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Interesting Links for 01-09-2025
Sep. 1st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Big Tech Companies in the US Have Been Told Not to Apply the EU's Digital Services Act
- (tags:Europe USA socialnetworking regulation )
- 2. How far away is quantum computing from affecting current cryptography?
- (tags:cryptography quantum )
- 3. Why haven't quantum computers factored 21 yet?
- (tags:quantum mathematics )
- 4. What do AI fashion models mean for the future of beauty standards
- (tags:ai fashion beauty )
- 5. Why Labour Looking Into Changing The ECHR Matters
- (tags:Labour rights OhForFucksSake )
- 6. Who will win the Eternal Struggle?
- (tags:war funny )
- 7. The Qweremin (a qwerty theremin)
- (tags:music technology )
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- ai,
- beauty,
- cryptography,
- europe,
- fashion,
- funny,
- labour,
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- mathematics,
- music,
- ohforfuckssake,
- quantum,
- regulation,
- rights,
- socialnetworking,
- technology,
- usa,
- war
Interesting Links for 05-08-2025
Aug. 5th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. How the UK's Equality and Human Rights Commission has gone horribly wrong,
- (tags:uk equality rights OhForFucksSake politics )
- 2. "The Demon that Wears my Face"
- (tags:jobs ai short_story scifi )
- 3. You get women with XY chromosomes who can give birth. Turns out biology is complicated
- (tags:gender women genetics )
- 4. The Math Is Haunted (a look at a mathematics prover)
- (tags:mathematics programming )
- 5. Scientists unravel decade-long mystery behind death of five billion starfish
- (tags:life disease ocean sea )
- 6. Aerial footage filmed by ITV News shows the scale of Gaza's destruction
- (tags:gaza genocide Israel )
- 7. Grid-scale Batteries in Scotland Stabilize Power
- (tags:Scotland batteries electricity )
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- ai,
- batteries,
- disease,
- electricity,
- equality,
- gaza,
- gender,
- genetics,
- genocide,
- israel,
- jobs,
- life,
- links,
- mathematics,
- ocean,
- ohforfuckssake,
- politics,
- programming,
- rights,
- scifi,
- scotland,
- sea,
- short_story,
- uk,
- women
Interesting Links for 30-05-2025
May. 30th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Quakers refuse to exclude trans people from their facilities: 'This is what Love requires of us'
- (tags:religion transgender love )
- 2. Global warming is now destroying Swiss villages
- (tags:globalwarming Switzerland doom )
- 3. Quakers first British church to state belief that genocide underway in Gaza
- (tags:religion genocide gaza Palestine )
- 4. Walkers' Sensations Poppadoms vs HMRC: the Chip of Theseus
- (tags:tax food ontology potato uk law )
- 5. Make money to cover competing at the Olympics? Not if you do it sexily!
- (tags:money sexwork Olympics OhForFucksSake )
- 6. AI video just took a startling leap in realism. Are we doomed?
- (tags:ai video doom )
- 7. Your next gaming dice could be shaped like a dragon or armadillo
- (tags:dice mathematics )
- 8. Scotland's travellers suffered 'cultural genocide', report finds
- (tags:Scotland society history )
- 9. Scientists finally crack mystery of how clapping generates sound
- (tags:sound physics )
- 10. Attorney General compares Reform and Tories' policy to actions of Nazi Germany
- (tags:law UK Nazis history )
- 11. UnitedHealth reportedly paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers
- (tags:USA healthcare OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 09-04-2025
Apr. 9th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Confusion surrounds ETA visa waiver process for some dual national Brits
- (tags:migration uk passport )
- 2. Intelligence Evolved at Least Twice in Vertebrate Animals
- (tags:Intelligence crows primates evolution )
- 3. No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation
- (tags:ai Technology images )
- 4. Trump tariffs based on massive error (as well as being total nonsense)
- (tags:mathematics trade incompetence EpicStupidity politics usa )
- 5. Pakistan's 22 GW Solar Shock: How a Fragile State Went Full Clean Energy (current payback time for a solar panel in Pakistan is 2-3 years)
- (tags:pakistan solarpower GoodNews )
- 6. People conceived during colder months may end up with a lower body mass index and less fat around internal organs
- (tags:weather temperature fat )
- 7. What's going on with the announcements of "bringing dire wolves back from extinction"
- (tags:prehistory DNA animals wolves genetics viaPatrickHadfield )
- 8. Bracket City - a fun new daily puzzle!
- (tags:puzzle games )
- 9. Trade Will Move On Without the United States
- (tags:trade USA )
- 10. Great Moments in Peaceful Protest History
- (tags:protests funny satire comic )
- 11. Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws
- (tags:gender race research libraries USA censorship )
- 12. China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech
- (tags:china materials USA trade doom )
- 13. How are Trump's supporters dealing with the tariff fallout?
- (tags:politics usa republicans )
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- animals,
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- china,
- comic,
- crows,
- dna,
- doom,
- epicstupidity,
- evolution,
- fat,
- funny,
- games,
- gender,
- genetics,
- goodnews,
- images,
- incompetence,
- intelligence,
- libraries,
- links,
- materials,
- mathematics,
- migration,
- pakistan,
- passport,
- politics,
- prehistory,
- primates,
- protests,
- puzzle,
- race,
- republicans,
- research,
- satire,
- solarpower,
- technology,
- temperature,
- trade,
- uk,
- usa,
- viapatrickhadfield,
- weather,
- wolves
Interesting Links for 11-03-2025
Mar. 11th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. British cartoonist R.E. Burke detained by ICE on backpacking trip
- (tags:travel usa OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression
- (tags:economics USA doom funny )
- 3. What is mathematics?
- (tags:mathematics )
- 4. New German, Swiss, And Austrian Guidelines Recommend Trans Youth Care, Slam Cass Review
- (tags:Germany Austria Switzerland transgender healthcare LGBT )
- 5. A short list of things that will be just fine.
- (tags:hope thefuture )
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- austria,
- doom,
- economics,
- funny,
- germany,
- healthcare,
- hope,
- lgbt,
- links,
- mathematics,
- ohforfuckssake,
- switzerland,
- thefuture,
- transgender,
- travel,
- usa
Interesting Links for 12-02-2025
Feb. 12th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Five ways to reform benefits - from insiders who know its failings
- (tags:welfare uk )
- 2. If you want people to remember, tell them what they got right, not what they got wrong.
- (tags:memory learning psychology )
- 3. Harlow school punishes pupils for scoring below 90% in maths
- (tags:school punishment OhForFucksSake uk mathematics viaPatrickHadfield )
- 4. First, give the man the fish!
- (tags:advice Education )
- 5. guys .002 seconds after learning about the "male loneliness epidemic"
- (tags:men society video funny )
- 6. BBC research shows issues with over half the answers from Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistants
- (tags:ai misinformation )
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Interesting Links for 22-10-2024
Oct. 22nd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. There's a growth in AI books narrated by AI.A librarian investigates.
- (tags:ai writing librarian library )
- 2. What common items sold in airports after the security screening be used to build lethal weapons?
- (tags:weaponry security_theatre airport viaSwampers )
- 3. A guide to a bit of how LLMs work that I hadn't understood before - Attention. The maths is beyond me, but the concepts are fascinating.
- (tags:ai mathematics video )
- 4. Time: Yes, it's a dimension, but no, it's not like space (and how that insight leads to relativity)
- (tags:space time relativity physics )
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Interesting Links for 02-10-2024
Oct. 2nd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. "We're all a bit autistic" says woman who doesn't realise she's a lot autistic
- (tags:autism funny )
- 2. SFGATE Drew Magary begs you not to see Francis Ford Coppola's new film
- (tags:movies review epicfail )
- 3. The Netherlands Has Returned 288 Stolen Artifacts to Indonesia
- (tags:history museums netherlands Indonesia )
- 4. Scottish government: Assisted dying bill not in Holyrood's powers
- (tags:scotland uk euthanasia )
- 5. The Elite College Students Who Can't Read Books
- (tags:reading education USA books )
- 6. The English language is the worst
- (tags:language English funny video viaSwampers )
- 7. REVIEW: Math from Three to Seven, by Alexander Zvonkin (A Russian struggles to teach maths to little kids)
- (tags:mathematics children Education )
Interesting Links for 28-09-2024
Sep. 28th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. In case you were wondering what Lord Alli gets in exchange for donations to Starmer...
- (tags:politics money corruption uk labour )
- 2. Why Video Games Are Tough For Storytelling
- (tags:games stories )
- 3. People who had two COVID-19 infections were more than twice as likely—and those who had three or more COVID-19 infections were almost four times more likely—to report long COVID as those with one infection.
- (tags:pandemic doom )
- 4. Mathematician unravels Shakespeare-era card trick (with a little help from his ten year old)
- (tags:children mathematics shakespeare magic cards history )
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Interesting Links for 16-04-2024
Apr. 16th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. "10 Things I Didn't Know About Neil Gaiman Before I Wrote a Book About Neil Gaiman"
- (tags:neilgaiman )
- 2. The Great Nazi science purge of 1933
- (tags:Jews science Germany mathematics USA history )
- 3. What Canadian doctors say about the Cass review questioning puberty blockers for transgender youth
- (tags:transgender bigotry Canada UK healthcare LGBT )
- 4. Making a Chinese chess board
- (tags:video china chess craftwork impressive )
- 5. What it was like being married to Tolstoy (or a great many other men throughout history)
- (tags:women history patriarchy )
- 6. Can you decipher the Cosmic Call message?
- (tags:mathematics space communication )
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- bigotry,
- canada,
- chess,
- china,
- communication,
- craftwork,
- germany,
- healthcare,
- history,
- impressive,
- jews,
- lgbt,
- links,
- mathematics,
- neilgaiman,
- patriarchy,
- science,
- space,
- transgender,
- uk,
- usa,
- video,
- women
Interesting Links for 12-01-2024
Jan. 12th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. £2bn town planned near Edinburgh Airport
- (tags:housing edinburgh )
- 2. Florida School District Bans Dictionaries Under DeSantis Law
- (tags:USA censorship )
- 3. I love these appropriately damaged paintings
- (tags:art video )
- 4. A collection of gorgeous play areas inside libraries
- (tags:library play )
- 5. A great takedown of Stephen Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science"
- Which I am reading 21 years later, but still, handy to have about the place in case of arguments.
(tags:mathematics review )
Interesting Links for 21-11-2023
Nov. 21st, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. The problems the NHS is facing were all predicted years ago, but the UK doesn't do long term planning
- (tags:UK NHS doom )
- 2. 200 mobsters convicted in mass trial of Italy's 'Ndrangheta mafia
- (tags:Italy mafia law GoodNews )
- 3. New rule, if you don't understand exponential growth then you're not allowed to run a country
- (tags:mathematics politics Pandemic )
- 4. How accurate is the new Napoleon movie?
- (tags:movies funny history )
- 5. A City on Mars: Reality kills space settlement dreams
- (tags:space reality )
Interesting Links for 02-11-2023
Nov. 2nd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. A Jewish woman finds that staff at The Guardian are about as compassionate as you'd expect
- (tags:Jews guardian Israel Palestine OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Latest Long Covid research update
- (tags:Pandemic )
- 3. Giant white stag made of boulders re-emerges on Aberdeenshire hill
- (tags:Scotland deer viaDanielDWilliam art )
- 4. Medical researcher discovers integration, gets 75 citations
- (tags:mathematics communication doctors )
- 5. The Family Recipes That Live On in Cemeteries
- (tags:death recipe )
- 6. City of Edinburgh Council set to declare housing emergency
- (tags:housing edinburgh )
- 7. Autumn colours in Scotland's woodlands, parks and streets
- (tags:autumn scotland photos )
- 8. Religious people have the most positive experiences. People in less religious countries have the most positive experiences. What a fascinating contradiction.
- (tags:religion experience happiness )
- 9. BT are going to remove 85 phone kiosks from Edinburgh, clearing up a bunch of vandalised eyesores.
- (tags:edinburgh phones )
- 10. "I'm only going to have sober sex - even one drink can ruin it"
- (tags:sex alcohol )
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Interesting Links for 02-10-2023
Oct. 2nd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. cripes does anybody remember Google People (a short story)
- (tags:short_story Google technology AI scifi horror )
- 2. The world's oldest trigonometry table (1,500 years before the Greeks)
- (tags:archaeology mathematics )
- 3. Extreme Misogyny in Incels Probably Not Caused by Sexual Frustration (instead caused by trying to show how much inceller they are than any of their terrible friends)
- (tags:misogyny psychology )
- 4. How Insect Brains Melt and Rewire During Metamorphosis
- (tags:insects brain )
- 5. U2 at the Sphere in Vegas looks mind-blowing
- (tags:u2 video concert technology )
- 6. The 'Center of Edinburgh' Bollard
- (tags:Edinburgh postoffices )
- 7. You cannot design a productive city around car transport
- (tags:cars transport cities viaDanielDWilliam )
- 8. Animation vs. Math
- (tags:mathematics animation video )
- 9. Oxford University Mathematician reacts to "Animation vs. Math"
- (tags:mathematics video animation )
- 10. The Untold Story of NotPetya, the Most Devastating Cyberattack in History
- (tags:security Technology epicfail hacking )
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- animation,
- archaeology,
- brain,
- cars,
- cities,
- concert,
- edinburgh,
- epicfail,
- google,
- hacking,
- horror,
- insects,
- links,
- mathematics,
- misogyny,
- postoffices,
- psychology,
- scifi,
- security,
- short_story,
- technology,
- transport,
- u2,
- viadanieldwilliam,
- video
Interesting Links for 28-06-2023
Jun. 28th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Hybrid working has not hurt civil service productivity
- (tags:work efficiency )
- 2. Just how big is 52 factorial?
- (tags:mathematics video )
- 3. Thinking of yourself as being responsible for the animal (which is also you) can be a really powerful metaphor
- (tags:advice happiness animals training )
- 4. Colour-cycling pixel art is gorgeous
- (tags:animation colour art )
- 5. John Roberts has wrested back control of the US Supreme Court.
- (tags:USA law )
Interesting Links for 20-05-2023
May. 20th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Mourning Porn on Imgur, Mourning Trans & Kinky History
- (tags:censorship lgbt history OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Houston's only lesbian bar denied insurance for hosting drag
- (tags:insurance clothing gender OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards - the finalists for every year since 2016
- (tags:animals funny photos )
- 4. How the use of technology in science fiction tells you what the writer is actually interested in talking about
- (tags:scifi writing )
- 5. About as simple a guide as you can get to how the recent flock of AIs work. (It really is Searle's Chinese Room)
- (tags:language mathematics ai )
- 6. People are still massively wasting publishers' time by submitting AI generated short stories.
- (tags:AI short_story publishing OhForFucksSake spam )
- 7. The Staircase of Global Warming Denial
- (tags:globalwarming visualisation )
- 8. What's so great about Costa Rica?
- (tags:SouthAmerica politics society history )
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Interesting Links for 02-05-2023
May. 2nd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Half of Vinyl Buyers in the US Don't Have a Record Player
- (tags:music business )
- 2. Why Neil Gaiman wrote Marvel 1602
- (tags:marvel comics neilgaiman terrorism )
- 3. Lego Googol Machine
- (tags:lego mathematics time )
- 4. Modern graphics are really impressive: Star Trek edition
- (tags:StarTrek graphics )
- 5. How much has AI image generation improved in the last year?
- (tags:ai graphics impressive )
- 6. You can improve gpt4 performance an astounding 30% by asking it to reflect on "why were you wrong?", and generate a new prompt for itself taking that reason into account until it is correct.
- (tags:ai )
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- neilgaiman,
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- terrorism,
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