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Interesting Links for 28-08-2023

1. The EU's Digital Services Act is now in effect: here's what that means: (tags:internet Europe regulation )
2. Prigozhin, going, gone - what, if anything, will the reaction be in Russia?: (tags:Russia assassination )
3. Women working in Antarctica say they were left to fend for themselves against sexual harassers: (tags:abuse USA antarctic OhForFucksSake women )
4. Ukraine uses Australian drones... made of cardboard! (These were reportedly used in an attack on a Russian airfield in Kursk): (tags:Ukraine Australia drone paper )
5. Using economic theory to find lost cites of the Bronze Age: (tags:viaDanielDWilliam trade prehistory economics cities )
6. Seven-fold increase in adult ADHD prescriptions in Scotland over 10 years, as people finally get the help they need: (tags:scotland adhd )
7. Donald Trump says civil war can't be ruled out as racial and political violence rises in the US: (tags:usa civilwar )
8. Israel to have partial laser defenses by next year: (tags:israel lasers )

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Interesting Links for 17-01-2023

1. Dot Dot Dot - the finest review in the history of reviews (and a throwback to an earlier age of the internet): (tags:games review funny video )
2. The art school reject who became one of the world's top glass artists: (tags:art glass scotland )
3. The Bitter Lesson for AI - it's better to design general learning systems and wait for processing power to catch up than to try and simulate human approaches: (tags:ai history computers )
4. The sound of the dialup, pictured (For very old people, who remember when the internet had a sound): (tags:modem sound visualisation )
5. Why health-care services are in chaos everywhere: (tags:healthcare doom pandemic )
6. UK government blocks Scotland's gender reform bill in constitutional first: (tags:UK bigotry LGBT transgender Scotland OhForFucksSake conservatives )
7. Lasers used to guide lightning strikes to a safe target: (tags:lasers lightning technology cool )
8. Every so often I'm reminded that I'm really glad I don't have to date men: (tags:dating men wtf viaSwampers )
9. Toddlers inventing words is cute and funny: (tags:funny children language viaClare )
10. I'm sure that Apple used to at least *pretend* to do user friendly design: (tags:Apple ux epicfail OhForFucksSake )
11. What's the method that Westminster is using to block Scottish gender reform law?: (tags:Scotland UK law viaDanielDWilliam )
12. Amazon! Cancels! Clarkson!: (tags:TV Amazon )
13. Dreamwidth is updating its anti-spam approach - please ensure your email address is confirmed: (tags:dreamwidth spam email )
14. A raccoon tries to catch falling snow: (tags:raccoon snow video cute )
15. NHS will be 'no better off' under Labour than the Tories, say GPs amid backlash over Keir Starmer comments: (tags:nhs healthcare uk labour OhForFucksSake )
16. Lethal radiation from space played role in Earth's biggest mass extinction: (tags:radiation space extinction )
17. Netflix Has Created A Self-Fulfilling Cancelation Loop With Its New Shows: (tags:netflix doom business tv )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4128966.html

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Interesting Links for 24-12-2021

Ancient mass migration transformed Britons' DNA: (tags:genetics UK prehistory language )
Omicron needs to be 90% less severe to avoid large wave in hospital admissions: (tags:NHS Doom Pandemic virus )
People With Omicron Are 50-70% Less Likely To Be Hospitalised Than Other Covid Cases: (tags:NHS Pandemic Doom UK )
The consolidation of the games industry continues apace: (tags:games business )
New muscle layer in human jaw discovered: (tags:biology humans teeth )
Did dinosaurs have a similar pre-hatching posture to modern birds?: (tags:dinosaurs eggs birds fossils )
Drone shows are really impressive nowadays!: (tags:drone pretty viaSwampers )
From apanthropy to zwodder, an A-Z of Christmas: (tags:Christmas language viaDanielDWilliam )
Precision cooking for printed foods via multiwavelength lasers: (tags:food 3dprinting lasers )
Watching A Lecture Twice At Double Speed Can Benefit Learning Better Than Watching It Once At Normal Speed: (tags:speed teaching videos education psychology )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3992567.html

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Interesting Links for 29-01-2021

Boosted by tech stocks, Norway wealth fund earns £90 billion in 2020: (tags:Norway money )
Are Psychiatric Conditions Spectra or Discrete?: (tags:psychiatry psychology ontology statistics )
The casting for the Sandman TV series is not what I expected, and that delights me: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1354806599714369544.html
(tags:sandman TV )
The SNP taking steps in the right direction over transphobia. (Looking forward to their definition): (tags:snp LGBT transgender bigotry )
The contents of Magna Carta - how much is still valid today?: (tags:history law UK )
Drone Swarms Are Getting Too Fast for Humans to Fight, U.S. General Warns: (tags:USA drone military )
How we we could have - and should have - avoided more than100,000 people dying from Covid in the UK: (tags:pandemic death UK incompetence )
UN court rules UK has no sovereignty over Chagos islands: (tags:UK nationality )
Nobody uses the word "technocrat" except when they're criticizing something.: (tags:government organisation civilization rationality )
GOP Congresswoman blamed deadly forest fire on Jewish space laser: (tags:OhForFucksSake conspiracy Jews lasers wtf republicans )
There were more Covid outbreaks in offices last year than in supermarkets, construction sites, warehouses, restaurants and cafes combined.: (tags:pandemic office doom )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3963021.html

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Interesting Links for 26-11-2020

Can a neutral network recognise your doodles?: (tags:art ai )
The Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid Vaccine Data Isn't Up to Snuff: (tags:uk vaccination pandemic oxford )
Andromeda over Patagonia: (tags:space photo pretty )
KFC deploys autonomous 5G food trucks in China: (tags:food delivery automation )
The first artist with a Criminal Behaviour Order affecting the type of music he can put out: (tags:music UK crime viaDanielDWilliam )
You'll feel like you've got the flu for a couple of days after your first Covid vaccine shot. You must get the second one anyway: (tags:vaccine pandemic )
How Dutch Plant Breeders Bred The Badness Out Of Brussels Sprouts: (tags:food genetics )
Explaining Jewish holidays: (tags:Jews judaism religion )
How the Once Elusive Dream of Laser Weapons Suddenly Became a Reality: (tags:lasers weaponry technology )
6 Essential Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Programming: (tags:programming advice )
Olivia Colman, Jameela Jamil and Paloma Faith condemn 'violence and hostility' against trans women in open letter: (tags:LGBT transgender )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3959581.html

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Interesting Links for 20-11-2020

Meteor breaks up over ocean in incredible footage: (tags:meteor Ocean video )
Boris Johnson pledges laser guns: (tags:lasers wtf military UK BorisJohnson )
Nigella Lawson butters her toast twice, and Britain is really angry about it: (tags:food funny )
Anyone interested in a script from the recent She-Ra remake?: (tags:TV animation scripts writing )
FactCheck: Is this a green revolution? (and what do government announcements add up to? l: (tags:environment UK government Conservatives )
IBM Apologizes For Firing Computer Pioneer For Being Transgender...52 Years Later: (tags:IBM computers history LGBT transgender )
Internalized gender-focused attitudes affect health, career prospects: (tags:gender money health society jobs )
I see the Conservatives are turning in to fascists again: (tags:OhForFucksSake UK conservatives )
On Not Meeting Nazis Halfway: (tags:politics society compromise )
Here's what happens when some idiot decides to store two tons of sodium in their garage: (tags:OhForFucksSake safety UK chemistry )
I see Labour's civil war is going swimmingly: (tags:labour OhForFucksSake )
Covid: Why stricter rules for Glasgow but not for Edinburgh?: (tags:Scotland Glasgow Edinburgh pandemic )
When AI Sees a Man, It Thinks 'Official.' A Woman? 'Smile': (tags:AI bias )
The big dish of Arecibo observatory has reached the end of the line: (tags:astronomy history )
When women can't get divorced, murder is the alternative: (tags:murder women abuse history )
Covid in Scotland: When will we be vaccinated?: (tags:UK Scotland thefuture vaccine pandemic )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3831450.html

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Interesting Links for 04-09-2019

Boris Johnson to rip up purdah convention if there's an election: (tags:UK elections conservatives )
How to intervene when you see someone bring harassed: (tags:harassment advice )
Could Britain really hold an election on a Monday?: (tags:elections uk )
I have to say I'm not even slightly convinced that the Lib Dems should have accepted Phillip Lee in to their ranks: (tags:libdem politics uk )
The Most Gender-Switched Names in US History: (tags:names USA history visualisation viaSwampers )
The chair of the LGBT+ Lib Dems resigns over Philip Lee being allowed to join: (tags:LGBT libdem homophobia OhForFucksSake )
EU member states have been told by the European Commission Task Force that the UK under Boris Johnson is rengeging on its commitments to protect the all-Ireland economy: (tags:UK Europe NorthernIreland ireland doom )
LGBT Lib Dem Members Are Quitting The Party Over The Defection Of Ex-Tory MP Phillip Lee: (tags:LGBT libdem )
Moose are big, really big. You may think it's a long way to the top of a horse, but that's just peanuts compared to moose: (tags:animals huge video )
Tin Plasma Extreme Ultraviolet Radiation Makes 5nm Integrated Circuits Possible: (tags:cpu nanotech technology lasers )
Step by step the Johnson plan is falling apart: (tags:BorisJohnson politics hope europe uk )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3793970.html

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Interesting Links for 27-05-2019

Women are happier without children or a spouse, says happiness expert: (tags:happiness relationships women men )
Fact checking the anti-trans sports attacks: (tags:transgender sports )
Test performance, gender, and temperature: (tags:temperature gender intelligence testing )
Star Trek Wine Pedantry is the best pedantry: (tags:StarTrek wine )
Hammond suggests he would consider voting to bring down a Conservative government that pushed for a no-deal Brexit. Significant numbers of his colleagues feel the same: (tags:politics conservatives UK europe )
Scotland to House World's Largest Tidal Turbine: (tags:Scotland renewables )
Different approaches to combining finances in relationships: (tags:relationships money )
Laser drones protect Scottish forests: (tags:Scotland forests lasers drone )
Labour wiped out in Scotland as SNP secures comfortable victory (shame about the Greens): (tags:politics Scotland europe )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3770776.html

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Interesting Links for 06-03-2019

Female Cyclist Forced To Stop When She Nearly Catches Male Racers After Their Head Start: (tags:cycling )
A quick look at QUIC (the next generation of HTTP over TCP/IP): (tags:internet networking web Technology )
Picosecond lasers weld glass and metal together for the first time: (tags:lasers materials )
Prospiracy Theories: (tags:conspiracy satire truth funny )
Should vagrants be flogged in the street?: (tags:homelessness libdem )
Emmanuel Macron: Dear Europe, Brexit is a lesson for all of us: it's time for renewal: (tags:europe thefuture )
The Movement To Skip The Electoral College Just Passed A Major Milestone (but has a long way to go): (tags:politics usa voting viaDanielDWilliam )
A Brief History of British and Irish Languages: (tags:language Wales Scotland UK England Ireland history viaDanielDWilliam )
A Behind the Scenes Take on Lithium-Ion Battery Prices: (tags:batteries thefuture Technology )
GMB launches Scotland's first sex workers' union: (tags:Scotland unions sexwork )
Widening Russia Money Laundering Scandal Hits European Banks: (tags:Russia europe fraud banking )
Missing out on sleep robs brain cells of ability to repair themselves: (tags:brain sleep )
The Special Curse of Living on Instagram's Favorite Street (Paris's Rue Cremieux): (tags:Paris celebrity photography )
Goldman Sachs relaxes dress code (which companies still insist on more formal dress codes?): (tags:clothing work )
On Food Shopping for Brexit: (tags:UK europe OhForFucksSake food Conservatives )
What is it like working at a company during and after the release of a negatively received game?: (tags:games work epicfail )
Momentum fined over ??16,000 for multiple breaches of electoral law during 2017 election: (tags:labour politics uk )
What Causes the Smell of New & Old Books?: (tags:smell books chemistry )
Unless something is done, paying by cash will become near-impossible in the UK soon.: I haven't used cash in weeks (if not months) - but the people hardest hit are the poor and those with bad mental health.
(tags:cash money uk Technology )
Study Finds No link Between Violent Video Games And Teen Aggression (Yet again): (tags:psychology aggression games violence )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3756286.html

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Interesting Links for 25-11-2018

I'm occasionally bemused when I remember I have friends who support an appointed House of Lords: (tags: houseoflords politics uk )
Remember how easy a Brexit deal was going to be?: (tags: UK europe fraud )
Scotland set to be first country in UK to recognise third gender (and make changing recognised gender easier): (tags: Scotland lgbt transgender GoodNews )
I love the idea of lasers and diamonds powering drones remotely so they don't need batteries. But I'm sceptical about the technology being anywhere near ready: (tags: lasers drones diamonds )
Poorest dying nearly 10 years younger than the rich in deeply worrying trend for UK: (tags: inequality death UK OhForFucksSake )
Brexit: May gives way over Gibraltar after Spain's 'veto' threat: (tags: Gibraltar Spain UK europe doom )
Dear Theresa May, Thank you for your letter.From the very first sentence to the very last, it is a tissue of revisionism, wilful misdirection, false equivalences, and downright lies: (tags: UK europe fraud Conservatives )
Just another school run in Palestine: (tags: school israel palestine )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3710288.html

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Interesting Links for 29-07-2018

British cabinet ministers meeting with far right nationalist: (tags: UK OhForFucksSake Conservatives )
Mary Berry plays drums with Rick Astley at Camp Bestival: (tags: headline music cooking )
ThunderMessage, Reddit's Blockchain Rival, Uses Bitcoin & Lightning Network Features: (tags: bitcoin discussion )
The death of a TLD: (tags: internet )
New Buffy: The Vampire Slayer series will be sequel, not reboot: (tags: tv buffy )
Sweden Dropped a Laser-Guided Bomb on a Forest Fire: (tags: Sweden fire )
Firefighters In Germany Have to Deal With Buried Explosives: (tags: Germany fire history explosives )
The Troubled Quest for the Superconducting Wind Turbine: (tags: physics windpower superconductors engineering )
Levi's now make their distressed jeans with lasers, and it's amazing: (tags: clothing lasers )
Largest ever poll on assisted dying shows 82% of public support change in the law: (tags: euthanasia law uk )
Pilots stop 222 asylum seekers being deported from Germany by refusing to fly: (tags: Germany asylum airplanes )
A withering verdict: MPs report on Zuckerberg, Russia and Cambridge Analytica: (tags: russia Facebook fraud democracy uk )
Army on standby for no-deal Brexit emergency: (tags: UK military Europe doom )
The British government still doesn't understand what the EU is: (tags: Europe uk )
Today marks 98 years since the first female jurors in England were sworn in.: (tags: law UK history women feminism )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3701117.html

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Interesting Links for 21-02-2018

The teenagers are rebelling, thank goodness: (tags: teenagers racism society GoodNews )
Why the Good Friday Agreement is important: (tags: NorthernIreland )
Standup comedian's husband sues for defamation over 'provocative' show: (tags: comedy relationships law uk )
Why the awfulness of the CIA is such a massive problem: (tags: cia usa OhForFucksSake )
Supplements are a $30 billion racket—here’s what experts actually recommend: (tags: health )
KFC's current situation is a warning about assuming that the cheapest contractor can deal with your complex problems: And here's the press release from October about how awesome it was going to be: https://www.logisticsmanager.com/kfc-picks-dhl-qsl-uk-logistics/
(tags: transport food chicken epicfail )
Ten years on from Norway's quota for women on corporate boards: (tags: women business )
This is one of the silliest things I've heard Theresa May say: "Oh go on, please give up a chunk of your power during a time of national crisis. You know you want to."
(tags: politics houseoflords )
Scottish income tax - how it affects you: (tags: Scotland tax )
How The Last Jedi is connected to a racist medieval story: (tags: history StarWars )
The “Microaggression” Concept: (tags: society racism sexism )
Swype pioneered a new way to type on smartphones—now it’s dead (which is a shame, because it's still my favourite keyboard): (tags: keyboard )
Counting Calories Is Not the Key to Weight Loss: (tags: diet food health )
Woman kicked off flight after crew heard her talking about period pain: (tags: menstruation airplanes EpicWTF OhForFucksSake )
How lasers and robo-feeders are transforming fish farming: (tags: fish robots lasers automation )
Black Panther: The Tale of Two Different Viewing Experiences: (tags: marvel movies racism )
China cracks down on funeral strippers: (tags: nudity death china )
How we teach girls to be overly cautious and boys to disregard consequences: (tags: gender behaviour society )
You can write a key logger in pure CSS.: (tags: security OhForFucksSake web )
High-testosterone traders earn lower returns: (tags: testosterone men investment psychology hormones )
When isolated people who have health problems are supported by community groups and volunteers, the number of emergency admissions to hospital falls spectacularly: (tags: community health )
The Myth of the Tragedy of the Commons: (tags: economics fraud capitalism )
Ikea joins Big Clean Switch to offer 100% renewable energy tariff: (tags: ikea renewables uk electricity )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3657836.html

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Interesting Links for 06-02-2018

Four week deadline to use Scottish paper money: (tags: Scotland money paper )
Humans (Like P!nk) Have Nipples And People Are Apparently Traumatised By This: (tags: breasts women bodies OhForFucksSake society )
Men with higher testosterone levels are less into classical music and opera: (tags: music men testosterone )
Smartglasses that project your notifications onto your retina using lasers. I want some so much!: (tags: lasers Technology glasses )
How and Why To Write a Rude Q&A: (tags: advice questions discussion work )
The Problem With Authority Parenting: (tags: parenting children )
Is Brexit the maddest thing England has ever done? Not quite: (tags: UK England France history war )
How to deal with children: (tags: children advice )
The boy who slept next to a bear: (tags: bears )
The true story of Milli Vanilli: (tags: music fraud OhForFucksSake )
When brains go (amusingly) wrong: (tags: funny life brain mistakes )
The UK Wants To Remain In The EU’s Trade Deals During The Transition Phase After Brexit: (tags: UK Europe trade )
Congestion in Edinburgh down by 10% (still rubbish): (tags: transport edinburgh )
UK built half of Europe's offshore wind power in 2017 (turbines nearly as tall as The Shard!): (tags: windpower UK GoodNews )
The Forgotten Renewable: Geothermal Energy Production Heats Up: (tags: heat power earth )
Irish Supreme court refuses man's extradition because of Brexit: (tags: Ireland Europe uk rights crime )
Lactation hormone cues birds to be good parents: (tags: birds hormones behaviour parenting )
Why the UK government shouldn't pardon the suffragettes.: (tags: women voting politics government uk history )
No one is making a “Lady Dorito.": (tags: women food OhForFucksSake marketing gender viaSwampers )
In London, Sri Lanka's Defence Attache stood opposite peaceful protesters and repeatedly ran his finger across his throat when looking at them.: (tags: OhForFucksSake protests )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3647887.html

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Interesting Links for 31-12-2017

Men Resist Green Behavior as Unmanly: (tags: men environment OhForFucksSake psychology )
Boris Johnson's 'Global Britain' claims mocked as UK cuts back embassies around world to fund more EU diplomats: (tags: uk diplomacy europe )
Iranians take to streets in biggest protest since crushed 2009 demonstrations: (tags: iran protests )
Whole of England to be mapped with lasers: (tags: lasers maps uk )
The Last Jedi, toxic masculinity, and showing your place in all this: (tags: patriarchy StarWars )
The Plasma Magnet Drive: A Simple, Cheap Drive for the Solar System and Beyond: (tags: space )
Why did it take so long for basic things to be invented?: (tags: prehistory invention )
How Taiwan transformed its health care system to single-payer: (tags: healthcare taiwan )
28 of the funniest Tweets of 2017: (tags: Twitter funny viaSwampers )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3618935.html

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Interesting Links for 23-09-2017

'Freeways' Is a Mobile Game That Lets You Play Traffic Engineer: (tags: games traffic transport )
The Hobbit Was Almost Illustrated by Maurice Sendak (for its 30th anniversary): (tags: TheHobbit Tolkien illustration )
Lightning storms triggered by exhaust from cargo ships: (tags: weather shipping lightning )
Brexit: What did we learn from Theresa May's Florence speech?: (tags: uk Europe )
Usher syndrome: Gene therapy restores hearing and balance (in mice): (tags: hearing genetics )
New antibody attacks 99% of HIV strains: (tags: aids vaccination thefuture GoodNews )
How to Win a War on Drugs: (tags: drugs portugal viaFanf )
Laser Socks – a sweaty game pointing toward the future of computing: (tags: lasers games )
Post a boarding pass on Facebook, get your account stolen: (tags: security travel )
Macron: No moving forward on Brexit until divorce points cleared up: (tags: UK europe )
Uber London ban: The scandals that brought down the ride-hailing app: (tags: regulation taxi london uk )