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Interesting Links for 14-08-2026
Aug. 14th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. ICE equipping agents with gloves that deliver electric shocks (380 volts!)
- (tags:electricity usa immigration OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Are Raccoons Evolving Into Pets? (They are currently terrible at it)
- (tags:raccoon pets evolution )
- 3. Six London councils keep trans-inclusive services despite EHRC guidance
- (tags:London LGBT transgender GoodNews UK )
- 4. Latest images and progress following the Princes Street fire
- (tags:photos Edinburgh fire )
- 5. Princes Street should reopen by end of August
- (tags:fire Edinburgh )
- 6. Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal
- (tags:microsoft addiction ai )
- 7. Slop art - what is it, and why does that matter?
- (tags:ai writing art comics philosophy )
- 8. So what exactly did Q Manivannan say that was so wrong?
- (tags:rape law Scotland politics )
- 9. Ukrainian drones wipe out entire US tank brigade in live war game
- (tags:military Technology )
- 10. Curing drug addiction with ultrasound
- (tags:drugs addiction ultrasound brain )
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Interesting Links for 30-07-2026
Jul. 30th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Air filters don't stop you catching infectious respiratory diseases
- (tags:air virus disease )
- 2. Major unions boycott Labour Women's Conference over trans ban
- (tags:unions lgbt transgender GoodNews women labour bigotry )
- 3. Farage loses a popularity contest against every other national party leader
- (tags:uk polls politics )
- 4. A malicious word document read in to CoPilot can spread itself to new documents and maliciously alter others.
- (tags:ai virus doom microsoft )
- 5. Princes Street to remain shut for three weeks as safety work carried out
- (tags:Edinburgh fire transport )
- 6. Baseload is a myth
- (tags:electricity myths )
- 7. Scotland's 48% top rate: is it raising any money at all?
- (tags:tax Scotland economics )
- 8. Covid infection leads to destruction of the blood brain barrier and activates Alzheimer's-related genes (in mice)
- (tags:alzheimers Pandemic brain doom mice viaKenny )
- 9. Europe turns to goats to prevent wildfires
- (tags:nature fire Goats )
- 10. Britain is in denial on the prisons crisis
- (tags:uk prison government )
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Interesting Links for 07-07-2026
Jul. 7th, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Challenging the EHRC Code of Practice: A Judicial Review (I've just donated)
- (tags:UK transgender bigotry law CrowdFunding )
- 2. Endometriosis could be diagnosed by blood test
- (tags:endometriosis blood GoodNews )
- 3. If this is Tuesday, Doctor Who must have just ended
- (tags:drwho TV UK bbc )
- 4. A Hacker's Arrest Reveals Microsoft Can Track Users Via a Windows Device ID | PCMag
- (tags:surveillance Microsoft windows )
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Interesting Links for 21-11-2025
Nov. 21st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. 2% of people are just bastards
- (tags:oxytocin psychology morality sharing business )
- 2. Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source
- (tags:games history Microsoft opensource )
- 3. Women Keep Ruining the Workplace!!
- (tags:women work society satire funny USA )
- 4. "We Didn't Start The Fire" The Silmarillion Edition
- (tags:lotr viaNancyLebov video music )
Interesting Links for 26-09-2025
Sep. 26th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Every UK adult will need 'Brit card' digital ID under Starmer plan to tackle illegal migration
- (tags:uk identity )
- 2. The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand (a review)
- (tags:fanfic stephen_king review )
- 3. Ukraine's Plan to Starve the Russian War Machine (by using their new drone factories to destroy Russian oil refineries and processing plants)
- (tags:oil russia ukraine war drones )
- 4. AI-generated fiction homogenises culture, painting surface-level details over the same story every time.
- (tags:ai fiction society )
- 5. An English teacher experiments with his class and AI. The results are complex and nuanced.
- (tags:ai writing university )
- 6. Microsoft block Israel's access to Azure and genAI tech used to surveil millions of Palestinian phone calls
- (tags:microsoft israel )
Interesting Links for 01-07-2025
Jul. 1st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Jaws (1975) | Modern Trailer
- (tags:movies trailer sharks video )
- 2. Everything I Thought I Knew About Nasal Congestion Is Wrong
- (tags:noses health )
- 3. Edinburgh's GDP per Capita now outpaces London
- (tags:edinburgh london gdp economy scotland uk )
- 4. Microsoft claims their new AI framework diagnoses 4x better than doctors. Here's why this is both impressive AND misleading
- (tags:ai medicine Microsoft )
- 5. China is cracking down on young women who write gay erotica
- (tags:china censorship LGBT OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 04-06-2025
Jun. 4th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Microsoft will make Windows use your selected browser for searches. But only in the EU. Because they're dicks.
- (tags:Microsoft OhForFucksSake regulation Europe )
- 2. Voters In Labour-Reform Battleground Seats More Likely To Rely On Disability Benefits
- (tags:welfare inequality disability politics uk )
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Interesting Links for 29-10-2024
Oct. 29th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. A reminder that if you want artists to make more from streaming then either you need to pay more or the major labels need to be heavily regulated to increase the artist's share.
- (tags:music streaming business )
- 2. Why the UK political system can't deal with criminal justice
- (tags:uk crime prison politics )
- 3. The wheel may have been invented by copper miners in eastern Europe 6,000 years ago
- (tags:Technology prehistory europe )
- 4. The Early Days of Valve from a Woman Inside (How Half Life was made and marketed)
- (tags:games valve history half-life microsoft )
- 5. Witches! On! Roller! Skates!
- (tags:witchcraft video halloween )
- 6. Manifesto of the Committee to Abolish Outer Space
- (tags:space thefuture viaJWZ )
Interesting Links for 27-10-2024
Oct. 27th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. The public's surprising choice of tax increase, and why we should ignore it
- (tags:tax polls UK )
- 2. Google, Microsoft, and Perplexity Are Promoting "Scientific" Racism in Search Results
- (tags:racism Google Microsoft OhForFucksSake ai viaPatrickHadfield )
- 3. Does Trump fit the definition of "fascism"
- (tags:politics usa fascism )
- 4. "I've fought pregnancy discrimination for 10 years - women are as bad as men"
- (tags:pregnancy discrimination work OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 20-10-2024
Oct. 20th, 2024 12:17 pm- 1. The Lucy Letby case - here’s why experts are still arguing about it
- (tags:murder statistics healthcare evidence )
- 2. Microsoft creates fake Azure tenants to pull phishers into honeypots
- (tags:security Microsoft )
- 3. Playing video games may make you sharper – but moderate exercise does not
- (tags:exercise games intelligence )
- 4. EU court upholds right to sell PlayStation add-ons, in loss for Sony
- (tags:Sony games mod intellectual_property Europe GoodNews )
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Interesting Links for 22-09-2024
Sep. 22nd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Working in the office 5 days a week to build company culture is a myth, PwC report says
- (tags:culture work office )
- 2. Three Mile Island nuclear plant to restart, power Microsoft data centers
- (tags:nuclearpower Microsoft ai )
- 3. Playing "Tetris" after viewing traumatic material reduces unwanted, involuntary memory flashbacks to that traumatic film, leaving deliberate memory recall of the event intact.
- (tags:ptsd trauma Tetris psychology )
- 4. Swifter justice scheme rolled out across Scotland
- (tags:law Scotland )
- 5. Picky eating is largely genetic and peaks at the age of seven
- (tags:genetics eating food children )
- 6. New Starlink satellites' radiation leaks are 30 times as large as those emitted by older satellites, interfering with astronomer's views of space
- (tags:space Spacex astronomy OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 24-08-2024
Aug. 24th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Edinburgh's West Approach Road to be closed again for most of next month
- (tags:Edinburgh transport traffic )
- 2. Edinburgh first Scottish council to pass fireworks ban
- (tags:Edinburgh fireworks Scotland )
- 3. Regional inequalities in Long Covid rates revealed (some areas up to 20%)
- (tags:pandemic doom inequality UK )
- 4. A significant win for trans rights in Australia
- (tags:Australia transgender LGBT GoodNews )
- 5. Microsoft's Copilot falsely accuses court reporter of crimes he covered
- (tags:crime fraud Microsoft ai defamation )
- 6. Solar farms can benefit wildlife
- (tags:nature solarpower )
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Interesting Links for 12-07-2024
Jul. 12th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. "Microsoft destroyed my online life after I called home to Gaza"
- (tags:microsoft gaza )
- 2. Inside the Playstation 4's fully automated factory
- (tags:playstation automation robots manufacturing )
- 3. If you were looking for a non-bigoted way to buy books then can I recommend an online store run by independent local booksellers - bookshop.org
- (tags:books shopping )
- 4. Yale releases report critical of the Cass transgender youth care research study
- (tags:uk bigotry transgender research fraud )
- 5. Who's responsible for our accountability problem?
- (tags:bureaucracy rules squirrel )
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- squirrel,
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Interesting Links for 02-06-2024
Jun. 2nd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Stealing everything you've ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC is now possible with two lines of code
- (tags:security viaPatrickHadfield surveillance Microsoft OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Gazans 'clinging to glimpse of hope' as Biden pushes new ceasefire proposal
- (tags:USA Israel Gaza )
- 3. Transfer of IgG from Long COVID patients induces symptomology (in mice)
- (tags:pandemic immune_system mice )
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Links catchup (back-end database broke)
Dec. 15th, 2023 05:11 pm- 1. Microsoft are spreading election conspiracies, fake scandals, and lies
- (tags:microsoft fraud conspiracy OhForFucksSake ai )
- 2. Moderna Melanoma Vaccine Cuts Death Rate in Half
- (tags:cancer vaccine GoodNews )
- 3. How Cheques Work
- (tags:banking )
- 4. Bella Ramsey: 'I'm neurodiverse. By masking, I've been acting my whole life'
- (tags:acting neurodiversity mentalhealth eatingdisorders )
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Interesting Links for 31-10-2023
Oct. 31st, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Which UK university towns have the highest cost of living?
- (tags:university edinburgh money uk )
- 2. The future of warfare: A $400 drone destroying a $2M tank
- (tags:war drone )
- 3. People with autism less likely to succumb to bystander effect
- (tags:psychology autism )
- 4. Getting angry may help you achieve your goals, so long as they are hard ones.
- (tags:anger achievement psychology )
- 5. What Happens to a Werewolf on the Moon? - a call for research!
- (tags:viaSimonTatham wolves supernatural funny research moon space )
- 6. Use your own controller to work with an Xbox? Not if Microsoft has anything to do with it!
- (tags:Microsoft OhForFucksSake consoles )
- 7. Woman uses man's name on delivery app, notices marked change in service
- (tags:patriarchy food OhForFucksSake )
- 8. To find out how wildlife is doing, scientists used AI to listen to the forest
- (tags:sound nature ai birds )
- 9. Facebook and Instagram launch ad-free subscription tier in EU (not UK though)
- (tags:facebook socialnetworking advertising GoodNews )
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