![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Interesting Links for 10-12-2024
Dec. 10th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Video of Edinburgh, Scotland 1930s in color
- (tags:Edinburgh Scotland video colour history )
- 2. Facebook/Meta's Role in Romania's 2024 Presidential Election
- (tags:disinformation Romania Facebook )
- 3. Edinburgh's latest new walking and cycling route officially opens between Roseburn and Union Canal
- (tags:Edinburgh walking bicycles transport )
- 4. Starmer's historic trip to Cyprus turns into a diplomatic storm as he lands on divided island
- (tags:Cyprus UK wtf Labour )
- 5. How to annoy a British person by making tea
- (tags:tea comic funny )
- 6. Americans Glad ISIS Defeated Or Something
- (tags:usa middle_east war funny satire )
- 7. Areas Of The UK With Most Devolution Have More Confidence In Their Mayors
- (tags:uk politics )
Interesting Links for 02-04-2024
Apr. 2nd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Israel Created 'Kill Zones' in Gaza. Anyone Who Crosses Into Them Is Shot
- (tags:Israel Palestine murder )
- 2. Edinburgh's Cameron Toll roundabout to close 'in its entirety' for up to a month with bus diversions in place
- (tags:Edinburgh bridge roads buses )
- 3. Why Westminster can prevent Scotland from banning glue traps for mice, even though it's not a reserved matter
- (tags:Scotland UK law trade )
- 4. The Pirate Bay's Oldest Torrent is Now 20 Years Old
- (tags:copyright history piracy )
- 5. The Tale of Daniel (the oldest name in continuous use)
- (tags:names history Israel middle_east )
- 6. Ketogenic Diet Effects On Bipolar and Schizophrenia
- (tags:diet mentalhealth bipolar schizophrenia )
- 7. The Deodorant AI Woman Spokesmodel Is Real, Sort Of
- (tags:ai advertising )
Interesting Links for 14-10-2023
Oct. 14th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. This is an amazing bionic hand
- (tags:cybernetics amazing )
- 2. Terrorists want to provoke an over-reaction. It's what gets them their next round of recruits.
- (tags:terrorism psychology viaDanielDWilliam )
- 3. Hamas have successfully destroyed America's Saudi-Israel normalization plans
- (tags:middle_east terrorism USA saudiarabia Palestine Israel OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Government warned by own watchdog three year ago that prisons would run out of space in 2023
- (tags:UK prison epicfail )
- 5. Edinburgh's Princes Street: Shops gone, hotels coming - the changing face of city's most famous street
- (tags:Edinburgh cities shops hotel )
- 6. UK's nuclear fusion site ends experiments after 40 years
- (tags:UK research fusion nuclearpower history )
- 7. Missy Cummings, a Top Robotics Expert, Is Elon Musk's Worst Nightmare
- (tags:technology automation driving death statistics viaPatrickHadfield )
Tags:
- amazing,
- automation,
- cities,
- cybernetics,
- death,
- driving,
- edinburgh,
- epicfail,
- fusion,
- history,
- hotel,
- israel,
- links,
- middle_east,
- nuclearpower,
- ohforfuckssake,
- palestine,
- prison,
- psychology,
- research,
- saudiarabia,
- shops,
- statistics,
- technology,
- terrorism,
- uk,
- usa,
- viadanieldwilliam,
- viapatrickhadfield
Interesting Links for 07-10-2023
Oct. 7th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. 4chan users manipulate AI tools to unleash torrent of racist images
- (tags:ai racism 4chan )
- 2. The man who tried to kill the queen was egged on by an overly-supportive AI chatbot
- (tags:ai murder queen )
- 3. A prehistoric cosmic airburst preceded the advent of agriculture in the Levant
- (tags:middle_east agriculture prehistory )
- 4. What does "Metabolically Healthy Obesity" mean, and how healthy is it?
- (tags:health obesity )
- 5. 'Long colds' just as common as long COVID and can leave prolonged symptoms (We clearly need a diagnostic test for "Your body is still processing an attack")
- (tags:disease pandemic colds )
- 6. It's time for the SNP to smell the coffee
- (tags:Scotland politics snp labour )
- 7. This is the best write-up I've seen of how current AIs work.
- (tags:technology AI words language viaLProven )
- 8. A brief list of things in the universe surprisingly younger than sharks
- (tags:sharks age viaPatrickHadfield )
Tags:
- 4chan,
- age,
- agriculture,
- ai,
- colds,
- disease,
- health,
- labour,
- language,
- links,
- middle_east,
- murder,
- obesity,
- pandemic,
- politics,
- prehistory,
- queen,
- racism,
- scotland,
- sharks,
- snp,
- technology,
- vialproven,
- viapatrickhadfield,
- words
Interesting Links for 13-08-2023
Aug. 13th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Stop the 'forever wars' to end the refugee crisis
- (tags:Europe middle_east war asylum refugee )
- 2. What Disney could learn from the success of Nimona
- (tags:animation lgbt advice Disney )
- 3. There are currently no safe and legal routes by which to travel to the UK for the purpose of claiming asylum.
- (tags:asylum UK OhForFucksSake )
- 4. The TV streaming apps broke their promises, and now they're jacking up prices
- (tags:streaming TV business )
- 5. No regrets: Gender-affirming chest surgery in adults has long-term satisfaction
- (tags:surgery LGBT transgender happiness )
- 6. Students left in 'nightmare' accommodation as UK cities short of 620,000 beds by 2026
- (tags:housing UK students OhForFucksSake )
- 7. Safety posters from an alternate reality
- (tags:posters funny fantasy )
Interesting Links for 26-10-2022
Oct. 26th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Who would like a robotic tentacle to gently grasp their fragile objects
- (tags:robots viaNancyLebov )
- 2. The antisemitic conspiracy theories fueling transphobia
- (tags:LGBT transgender bigotry Jews conspiracy )
- 3. Peter Tatchell is good at generating headlines. Not much else though
- (tags:protest lies LGBT middle_east )
- 4. Anyone here like spooky mysteries set on board Victorian ships?
- (tags:history TV ship scary trailer video )
- 5. Australian Women Sue Qatar Over Forced Airport Vaginal Exams
- (tags:qatar children women abuse OhForFucksSake )
Tags:
- abuse,
- bigotry,
- children,
- conspiracy,
- history,
- jews,
- lgbt,
- lies,
- links,
- middle_east,
- ohforfuckssake,
- protest,
- qatar,
- robots,
- scary,
- ship,
- trailer,
- transgender,
- tv,
- vianancylebov,
- video,
- women
Interesting Links for 25-06-2022
Jun. 25th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Amazon uses kid's dead grandma in morbid demo of Alexa audio deepfake
- (tags:Amazon fraud death wtf family )
- 2. Iain Duncan Smith wrong to say successful asylum seekers would return from Rwanda
- (tags:UK rwanda asylum OhForFucksSake )
- 3. UK quietly drops 'human rights' and 'rule of law' from list of goals in Gulf trade deal
- (tags:UK middle_east trade rights OhForFucksSake conservatives )
Interesting Links for 01-06-2022
Jun. 1st, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Switching to plant-based cheese can reduce carbon emissions by 50 per cent compared to the dairy version
- (tags:dairy cheese co2 )
- 2. After millennia of agricultural expansion, the world has passed 'peak agricultural land'
- (tags:agriculture farming viaDanielDWilliam )
- 3. How a Glaswegian responds to a killer whale
- (tags:Scotland water animals )
- 4. Biden's top Middle East adviser has a history of cosying up to autocrats
- (tags:middle_east USA diplomacy OhForFucksSake )
- 5. The Telegraph doesn't pay its contributors
- (tags:telegraph newspapers money UK OhForFucksSake )
- 6. Artist who made Nazi art turns out to be a Nazi
- (tags:nazis art )
- 7. Don't Wordle - can you avoid winning?
- (tags:language games )
- 8. Prince Rupert's Drop Exploding in Epoxy Resin at 456,522 fps
- (tags:slowmotion video glass explosions )
- 9. The Tories gave Boris Johnson the power to call an election whenever he likes. Now they're worried he'll use it.
- (tags:elections BorisJohnson conservatives )
- 10. After Xinjiang Revelations, Germany's Ties to China Are Under the Microscope
- (tags:germany trade rights )
- 11. New rules ban many single-use plastics in Scotland
- (tags:plastic environment scotland )
Tags:
- agriculture,
- animals,
- art,
- borisjohnson,
- cheese,
- co2,
- conservatives,
- dairy,
- diplomacy,
- elections,
- environment,
- explosions,
- farming,
- games,
- germany,
- glass,
- language,
- links,
- middle_east,
- money,
- nazis,
- newspapers,
- ohforfuckssake,
- plastic,
- rights,
- scotland,
- slowmotion,
- telegraph,
- trade,
- uk,
- usa,
- viadanieldwilliam,
- video,
- water
Interesting Links for 21-01-2022
Jan. 21st, 2022 12:00 pm- Tory whips threatened to cancel new school if I didn't vote the right way, says MP
- (tags:politics corruption conservatives )
- Archaeologists Unearth 4,000-Year-Old Stone Board Game in Oman
- (tags:games boardgames archeology middle_east )
- Fraggle Rock on Apple TV+ is the Muppet series Disney+ wishes it had
- (tags:muppets apple tv review )
- Glasgow Clyde Metro set for go-ahead as headline project in SNP strategy for transport in Scotland
- (tags:scotland transport glasgow viaDanielDWilliam )
- Reports from the Indiana Jones cleanup team
- (tags:archeology video funny indianajones )
Tags:
Interesting Links for 21-09-2021
Sep. 21st, 2021 12:00 pm- Watch the Russian election being stolen, in real-time!
- (tags:russia corruption elections )
- Apparently liberals tricked Republicans into not getting vaccinated.
- I...I think we might be living in the stupidest timeline.
(tags:politics vaccination USA OhForFucksSake viaSwampers ) - A giant space rock demolished an ancient Middle Eastern city and everyone in it - possibly inspiring the Biblical story of Sodom
- (tags:prehistory asteroids middle_east )
- The nerds making money online from the things they love
- (tags:nerd geeks money comics videos roleplaying )
- Amazon's AI Cameras Are Punishing Drivers for Mistakes They Didn't Make
- (tags:amazon ai driving OhForFucksSake )
- Kena: Bridge Of Spirits review: a beautiful action-adventure full of joy and wonder (I rather fancy this)
- (tags:games review )
- We Think We've Changed More In The Past Than We Will Change In The Future — And Americans Seem Particularly Susceptible To This Illusion
- (tags:change psychology )
Tags:
- ai,
- amazon,
- asteroids,
- change,
- comics,
- corruption,
- driving,
- elections,
- games,
- geeks,
- links,
- middle_east,
- money,
- nerd,
- ohforfuckssake,
- politics,
- prehistory,
- psychology,
- review,
- roleplaying,
- russia,
- usa,
- vaccination,
- viaswampers,
- videos
Interesting Links for 31-01-2021
Jan. 31st, 2021 12:00 pm- Nine Russian adventurers mysteriously froze to death in Dyatlov Pass —a new theory explains why
- (tags:history snow Russia death )
- New study provides evidence for Modified Newtonian Dynamics (and therefore against Dark Matter)
- (tags:physics gravity space )
- Percentage of colours used by LEGO each decade
- (tags:Lego colour visualisation )
- Personal experiences bridge moral and political divides better than facts
- (tags:communication politics psychology experience )
- Are the Persian Gulf city-states slave societies?
- (tags:slavery middle_east )
- Analysing 67 Years of Lego Sets
- (tags:lego history visualisation )
- UK launches formal bid to join trade alliance named after ocean it's nowhere near
- (tags:trade Pacific newzealand Japan australia Canada )
- What happens when you let a 22 year old "disruptor" run vaccinations for your city
- (tags:vaccination epicfail OhForFucksSake USA )
- Rehab scam: Defendants in court-ordered rehab work for free
- (tags:slavery USA OhForFucksSake )
Tags:
- australia,
- canada,
- colour,
- communication,
- death,
- epicfail,
- experience,
- gravity,
- history,
- japan,
- lego,
- links,
- middle_east,
- newzealand,
- ohforfuckssake,
- pacific,
- physics,
- politics,
- psychology,
- russia,
- slavery,
- snow,
- space,
- trade,
- usa,
- vaccination,
- visualisation
Interesting Links for 13-01-2021
Jan. 13th, 2021 12:00 pm- Americans believe a terrifying amount of dangerous nonsense
- (tags:usa politics conspiracy lies belief )
- The only solution to the damage Social Networks do
- (tags:socialnetworking funny comic )
- It looks like the UK strategy of having three months between first and second vaccinations is not based on the science
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1349006700397932553.html
(tags:vaccination UK Doom ) - Leith development responds to increase in demand for homes on tram route
- (tags:edinburgh trams housing )
- This is how sexy roleplay is supposed to work, right?
- (tags:sex roleplaying funny video )
- Who Invented the Alphabet?
- (tags:Egypt middle_east history language writing viaFanf )
- Shut Offices And Stop Blaming People For Lockdown Failing, Says Government Scientific Adviser
- (tags:pandemic UK )
- Covid in Scotland: Most app users not uploading positive test alert
- (tags:pandemic apps OhForFucksSake )
- A list of things the SNP could do to frustrate parliament if they are denied a referendum
- (tags:politics UK independence Scotland )
Tags:
- apps,
- belief,
- comic,
- conspiracy,
- doom,
- edinburgh,
- egypt,
- funny,
- history,
- housing,
- independence,
- language,
- lies,
- links,
- middle_east,
- ohforfuckssake,
- pandemic,
- politics,
- roleplaying,
- scotland,
- sex,
- socialnetworking,
- trams,
- uk,
- usa,
- vaccination,
- viafanf,
- video,
- writing
Interesting Links for 10-11-2020
Nov. 10th, 2020 12:00 pm- Number 10 Says The UK Will Have Ten Million Doses of Covid-19 Vaccine By The End Of This Year If Pfizer's Trial Is Deemed Safe
- (tags:UK pandemic vaccination GoodNews )
- Feral wallabies sighted in UK almost 100 times in 10 years
- (tags:UK animals Australia )
- Japan Trade Deal punches USA-sized hole in privacy
- (tags:UK USA Japan privacy dataprotection OhForFucksSake )
- Biden adviser says US-UK special relationship is diminishing because of Brexit
- (tags:UK Europe usa )
- People with different personalities prefer different kinds of books (and some psychologists can't tell the difference between correlation and causation)
- (tags:books psychology )
- Do not buy Hewlett Packard printers
- (tags:printing technology OhForFucksSake )
- The Digital Nomads moved to exotic locales to work through the pandemic in style. But now tax trouble, breakups and Covid guilt are setting in.
- (tags:technology work pandemic )
- Inside Donald Trump's 2020 undoing (interviews with dozens of staff members of the campaigns)
- (tags:politics USA viaNWhyte )
- Narcissistic People Are More Likely To Take Part In Political Activities
- (tags:psychology politics )
- UAE decriminalises alcohol and lifts ban on unmarried couples living together (and gets harsher on honour killings)
- (tags:middle_east GoodNews )
- How Conservative Christians are seeing Trump's loss
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1325912364563181570.html
(tags:religion Christianity politics USA ) - Exploding the myth of transgender transition regret
- (tags:LGBT transgender research )
- Fatigue syndrome exercise therapy loses Nice recommendation for ME / Chronic fatigue syndrome
- (tags:ChronicFatigueSyndrome NHS )
- long-acting injectable cabotegravir as PrEP is highly effective in preventing HIV acquisition in women
- (tags:hiv GoodNews )
Tags:
Interesting Links for 14-08-2020
Aug. 14th, 2020 12:00 pm- In the 1850s people thought there were 23 planets in the solar system
- (tags:solarsystem space history )
- Anger at 193 week waiting list for trans patients to see a doctor on NHS (target is 18 weeks)
- (tags:LGBT healthcare UK )
- Storm leaves 30m hole in Union Canal, knocking out the Edinburgh-Glasgow rail line.
- (tags:trains canal Scotland )
- Germany: 120,000 hectares stripped bare by field mice
- (tags:mice food farming Germany Doom )
- Israel and UAE reach historic peace deal
- (tags:Israel middle_east GoodNews )
- Nearly 300 workers test positive at M&S sandwich supplier in Northampton
- (tags:pandemic food )
- Why 'Lovecraft Country' book, HBO series are named for a racist
- (tags:racism history hplovecraft tv )
- Hands up who wants to zip line in to the mouth of Godzilla?
- (tags:Godzilla awesome )
- Young children would rather explore than get rewards
- (tags:psychology children reward )
- The Mesmerizing Geometry of Malaysia's Most Complex Cakes
- (tags:Malaysia cake pretty )
- It's Time to Demystify the Serial Killer.
- (tags:murder )
- Transparent TVs are pretty darned impressive
- (tags:Technology television impressive video )
- "Discourses of Delay" - the 12 arguments that global warming deniers have moved to.
- (tags:globalwarming argument discussion )
- Ongoing EU-China deal casts a long shadow over Brexit talks
- (tags:europe china uk trade )
Tags:
- argument,
- awesome,
- cake,
- canal,
- children,
- china,
- discussion,
- doom,
- europe,
- farming,
- food,
- germany,
- globalwarming,
- godzilla,
- goodnews,
- healthcare,
- history,
- hplovecraft,
- impressive,
- israel,
- lgbt,
- links,
- malaysia,
- mice,
- middle_east,
- murder,
- pandemic,
- pretty,
- psychology,
- racism,
- reward,
- scotland,
- solarsystem,
- space,
- technology,
- television,
- trade,
- trains,
- tv,
- uk,
- video
Interesting Links for 09-07-2020
Jul. 9th, 2020 12:00 pm- "I was on a British TV diversity scheme - and saw why they don't change anything"
- (tags:Diversity TV UK )
- Duke scientist questions his own research with new study faulting task fMRI
- (tags:neuroscience fmri fail science )
- Cerne Abbas chalk giant is not prehistoric, may date from 1300s - or even later
- (tags:history uk )
- On Hilary Mantel's birthday, please enjoy her 1988 review of RoboCop.
- (tags:movies review robots police )
- Right-Wing Media Outlets Duped by a Middle East Propaganda Campaign
- (tags:middle_east propaganda Twitter politics fraud )
- Genetic data suggests Polynesians and Native Americans met
- (tags:genetics Pacific SouthAmerica )
- Trump Pushed CIA to Give Intelligence to Kremlin, While Taking No Action Against Russia Arming Taliban
- (tags:Russia USA military wtf )
Interesting Links for 10-03-2020
Mar. 10th, 2020 12:00 pm- Microsoft: 99.9% of compromised accounts did not use multi-factor authentication
- (tags:security )
- Why Britain Uses Separate Hot and Cold Taps
- (tags:video water heat uk history )
- Russia, the Middle East and the USA are having an oil war
- (tags:oil USA middle_east Russia viaDanielDWilliam )
- "I never realised everybody felt as happy as I do when I am around autistic people" - a thematic analysis of autistic adults relationships with autistic and neurotypical friends and family
- (tags:autism video )
- Computer generated JFK gives the 'Darth Plagueis the wise' speech
- (tags:speech accents USA video StarWars ai viaJohnBobShaun jfk )
- Sometimes Toes Spontaneously Fall Off and Nobody Knows Why
- (tags:viajoexnz feet wtf )
- Lead Poisoning in Rome - The Skeletal Evidence
- (tags:rome lead history archeology )
- The situation in Northern Italian hospitals is horrifying
- (tags:Italy disease doom )
- Putin submits plans for constitutional ban on same-sex marriage
- (tags:LGBT Russia OhForFucksSake )
- Russian Lawmakers Back Extension of Putin's Presidency
- (tags:Russia OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 05-01-2020
Jan. 5th, 2020 12:00 pm- What are the consequences for the killing of General Suleimani?
- (tags:middle_east Iran iraq viaTaheerah )
- What Teenage Boys Still Don't Know About Sexual Assault
- (tags:rape boys society RapeCulture education )
- How to fix Northern Rail
- (tags:transport UK fail )
- How Archive Of Our Own and Dreamwidth grew out of Livejournal's mistakes
- (tags:fandom livejournal dreamwidth fanfic )
- Pain, Mental Pain, and Fatigue scoring
- Bookmatking my own blog post so I can find it again if I need it.
(tags:pain mentalhealth scoring numbers energy ) - Were 88% of Tory Facebook adverts lies?
- (tags:lies politics UK viaCipherGoth )
- 11 Things You Really Should Stop Recycling
- (tags:recycling )
- ➡️➡️drift Did people know that there was a Lego "Passion of the Christ" movie and that you can watch it on Amazon Prime?
- (tags:religion christianity Lego movie )
Tags:
- boys,
- christianity,
- dreamwidth,
- education,
- energy,
- fail,
- fandom,
- fanfic,
- iran,
- iraq,
- lego,
- lies,
- links,
- livejournal,
- mentalhealth,
- middle_east,
- movie,
- numbers,
- pain,
- politics,
- rape,
- rapeculture,
- recycling,
- religion,
- scoring,
- society,
- transport,
- uk,
- viaciphergoth,
- viataheerah
Interesting Links for 04-01-2020
Jan. 4th, 2020 12:00 pm- GirlsDoPorn: Young women win legal battle over video con
- (tags:porn fraud )
- I am no expert on Middle-Eastern foreign policy by any means, but this is basically my view
- (tags:middle_east politics war death )
- What kind of people give Paddington Bear 2 a 1 star review?
- (tags:children movies bears reviews )
- First evidence found of tool use by seabirds
- (tags:tools birds )
Interesting Links for 03-12-2019
Dec. 3rd, 2019 03:03 pm- It is the fiftieth anniversary of the most culturally important work of the 20th century
- (tags:Muppets video music )
- UK factories are laying off workers at fastest rate for seven years
- (tags:uk manufacturing fail )
- Our Ability To Recognise Dogs' Emotions Is Shaped By Our Cultural Upbringing
- (tags:society dogs psychology emotion )
- "The First Non-Bullshit Book About Organisational Culture I've Read"
- (tags:books organisation advice military )
- A harrowing personal account of China's concentration camps
- (tags:torture China Islam OhForFucksSake )
- Lib Dems suspend campaigner after email forgery
- (tags:libdem fraud OhForFucksSake )
- FactCheck: has Scotland 'subsidised the rest of the UK'?
- (tags:Scotland economics oil )
- This account of Lukasz the narwhal tusk-wielding hero of London Bridge is epic
- (tags:terrorism heroism london video ViaDrCross )
- All of the things wrong with Jeremy Corbyn
- (tags:politics criticism Labour uk )
- Child homelessness hits 12 year high
- (tags:homelessness UK poverty children )
- Turns out that what you needed this morning was the Waaay Too Happy cover of Rammstein's Du Hast
- (tags:music video happiness )
- There was no Roman colony in Tucson, Arizona
- (tags:italy usa wtf archeology )
- The Middle East is rapidly becoming less religious
- (tags:religion middle_east GoodNews )
- New York City adopts ranked-choice voting
- (tags:newyork voting reform )
- With little evidence that failing to complete a prescribed antibiotic course contributes to antibiotic resistance
- (tags:antibiotics )
- AI Plays Hide and Seek...And Surprises Its Creators
- (tags:ai Technology video )
- Google ads are supporting fake news - here's how we stop them
- (tags:bigotry advertising news lies )
Tags:
- advertising,
- advice,
- ai,
- antibiotics,
- archeology,
- bigotry,
- books,
- children,
- china,
- criticism,
- dogs,
- economics,
- emotion,
- fail,
- fraud,
- goodnews,
- happiness,
- heroism,
- homelessness,
- islam,
- italy,
- labour,
- libdem,
- lies,
- links,
- london,
- manufacturing,
- middle_east,
- military,
- muppets,
- music,
- news,
- newyork,
- ohforfuckssake,
- oil,
- organisation,
- politics,
- poverty,
- psychology,
- reform,
- religion,
- scotland,
- society,
- technology,
- terrorism,
- torture,
- uk,
- usa,
- viadrcross,
- video,
- voting,
- wtf
