohnson corruption politics BBC )
- 5. I don't think of myself as prudish, but I'm definitely raising an eyebrow that "MILF Manor" was produced
- (tags:TV sex mother wtf incest )
- 6. Password security reminder: Please continue to treat your LiveJournal passwords as compromised
- (tags:Livejournal dreamwidth passwords security )
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Interesting Links for 05-09-2019
Sep. 5th, 2019 12:01 pm- Average speed cameras may be put on 25 Edinburgh roads
- (tags:speed driving Edinburgh Scotland safety )
- Thousands in UK born as result of extreme inbreeding (about 0.025%)
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- Giving People Simple "Moral Nudges" Encourages Them To Donate Much More To Charity
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- Active learning works best, even though students don't feel that way
- (tags:education psychology )
- How parliament works in the UK (the bit about the Queen's rabbit made me giggle a lot)
- (tags:parliament UK satire )
- Mental-health information sold to advertisers by websites
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- Want your brain trained? Play Portal 2
- (tags:learning psychology puzzle games portal )
- 40% of Americans think society should be burned to the ground to start over again
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- Why phones that secretly listen to us are a myth
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- Green-fingered couple devastated as new Fountainbridge curved glass office block will ruin their garden
- (tags:Edinburgh light gardens OhForFucksSake viaSwampers )
- Ex-Muslims of North America debuts billboards in Atlanta, Chicago, Houston
- (tags:USA religion Islam society )
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Interesting Links for 26-01-2016
Jan. 26th, 2016 12:00 pm- UK Rail Travel, Station Usage 1997-2015 (in a pretty map)
- Get your “Kylo Stabbed First” T-shirts!
- What Labour must do to win in 2020: an electoral reform pact
- Middle class English people acting a bit Scottish
- World's Oldest Torrent Is Still Being Shared After 4,419 Days
- 5 minutes of unnarrated, shot-by-shot breakdowns of the CGI in the Force Awakens.
- Steven Moffat has produced some great Doctor Who. So how did he become so hated?
- Sadly, doesn't touch on "The actual writing hasn't been that great for a few seasons, with a few exceptions".
- MSPs to debate bid to legalise incest between consenting adults
- FactCheck: has Google got a good deal from the taxman?
- Netflix overtakes broadcast TV for UK kids. YouTube dominates.
- Why do people put on differing amounts of weight?
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Interesting Links for 19-09-2015
Sep. 19th, 2015 12:00 pm- Remember when Republicans were in favour of women having access to healthcare?
- Inuit Study Adds Twist to Omega-3 Fatty Acids’ Health Story
- Volkswagen Is Told to Recall Nearly 500,000 Vehicles Over Emissions Software That Deliberately Cheated The Tests
- Some people's heads should go on fucking spikes over this one.
- This Belgian church was designed to look different from all angles
- High numbers of students experience drunken harrassment, feel universities won't help.
- An excellent analysis of why Labour lost the last election (detailed, and backed up by stats)
- Winds Of Change (A look at what Dyson are up to)
- How to survive a helicopter crash followed by two days on ice with three polar bears
- 'Tree of life' for 2.3 million species released
- British government authorised use of torture methods in NI in early 1970s
- Nostalgia, rape culture, thick texts and obsession: a look at the Rocky Horror Picture Show
- The incest realisation of Han Solo (made even funnier by flashbacks)
- Meet the Scandinavians responsible for the entire American pop scene
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Interesting Links for 13-04-2012
Apr. 13th, 2012 12:00 pm- Britain's silent, scandalous epidemic of malnutrition
- This is how to do a Terms Of Service
- What Recruiters Look At During The 6 Seconds They Spend On Your Resume
- German incest couple lose European Court case
- Atos forces doctors to sign Official Secrets Act.
- Zombie Survival Map - are _you_ prepared?
- Ladies! Is your vagina too brown? Are you sure? We have something that would help if it was!
- How to get more likes on Facebook
- The writers of Wrath of Khan could not count
- Alcohol makes you smarter
- Parents not sure how to play with their children
- Better Business Bureau investigating Mass Effect 3 for promising more than it delivered.
- The London Underground has its own unique mosquito population
- High levels of a common chemical found in plastics and cosmetics can lead to greater risk of diabetes
- Twelve years ago today Metallica Sued Napster. Which is why piracy was eradicated.
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