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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
- (tags:Edinburgh transport traffic )
- 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 23-08-2024
Aug. 23rd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Australia to build the world's largest solar power plant (and a cable to Singapore)
- (tags:solarpower australia singapore )
- 2. Fruit and veg prices to rise unless Starmer delays new EU border checks
- (tags:Europe trade food inflation doom )
- 3. Pictures of animals from least to most related to you.
- (tags:animals organisation )
- 4. Metazooa - a guessing game for life itself!
- (tags:games nature animals )
- 5. Things of unusual size (with people for scale)
- (tags:size )
Interesting Links for 07-08-2024
Aug. 7th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Bionic Bay looks like a gorgeous platformer with fascinating puzzles and high-speed physics-based gameplay.
- (tags:games video )
- 2. The anti-islam riots in this country are a product of the media, Tories, and Labour. All should be held responsible.
- (tags:Labour conservatives media UK bigotry Islam riots )
- 3. Russia and Ukraine both have drones controlled by really really long fibre-optic cables
- (tags:drone fibreoptics russia ukraine )
- 4. Tim Walz Took Historic Action To Protect Trans People, Now He's The Dem VP Choice
- (tags:democrats GoodNews transgender USA politics LGBT )
- 5. If your workplace doesn't have a Muppet ethics AI then you are *totally* behind the times
- (tags:ai muppets ethics wtf )
- 6. JD Vance's Wife: My Husband Only Meant to Insult People Who Actively Choose Not to Have Kids, Not People Who Are Trying but Are Unsuccessful
- She did not touch on his claim that people who don't have kids are more sociopathic.
(tags:relationships politics USA EpicWTF ) - 7. How to Survive Mercury in Retrograde
- (tags:astronomy astrology mercury )
- 8. In hospital emergency rooms, female patients are less likely to receive pain medication than male patients who reported the same level of distress
- (tags:misogyny pain healthcare OhForFucksSake )
- 9. The wife of a Conservative councillor has been arrested after she called for hotels with asylum seekers to be set on fire.
- (tags:UK racism conservatives )
- 10. Wind and solar overtake EU fossil fuels in the first half of 2024
- (tags:renewables solarpower windpower electricity Europe coal gas hydroelectric )
- 11. COVID-19 making worrying comeback WHO warns, amid summertime surge
- (tags:pandemic doom )
- 12. I did not know it was possible to make friends with a moray eel!
- (tags:fish video friendship )
- 13. Scottish wildcat kitten caught on thermal imaging camera
- (tags:scotland cats nature video )
- 14. Ukrainian forces take Russian border city that they don't want
- (tags:russia ukraine war )
- 15. Elon Musk believes advertisers should be forced to spend money on him
- (tags:ElonMusk advertising twitter wtf )
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Interesting Links for 27-07-2024
Jul. 27th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. What the EU really thinks about the UK now
- (tags:UK Europe )
- 2. Indian vultures: Decline of scavenger birds caused 500,000 human deaths
- (tags:nature death vultures )
- 3. What would the perfect Santa Claus movie be like?
- (tags:religion Christmas Easter funny movie history )
- 4. UK Property Tax Loophole costing councils millions
- (tags:UK tax OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 05-07-2024
Jul. 5th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Neil Gaiman has been accused of sexual assault
- (tags:neilgaiman assault )
- 2. Aaand here's a song that Amanda Palmer wrote which might hint at a bit of a pattern with Neil Gaiman
- (tags:neilgaiman AmandaPalmer relationships lyrics )
- 3. How 14 years of Tory government has affected LGBT rights
- (tags:lgbt Conservatives )
- 4. Humans are part of the ecosystem (or: The way to save the lemurs was by vaccinating the chickens)
- (tags:Humans nature Madagascar chicken vaccination )
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Interesting Links for 18-06-2024
Jun. 18th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Amazon-Powered AI Cameras Used to Detect Emotions of Unwitting UK Train Passengers
- (tags:uk surveillance trains transport )
- 2. First-ever randomized trial of Ozempic for alcohol use disorder shows significant reductions in drinking
- (tags:alcohol healthcare research psychology )
- 3. But *when* was being gay invented?
- (tags:LGBT gay prehistory )
- 4. Rogue Austrian minister burns bridges to save EU nature law
- (tags:europe nature law green viaPatrickHadfield )
- 5. How writers see their own work is very different to how others see it
- (tags:writing sandman neilgaiman comics )
- 6. Anyone want to buy a bunch of Church of Scotland buildings? You can have your own church for £38k...
- (tags:religion scotland housing viaDanielDWilliam )
- 7. How had I never seen "Patrick Stewart's Cowboy Classics"?
- (tags:cowboy PatrickStewart video wtf )
- 8. New coastal town for Edinburgh reaches next major milestone
- (tags:edinburgh housing )
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Interesting Links for 17-06-2024
Jun. 17th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Welsh Labour councillor quits party after learning it hid evidence that cleared him of complaint
- (tags:Labour corruption OhForFucksSake )
- 2. On Wikipedia and how it works
- (tags:Wikipedia )
- 3. Why some cities (including Edinburgh) are banning fossil fuel advertisements
- (tags:Edinburgh Scotland advertising oil )
- 4. Frankly, Labour are going to stomp this election, so vote for whoever you like. But if you want tactical voting advice for your constituency here it is
- (tags:voting advice conservatives )
- 5. Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to incite fear of China vaccines
- (tags:USA military propaganda vaccine OhForFucksSake )
- 6. What is Box Breathing? (This helped me sleep when I was stressed)
- (tags:sleep stress )
- 7. Australia and New Zealand explicitly reject Cass review (joining USA and Canada)
- (tags:healthcare transgender Canada USA Australia newzealand LGBT )
- 8. Greek coastguard threw migrants overboard to their deaths
- (tags:greece migration murder )
- 9. Small modular nuclear reactors are over-budget, taking years longer to build, and are never getting built.
- (tags:nuclearpower epicfail viaDanielDWilliam )
- 10. £130m Dundee Eden Project set for approval
- (tags:scotland nature architecture tourism )
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- transgender,
- usa,
- vaccine,
- viadanieldwilliam,
- voting,
- wikipedia
Interesting Links for 26-05-2024
May. 26th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Lake District sewage spill runs non-stop for 42 days after decades of inaction
- (tags:water sewage pollution nature regulation UK OhForFucksSake )
- 2. How the US military made San Francisco gay
- (tags:LGBT USA history gay sanfrancisco military )
- 3. The BBC covers Google's destruction of its search tool (and useful web sites)
- (tags:Google web search OhForFucksSake )
- 4. An Age of Gods and Demons: The Greatness of Princess Mononoke
- (tags:ghibli review criticism nature Japan history fantasy )
- 5. When we're banning people from shops based on facial identification, how many errors are acceptable?
- Can happen without technology too, of course. I was nearly thrown out of a pub before I opened my mouth and the staff realised I wasn't the person who caused trouble there the week before.
(tags:faces identity society crime UK ) - 6. The most interesting thing about the Tory National Service announcement is that they're quietly cancelling the "levelling up" funds to pay for it...
- (tags:UK conservatives OhForFucksSake money )
Interesting Links for 13-05-2024
May. 13th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Terry Pratchett On Trans Folk
- (tags:transgender terrypratchett )
- 2. What's the difference between the British and Finnish welfare systems?
- (tags:welfare UK Finland )
- 3. Wes Streeting explains why Labour are fine with starving children
- (tags:Labour children welfare poverty OhForFucksSake )
- 4. What happened to the Great Library of Alexandria?
- (tags:library history )
- 5. 30,000 rare oysters being reintroduced to Firth of Forth
- (tags:Scotland seafood nature )
- 6. Small nuclear reactors don't add up as a viable energy source
- (tags:nuclearpower economics )
- 7. Internet use is linked to higher wellbeing
- (tags:happiness internet )
- 8. Economic performance is stronger when Democrats hold the White House
- (tags:economics usa republicans democrats politics )
- 9. The Aurora Borealis from Calton Hill, Edinburgh.
- (tags:edinburgh auroraborealis photos )
- 10. Scientists document remarkable sperm whale 'phonetic alphabet'
- (tags:whales speech language )
- 11. Have no doubt: we are at war with Russia
- (tags:russia war )
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Interesting Links for 28-02-2024
Feb. 28th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Beautiful Edinburgh garden many locals don't know about named most peaceful spot in UK (I'd lived here twenty years before I knew it was there)
- (tags:Edinburgh gardens nature )
- 2. If you're wondering why there's a worldwide shortage of ADHD drugs, blame the USA
- (tags:USA adhd OhForFucksSake regulation manufacturing )
- 3. Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users' Data to Train AI Tools
- (tags:ai Tumblr wordpress OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Texas will add more grid batteries than any other state this year, more than doubling its capacity
- (tags:Texas batteries GoodNews )
- 5. The reason why Tory MPs won't use the word 'Islamophobia'
- (tags:islam UK politics )
- 6. Small steps forward in understanding the links between DNA damage and aging
- (tags:genetics aging )
- 7. How the gender pay gap in the UK compares to other nations
- (tags:gender wages pay UK )
- 8. Atmospheric rivers mapped by scientists in California
- (tags:rain weather )
- 9. Botanical gardens can cool city air by an average of 5 °C (and other green spaces are also effective, if less so)
- (tags:gardens cities temperature )
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 06-10-2023
Oct. 6th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Scientists have finally worked out how cats produce purring sounds
- (tags:cats )
- 2. Bears, birds and kangaroos: Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2023
- (tags:funny photos nature wildlife viacmcmck )
- 3. When does spider season end? Why there are so many spiders in your house right now and how to stop them
- (tags:spiders )
- 4. X stops showing headlines because Elon Musk thinks it will make posts look better
- (tags:twitter ux awful )
- 5. Can you melt eggs? Quora's AI says "yes," and Google is sharing the result
- (tags:ai epicfail fraud google )
- 6. Private equity managers could face £420m annual bill after legal challenge (this kind of thing is one of the reasons I donate to the Good Law Project)
- (tags:law uk tax money )
- 7. Study into trans women in hospitals didn't find one single complaint
- (tags:LGBT transgender NHS bigotry conservatives )
- 8. Finally, a trans debate worth having!
- (tags:satire transgender video LGBT )
- 9. The extreme robot arm that can chop up a ship
- (tags:automation ship waste )
Interesting Links for 31-07-2023
Jul. 31st, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. China Launches First 700 TEU Electric Containership - with swappable batteries to keep it on the move
- (tags:electricity shipping China )
- 2. "The Tragedy of the Commons" is nonsense written by a racist
- (tags:economics psychology wrong )
- 3. 'No one I know has a bank account that stays open for long': The rise of sex industry workers being de-banked
- (tags:Banking sexwork OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Why non-Jews being cast as Jews in Oppenheimer really isn't a problem
- (tags:jewish movies society )
- 5. UK public libraries return six times their investment, generating billions of pounds worth of value
- (tags:libraries economics UK )
- 6. Regular use of vitamin D supplement is associated with fewer melanoma cases
- (tags:vitaminD cancer )
- 7. Government cuts cost of polluting in Britain in latest anti-green move
- (tags:Conservatives pollution OhForFucksSake uk )
- 8. How should you pronounce the name of the company that was Twitter?
- (tags:twitter names greece )
- 9. The evidence on low-traffic neighbourhoods and what fewer cars means for pollution and street safety
- (tags:traffic uk evidence )
- 10. The looming battle over pylons across Scotland for green energy
- (tags:scotland electricity infrastructure windpower nature )
- 11. Mindfulness reduces psychological distress
- (tags:mindfulness psychic anxiety depression )
- 12. r/law bans Twitter submissions over child sex abuse material
- (tags:twitter reddit )
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- anxiety,
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- cancer,
- china,
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Interesting Links for 15-06-2023
Jun. 15th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Edinburgh trams: Plans for extension to Newbridge set to be abandoned in favour of route along A71 corridor
- (tags:edinburgh trams )
- 2. Do a quarter of British people really believe Covid was a hoax?
- (tags:conspiracy polls )
- 3. Who wants to read a judge interrogate lawyers for presenting AI gibberish as if it was reality?
- (tags:USA law AI epicfail )
- 4. Google risks forced breakup of ad business as EU alleges shocking misconduct
- (tags:Google advertising corruption fraud business regulation )
- 5. Body mass index gets smack down: American Medical Association calls out harms and "racist exclusion" | Ars Technica
- (tags:weight healthcare USA )
- 6. How many of these do you think are birds?
- (tags:birds paleontology evolution )
- 7. How do people treat you differently when you're skinny?
- (tags:weight bigotry society )
- 8. First time one of my posts on Mastodon has gone viral! (just hit 500 shares)
- (tags:socialmedia )
- 9. Europe votes to regulate AI and ban use of live facial recognition
- (tags:regulation ai faces )
- 10. 'I got to know my gut microbiome - as a result, I sleep better, have more energy and I've lost 25lbs'
- (tags:microbiome )
- 11. Johnson Verdict: 'He lied, lied about lying, lied about lying about lying, and is generally a twat'
- (tags:BorisJohnson lying politics satire true )
- 12. Two children were born with 'insatiable hunger' that left them severely obese. Now scientists know why (leptin gene mutation)
- (tags:genetics hunger )
- 13. Boosting paternity leave has economic benefits and reduces inequality
- (tags:parenting men uk inequality )
- 14. Wildcats bred in captivity released into Cairngorms
- (tags:cats nature scotland )
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- nature,
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- polls,
- regulation,
- satire,
- scotland,
- socialmedia,
- society,
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- uk,
- usa,
- weight
Interesting Links for 12-06-2023
Jun. 12th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Netflix sees massive subscriber jump after password-sharing crackdown
- (tags:Netflix passwords business )
- 2. ChatGPT recommends software packages that don't exist - so hackers created them to take control of people's computers
- (tags:malware hacking ai )
- 3. There are some really weird underwater creatures out there
- (tags:nature ocean video weird )
- 4. 'It was the worst pain': Women still face agonising coil fittings despite pain relief guidance
- (tags:pain women contraception NHS OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Democrats work to protect abortion, trans rights with combined laws
- (tags:usa democrats abortion transgender GoodNews )
- 6. Five Things that Boris Johnson Might Be Up Too
- (tags:BorisJohnson politics Conservatives viaDanielDWilliam )
- 7. This is why I can't play Diablo for the next couple of years
- (tags:games time children )
- 8. Star Trek engineering rap
- (tags:music video funny StarTrek ViaDrCross )
- 9. Kate Forbes says she can't choose to stop being a bigot and that non-bigoted Christians aren't really properly Christian
- (tags:bigotry religion Christianity politics Scotland LGBT )
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- abortion,
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