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Interesting Links for 14-09-2024

1. The Music industry's 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying: (tags:music Technology fail )
2. How to Spot NASA's Solar Sail Demonstration Streaking Through the Night Sky: (tags:solar space NASA )
3. New beanless 'coffee' emerges but does it taste any good?: (tags:coffee caffeine )
4. What's the most accurate weather app in the UK?: (tags:weather apps uk )
5. Lord Darzi review finds Tory austerity has left NHS in critical condition: (tags:austerity nhs uk )
6. AI chatbots might be better at swaying conspiracy theorists than humans: (tags:conspiracy ai GoodNews )
7. 'Good Omens': Neil Gaiman Offers To Step Back From Season 3 (I hope he does the same with the Netflix Sandman show): (tags:neilgaiman assault tv terrypratchett )
8. All maps are wrong: (tags:GPS maps Technology )
9. New ChatGPT o1 Blitzes "Britain's Hardest TV Quiz" (Only Connect): (tags:ai quiz viaSteer )

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Interesting Links for 16-06-2024

1. The NASA Pride flag is awesome: (tags:NASA pride flags )

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Interesting Links for 13-06-2024

1. The Titan Submersible Disaster Shocked the World. The Exclusive Inside Story Is More Disturbing Than Anyone Imagined: (tags:submarine epicfail safety OhForFucksSake )
2. Israel and Hamas added to UN list for violating children's rights: (tags:children UnitedNations rights Israel Gaza )
3. MSPs approve buffer zones at abortion clinics in Scotland: (tags:Scotland abuse abortion GoodNews )
4. Plans for 8,500-capacity Edinburgh Park arena approved by council: (tags:Edinburgh music construction performance )
5. Real-Time Settlers Of Catan: (tags:games )
6. NASA accidentally broadcasts simulation of distressed astronauts on space station (I don't see how this could happen, and it sounds like the start of a bad movie): (tags:NASA video conspiracy )
7. Where does SNP claim of £18bn cuts under Labour come from?: (tags:Labour austerity OhForFucksSake )
8. Wild horses have returned to the Golden Steppe of Kazakhstan for the first time in at least 200 years: (tags:horses kazakhstan )
9. Greatest Comics of All Time as Chosen by 45 Writers and Artists: (tags:comics recommendation )

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Interesting Links for 20-01-2022

If you're poor then the cost of living has gone up by a *lot* more than 5%: (tags:economics UK poverty )
A NASA Probe Went and Touched the Sun: (tags:sun space NASA )
Coffee can't fix all the cognitive impairments caused by a bad night's sleep: (tags:caffeine psychology sleep )
Men Are Creating AI Girlfriends and Then Verbally Abusing Them: As a friend put it "This is how you get Terminators"
(tags:ai abuse misogyny hate )
The gender wage gap is really a child care penalty: (tags:children patriarchy wages gender society )
New rules passed for short-term lets in Scotland: (tags:rental housing Scotland )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4138580.html

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Interesting Links for 19-01-2022

Microsoft buys Activision Blizzard: (tags:Microsoft games )
The Undoing Of Joss Whedon: (tags:JossWhedon abuse tv buffy movies )
What the Discovery of an Extra Artery Means for Human Evolution: (tags:evolution blood viaNancyLebov )
How board games are made at a Chinese factory: (tags:boardgames manufacturing China video )
NASA hasn't 'just' hired 24 theologians to study future discovery of aliens: (tags:religion life space NASA sociology )
The Autism Phenome Project: Toward Identifying Meaningful Subgroups of Autism: (tags:autism psychology )
Someone has clearly decided that board games players have too much money: (tags:boardgames money marvel zombies )
A lovely story about insects and university outreach: (tags:insects children university )
Cost of living rises at fastest pace for 30 years: (tags:inflation economy uk )
High speed rail must go to Scotland to help reach net zero: (tags:hs2 trains transport uk co2 globalwarming )
NASA: Tonga blast was 10 megatons, more powerful than a nuclear bomb: (tags:volcano pacific )
Scaling Carbon Capture: (tags:carbon co2 globalwarming electricity )
Covid: Scotland Omicron restrictions to end on Monday: (tags:pandemic scotland )
Can memes help people cope with pandemic-induced anxiety?: (tags:pandemic memetics anxiety psychology )
On the "New Movement" in SF/F (and why there is much more diversity in Hugo awards): (tags:scifi diversity )
Tory MP Christian Wakeford Defects To Labour: (tags:Conservatives labour politics uk )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3868350.html

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Interesting Links for 23-07-2019

Lothian bus drivers WILL strike indefinitely from end of next week: (tags:buses edinburgh )
Airlines are finally fixing the middle seat: (tags:airplanes design )
The invention of The Average Man: (tags:statistics humans history viajoexnz )
The decisions facing Boris Johnson: (tags:BorisJohnson politics uk europe )
Canned laughter makes 'dad jokes' funnier: (tags:laughter comedy humour )
Universal credit: Single mums being forced into sex work: (tags:sex poverty welfare UK )
Fifa packs and loot boxes 'not gambling' in UK: (tags:UK gambling games law )
The Crane Wife (a lesson too many people, especially women, could do with): (tags:relationships happiness women life )
Stunning Concept Art For Spielberg's Animated "Cats" Movie That Never Was: (tags:movies cats musicals animation )
Banks can accidentally lose safe deposit boxes: (tags:banks safety money fail )
Signs Your Bra May Be the Wrong Size Or a Snake: (tags:breasts clothing funny snake )
Johnson tries and fails to bring Gauke, Clark, Greening, Stewart and Grieve into his tent: (tags:politics UK Europe doom )
Hemingway's "For Sale: Baby Shoes, Never Worn" Re-Imagined By Other Authors: (tags:funny story writing viaSwampers )
Flash forward to Boris Britain: (tags:UK europe Doom thefuture satire viaNWhyte )
Celebrating the 400,000+ people who helped NASA fake the moon landing: (tags:history moon fake NASA )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3807927.html

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Interesting Links for 18-07-2019

I'd never heard of "Paris Syndrome" before. (Fascinating, but rare - Japanese people so shocked to discover that it's different to the movies they fail to cope): (tags:japan france reality movies Paris mentalhealth )
Modeling the Mythical Man-Month (or: The ideal number of people in a team is about 3): (tags:teams efficiency productivity )
Psychologists are studying polyamory: (tags:psychology polyamory relationships )
Human presence alone has lethal effect on large predators: (tags:humans predator behaviour animals wildlife )
Isn't Everyone On The Spectrum?: (tags:autism society )
Explaining Japan's 99.9% Conviction Rate: (tags:law japan )
Autistic Spectroscopy: Exploring what the "spectrum" means: (tags:autism )
How does OpenStreetMap keep track of where your home is when the continents won't hold still?: (tags:OpenStreetMap maps data earth time )
Trial By Trolley - a social game of philosophical conundrums: (tags:morality games kickstarter )
Live Action Warhammer 40,000 TV Show 'Eisenhorn' Announced: (tags:Warhammer tv )
Gorillas have humanlike social structure: (tags:gorillas social behaviour )
The Glorious, Profitable, Inescapable Art of Addiction (in games): (tags:games addiction design )
Scottish town named top cruise ship destination in Western Europe: (tags:Scotland ocean holidays tourism )
No Deal Brexit forecast to lead to a Â£30 billion a year hit to the public finances per year, according to the first official projection from the Government's independent budgetary watchdog - the OBR: (tags:europe uk doom )
An interview with Margaret Hamilton: The woman whose programming helped us land on the moon: (tags:NASA space programming women history )
The lesson from the ruins of Notre Dame: don't rely on billionaires: (tags:charity wealth France fraud viaSwampers )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3805577.html

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Interesting Links for 09-07-2019

MT-DNN Achieves Human Performance in General Language Understanding Benchmark: (tags:language ai )
For 40 Years, Crashing Trains Was One of America's Favorite Pastimes: (tags:history trains usa )
Young women in academia - this clothing will guarantee you respect!: (tags:clothing women funny )
'Babylon 5' is great, so why does it look so bad?: (tags:TV cgi OhForFucksSake money )
NHS waiting lists soar as doctors stop working overtime in pension row: (tags:tax pensions doctors nhs )
AI pilot 'sees' runway and lands automatically: (tags:airplanes ai )
"I ran a bookies for 12 years - they deserve no sympathy for these store closures": (tags:gambling UK business )
Earth's eighth persistent lava lake found on remote sub-Antarctic island: (tags:geology lava )
Bitcoin mining on an Apollo Guidance Computer: (tags:bitcoin computers space history NASA )
If you're not careful then your children will spend hundreds of pounds gambling for football players: (tags:gambling children games football )
Stricken Russian Nuke Sub Crew Prevented 'Planetary Catastrophe': (tags:nuclearpower submarine ocean OhForFucksSake firefox )
Labour's message to Remainers: "Don't vote for us": (tags:Labour UK europe )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3780704.html

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Interesting Links for 11-04-2019

Google Wing launches first commercial drone delivery service: (tags:google drones business )
"What I Learned By Binge-Watching 'Game of Thrones' Backward": (tags:gameofthrones tv time )
'Strange blue lights' spotted over Arctic Circle explained by NASA: (tags:nasa arctic light )
First ever black hole image released: (tags:space )
Becoming Fleabag: Phoebe Waller-Bridge on stage - in pictures: (tags:theatre )
Harold Bloom: Anti-Inkling?: (tags:fantasy history writing uk )
More CO2 than ever before in 3 million years, shows unprecedented computer simulation: (tags:co2 globalwarming doom )
Police officers fined stalking victim before she was murdered: (tags:murder police OhForFucksSake epicfail )
Game of Thrones' most thorough guide in existence: (tags:gameofthrones spreadsheet impressive )
Game of Thrones Season 7 in three minutes (nicely animated): (tags:gameofthrones video animation )
"I Drove My Childhood Favourite Racing Game In Real Life" (a lovely video about games and nostalgia): (tags:video games )
Some lovely choreography here: (tags:video dance )
M87 Black Hole Size Comparison To Our Solar System: (tags:space xkcd )
Swiss court orders historic referendum re-run because the information provided was incomplete: (tags:Switzerland referendum )
The UK's most-streamed songs may surprise you: (tags:uk streaming music )
In a sovereign decision Ecuador withdrew the asylum status to Julian Assange after his repeated violations to international conventions and daily-life protocols. (And then he is arrested): (tags:JulianAssange diplomacy asylum )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3776257.html

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Interesting Links for 24-03-2019

Revoke Article 50 petition calling for Brexit to be cancelled becomes most popular in Parliament website's history: (tags:UK europe petition )
Stop Child Abuse - Trace an Object: (tags:Child_abuse photos police )
'Cancel Brexit' petition woman receives death threats: (tags:UK europe petition abuse )
For years, drugmakers have tried targeting a brain compound called beta amyloid. Not one of those??attempts has worked: (tags:alzheimers fail research drugs )
How People Stop Learning: The Rise of the Expert Beginner: (tags:learning )
The truth about the human/robot war: (tags:robots comic funny )
NASA issues space herpes warning as virus reactivates in astronauts: I'm sure we'll be seeing the movie inspired by this any second now...
(tags:herpes virus space NASA )
Doomed Boeing Jets Lacked 2 Safety Features That Company Sold Only as Extras: (tags:airplanes safety OhForFucksSake viaLilysea )
Is part of the American democracy problem that the president is too important: (tags:usa politics )
Last night the North Bergen High School in New Jersey put on 'Alien' as their school play and it looks absolutely incredible.: (tags:theatre alien )
The failing coup against Theresa May could bring down the government: (tags:UK europe Conservatives )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3766055.html

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Interesting Links for 14-02-2019

Mars rover "Opportunity" is probably done, alas: (tags:Mars robots NASA )
Boys banned from playing netball at Urdd sports festival: (tags:gender sports )
What you, personally, can do about the upcoming insect apocalypse.: (tags:insects gardens environment )
Girl Scouts reject anti-transgender gift, then triple the money: (tags:usa transgender scouts lgbt girls )
EU officials: UK only 'pretending to negotiate' over Brexit impasse: (tags:UK europe doom )
Bikes put spanner in works of Dutch driverless car schemes: (tags:cars automation bicycles netherlands )
Lufthansa sues passenger for not getting on a plane: (tags:airlines OhForFucksSake )
Failed UKIP candidate claims he was personally invited on to BBC Question Time: (tags:UKIP bbc OhForFucksSake )
Post-Brexit trade partners ask UK to lower human rights standards: (tags:rights trade doom uk europe )
The "Impossible" Tech Behind SpaceX's New Engine: (tags:technology space fuel Spacex )
Female Gamer Angry About How Breast Physics Work in Real Life: (tags:physics breasts games satire funny viaBartCalendar )
Why is Ford leaving? Is it the risk of hard Brexit? Or because we're abandoning the Customs Union? Is it because we're leaving the Single Market? Or is it the Euro?: (tags:trade europe euro uk doom )
The Proverbial Murder Mystery (This made me giggle repeatedly): (tags:funny humour language )
Newly isolated human gut bacterium reveals possible connection to depression: (tags:depression microbiome )
Effect of breastfeeding versus pumping on human milk microbiome: (tags:microbiome milk breastfeeding babies )
"One man who made history" by another who seems just to make it up: Boris on Churchill: (tags:history myths fail uk wwii )