Entries tagged with infrastructure

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Interesting Links for 30-04-2025

1. Trump plans to put military on the streets to catch criminals (See section 4): (tags:usa police military doom fascism )
2. Another Periodic Suggestion to Try, Just Try, Switching to Kagi for Search: (tags:search web )
3. Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre loses his own seat in Canadian Parliament: (tags:canada Conservatives politics funny )
4. Burying cables costs 10x-20x more than pylons: (tags:electricity infrastructure )
5. "Induced Atmospheric Vibration" may have caused the outages across Spain and Portugal. But what is it?: (tags:electricity )
6. People eat more when given ultra-processed foods than when given unprocessed food.: (tags:diet food weight )
7. White House hits back at Amazon plan to show tariff price rises: (tags:Amazon economics business politics USA )
8. Popular LLMs Found to Produce Vulnerable Code by Default: (tags:security ai fail )
9. Trump is the Godfather in Reverse: (tags:politics economics usa canada china )
10. Why translating Chinese food names into English is 'an impossible task': (tags:translation language china English food )
11. The British Government is not taking climate threats seriously: (tags:uk globalwarming doom )

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Interesting Links for 12-11-2024

1. A portrait of the fascist as a young gamer: (tags:gaming bigotry )
2. The UK has a £47bn bill in outstanding compensation claims: (tags:uk money )
3. Want to shoot down a drone fleet? You need a machine gun, a camera, and some automation: (tags:technology drone guns automation )
4. How a stubborn computer scientist accidentally launched the deep learning boom: (tags:ai computers neurons images )
5. Israel's Smotrich tells authorities to prepare for West Bank annexation: (tags:Israel )
6. What Britain's £100m bat tunnel can tell us about why Britain can't build infrastructure: (tags:UK infrastructure bureaucracy hs2 epicfail )
7. Water expands a ridiculous amount when it turns into steam, and you do not want to be nearby if it happens very quickly: (tags:video water heat )
8. I have been reading Sophia these jokes and she has been explaining to me, one by one, why they make no sense.: (tags:jokes children )
9. Chi-Fi Tuning - Why It Sounds So Damn Piercing To Western Ears?: (tags:china music Technology sound )
10. Expert Explains Why, Essentially, You're Fucked: (tags:video doom funny )
11. Why I Will Always Be Angry About Software Engineering (or anything else that's badly managed): (tags:life programming organisation systems anger )
12. Do Not Obey In Advance: (tags:fascism bureaucracy heroism )

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Interesting Links for 24-05-2024

1. New pylons to be installed across the UK in National Grid's £30bn green upgrade: (tags:uk electricity infrastructure )
2. For whom Good Omens is being written: (tags:neilgaiman terrypratchett alzheimers TV writing )
3. Football Association resists government pressure to change its transgender inclusion policy: (tags:football UK transgender LGBT GoodNews sports )
4. The next food marketing blitz is aimed at people on new weight-loss drugs: (tags:food weight drugs )
5. Daily cannabis use overtakes drinking for first time in US: (tags:marijuana alcohol usa )
6. The Suit Died, but for Good Reasons: (tags:history clothing UK monarchy class USA )
7. Managers - what are they good for?: (tags:management engineering software )
8. Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue: (tags:Reddit Google ai OhForFucksSake safety advice headline epicfail )

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Interesting Links for 07-02-2024

1. Can anyone explain to me why Edinburgh is Scotland's worst-funded local authority?: (tags:Scotland Edinburgh money )
2. The UK government is running a consultation on their terrible trans children guidance for schools. Please take the time to comment on it: (tags:lgbt transgender uk england school )
3. Bluesky social network drops invite-only sign ups: (tags:socialnetworking )
4. No matter the law juries will not fine people for feeding the homeless: (tags:homelessness law GoodNews USA OhForFucksSake )
5. Elevated body temperature is associated with depressive symptoms: (tags:heat depression psychology )
6. New paper explains why females are more prone to autoimmune diseases: (tags:gender immune_system disease )
7. First 3D-printed functional human brain tissue grows like the real thing: (tags:brain 3dprinting )
8. UK pylons minister reshuffled after … campaigning against local pylons: (tags:uk electricity infrastructure )
9. 'We feel castrated': the young British men embracing right-wing, misogynistic politics: (tags:politics men feminism uk )

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Interesting Links for 07-12-2023

1. The internet helps solve an X-Files question that fans have been wondering about for 25 years: (tags:x-files music Twitter )
2. Why are movies full of CGI lying about it?: (tags:cgi movies fraud )
3. Incidence and burden of long COVID in Africa - the rates are *staggering*: (tags:Africa Pandemic Doom )
4. Building end-to-end security for Facebook Messenger: (tags:Facebook communication encryption )
5. No, having a cat doesn't increase your risk of developing schizophrenia. Probably.: (tags:cats schizophrenia ToxoplasmaGondii )
6. Services across England now lag far behind East Germany, as experts call for 'universal basic infrastructure' in UK: (tags:uk germany OhForFucksSake infrastructure austerity )
7. Commuting longer than 30 minutes os associated with depression: (tags:travel work depression mentalhealth )
8. Can the new Rwanda bill work and what could stop it?: (tags:law immigration uk rights echr )

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Interesting Links for 07-11-2023

1. Happy Mastoversary!: (tags:mastodon socialnetworking )
2. Can solar and wind power Britain? An update of David MacKay's numbers: (tags:renewables windpower solarpower uk )
3. Dengue rates plunged by up to 97% after release of lab-altered mosquitoes: (tags:disease mosquito GoodNews )
4. It's nice to know that I'm not the only person who looks up the plots of movies too scary for me to watch on Wikipedia: (tags:Wikipedia horror movies video funny )
5. File this under "Headlines that should be satire but somehow aren't.": (tags:headline Israel Palestine wtf OhForFucksSake health weight )
6. The UK planning system is a disaster: (tags:UK planning building infrastructure OhForFucksSake )
7. Not content with scamming people out of large amounts of money for bad monkey art, NFC companies are now trying to blind them: (tags:eyesight light OhForFucksSake EpicStupidity blockchain )
8. EU equality laws to be reinstated by the UK to avoid 'gap in protections' for workers: (tags:UK Europe equality law )
9. Scottish ministers refuse to comply with UK government strike plan: (tags:uk scotland unions strike )
10. Is 'Long Covid' similar to 'Long SARS'? (If so it can persist permanently): (tags:pandemic disease )