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Interesting Links for 28-02-2025
Feb. 28th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Waymo is the only Western company with an autonomous taxi service. Here are their expansion plans for 2025.
- (tags:taxi automation driving thefuture )
- 2. A nice video explanation for why you can't go faster than the speed of light
- (tags:video physics time light relativity )
- 3. Are they, or were they? Use of tense when referring to death.
- (tags:language English death )
- 4. LGBTQ+ Purges In the US Government Begin
- (tags:USA LGBT bigotry politics republicans )
- 5. Elon Musk's Starlink Is Keeping Modern Slavery Compounds Online
- (tags:slavery space communication ElonMusk )
Interesting Links for 04-11-2024
Nov. 4th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Starmer's Brexit reset is stalling - and insiders in Brussels are worried
- (tags:UK Europe doom Labour OhForFucksSake )
- 2. 70% of the land in Britain is still owned by 1% of the population, largely descended from William the Conqueror's army
- (tags:uk inequality land )
- 3. The Mystery of How Agatha Christie Could Afford a Maid and a Nanny but Not a Car
- (tags:history economics )
- 4. PETA's Animal "Shelter" Continues as a Leader in Animal Death
- (tags:PETA pets death )
- 5. AI overwhelmingly prefers white and male job candidates in new test of resume-screening bias
- (tags:ai racism sexism names jobs )
- 6. 60% of Britain's Brexit pain is still to come, admits Treasury minister
- (tags:uk europe trade doom )
- 7. The 'light sabre' wielding photographer creating colourful light paintings
- (tags:light art photography )
- 8. When you visualise spacetime curving you're probably doing it wrong.
- (tags:physics visualisation )
Interesting Links for 31-03-2024
Mar. 31st, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. How to Talk to Little Girls
- (tags:girls beauty society eatingdisorders )
- 2. Church of Whale Fall
- (tags:religion ocean whales food )
- 3. Headless, dog-sized robot to patrol Alaska airport to prevent bird strikes
- (tags:robot dogs airplanes airport Alaska USA birds )
- 4. Disillusioned Businesses Discovering That AI Kind of Sucks
- (tags:ai business )
- 5. Personal 'invisibility shield' goes on sale, starting under $70
- (tags:invisiblity light technology )
Interesting Links for 07-11-2023
Nov. 7th, 2023 12:00 pm- 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 )
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Interesting Links for 03-06-2023
Jun. 3rd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Rainbow capitalism is good actually
- (tags:LGBT capitalism business society )
- 2. Portsmouth mayor uses Metallica entrance music at appointment ceremony
- (tags:metallica metal music politics UK )
- 3. Effect of Repeated Low-level Red Light on Myopia Prevention Among Children in China With Premyopia
- (tags:eyesight light children )
- 4. Twitter Fails to Remove Hate Speech by Blue-Check Users
- (tags:bigotry Twitter )
Interesting Links for 27-11-2022
Nov. 27th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Transporting liquid hydrogen is never going to be effective
- (tags:hydrogen energy storage viaDanielDWilliam )
- 2. Photochemistry happening in an exoplanet - found for the first time!
- (tags:space planets chemistry light )
- 3. It amuses me no end how much people can't understand that different people have fundamentally different experiences
- (tags:imagination vision psychology brain experience )
- 4. How is the China chip embargo going?
- (tags:China USA trade Doom technology processor cpu computers )
- 5. Half of Twitter's top advertisers have left the social media platform
- (tags:Twitter advertising )
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Interesting Links for 02-09-2022
Sep. 2nd, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. How The UK Government's £120m "Festival Of Brexit" Went Rogue
- (tags:uk europe festival satire viaSwampers )
- 2. "Sweet Child O' Mine" as a Bluegrass Song
- (tags:music GunsNRoses video )
- 3. Russian Lukoil chief dies in 'fall from hospital window' (several others have died mysteriously recently)
- (tags:Russia murder )
- 4. People are complaining about the use of technology in art again. This is why they're wrong
- (tags:art technology viaPatrickHadfield )
- 5. I would like to pre-book my tickets to Muppet Dracula
- (tags:Dracula movies muppets )
- 6. I both want this story to be true and can't bear the thought that it might be
- (tags:sex music wtf )
- 7. Google's New AI Learned To See In The Dark! (Very impressive noise reduction and transformation of individual photos into a 3d environment)
- (tags:ai photos light )
- 8. What does a pound donation to Eton get them versus what it gets an ordinary school
- (tags:tax school UK )
- 9. Passing A Portal Through Itself
- (tags:portal games physics video viaSwampers )
Interesting Links for 06-08-2022
Aug. 6th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Benjamin Zephaniah: I'm 64 and my infertility still brings me to tears
- (tags:fertility men )
- 2. Mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS) 101
- (tags:disease allergies )
- 3. Leaked video shows Rishi Sunak saying he took funding from deprived urban areas
- (tags:Conservatives money inequality )
- 4. French mayor threatens €15,000 deposit to climb Mont Blanc
- (tags:mountains france )
- 5. Skin exposure to UVB light induces sexual behavior
- (tags:light sex )
- 6. Nexflix's 'The Sandman' is an emotionally deeper and more adult version of the original comics (found this through Neil Gaiman approvingly sharing it)
- https://twitter.com/neilhimself/status/1555587788879417344
(tags:comics TV writing sandman neilgaiman ) - 7. Generating computer game descriptions and art with two different AIs
- (tags:AI art writing games design ViaDrCross )
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Interesting Links for 12-07-2022
Jul. 12th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. US Crosses the Electric-Car Tipping Point for Mass Adoption
- (tags:usa cars electricity )
- 2. Turns out that 84% of people actually like self check-out in shops
- (tags:shopping automation )
- 3. Food-seeking behavior is triggered by skin ultraviolet exposure in males (but not females)
- (tags:light hunger gender )
- 4. 'Face of the first European': Archeologists in Spain may have found continent's oldest human fossil
- (tags:europe archeology humans )
- 5. NASA's new Webb Telescope Delivers Deepest Infrared Image of Universe Yet
- (tags:nasa astronomy )
- 6. Elvis Film Review - I would rather like to see this
- (tags:music movies review history )
- 7. How Puerto Rico 1897 Came to Be - an update to the classic boardgame to include less slavery and colonialism
- (tags:racism slavery games viaSwampers )
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Interesting Links for 26-06-2022
Jun. 26th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Why British barristers are on strike
- (tags:UK law OhForFucksSake )
- 2. How Trump Administration Tracked Migrant Girls' Periods to Stop Them From Getting Abortions
- (tags:USA menstruation surveillance history )
- 3. How 'The Dress' Sparked a Neuroscience Breakthrough
- (tags:clothing light perception psychology )
- 4. The two types of creativity peak at very different ages
- (tags:creativity psychology age )
- 5. The joy of no sex: Study of Tibetan monks shows evolutionary advantages of celibacy
- (tags:evolution sex celibacy Tibet )
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Interesting Links for 10-05-2022
May. 10th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Levelling up funding bids rejected in 28 of England's most deprived councils
- (tags:inequality uk )
- 2. The police do not care about death threats to women
- (tags:women abuse UK police OhForFucksSake )
- 3. The USA is not a functioning democracy
- (tags:democracy USA epicfail )
- 4. How candles work
- (tags:physics light )
- 5. Labour attacking the Green Party from the right...
- (tags:GreenParty labour politics )
- 6. Nobel disease
- (tags:Nobel mentalhealth conspiracy )
- 7. Electing a wheelchair user to Edinburgh council highlights how little accessibility is considered
- (tags:accessibility disability Edinburgh politics )
- 8. Edinburgh council coalition talks: Other parties frustrated at lack of clarity over what Labour can and cannot do
- (tags:labour politics scotland edinburgh )
- 9. Labour councils refusing to go into coalitions, still want the benefits of one
- Seriously, what are they up to?
(tags:labour Scotland OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 21-04-2022
Apr. 21st, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. You can plant an undetectable backdoor in any deep learning model
- (tags:ai scary )
- 2. LGB Alliance: Queen's jubilee funding withdrawn from anti-trans hate group
- (tags:LGBT transgender bigotry GoodNews )
- 3. Fears of an egg shortage as farmers threaten to stop production until supermarkets increase prices
- (tags:economics eggs UK )
- 4. Further to the discussion the other day about child rearing
- (tags:children comic funny )
- 5. Almost a quarter of women in Scotland say they have been stalked (and 1 in 7 men)
- (tags:abuse harrassment scotland )
- 6. The French town where the lighting is alive
- (tags:light life france )
Interesting Links for 14-04-2022
Apr. 14th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Hard drives we didn't want or need - and what have they got to do with juggling trillions of chainsaws?
- (tags:data video funny Technology silly )
- 2. Why the UK parliament's standards committee is powerless on Boris breaking the law and then lying about it
- (tags:politics UK parliament lies )
- 3. Lifting of Scottish face mask laws confirmed for Monday
- (tags:Pandemic Scotland )
- 4. Far-UVC (222Â nm) light should be staggeringly effective against airborne viruses
- (tags:virus light )
- 5. Elden Ring Looks Tiny, Adorable With 'Tilt-Shifted' Camera (and like it was directed by Henry Selick)
- (tags:games cute viaSwampers )
- 6. Fantastic Beasts: Inside Scandals, Controversies Plaguing the Series (along with it not being very good)
- (tags:jkrowling transgender bigotry harrypotter fail movies business )
- 7. Nobody knows why this Unicode character exists
- (tags:Unicode )
- 8. Autopsies suggest COVID's smell loss is caused by inflammation, not virus
- (tags:inflammation virus smell brain )
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Interesting Links for 04-03-2022
Mar. 4th, 2022 12:00 pm- Five Classic Films Guaranteed to Traumatize Children
- (tags:movies children trauma )
- Most Brits still want Boris Johnson to resign (54% to 35%)
- (tags:BorisJohnson party Pandemic )
- Female Clyde players quit as council ban rapist player & opt not to renew lease
- (tags:rape football Scotland )
- What does the motion of the tides look like around the world?
- (tags:Ocean tides video )
- The Speed of Light is not About Light
- (tags:mathematics physics reality light relativity video )
- How tides work. (My understanding was... not right)
- (tags:tides ocean video physics gravity )
Interesting Links for 03-03-2022
Mar. 3rd, 2022 12:00 pm- Lecturers share their terrible reviews
- (tags:reviews academia university )
- Hidetaka Miyazaki Sees Death as a Feature, Not a Bug
- (tags:death failure games )
- What Russian "intellectuals" are saying right now
- (tags:russia ukraine nationalism )
- The British Guardian Vs the American one on the subject of trans rights
- (tags:LGBT rights guardian transgender )
- How badly will sanctions affect Russia?
- (tags:Russia war Ukraine economy economics trade viaDanielDWilliam )
- The projected light show from Paisley Abbey is rather beautiful
- (tags:light animation Scotland video )
- Ukraine's Chinese characteristics
- (tags:ukraine china taiwan )
- Carmakers shut factories and freeze sales as Ukraine invasion fallout spreads
- (tags:ukraine manufacturing russia cars )
- Bee-killing pesticide banned by EU to be used in UK
- (tags:bees pesticide uk doom )
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Interesting Links for 22-02-2022
Feb. 22nd, 2022 12:00 pm- The elaborate con that tricked dozens into working for a fake design agency (for free!)
- (tags:fraud jobs OhForFucksSake )
- Benefits changes could have serious consequences on mental health, warns UK psychologists' body
- (tags:mentalhealth welfare uk OhForFucksSake )
- Lit-Up Fishing Nets Dramatically Reduce Catch of Unwanted Sharks, Rays and Squid
- (tags:light fish fishing sharks squid )
- First gene therapy for Tay-Sachs disease successfully given to two children
- (tags:genetics Jews medicine )
- How Scholars Once Feared That the Book Index Would Destroy Reading
- (tags:reading books organisation )
- Some Reasons why Babies Cry in the First Three Months, How to Tell Them Apart, and What to Do
- (tags:babies advice )
- Where Are All the Men in Science Fiction?!?
- (tags:scifi men gender women publishing )
- The "Peacemaker" Opening Credits are just...amazing. (I just about held it together until the eagle. And then the giggling started.)
- (tags:tv superheroes video funny )
- Wordle, confirmation bias, and conspiracy theories
- (tags:conspiracy words game psychology )
- Boris Johnson takes away the tools people use to avoid killing their relatives
- (tags:conservatives Pandemic OhForFucksSake )
- We are in an unprecedented era of UK relative macroeconomic decline
- (tags:economics uk doom Conservatives viaDanielDWilliam )
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Interesting Links for 13-12-2021
Dec. 13th, 2021 12:00 pm- Infrared antenna-like structures in mammalian fur
- (tags:mammals light heat )
- New roles on isolation in Scotland for household contacts
- (tags:Pandemic Scotland )
- A New Sith, or Revenge of the Hope (what R2 was really up to - I've been meaning to save this link for ages)
- (tags:StarWars fanfic )
- Austria ends COVID-19 lockdown measures - so long as you're vaccinated
- (tags:vaccination Austria Pandemic )
- Visualizing Gravity With A Large Sheet Of Spandex
- (tags:gravity materials visualisation video )
- Boris Johnson is doing great work to bring about a United Ireland
- (tags:Ireland UK Europe BorisJohnson conservatives )
- Cultures Where Men and Women Don't Speak the Same Language
- (tags:language gender )
- Poorest families worse off under Boris Johnson while incomes of richest soar
- (tags:inequality Conservatives )
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