Entries tagged with livejournal

Entry tags:

Entry tags:

Interesting Links for 22-01-2023

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.: (tags:automation driving cars USA )
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 )

Entry tags:

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4072202.html

Entry tags:

Interesting Links for 12-08-2021

How To Be A Number One Dad: (tags:parenting comic true )
Wagner: Scale of Russian mercenary mission in Libya exposed: (tags:russia libya war )
Edinburgh councillors propose plan to crack down on short-term lets: (tags:Scotland Edinburgh housing rental )
This will make a lot of people I know feel very old: (tags:Livejournal age funny )
What are Prince Andrew's options over the sex abuse court case?: (tags:sex abuse royalty )
Ubisoft employees come out in support of Activision Blizzard employees: (tags:abuse work games )
Almost no trait is controlled by a single gene - not even eye colour: (tags:genes )
Autistic kids can now be electrocuted by teachers in USA if they are disobedient: (tags:USA torture electricity autism )
"Raiders of the Lost Ark" Story Conference: (tags:movies writing history )
Moderna Vaccine Significantly More Effective Against Delta Variant Than Pfizer: (tags:vaccine pandemic )
Covid in Scotland: Hospitals under more pressure than ever (catching up with untreated patients whose cases have become more complex): (tags:pandemic nhs scotland )
Feminism, biological fundamentalism and the attack on trans rights: (tags:transgender society LGBT )
Two-thirds of Brits support raising National Insurance to pay for social care reform: (tags:uk tax )
New guidance on supporting transgender pupils in Scottish schools: (tags:scotland school transgender )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4016530.html

Entry tags:

Interesting Links for 29-03-2021

Amazon Driver Quits, Saying Final Straw Was New AI Truck Cameras: (tags:ai surveillance Amazon driving )
Brain injuries are startlingly common among those who have committed crimes: (tags:crime injury brain viaPatrickHadfield )
Leaving Money on the Table: Why is There No New D&D Fiction Being Published?: (tags:fiction publishing dungeonsanddragons money )
How the brains of informed psychedelic users are different: (tags:psychedelics psychology )
Convicted perjurer Tommy Sheridan joins Alex Salmond's new party (both work for Kremlin-backed news sources, of course): (tags:Scotland politics independence )
Using metric paper to double (and halve) our way to the limits of the universe: (tags:space physics quantum video )
Alba are having an all woman safe space event to discuss their policies. Any women want to attend and see what they're planning?: (tags:women Scotland politics )
Scottish pet shelters at capacity with unwanted lockdown pets: (tags:pets scotland pandemic )
Non-Fungible Muggers. Clearly the future of...well, hopefully nothing: (tags:funny cryptography art comic )
Livejournal switches to taking payments in rubles (not that I've given them any money for a few years): (tags:livejournal russia )
What do you buy when you buy an NFT?: (tags:cryptography data copyright ownership contracts )
School abuse claims could be the next UK national scandal: (tags:uk school abuse )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3891830.html

Entry tags:

Interesting Links for 27-05-2020

People with dementia-linked genetic mutation twice as likely to develop severe Covid-19 infection: (tags:genetics virus )
The 'Justice League' Movie You Should Actually Watch (Anyone want to let me know if these are actually good?): (tags:DC comics movies animation )
Coronavirus spread on Edinburgh ward after patient's transfer: (tags:Edinburgh pandemic healthcare viaJane )
Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival - Writing Awards 2020: (tags:mentalhealth writing Scotland )
If a Pelican overheats it can pull its spine through its mouth to cool down.: Or just how they yawn?
https://twitter.com/corvidresearch/status/1265379051780182016?s=19
(tags:birds WTF )
How to make an omelette sandwich: (tags:food video )
Asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs struck Earth at 'deadliest possible angle': (tags:prehistory archeology extinction dinosaurs asteroids )
If the asteroid had arrived ten minutes sooner or later the dinosaurs would have survived: (tags:dinosaurs asteroids viaSwampers extinction )
Twitter's first fact-check on President Trump calls out false claims: (tags:twitter politics usa )
If you have a hard time taking compliments...: (tags:comic advice )
Likely LiveJournal password compromise: (tags:livejournal security fail )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3854325.html

Entry tags:

Interesting Links for 05-01-2020

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3720291.html

Entry tags:

Interesting Links for 03-09-2018

The UK's Brexit trade proposals are not even slightly acceptable to the EU: (tags: uk europe trade doom )
Vredefort Crater, the world’s oldest and largest known impact structure: (tags: meteor asteroids earth geology )
On American presidents and nuance: (tags: usa politics president )
Why federated social media will struggle with moderation, by someone with a huge amount of experience dealing with abuse and harassment online: (tags: dreamwidth livejournal abuse socialmedia )
Quiet Carriages are an Autistic lifeline. Please don’t take them away.: (tags: transport autism noise trains mentalhealth )
Frank Baum's uncomfortable relationship with Oz: (tags: Oz writing )
Brexit will lead to majorities for Irish unification and Scottish independence: (tags: Ireland NorthernIreland Scotland uk europe independence )
masochistic epistemology - When you believe that "what hurts, is true." things can only get worse: (tags: philosophy mentalhealth life emotion )
Brexit: Things are about to get exceedingly intense: (tags: uk Europe doom )
Hysteria Was Not Treated With Vibrators: (tags: women orgasm history psychology fraud viaCipherGoth )
YouTube algorithm deliberately recommended Brexit videos: (tags: uk Europe youtube )
“A safety net for the people of Europe”: 65 years of the European Convention on Human Rights: (tags: rights europe )
Brexit: Hundreds of Whitehall officials leave department in charge of EU withdrawal: (tags: Europe UK fail )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3567251.html

Entry tags:

Interesting Links for 10-04-2017

Flat-Earthers Have a Wild New Theory About Forests: (tags: forests conspiracy wtf )
People prefer fairness over equality: (tags: inequality psychology society )
15 honest British seaside postcards (Some of you will particularly appreciate Whitby): (tags: UK funny holidays goth )
When having separate bank accounts is the opposite of independence: (tags: relationships money )
Ikea's smart-lighting system is not a terrible apocalypse of security failure!: (tags: ikea security )
LJ to Dreamwidth in a Hurry: (tags: livejournal dreamwidth )
Want to find an old LJ friend? Linking DW and LJ identities: (tags: livejournal dreamwidth )
On the Women’s Petition Against Coffee of 1674: (tags: coffee history )
What is this colored fiber in my chicken?: (tags: chicken food wtf )
The connection between short and long-term memory is not what we thought: (tags: memory brain mice )
I took a feminism test. I'm not sure how I feel about the results: (tags: feminism )
Borders Railway extension prospects studied: (tags: rail scotland )
Third of cohabitants believed they had same rights as married couples (or did not know). 75% think those rights should exist.: Scotland is, as usual, ahead of the curve: http://www.familylawweek.co.uk/site.aspx?i=ed2365
(tags: uk scotland law relationships )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3566826.html

Entry tags:

Interesting Links for 08-04-2017

A fundamental flaw in the Mastodon social network: As far as I can see, this is a fatal flaw in any distributed social network. You'd need private/public keys to do this securely, and I'm not sure that's flexible/simple enough to work for most users.
(tags: socialnetworking security privacy )
US air strikes in Syria: Russia suspends agreement that prevents direct conflict with American forces: (tags: russia usa military syria OhForFucksSake viaSwampers )
If you're coming from LiveJournal to Dreamwidth: Importing: (tags: dreamwidth livejournal )
The US Press Are Going To Get Thousands Of People Killed: (tags: media war politics usa )
Joe Manganiello wrote a Dungeons and Dragons film he’s trying to get made: (tags: dungeonsanddragons movies )
Check Out Tokyo’s Cavernous, Creepy, Totally Sci-Fi Drainage Tunnels: (tags: japan water tunnels )
Google expands automatic “fact check” insertion into search results: (tags: facts google )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3565925.html

Entry tags:

Interesting Links for 06-04-2017

Are looks more important than personality when choosing a man?: (tags: attraction women men )
Less fear: How LSD affects the brain: (tags: fear lsd psychology )
Why more highly educated people are less into conspiracy theories: (tags: conspiracy Education thinking )
The Kafkaesque reality of how British famine relief in Ireland actually functioned: (tags: ireland food epicfail poverty uk history )
Getting antibiotics as a baby may have lasting effects on brain, behavior: (tags: antibiotics behavior babies )
Harry Shearer: Why My 'Spinal Tap' Lawsuit Affects All Creators: (tags: accounting hollywood fraud )
Conservative poll showed party would lose seats to the Liberal Democrats: (tags: libdem Conservatives )
It is immoral to be rich: (tags: morality money )
High school journalists investigate their new principal’s credentials, force them to resign.: (tags: journalism usa school viaSwampers )
Barry Manilow comes out. Also: bear & Pope news: Just for the glorious headline
(tags: lgbt headline )
I’m Asking You For A Peer-Reviewed Study Showing That A Typical Fat Person Can Become Sustainably Non-Fat Through Deliberate Weight-Loss: (tags: research fat diet )
A very long way from home: early Byzantine finds at the far ends of the world: (tags: history archeology )
It’s now illegal in Russia to share an image of Putin as a gay clown: (tags: lgbt russia censorship )
8,000 aspiring Uber and Lyft drivers fail state background check: (tags: driving crime )
Livejournal's new TOS makes all LGBT material adults-only: (tags: lgbt russia livejournal viaLProven )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3538670.html

Entry tags:

Interesting Links for 28-12-2016

Researchers "Translate" Bat Talk. Turns Out, They Argue—A Lot: (tags: bats language )
The Mysterious Virus That Could Cause Obesity: (tags: obesity weight fat chicken )
The best board games of 2016: (tags: games boardgames )
Giant robot takes first steps: (tags: robots )
Watership Down author Richard Adams dies aged 96: (tags: rabbits books death obituary )
Frog Fractions 2: the jig is up, and the game is here: (tags: games weird )
Within days of moving LJ servers LJ to Russia they blocked almost 100 users: Makes me glad to have Dreamwidth.
(tags: russia censorship livejournal )
Carrie Fisher Had Just One Request for Her Obituary: (tags: StarWars obituary )
Vera Rubin, 88, Dies; Opened Doors in Astronomy, and for Women: (tags: astronomy space women )
What does life look like in a patriarchal dystopia?: (tags: gender society dystopia )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3520348.html

Entry tags:

Interesting Links for 02-11-2016

This "Proud To Be British" Hoodie On Amazon Has A Small Apostrophe Problem: (tags: funny english punctuation nationalism )
Thinking of loved ones lessens our need to 'reconnect' through anthropomorphism: (tags: people psychology )
Robot tractors 'could help solve post-Brexit farm worker shortage': (tags: automation farming uk )
Nanobionic spinach plants can detect explosives: (tags: explosions nanotech plants Technology )
Modernist British safety posters from the middle of the 20th century.: (tags: safety design uk )
8 Sex Positive Things You Can Say To Your Kids That Have Nothing To Do With Sex: (tags: sex children parenting viaSwampers )
Livejournal finally gets "Like" functionality: (tags: livejournal )
Sharia councils treat Muslim women unfairly: (tags: islam women divorce religion uk )
Women running for office are judged on competence more harshly than men: (tags: politics gender )
Three low-carb meals within 24 hours lowers post-meal insulin resistance by more than 30 percent: (tags: diet insulin )
Sexual pleasure is a kind of trance: Orgasm is all about rhythmic timing: (tags: neuroscience psychology brain sex orgasm dancing )
Airline introduces child-free zones on all its flights: (tags: airplanes children )
On the Science of Changing Sex (loads of fascinating information): (tags: sex gender psychology science )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3444557.html

Entry tags:

Interesting Links for 26-04-2016

Parliamentary Majorities Suck: (More because I want to be able to find it later than anything else)
(tags: democracy voting scotland snp green )
A Bitcoin Exchange Just Got Approval to Operate Across the EU: (tags: bitcoin europe finance )
This is basically the future. I'm not unduly bothered by that.: (tags: thefuture Technology )
My friend finds cool stuff. You should go take a look.: (tags: viaSwampers cool internet livejournal )
This has never happened to me. Ever. At all.: (tags: funny comic dancing )
Some stats on Star Wars fanfic: (tags: fanfic StarWars statistics )
Amazing acrobatics in China: (tags: china impressive video )
Useful reminders from extinct animals: (tags: animals advice life )
'Mediterranean' diet linked to 30% lower risk of heart attacks, strokes in heart patients: (tags: diet food heart health )
Why people have butt cheeks: (tags: evolution humans bodies )
Final piece of type 1 diabetes puzzle solved: (tags: diabetes immune_system viaConuly )
Scientists need your help looking at photos of adorable penguins. Seriously.: (tags: penguins science )
Lionsgate is making its films available on Steam: (tags: steam movies )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3434402.html

Entry tags:

Interesting Links for 01-04-2016

There's a beauty contest for women in tech called IT Princess: (tags: princess beauty computers OhForFucksSake )
Bugs in our code? No waaaay....: (tags: coding programming computers )
An LJ suggestion I made in _2013_ has finally been posted.: (tags: livejournal twitter )
How to be the perfect rape victim: (tags: rape viaTheFerrett )
‘Bloody do-gooder’ desperately confused as to why this is a bad thing: (tags: society funny viaCipherGoth )
25 Superhero Films Just As Bad As Batman vs Superman: (tags: movies bad superheroes )
Mathematicians mapped out every “Game of Thrones” relationship to find the main character: (tags: mathematics network gameofthrones )
GlaxoSmithKline to 'drop patents in poor countries for better drug access': (tags: drugs healthcare patents )
Is it better to treat mentally ill people in the community, or to lock them up?: (tags: mentalhealth healthcare freedom )
Scotland to give legal recognition to people who are neither male nor female: (tags: Scotland identity gender )
How Batman vs Superman should have gone: (tags: batman superman funny comic )
Shiny: A very entertaining stop-motion short (albeit with a couple of bits that annoyed me): (tags: video animation viaSkreidle )
Watchmen April Fools is the best April Fools: (tags: funny watchmen photoshop )
22 Teachers Caught Being Awesome: (tags: teaching funny )
Best explanation of alignment charts that I've seen in a long time: (tags: roleplaying morality )
Government announces separate internets for annoying people: (tags: internet funny )
April Fool's Day: 10 stories that look like pranks but aren't: (tags: news funny )
Satirical website not really sure what to do today: (tags: news satire funny viaTaheerah )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3406327.html

Entry tags:

Interesting Links for 01-02-2016

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3404802.html

Entry tags:

Interesting Links for 29-01-2016

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3326087.html

Entry tags:

Interesting Links for 14-08-2015

Jeremy Corbyn replies to Blair warning: I don't do personal, I don't do abuse
- (tags: politics Labour )
Livejournal PSA: How to switch between /friends page and /feed page
- (tags: LiveJournal )
Neil Gaiman on His Return to Miracleman (22 years later!)
- (tags: Miracleman NeilGaiman )
How have things changed, 100 days into a Conservative government?
- (tags: conservatives libdem coalition politics UK )
Liquid magnets may be the lava lamps of the 21st century.
- (tags: magnets pretty )
Why paleontologists shouldn't play computer games...
- (tags: dinosaurs dragons games funny )
The Emerging Fetish of Laying Alien Eggs Inside Yourself
- (tags: fetish aliens sex )
What ‘Game of Thrones’ Does to Your Heart Rate
- (tags: gameofthrones heart )
Why are Scottish Muslims better integrated than English ones?
- (tags: Scotland Islam )
Blairism is magical thinking
- (tags: Labour politics viaJennieRigg )
Edinburgh's Half-A-Tram-Line loses less than expected
- (tags: trams Edinburgh )
What movie was #1 (in the US) the day you were born? (Deliverance!)
- (tags: movies birthday viaSwampers )
Woman ends twenty year attempt to like jazz
- (tags: jazz funny satire viaPatrickHadfield )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3313663.html

Entry tags:

Interesting Links for 19-07-2015

Dating tips from Love's Labour Lost
- (tags: dating advice relationships shakespeare )
Perfectly Timed Photos That Make Dogs Look Like Giants
- (tags: dogs photos viaJennieRigg )
Who's Actually Buying iPods These Days?
- (tags: music technology Apple )
The Earthquake That Will Devastate the Pacific Coast of America
- You didn't like Portland or Seattle, did you?
- (tags: earthquake USA )
What happens when we raise the minimum wage - the latest results
- (tags: minimumwage wages markets economics jobs )
Archery Tag - Like Paintball, but with Foam Tipped Arrows!
- (tags: paintball sports archery video fun )
Just 1mph too fast and you’re nicked: new zero tolerance approach to speeding
- (tags: Scotland driving speed speedcameras )
LiveJournal is currently running a survey on what would make the site better
- (tags: LiveJournal )
The curious truth about belly button fluff
- (tags: microbiome bacteria interesting bodies vianwhyte )
Back Pain Hacks
- (tags: back health pain advice )
What do low-paid workers think would improve their working lives?
- (tags: pay work )
Warhammer’s race and gender problem
- (tags: race gender warhammer diversity )