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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
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- 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
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- 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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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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Interesting Links for 10-08-2023
Aug. 10th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Russia using Wagner in Africa to displace the West and erode democracies
- (tags:russia africa corruption )
- 2. Global warming increases ocean temperatures, stripping the seas of oxygen
- (tags:oxygen ocean fish doom )
- 3. People are publishing AI books with real authors' names.
- (tags:ai writing publishing fraud )
- 4. Covid testing in Scottish hospitals, care homes and prisons to end
- (tags:scotland pandemic )
- 5. Norway fines Facebook owner Meta $100k/day over privacy breaches
- (tags:norway facebook privacy regulation )
- 6. SUSE, the German Linux company, appear to be deeply anti-semitic
- (tags:Jews linux OhForFucksSake )
- 7. Inside Keir Starmer's plan to 'annihilate the left' and appoint 'middle-class and dull' candidate MPs
- (tags:labour politics )
- 8. The electoral breach in the UK was all Microsoft's fault
- (tags:uk hacking microsoft )
- 9. Complex ape-man culture, with burial practices, may have existed in Africa 300,000 years ago
- (tags:africa humans evolution society culture death )
- 10. Gender disparity in the rate of partner abandonment in patients with serious medical illness
- (tags:cancer divorce gender )
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Interesting Links for 29-07-2023
Jul. 29th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. "As We Go Now" - This was the song the children sang at Sophia's nursery graduation yesterday. There were a *lot* of crying parents (and carers)
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- 2. Edinburgh public toilets: £1m is invested by Council
- (tags:toilets Edinburgh )
- 3. Microsoft's AI shopping announcement contains hallucinations in the demo
- (tags:ai fraud Microsoft )
Interesting Links for 23-03-2023
Mar. 23rd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Here's the full analysis of newly uncovered genetic data on COVID's origins
- (tags:pandemic virus animals genetics china )
- 2. How fast does spring travel? About 2mph
- (tags:time uk weather viaSwampers )
- 3. GPT-4 and professional benchmarks: the wrong answer to the wrong question
- (tags:ai memory exams )
- 4. Fungus! Attacks! America!
- (tags:fungus usa doom )
- 5. One of history's most famous psychological experiments was probably fake (Sending well people into psychiatric hospitals)
- (tags:psychology research history fraud OhForFucksSake )
- 6. Something Pretty Right: A History of Visual Basic
- (tags:computers history windows programming microsoft billgates )
- 7. Ethical AI art generation? Adobe Firefly may be the answer
- (tags:ethics ai art )
- 8. Comparing the cost of living in the UK and Germany
- (tags:UK Germany austerity society Doom )
- 9. Life hacks from the 90s
- (tags:history advice funny )
- 10. Scientists can now separate sperm based on whether they carry X or Y chromosomes with 80% accuracy
- (tags:gender children sperm )
- 11. Female Afghan judge living in fear of Taliban denied sanctuary in Britain
- (tags:UK Afghanistan asylum OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 22-03-2023
Mar. 22nd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. How many movies can you ruin for parents by adding "With The Children" to the end of them?
- (tags:movies children )
- 2. Met Police is racist, sexist, homophobic and may harbour more killers, damning report says
- (tags:racism sex homophobia lgbt bigotry police london uk )
- 3. "I Blocked Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple. It was hell"
- (tags:Microsoft Google Facebook Apple Amazon technology society )
- 4. Incel Supernova: From a Single Comic Strip to the End of the Universe with Scott Adams (written before his recent nonsense, but clearly showing how he got there)
- (tags:dilbert comics politics usa society )
- 5. Minimum unit pricing for alcohol saves hundreds of lives in Scotland (over 150 per year)
- (tags:alcohol economics death Scotland GoodNews )
- 6. It turns out that acting with a puppet without collapsing into giggles is very hard
- (tags:funny video comedy laughter puppets TV bbc )
- 7. Ugandan MPs pass bill that criminalises identifying as LGBT+ and 'promotion' of homosexuality
- (tags:lgbt Uganda OhForFucksSake law )
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Interesting Links for 20-02-2023
Feb. 20th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Finally, proof that cats are pure evil
- (tags:cats evil video )
- 2. The New York Times was called out by hundreds of contributors for it's transphobia. Its response is appalling (and I'm cancelling my subscription)
- (tags:nytimes OhForFucksSake bigotry LGBT transgender )
- 3. AI discovers weakness in other AI Go player, human delivers the payload
- (tags:games ai )
- 4. Yes, Jimmy Carter Really Did Once Help Contain a Nuclear Meltdown
- (tags:nuclearpower USA history )
- 5. How to keep your Twitter secure without giving Elon Musk any money
- (tags:Twitter money business security )
- 6. The UK is locking intra-generational advantage more and more.
- (tags:inequality uk viaRachel parents )
- 7. ControlNET and Stable Diffusion: A Game Changer for AI Image Generation (You can draw in what you want, and it will fill in the details)
- (tags:ai art )
- 8. Microsoft's new AI will now threaten to ruin your chances of getting a job if it doesn't like the way you talk to it
- (tags:ai jobs microsoft OhForFucksSake )
