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Interesting Links for 12-04-2025
Apr. 12th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The AI That Writes Every Pop Song
- (tags:ai satire music video )
- 2. Wes Streeting's war on trans people continues
- (tags:NHS healthcare UK LGBT transgender labour OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Trump's tarrifs are about to destroy the board-game industry (for Americans)
- (tags:boardgames economics USA china business )
- 4. "The End of Creative Scarcity" (a short story)
- (tags:short_story creativity scifi ai )
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Interesting Links for 24-03-2025
Mar. 24th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Would you like to feel really really old? Because Debenhams are selling Nine Inch Nails clothing.
- (tags:clothing music age )
- 2. America Is Watching the Rise of a Dual State
- (tags:USA fascism law )
- 3. What happens when you try to help disabled people into jobs? (Largely, employers aren't interested.)
- (tags:jobs disability uk welfare )
Interesting Links for 16-03-2025
Mar. 16th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. There's no such thing as Italian cuisine
- (tags:food Italy history )
- 2. African countries have huge solar potential, they're beginning to use it
- (tags:solarpower Africa )
- 3. What is like in America if you're trans right now
- (tags:LGBT transgender USA bigotry )
- 4. How did the world's leading thinker on decisions decide to die?
- (tags:euthanasia death decisions )
- 5. The UK's solar revolution, mapped - as 3,500 projects in the pipeline are set to install 50% more than last year.
- (tags:solarpower UK GoodNews )
- 6. How to learn a language like a baby
- (tags:language babies reading )
- 7. 'They're Really Close To My Body': A Hagiography of Nine Inch Nails and their resident mystic Robin Finck
- (tags:music history )
- 8. (Any) 8-hour time-restricted-eating window effective for weight loss
- (tags:weight time diet )
Interesting Links for 24-02-2025
Feb. 24th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The lure of Lehrer - With Tom Lehrer's back catalogue in the public domain, Francis Beckett jumped at the chance to write a play about the great man
- (tags:music history play theatre )
- 2. The UK government is holding a consultation on Consultation on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence. You have until Tuesday to respond.
- (tags:ai copyright UK consultation )
- 3. Thousands in Midwestern GOP Districts Attend Sanders' First Stops on Tour to Fight Oligarchy
- (tags:politics usa hope )
- 4. What does having kids do to women's careers?
- (tags:women career jobs patriarchy )
- 5. The trigger that put President Truman on the course to civil rights
- (tags:rights racism USA )
Interesting Links for 22-02-2025
Feb. 22nd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. HP decided to make every phone customer wait 15 minutes before talking to them. And was then forced to backtrack.
- (tags:hp wtf customerservice OhForFucksSake phones )
- 2. A Delta pilot tried to raise safety issues. They accused her of being bipolar. It took years in the courts to prove her right.
- (tags:mentalhealth safety airplanes OhForFucksSake usa )
- 3. Exhausted Friends Slowly Realize They Were Playing Board Game Wrong Entire 6 Hours
- (tags:games funny )
- 4. The Imperial March but it's coming from Vader's chest control panel
- (tags:StarWars music funny video )
- 5. What counselling training is like for an autistic person
- (tags:LGBT transgender autism counselling )
- 6. Five Oddly, Unexpectedly Upbeat Works of SFF
- (tags:scifi doom hope )
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Interesting Links for 15-02-2025
Feb. 15th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Park Service erases 'transgender' and 'queer' from Stonewall monument website
- (tags:LGBT history censorship USA )
- 2. Edinburgh's North Bridge to close for six weeks to northbound traffic with bus diversions in place
- (tags:Edinburgh bridge transport )
- 3. "Welcome to the Jungle" played on the Shamisen sounds epic
- (tags:music Japan GunsNRoses video viaSwampers )
- 4. Who needs to see a compilation of dogs dancing?
- (tags:dogs dancing video viaSwampers )
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Interesting Links for 08-02-2025
Feb. 8th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The world's most breathtaking abandoned sites: From Pakistan's Bibi Jawindi to Italy's Palazzo Athena
- (tags:beautiful architecture )
- 2. Magic: The Gathering Cinematic Universe On Its Way From Legendary And Hasbro
- (tags:magic games movies )
- 3. How Do Music Listening Habits Change With Age?
- (tags:age music )
- 4. 'Being a furry is like wearing a superhero cape' - inside Scotland's largest furry convention
- (tags:Scotland costumes autism )
- 5. "What I learnt about feminism from raising a son"
- (tags:children feminism society )
Interesting Links for 14-01-2025
Jan. 14th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The woman who gave herself a caesarean - and survived!
- (tags:childbirth surgery women aieeee! viaElfy )
- 2. The Dark Secrets Behind the Neil Gaiman Abuse Accusations
- (tags:neilgaiman abuse )
- 3. Joss Whedon drives the final nails into the coffin of his own legacy
- (tags:JossWhedon )
- 4. The UK government's push for AI is down to Tony Blair and made up numbers
- (tags:UK ai OhForFucksSake )
- 5. World's hottest year: 2024 first to pass 1.5C of warming
- (tags:globalwarming doom )
- 6. "Project Russia," Unknown in the West, Reveals Putin's Playbook
- (tags:russia )
- 7. Why poor households are worse off in the UK than they are in the EU (housing is 44% more expensive than the average)
- (tags:uk inequality housing )
- 8. Dragonflies swim to cool down and then do somersaults to dry off
- (tags:insects flying impressive )
- 9. The Sonos App went so badly wrong that their CEO just had to resign - here's the technical reasons why
- (tags:music Technology epicfail )
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Interesting Links for 10-01-2025
Jan. 10th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. On the Depressing Doings of Trillion Dollar Companies, January 2025 Edition
- (tags:facebook twitter politics socialnetworking )
- 2. Edinburgh's Gorgie farm: New operators set to be approved (no animals on the site)
- (tags:farm Edinburgh )
- 3. How Elon Musk seized on baseless memo claim to create wave of misinformation
- (tags:fraud ElonMusk UK children rape OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Leaked Meta Training: Users Are Free to Post "Mexican Immigrants Are Trash!" or "Trans People Are Immoral"
- (tags:bigotry Facebook OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Tiny anime girl cyberprison shown at CES
- (tags:funny anime relationships review dolls )
- 6. Posts shared across Facebook claim to show the average energy costs for different European countries. They don't.
- (tags:disinformation energy money europe )
- 7. Price of resale tickets to be capped under plans to tackle touts
- (tags:uk business economics music concerts tickets )
- 8. Can a Dutch case about RSS teach us anything about AI copyright?
- (tags:ai copyright rss law computers europe )
- 9. The metabolism myth - and why exercise won't make you thinner
- (tags:exercise metabolism diet health )
- 10. How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days
- (tags:history germany nazis politics democracy )
- 11. The British Empire Was Much Worse Than You Realize
- (tags:uk empire history )
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Interesting Links for 08-01-2025
Jan. 8th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. All 105 large developments going on in Edinburgh in 2025, on Google Earth.
- (tags:google map construction edinburgh )
- 2. Edinburgh Development Summary 2025
- (tags:edinburgh construction )
- 3. Five key ways to tackle child sex abuse that still haven't been implemented
- (tags:children rape politics uk )
- 4. Cuts to England's bus network cost economy £2.6bn a year
- (tags:england economics buses transport )
- 5. Is *your* TV too high?
- (tags:tv height )
- 6. How a populist think tank is stoking Scotland's culture war
- (tags:hungary bigotry Scotland )
- 7. JK Rowling Slammed After Claiming That 'There Are No Trans Kids' In Hateful Rant
- (tags:jkrowling transgender bigotry children )
- 8. Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have 'Mental Illness'
- (tags:Facebook OhForFucksSake bigotry LGBT )
- 9. How do we know how Latin was pronounced, and how did the official church pronunciation come to be different to that?
- (tags:Latin history language )
- 10. Landlords to be banned from demanding several months' rent in advance
- (tags:rental England )
- 11. Stats for the Omni-Centre cycle lane in Edinburgh show that usage is up 40% in a year
- (tags:cycling edinburgh )
- 12. 'I realised I had autism when my children were diagnosed'
- (tags:autism scotland )
- 13. Trump threatens Nato, Hamas, Greenland, Panama, and Canada in press conference
- (tags:politics usa )
- 14. Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams in Classical Latin
- (tags:music video latin )
- 15. Six things you must know about how the grooming gangs scandal was handled
- (tags:rape children religion racism uk government )
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Interesting Links for 03-01-2025
Jan. 3rd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. 2025 Is Unlikely To Be A Year Of Harmony In Northern Irish Politics
- (tags:NorthernIreland politics )
- 2. The perfect New Year's Eve comedy turns 30
- (tags:movies comedy review CohenBrothers )
- 3. Fascinating stats about how the Church of England is doing
- (tags:ChurchOfEngland UK demographics )
- 4. Study reveals how cannabis can trigger psychosis
- (tags:marijuana mentalhealth )
- 5. Tintin, Now in Public Domain (in the US), Gets a Modern Day Reboot in The Big Lie
- (tags:tintin copyright USA comics )
- 6. Inside Zildjian, a 400-year-old cymbal-making company in Massachusetts
- (tags:history music materials business Turkey )
- 7. The Class Politics of Fine Dining
- (tags:restaurant sociology inequality food viaPatrickHadfield )
- 8. UK investigation opens into a National Care Service - won't report back until 2028, just in time for the next election
- (tags:care UK labour )
- 9. Camp for kids with HIV closes as there are so few kids who are born with HIV
- (tags:hiv GoodNews children )
- 10. Spotify is paying artists to create music for it to use in its playlists so that they don't have to pay royalties on it
- (tags:spotify music OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 13-12-2024
Dec. 13th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. A single example of how women's healthcare is treated appallingly badly
- (tags:healthcare women OhForFucksSake epicfail uk nhs )
- 2. Possibly the best Seal-themed 5-minute long browser skiing game (best played full-screen)
- (tags:games music funny )
- 3. Uncontrollable giant feral hogs closing on Inverness
- (tags:Scotland pigs headline )
- 4. The mystery of Ireland's worst driver
- (tags:ireland names driving funny )
- 5. I am delighted by Labour's direction on housebuilding
- (tags:housing UK labour )
- 6. Deadpool and Kidpool Help Sick Kids
- (tags:children charity video funny comics )
Interesting Links for 06-12-2024
Dec. 6th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. People will share misinformation that sparks "moral outrage"
- (tags:socialmedia fraud )
- 2. The artist who uses mountains as his canvas
- (tags:art mountains france )
- 3. Israel bans Islamic call to prayer
- (tags:Israel Islam )
- 4. LA Times Owner To Personally Review Opinion Headlines To Avoid Offending Elon Musk
- (tags:ElonMusk journalism USA OhForFucksSake censorship viaPatrickHadfield )
- 5. Democrats must combat Trump's culture wars, new progressive chair says
- (tags:USA politics democrats )
- 6. Amnesty report concludes Israel's actions against Palestinians in Gaza constitute genocide
- (tags:Israel genocide Palestine )
- 7. Labour's childcare plan won't work due to funding crisis, nurseries say
- (tags:uk childcare money )
- 8. Bitter Americans React to UnitedHealthcare CEO's Murder: 'My Empathy Is Out of Network'
- (tags:murder healthcare usa )
- 9. See how lab-grown diamonds are made, step by step
- (tags:diamonds manufacturing )
- 10. Happy 20th anniversary to Numa Numa!
- (tags:meme history video music )
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Interesting Links for 04-12-2024
Dec. 4th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. The (English) NHS advised people to get their ADHD diagnosis privately. Now they're refusing to treat the people who did.
- (tags:nhs ADHD OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Why Does the UK have a Strategic Wine Reserve?
- (tags:wine alcohol uk government viaSwampers )
- 3. Apparently the answer to ChatGPT making up nonsense about people is to forbid it to mention their specific names. This plan has no drawbacks.
- (tags:ai names )
- 4. Head Like a Holy Night (Nine Inch Nails songs performed as Christmas carols. "Hurt" is amazing). You may also like his "Last Christmas Love Tore Us Apart".
- (tags:music christmas industrial funny )
- 5. Tori Amos breaks silence on allegations against longtime friend Neil Gaiman
- (tags:neilgaiman abuse women )
- 6. Lib Dem PR Bill wins surprise Commons vote
- (tags:uk proportional_representation voting government )
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Interesting Links for 12-11-2024
Nov. 12th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. A portrait of the fascist as a young gamer
- (tags:gaming bigotry )
- 2. The UK has a £47bn bill in outstanding compensation claims
- (tags:uk money )
- 3. Want to shoot down a drone fleet? You need a machine gun, a camera, and some automation
- (tags:technology drone guns automation )
- 4. How a stubborn computer scientist accidentally launched the deep learning boom
- (tags:ai computers neurons images )
- 5. Israel's Smotrich tells authorities to prepare for West Bank annexation
- (tags:Israel )
- 6. What Britain's £100m bat tunnel can tell us about why Britain can't build infrastructure
- (tags:UK infrastructure bureaucracy hs2 epicfail )
- 7. Water expands a ridiculous amount when it turns into steam, and you do not want to be nearby if it happens very quickly
- (tags:video water heat )
- 8. I have been reading Sophia these jokes and she has been explaining to me, one by one, why they make no sense.
- (tags:jokes children )
- 9. Chi-Fi Tuning - Why It Sounds So Damn Piercing To Western Ears?
- (tags:china music Technology sound )
- 10. Expert Explains Why, Essentially, You're Fucked
- (tags:video doom funny )
- 11. Why I Will Always Be Angry About Software Engineering (or anything else that's badly managed)
- (tags:life programming organisation systems anger )
- 12. Do Not Obey In Advance
- (tags:fascism bureaucracy heroism )
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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 28-10-2024
Oct. 28th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Character Amnesia in China
- (tags:language china )
- 2. I now know why humans kiss - and nothing will ever be sexy again
- (tags:sexy kissing monkeys disgust )
- 3. A short history of saturated fat: the making and unmaking of a scientific consensus
- (tags:research fat diet health )
- 4. AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said
- (tags:ai voice text healthcare fail )
- 5. Lily Allen OnlyFans Feet Pictures Make More Money Than Spotify
- (tags:spotify feet money music )
- 6. Day trips from Edinburgh that you don't need a car for
- (tags:travel tourism edinburgh )
- 7. Are we making too many games?
- (tags:games business )
Interesting Links for 23-10-2024
Oct. 23rd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. How does WhatsApp make money?
- (tags:communication business )
- 2. You Don't Need Words to Think
- (tags:language thinking )
- 3. Who wants to hear interesting facts about the English language?
- (tags:language writing history video English )
- 4. Bohemian Rhapsody, told in memes
- (tags:meme queen music funny )
- 5. George R.R. Martin Announces He's Written Every 'And' That Will Appear In Next Book
- (tags:writing GeorgeRRMartin funny satire )
- 6. Keir Starmer scores first major Brexit reset success with landmark defence deal with Germany
- (tags:UK Germany military russia )
- 7. Edinburgh city centre to get first major new public gardens for 200 years
- (tags:edinburgh gardens school music )
- 8. Scientists Say Our Water Cycle Has Started Breaking Down
- (tags:water environment doom )
- 9. Meet the winners of Nikon's 2024 photomicrography contest
- (tags:photos awards microscope )
- 10. California Is Flooding School Cafeterias With Vegan Meals—and Kids Like It
- (tags:food california vegan )
- 11. What explains the timing and manner of the Chagos Islands sovereignty deal? (the USA)
- (tags:usa uk india politics )
- 12. UK Supreme Court rules that individuals can take regulators to court to make them do their job.
- (tags:uk regulation law )
- 13. "Autism" is at least four different things.
- (tags:autism genetics development children )
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