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Interesting Links for 12-06-2023
- 1. Netflix sees massive subscriber jump after password-sharing crackdown
- (tags:Netflix passwords business )
- 2. ChatGPT recommends software packages that don't exist - so hackers created them to take control of people's computers
- (tags:malware hacking ai )
- 3. There are some really weird underwater creatures out there
- (tags:nature ocean video weird )
- 4. 'It was the worst pain': Women still face agonising coil fittings despite pain relief guidance
- (tags:pain women contraception NHS OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Democrats work to protect abortion, trans rights with combined laws
- (tags:usa democrats abortion transgender GoodNews )
- 6. Five Things that Boris Johnson Might Be Up Too
- (tags:BorisJohnson politics Conservatives viaDanielDWilliam )
- 7. This is why I can't play Diablo for the next couple of years
- (tags:games time children )
- 8. Star Trek engineering rap
- (tags:music video funny StarTrek ViaDrCross )
- 9. Kate Forbes says she can't choose to stop being a bigot and that non-bigoted Christians aren't really properly Christian
- (tags:bigotry religion Christianity politics Scotland LGBT )
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Interesting Links for 24-02-2021
- The bitcoin blockchain is helping keep a botnet from being taken down
- (tags:bitcoin malware )
- Firefox enables Total Cookie Protection to stop you being tracked
- (tags:Firefox privacy )
- Chip shortage may threaten PlayStation 5 supplies at Christmas
- (tags:PlayStation CPU )
- Robot lumberjacks are terrifyingly impressive
- (tags:robots trees video )
- It is staggeringly hard for small businesses to export to the EU
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1364137289165791232.html
(tags:trade UK europe Doom ) - Why can't we unlock now the most vulnerable are vaccinated?
- (tags:pandemic vaccination )
- Why the high court was right to deny standing to members of parliament to bring public law claims
- (tags:law UK )
- Nursing home deaths spike after private equity acquisitions
- (tags:death age care OhForFucksSake viaCharlesStross )
- Learning to program increases your creativity, maths, and ability to reason
- (tags:thinking programming education )
- 50 terrible terrible sets of stairs
- (tags:housing stairs design fail )
- Scientists create new class of Turing patterns in colonies of E. coli
- (tags:patterns biology AlanTuring )
- Edinburgh councillors back call for buffer zones to protect women from abortion clinic protesters
- (tags:abortion protest Edinburgh GoodNews Scotland )
- Slug filmed descending from vertical thread of slime in never seen before behaviour
- (tags:animals )
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Interesting Links for 15-01-2020
- What it's like to freeze to death
- (tags:temperature weather death cold viaElfy )
- Who wants to know the rules to knife karaoke?
- (tags:rules music fighting )
- Star Wars 9's Original Story From Colin Trevorrow Reportedly Revealed
- (tags:StarWars )
- A Massive Global Reforestation Project Is How We Fix Climate Change
- (tags:climate geoengineering forests viaCipherGoth )
- Cumbria's Eden Valley to see reintroduction of beavers
- (tags:wildlife uk )
- A new approach to making airplane parts, minus the massive infrastructure
- (tags:airplanes design manufacturing nanotech carbon )
- Cryptominers are now hiding their code in WAV files
- (tags:cryptography virus malware )
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Interesting Links for 18-09-2019
- How geography and gender stack the deck for (or against) you
- (tags:billgates geography inequality gender )
- The Big Bang Theory lands exclusively on HBO Max in deal reportedly worth more than $1 billion
- Amazing how much money streaming TV is having thrown at it
(tags:money business TV comedy ) - The Internet Relies on People Working for Free
- (tags:software money business internet )
- How The Sun reports things differently in the UK and Ireland
- (tags:UK Ireland media )
- A fascinating personal story which starts with a verified true story and finishes with a grave.
- (tags:history video usa )
- New polling from YouGov finds 41% backing Lib Dem policy to revoke without a referendum with 38% against.
- (tags:libdem UK Europe )
- How is it that Boris Johnson got to this point without understanding the single market?
- (tags:BorisJohnson Europe uk OhForFucksSake )
- Massive Semen Explosion after Blaze Hits Bull Artificial Insemination Facility, Firefighters Forced to Dodge 'Projectiles'
- (tags:sperm cows fire headline )
- An r/relationships post about a weirdly specific fetish that turns out to be even more specific than that
- (tags:relationships wtf )
- Dominic Cummings has always tried to subvert democracy
- (tags:democracy government UK law )
- What would a cyber attack look like in the real world? (nicely constructed video)
- (tags:security advertising video )
- The cyber-attack that sent an Alaskan community back in time
- (tags:Alaska computers technology internet malware )
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- russia,
- saudiarabia,
- scotland,
- terrorism,
- transport,
- uk,
- ukraine,
- war
Interesting Links for 15-09-2019
- Saudi Arabia is shutting down half of its oil production after drone attack
- (tags:saudiarabia drone oil terrorism war )
- Fare-dodging insurance businesses
- (tags:transport insurance economics )
- New clues show how Russia's grid hackers aimed for physical destruction
- (tags:electricity Ukraine Russia hacking malware )
- That's now three Conservatives and three Labour MPs who have moved to the Lib Dems
- (tags:politics uk libdem )
- Conservative Party have advert removed by Facebook for putting a fake headline on a BBC news story
- (tags:conservatives fraud politics advertising Facebook )
- Voters would back temporary government of national unity to avoid no deal
- (tags:politics uk Europe polls )
- Most voters believe government should allow Scotland and Northern Ireland to decide on UK membership after Brexit
- (tags:UK NorthernIreland Scotland independence polls )
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- world,
- wtf
Interesting Links for 24-09-2018
- Majority Of Voters Back Urgent Reform Of Westminster System
- (tags: reform voting uk )
- Why it matters that Bert and Ernie are gay, which they are
- (tags: lgbt muppets SesameStreet )
- Octopuses on MDMA reveal genetic evolution link to human social behaviors
- (tags: social octopus ecstasy psychology )
- Continental Drift - It's amazing how recent anything even vaguely resembling modern continents arise
- (tags: geology geography video time )
- How the World Map Looks Wildly Different Than You Think
- (tags: video maps world size )
- Solar panels replaced tarmac on a motorway. Here are the results.
- (tags: solarpower roads fail )
- App update rejected for mentioning iPhone XR in release notes
- (tags: apple wtf )
- Chechnya starts concentration camps for gay men, first time after Hitler
- (tags: lgbt homosexuality Chechnya fascism bigotry OhForFucksSake )
- Labour's new Brexit referendum would not offer option to remain in EU, says John McDonnell
- (tags: Labour UK Europe OhForFucksSake )
- No one understands why DC is now removing Batman’s penis from comic
- (tags: comics penis censorship )
- Malware Disguised as Job Offers Distributed on Freelance Sites
- (tags: jobs malware virus OhForFucksSake )
- “Unadoptable” shelter cats get second chance at life by chasing mice
- (tags: cats mice jobs )
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- augmentedreality,
- europe,
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- germany,
- git,
- health,
- image,
- independence,
- labour,
- links,
- malware,
- marketing,
- media,
- microsoft,
- money,
- nazis,
- news,
- police,
- politics,
- polls,
- protests,
- racism,
- safety,
- science,
- scotland,
- smoking,
- technology,
- troll,
- uk,
- usa,
- viahugh,
- viajohnbobshaun,
- viaswampers,
- violence,
- virus,
- wikipedia,
- women
Interesting Links for 08-02-2017
- If you think Corbyn’s wrong on Labour’s Brexit policy, voters say otherwise
- (tags: labour polls uk europe )
- "It is Independence or nothing" - The German conditions for Scotland in the EU
- (tags: scotland europe independence uk germany )
- Google Brain super-resolution image tech makes “zoom, enhance!” real
- (tags: Technology image ai )
- One Woman’s Brilliant “Fuck You” to Wikipedia Trolls
- (tags: wikipedia abuse women science )
- World of Warcraft gold can now be used to buy other Blizzard items
- (tags: money games )
- Portal for the Microsoft HoloLens is a triumph
- (tags: games augmentedreality amazing viaJohnBobShaun )
- Fake news for liberals: misinformation starts to lean left under Trump
- (tags: media fake news politics )
- Wolfenstein Parody Thoughtfully Examines The Ethics Of Violence Against Nazis
- (tags: nazis violence funny games viaSwampers )
- More on GVFS
- (tags: git microsoft )
- Brexit boosts support for Scottish independence
- (tags: uk europe scotland independence )
- E-cigarettes safer than smoking says long-term study -- ScienceDaily
- (tags: smoking health )
- Toxic metals found in e-cigarette liquids
- (tags: smoking health safety )
- I just hit thirty thousand links!
- (tags: links AndrewDucker )
- A rash of invisible, fileless malware is infecting banks around the globe
- (tags: malware virus )
- Black Americans shot dead by police are twice as likely to be unarmed as white counterparts
- (tags: racism police usa )
- "I Helped Create the Milo Trolling Playbook—Stop Playing Right Into It"
- (tags: troll advertising politics marketing protests viaHugh )
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- davidbowie,
- economics,
- electricity,
- farming,
- funny,
- genes,
- goodnews,
- google,
- history,
- language,
- links,
- malaria,
- malware,
- materials,
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- movies,
- music,
- names,
- netflix,
- ohforfuckssake,
- politics,
- psychology,
- refugee,
- society,
- speakers,
- starwars,
- sun,
- syria,
- technology,
- telepathy,
- twitter,
- ufo,
- uk,
- usa,
- video,
- weather,
- web,
- windpower
Interesting Links for 10-01-2016
- Forbes forces readers to turn off ad blockers, promptly serves malware
- Researchers find a way to decipher some words in the mind before they are spoken
- So, given a few years to up the accuracy and reduce the size of the components, and a decent text-to-speech converter, we have telepathy!
- ‘Would he disapprove of my single heathen lifestyle?’: One woman and her Syrian refugee lodger
- Netflix’s hidden categories
- Breakthrough Material Is a Better Way To Turn CO2 Into Clean-Burning Fuel (Need efficiency for round-trip!)
- How Meteorology Changed Agriculture Forever
- The surprising perks of being easily embarrassed (Dammit, I'm not very good at it at all!)
- New Study Indicates Existence of Eight Conservative Social Psychologists
- So, do convervatives not go into social psychology? Do people go further left the more time they spend in the field? MOAR RESEARCH NEEDED!
- How does alcohol influence the mind? A look into the brain and its genes.
- Everything Google is working on - Robots! And cars! And fibre! And living forever!
- I wonder if Buckminster Fuller would approve of their campus design.
- Google Energy Kite Nears Launch Date
- The Real Value of $100 in Each State
- A little comic about Chewbacca and one of his best friends. (Star Wars:TFA spoilers)
- What did David Bowie do at your age?
- The Best (Worst) Suggestions From Twitter's #BadStarWars8Names
- The 2015 Word of the Year is singular “they”
- Where are all the right-wing stand-ups?
- Irregular heartbeat of the Sun driven by double dynamo - new "Maunder Minimum" predicted for 2030s
- We are visibly winning the war against malaria
- Who wouldn't want a speaker with a levitating UFO on top?
Interesting Links for 06-11-2014
- Games continue to not make people violent (in case you were wondering)
- Hundreds of Companies Seen Cutting Tax Bills by Sending Money Through Luxembourg
- Imposition of Identity, English Parliaments, and “Englishness”
- Edinburgh to Glasgow railway electrification work begins
- Breathing dirty air during pregnancy raises odds of childhood ADHD five times.
- Researchers send signals direct from one brain to another, allowing remote control of the recipient's hand
- Largest malware to hit OS X ever - also infect attached iPhones/iPads
- High-fat diet postpones brain aging (in mice)
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- yellowstone
Interesting Links for 12-12-2013
- People are targetting malware at high-stakes poker players, so that they can cheat in games against them
- Animated GIFs made from 150-year-old zoetropes
- What does a ten-month-old _really_ want for Christmas?
- David Cameron keeps 'little black book' of policies blocked by Lib Dems
- 24 Rules For Being A Gentleman In 2014 (or, indeed, a good person. Other than #5)
- French cafe offers discounts to polite customers
- Caltech Announces Open Access Policy
- Canada will phase out door to door mail delivery over 5 years
- Yellowstone supervolcano is more than twice as big as previously thought
- Labour moves closer to promise for free childcare for all preschoolers
- Why the MPs pay regulator thinks their pay raise is justified