Interesting Links for 06-05-2025

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Interesting Links for 16-11-2024

Nov. 16th, 2024 12:00 pm
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1. LinkMachineGo - a collection of interesting links (I get regular things from them)
(tags:links )
2. Why is London's phone signal so bad? (Central Edinburgh is also really bad)
(tags:phones epicfail london )
3. Six inane arguments about Electric Vehicles and how to handle them at the dinner table
(tags:electricity cars transport myths )
4. Revealed: the property empires that make Charles and William millions (They pay no inheritence tax, capital gains or corporation tax and do not have to comply with property laws such as compulsory purchase orders.)
(tags:uk tax monarchy OhForFucksSake )
5. I just found over 200 of my Twitter friends on BlueSky by installing "Sky Bridge" in my browser and letting it match based on username/display name.
(tags:socialnetworking twitter )
6. Israel's war conduct in Gaza "is consistent with the characteristics of genocide," including mass civilian casualties and using starvation as a weapon, UN Special Committee finds
(tags:Israel Gaza WarCrimes )
7. Valve gets the original Half-Life 2 development team back together for a huge 20th anniversary update—and the game is now free for the weekend on Steam
(tags:games half-life history )
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Interesting Links for 18-12-2023

Dec. 18th, 2023 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 20-11-2023

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Interesting Links for 09-09-2023

Sep. 9th, 2023 12:00 pm
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1. Lottery winners do not tend to lose all of their money quickly
(tags:money lottery myths )
2. What is going on with Tumblr?
(tags:business Tumblr socialnetworking Doom )
3. Who had "electrified E coli" on their 2023 Doom Chart?
(tags:Doom bacteria electricity )
4. UK's long-lasting snow patch melts away for 10th time in 300 years
(tags:snow Scotland globalwarming )
5. Russian enthusiasm for Ukraine war falls to lowest level since invasion (38% from 52%)
(tags:Russia Ukraine war polls )
6. Edinburgh trams: North-south line, Granton to Dalkeith, could go via Western General Hospital and Orchard Brae
(tags:Edinburgh trams )
7. The Sandman Season 1 4K & Blu-ray Release Date Set
(tags:sandman TV BluRay )
8. How to use etiquette to disarm people in arguments
(tags:etiquette argument )
9. A technology startup has made startling claims for its innovative ceramic nanolayer-based storage
(tags:storage materials )
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Interesting Links for 26-01-2023

Jan. 26th, 2023 12:00 pm
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1. Justin Roiland: Rick and Morty creator and star dropped by Adult Swim (over assault charges)
(tags:USA assault tv )
2. Chatting with the dead: the hermeneutics of thanabots (what happens when you train an AI on all the text a person leaves behind)
(tags:ai writing communication death memory viaPatrickHadfield )
3. A lovely remembrance of a dying friend, and the last things he wanted to do.
(tags:archaeology death viaDanielDWilliam )
4. Edinburgh's iconic Granton gas holder to be transformed into new city park
(tags:Edinburgh gas park )
5. Clearly the best console gaming setup ever
(tags:gaming consoles video impressive )
6. Facebook follows Twitter in un-banning Donald Trump ahead of 2024 presidential bid, Nick Clegg confirms
(tags:Facebook politics USA )
7. What time is it on the moon?
(tags:time moon physics )
8. Christian decline UK: How it's measured and what it means
(tags:religion uk census demographics )
9. The UK's Biggest Cooking Myths
(tags:uk cooking myths )
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Interesting Links for 08-11-2022

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Interesting Links for 21-07-2022

Jul. 21st, 2022 12:00 pm
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1. New EU rules come in affecting Google, Apple, etc. The fallout is going to be *fascinating*
(tags:google apple regulation europe )
2. Sizewell C nuclear power station approved by UK government amid energy crisis
(tags:nuclearpower uk )
3. This Food Does Not Exist 🍪🍰🍣🍹
(tags:food ai fake )
4. The cute lovable robot dogs now have assault rifle attachments
(tags:robots dogs video guns )
5. Quidditch changes its name to distance itself from JK Rowling
(tags:jkrowling sports )
6. Addressing The Claims In JK Rowling's Justification For Transphobia
(tags:jkrowling LGBT transgender bigotry )
7. A doctor discovers an important question patients should be asked
(tags:healthcare viaEatSoylentGreen )
8. Edinburgh secures blockbuster Doctor Who exhibition for show's 60th anniversary year
(tags:drwho edinburgh )
9. Scotland's Drugs Death Taskforce chief says punishing addicts must stop
(tags:scotland drugs death addiction law )
10. 4 Myths About Construction: Debunked
(tags:myths construction engineering FactCheck )
11. Brexit red tape: Bookings of UK musicians at EU's biggest festivals crash by 45%
(tags:uk europe music trade doom )
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Interesting Links for 17-04-2022

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Interesting Links for 08-08-2021

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Interesting Links for 05-08-2021

Aug. 5th, 2021 12:00 pm
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There are lots of interesting questions raised by digital artwork. NFTs are not the answer to any of them.
(tags:art technology blockchain cryptography )
Vaccination is less effective against Delta variant than other Covid strains, large UK study suggests
(tags:vaccine pandemic )
Government accused of burying conversion therapy report
(tags:LGBT )
Hawaii officials wrongly arrested a homeless man for a crime committed by someone else, locked him up in a state hospital for more than two years, forced him to take psychiatric drugs and then tried to cover up the mistake
(tags:Hawaii USA OhForFucksSake identity )
Scuba-diver photographs Scotland's colourful marine life
(tags:scotland sea nature photos )
Myths and Misconceptions about Thorium nuclear fuel
(tags:myths thorium nuclearpower )
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Interesting Links for 14-10-2020

Oct. 14th, 2020 12:00 pm
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The truth about Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage
(tags:babbage adalovelace comic )
What Pollsters Have Changed Since 2016 — And What Still Worries Them About 2020
(tags:polls USA )
Ikea to launch new scheme to buy back unwanted furniture from customers
(tags:IKEA )
Coronavirus: 'Very high' level restrictions not enough to reduce R rate below one, Sage adviser warns
(tags:UK pandemic Doom )
What should economists be focusing on?
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1315841880874254336.html
(tags:economics viaDanielDWilliam )
Race is one of the strongest predictors of how long a person waits in line to vote (in the USA)
(tags:voting USA racism viaCipherGoth )
This is the most ridiculous way of ripping off website content I've seen. (Run *everything* through a thesaurus. With hilarious results.)
(tags:Web automation language funny )
White Nationalist Movement: Myth Vs. Fact
(tags:racism funny myths )
Your job application was rejected by a human, not a computer
(tags:computers jobs cv )
I quite fancied Torchlight 3 - until I read this review
(tags:games review )
Heavy Coffee Drinkers Want Coffee A Lot More Than They Actually Like It
(tags:coffee addiction psychology )
How Well Do You Know Yourself? Research On Self-Insight, Digested
(tags:psychology )
UK is unique in its light-touch approach to the gender pay gap
(tags:gender pay UK regulation )
75% of Scots say Holyrood should decide future EU relationship
(tags:Europe Scotland polls )
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Interesting Links for 13-02-2020

Feb. 13th, 2020 12:00 pm
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How the Danish electoral system makes it one of the most representative in the world
(tags:denmark elections voting )
When Rage Against The Machine announced they were playing a bookshop
(tags:funny music books shops )
Squabbling mice win photography award
(tags:mice photos nature )
Many stories are told of a legendary trickster, a prankster, a fellow of infinite jest. But what do we really know of this "Bon Jovi"?
(tags:funny music myths viaJohnBobShaun )
Why are all the great philosophers so bad?
(tags:philosophy )
The Myth of the Barter Economy
(tags:economics history )
British man sleeping on streets in Europe after being blocked from entering UK
(tags:UK citizenship OhForFucksSake )
Irish reunification - what does the law say?
(tags:Ireland NorthernIreland UK law viaDanielDWilliam )
How McKinsey Destroyed the Middle Class
(tags:management business inequality )
Jordan Peterson, Addiction, and the Cult of Personal Responsibility
(tags:addiction wtf )
Google's Android Keyboard "GBoard" - 13 handy shortcuts
(tags:keyboard android google )
People Born Blind Are Mysteriously Protected From Schizophrenia
(tags:blindness schizophrenia viaSwampers )
Coronavirus (COVID-19): latest information and advice
(tags:disease virus UK China )
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Interesting Links for 19-01-2020

Jan. 19th, 2020 12:00 pm
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Scotland exported about a billion euros worth of electricity to England in 2019
(tags:electricity England UK Scotland )
Absolutely not the truth about politics
(tags:politics comic predator )
Photographer Travels The World To Capture Every Skin Tone In Pantone Style
(tags:colour humans photos )
[cw: strobing] Nicolas Cage head turn using 63 posters
(tags:actors weird art animated_gif )
Fascinating discussion about what games we play that aliens might independently invent
(tags:games aliens )
Scientists find that tin found in Israel from 3,000 years ago comes from Cornwall
(tags:UK Israel metal trade prehistory )
Oil Rig Workers Get Emotionally Vulnerable To Make The Job Safer
(tags:emotions safety work )
Police, survivors debunk human trafficking kidnapping myths
(tags:rape abuse myths )
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Interesting Links for 15-11-2019

Nov. 15th, 2019 12:01 pm
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The "weakest link" theory that explains some of our economic woes
(tags:economics organisation )
AI Clones Your Voice After Listening for 5 Seconds
(tags:ai voice )
The new NI protocol locks *the whole of the UK* into EU state aid rules in perpetuity
(tags:uk NorthernIreland europe )
Put your hands in your pockets like you just don't care!
(tags:video dancing funny children )
We are hounded by Labour's myth of the 2017 contest
(tags:Labour politics elections UK )
PayPal Pulls Out of Pornhub, Hurting Hundreds of Thousands of Performers (one of those situations where bitcoin may actually be a reasonable solution)
(tags:payment censorship paypal )
Newly Discovered Fossil Bird Fills in Gap Between Dinosaurs and Modern Fliers
(tags:birds dinosaurs archeology )
Me and Monotropism: A unified theory of autism
(tags:autism psychology interesting )
Why Frozen appeals
(tags:Disney relationships abuse women movies )
The possible origin of the idea of the doors between worlds being open on Halloween
(tags:Halloween Ireland history )
12-year-old British-Nigerian Whizkid discovers a new way of telling if something is divisible by 7
(tags:mathematics )
FACT CHECK: Ring Around the Rosie
(tags:song children myths uk )
Sea-Thru: A Method for Removing Water from Underwater Images
(tags:Ocean water photography )
The £7,500 dress that does not exist (Digital clothing is the latest "stupidest thing ever")
(tags:fashion digital OhForFucksSake wtf )
Everything is the fault of immigrants. Yes, everything.
(tags:immigration Labour video )
Greens offer basic income by 2025
(tags:uk GuaranteedIncome GreenParty politics )
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Interesting Links for 09-10-2019

Oct. 9th, 2019 12:34 pm
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Following the game plan: Merkel call latest pantomime act in No.10's Brexit's strategy
(tags:UK Europe Doom )
A physics lecturer in why humanities courses are better at teaching critical thinking
(tags:science humanities thinking academia )
I had no idea France was so deeply intertwined with the economies of its ex colonies in Africa
(tags:France Africa currency economics )
People Prefer Their Jobs To Be Taken By Robots, Not Other Workers
(tags:psychology jobs robots )
Reading this account of a woman stabbing her daughter, and am baffled there's no mention of mental health.
(tags:parenting mentalhealth wtf )
It's almost funny watching Johnson and Cummings flail about trying to find a way to defeat parliament. If it wasn't also so serious...
(tags:politics law UK )
Dominic Cummings memo reveals that he doesn't understand the EU
(tags:UK Europe Doom )
Artifact: What Went Wrong With Valve's Card Game?
(tags:design games fail )
Russia's Disinformation War Is Just Getting Started
(tags:Russia fraud socialnetworking disinformation )
'A masterpiece': Norwich council houses win Stirling architecture prize for being environmentally and socially aware
(tags:architecture housing design environment )
Unicef now accepting donations through bitcoin
(tags:bitcoin UnitedNations children charity )
The most credible banking phishing attempt I've seen.
(tags:banking fraud )
Brexit: Parliament to sit on a Saturday for first time in 37 years in last-ditch Boris Johnson bid to stop delay
(tags:uk europe politics )
China and Taiwan clash over Wikipedia edits
(tags:wikipedia china taiwan )
Obsessed fan finds Japanese idol's home by zooming in on reflections in her eyes
(tags:eyes stalking OhForFucksSake japan )
Dog owners are over 30% less likely to die from cardiovascular causes
(tags:heart death dogs )
Euromyths - 1992-2017
(tags:europe myths eu )
The Nobile Officium Cases - the way forward
(tags:law UK europe )
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Interesting Links for 14-09-2019

Sep. 14th, 2019 12:47 pm
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What could you build instead of a bridge to Belfast
(tags:transport UK )
Shock poll reveals four in ten Welsh voters (who expressed a preference) would back independence to stay in EU
(tags:wales independence europe uk polls )
This is the best Avengers related advert there will ever be
(tags:avengers video advertising food mexico )
The "We can send back EU migrants if they don't work for three months" claim is basically a myth (as well as being an awful thing to do)
(tags:immigration europe work myths )
Not just in North Carolina: Republican lawmakers across the country rebel against democracy
(tags:USA politics republicans OhForFucksSake )
Combat Juggling is clearly the most dangerous game
(tags:juggling wtf video )
Shockingly MoviePass has discovered that its business plan was terrible and it was never going to make any money
(tags:movies business fail )
Estimates that mineral levels in vegetables have dropped by up to 90% since 1914
(tags:food health history Doom )
Shell Companies Hide $15 Trillion From Taxes
(tags:tax OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 14-08-2019

Aug. 14th, 2019 12:04 pm
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How white boys are being recruited by the alt right
(tags:propaganda fascism boys internet )
Russian nuclear-powered cruise missile blows up, creating "mini-Chernobyl"
(tags:nuclearweapons russia OhForFucksSake )
There are multiple methods remaining to avoid a No Deal Brexit
(tags:uk europe doom politics )
This person's drone battery running out is the epic blockbuster movie of the year.
(tags:drone batteries video viaSwampers )
Solar-plus-storage is undermining the economics of existing coal-fired generation
(tags:solarpower batteries coal renewables GoodNews )
The women who were too cool to get laid
(tags:sex women men OhForFucksSake viaTheFerrett )
Danish bank launches world's first negative interest rate mortgage
(tags:Denmark mortgages wtf economics )
Epstein's Death Was On 4Chan Before Officials Announced It — And Authorities Had To Look Into It
(tags:4chan suicide leaks prison )
FactCheck: No evidence for government's plastic straw claims
(tags:plastic UK myths environment )
Making Peppa Pig terrifying with the power of makeup
(tags:makeup pigs children TV video terrifying )
Reminder that The Last Jedi is a well-received, commercially-successful, critically-acclaimed Star Wars movie and that a small collection of extremely vocal accounts solely devoted to telling you otherwise doesn't change that fact.
(tags:StarWars )
First ads banned for contravening UK gender stereotyping rules
(tags:gender stereotypes uk advertising censorship )
Investment managers don't understand how to rate funds managed by black people
(tags:race racism investment usa )
Major breach found in biometrics system used by banks, UK police and defence firms (Plain-text passwords, and full fingerprints all leaked)
(tags:biometrics security epicfail )
Psytrance Guide (I am always fascinated at how many subgenres people can identify within a given field of music, or indeed any art, sport, craft, or other field of endeavour)
(tags:music guide )
Kevinism
(tags:names germany class )
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