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Interesting Links for 10-04-2023

Apr. 10th, 2023 12:00 pm
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1. The risk of various autoimmune diseases is substantially higher in people who have had Covid
(tags:Pandemic immune_system doom )
2. Woman swims with family of Orcas and makes global headlines
(tags:newzealand aieeee! dolphins swimming )
3. Tories and Labour face off in rush to the bottom for 'law and order' (and they can both fuck off)
(tags:law authoritarianism labour conservatives politics UK OhForFucksSake )
4. Hear the words of the final Nuremberg prosecutor to die
(tags:Holocaust law history video )
5. The billionaires you've never heard of bankrolling America's far right
(tags:USA fascism wealth politics )
6. Could Keir Starmer stop visiting bigoted churches?
(tags:LGBT bigotry labour OhForFucksSake )
7. What were the defining characteristics of the 2010s?
(tags:history )
8. It is amazing how simple a tiny cheap device can make security violations
(tags:security technology )
9. ChatGPT's inconsistent moral advice corrupts its users' judgment
(tags:morality ai Doom viaPatrickHadfield )
10. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) won't give its reasons for failing to release annual assessments of the safety of nuclear weapons in Scotland so as not to "prejudice relations between the UK and Scottish governments".
(tags:nuclearweapons Scotland OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 28-10-2022

Oct. 28th, 2022 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 04-09-2022

Sep. 4th, 2022 12:00 pm
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1. What is it that Kiwi Farms does? And what is stochastic terrorism?
(tags:transgender bigotry assault murder forum terrorism )
2. Foreigners must tell the Israeli defence ministry if they fall in love with a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank
(tags:Israel Palestine relationships migration wtf )
3. The problem with having complicated conversations in a public place is the huge disparity in understanding and experience, and the impossibility of having a level of conversation that works for everyone
(tags:communication internet racism LGBT philosophy education teaching )
4. Why the Nazis weren't close to building an atomic bomb
(tags:nuclearweapons history wwii Nazis Germany )
5. Cloudflare blocks Kiwifarms
(tags:LGBT internet bigotry GoodNews transgender )
6. What has President Biden achieved?
(tags:USA politics democrats )
7. A man deliberately infected with HIV has been denied compensation because he once shouted at David Cameron
(tags:UK crime money )
8. How did "Steaming" come to be Scottish slang for"drunk"?
(tags:boats history language alcohol slang )
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Interesting Links for 03-09-2022

Sep. 3rd, 2022 12:00 pm
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1. Dreamwidth are moving away from Cloudflare, after Cloudflare refused to stop supporting sites that threaten people's physical safety
(tags:dreamwidth freespeech GoodNews abuse )
2. What would it be like for you if your life had a sports commentator?
(tags:sports narrative life )
3. Everywhere, no matter how boring it looks, has a history
(tags:edinburgh history scotland viaSwampers )
4. Russian oil energy price cap agreed by G7
(tags:russia oil )
5. Diablo Immortal whales face massive orb debt after third-party refunds (I find all of this hilarious, in-between wishing I didn't know what it meant)
(tags:viaSwampers games diablo fraud )
6. The UK welfare system is cruel, disgusting, and murderous
(tags:UK welfare murder OhForFucksSake conservatives )
7. Nuclear explosions in the style of various artists
(tags:nuclearweapons art ai viaPatrickHadfield )
8. Modern cars are much safer than old ones
(tags:safety cars )
9. AI is getting better at generating porn.
(tags:porn ai )
10. Worker says her job would rather replace her with 6 people than give her a raise,
(tags:work OhForFucksSake )
11. Entrance to forgotten square revealed by huge fire in Edinburgh
(tags:history Edinburgh architecture viaPatrickHadfield )
12. Valve bars Steam developer who posted anti-trans rant in patch notes
(tags:games bigotry LGBT valve Steam transgender )
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Interesting Links for 01-08-2022

Aug. 1st, 2022 12:00 pm
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1. When will things get back to normal?
(tags:society epigenetics )
2. British Museum executive calls for 'Parthenon partnership' over Elgin Marbles
(tags:Greece archeology history theft UK )
3. I am going to be very disappointed if either of my children end up being Tory MPs
(tags:children family politics conservatives )
4. What's the issue with Russian weaponry and how it's being used in Ukraine?
(tags:Russia military Technology training Ukraine war )
5. My worst tech decision: A G Suite account for personal use. (Same here)
(tags:Google email fail )
6. Underwater nuclear explosion testing
(tags:history nuclearweapons video viaPatrickHadfield )
7. How healing should work in Dungeons and Dragons
(tags:roleplaying religion funny comic )
8. What dying gramdmother doesn't want a 600lb penis on her tombstone?
(tags:penis death )
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Interesting Links for 20-07-2022

Jul. 20th, 2022 12:00 pm
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1. Yay! 60% of Americans aren't Creationists!
(tags:religion usa headdesk evolution belief )
2. UK pay falls at fastest rate on record as inflation hits
(tags:inequality uk pay )
3. A fictional dictionary entry from the future, about the first ever upload. Fascinating and horrifying.
(tags:transhumanism viaCharlesStross scifi )
4. How to encourage your child to have a healthy relationship with food
(tags:psychology food children )
5. Anti-Corbyn Labour officials covertly diverted election funds away from winnable seats, Forde report finds
(tags:labour corruption OhForFucksSake )
6. Beware of bad science reporting: No, we haven't killed 90% of all plankton
(tags:FactCheck ocean doom )
7. A cool debugging story (this one about nuclear detectors in space!)
(tags:space nuclearweapons bug history development viaPatrickHadfield )
8. Government quietly removes commitments to women's rights after summit on freedom of beliefs
(tags:UK abortion women rights OhForFucksSake )
9. Neil Gaiman's Graveyard Book Is Being Disneyfied
(tags:Disney neilgaiman )
10. The Labour Party is making a terrible mistake if it ignores the Forde report
(tags:labour democracy politics corruption uk )
11. Stranger Things 4 creators reveal they've secretly been editing past seasons without viewers noticing
(tags:TV editing )
12. Battery cost declines raise prospects of all-electric container shipping
(tags:electricity ships shipping batteries )
13. A Brief History of "Nobody Wants to Work Anymore"
(tags:work history newspapers )
14. 'Unacceptable' waits for Edinburgh high-rise mould repairs
(tags:edinburgh housing OhForFucksSake )
15. Gender-Affirming Care Improves Mental Health And Saves Lives
(tags:psychology transgender lgbt )
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Interesting Links for 30-03-2022

Mar. 30th, 2022 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 28-02-2022

Feb. 28th, 2022 12:00 pm
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Russians troops are disoriented, hungry, and don't understand why they're invading
(tags:Russia Ukraine OhForFucksSake )
EU Plans To Send Weapons To Ukraine After Putin Escalates Nuclear Threat
(tags:nuclearweapons Ukraine Europe Russia war )
How Ikea gets you to buy more stuff
(tags:IKEA marketing business )
The salt-mining elephants of Africa
(tags:elephants mining salt Africa )
I would not have believed the levels of Russian incompetence if you'd told me last week
(tags:Russia Ukraine incompetence video )
Words known better by men women, and vice versa
(tags:gender language English )
How Putin made the EU great again
(tags:Russia Europe )
Sid Meier warns the games industry about monetisation (30th anniversary of Civilization interview)
(tags:games business money )
I love the Childline "Nobody is normal" video
(tags:children video )
UK pledge to take Ukrainian refugees with family in Britain excludes brothers, sisters, adult children and parents
(tags:ukraine uk refugee OhForFucksSake )
Tumblr will now let you be the customer, rather than advertisers being the customer. I am *delighted* and wish Facebook/Twitter would do likewise
(tags:tumblr advertising business )
What do parents' houses really look like?
(tags:homes children parenting mess )
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Interesting Links for 25-01-2022

Jan. 25th, 2022 12:00 pm
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What are the most watched TV shows of the 21st century so far? (in the UK)
(tags:TV uk )
Accountability needs transparency, and both need to be enforceable by legal remedies
(tags:law politics )
No, £30 for a leg of lamb isn't expensive. Quite the opposite
(tags:meat food economics )
How botnets pushed a bigoted hashtag to Westminster
(tags:bigotry LGBT internet fraud Twitter )
How big was the Tonga eruption? (visualised over various countries)
(tags:visualisation volcano explosions )
Imam appointed to define Islamophobia has had no meaningful engagement from ministers
(tags:Islam bigotry conservatives )
Chicago sets its train tracks on fire when it's this cold
(tags:trains weather fire )
Boris Johnson praised a seven-year-old who cancelled their birthday party - and then had his own less than three months later
(tags:uk BorisJohnson party pandemic Conservatives )
North Korea has communist dolphin soldiers poised and ready to attack!
(tags:NorthKorea dolphins military )
Militarized Dolphins Protect Almost a Quarter of the US Nuclear Stockpile
(tags:nuclearweapons dolphins usa )
Why chefs are turning to artificial intelligence to discover new flavours
(tags:taste food ai )
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Interesting Links for 13-01-2022

Jan. 13th, 2022 12:00 pm
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Covid loses almost all its ability to infect after 20 minutes.
(tags:pandemic virus )
Lorries stuck at checkpoints for four days due to terrible new Brexit red tape
(tags:uk europe trade )
Having just finished re-reading Sandman I enjoyed this person documenting their re-read.
(tags:sandman comics neilgaiman )
Using American spellings is cheating, Wordle told
(tags:language words spelling usa uk satire )
Atomic mushroom clouds are big. Really big. You might think it's a long way up Mount Everest, but that's peanuts compared to an atomic mushroom cloud
(tags:size nuclearweapons visualisation viaSwampers )
Firefox bug is causing it to hang. Here's the solution
(tags:Firefox bug viaSwampers )
How a livestreamed roleplaying game's bid to make an animated version became the biggest kickstarter campaign ever, and got a Prime deal out of it.
(tags:tv animation roleplaying amazon streaming )
Satisfying simulations of bouncing balls obeying physical laws; for a fleeting moment during the simulation, the balls pass through a beautiful regular pattern
(tags:physics simulation maths video )
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Interesting Links for 01-08-2021

Aug. 1st, 2021 12:00 pm
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FactCheck: What's behind the UK vaccination slowdown?
(tags:UK vaccination )
China is building nuclear weapons. Here's why.

(tags:nuclearweapons China )
Electric cars have much lower life cycle emissions
(tags:co2 cars manufacturing )
How transphobes read Pratchett as being on their side
(tags:LGBT transgender terrypratchett )
Google encouraged employees who experienced harassment/assault to use their mental health benefits, then pressured counselors to provide records of their sessions to use in court when those employees filed lawsuits
(tags:Google assault harassment OhForFucksSake )
Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch covid. None of them helped. Some were actively unhelpful
(tags:ai pandemic epicfail )
IOC admits guidelines for transgender athletes are not fit for purpose
(tags:LGBT transgender olympics )
Amanda Knox: Who Owns My Name?
(tags:murder corruption lies media TV movies OhForFucksSake )
The Winged Labrys - a pin designed for inclusive sapphic people
(tags:LGBT transgender lesbian design )
Tory chairman Ben Elliot sold access to his uncle Prince Charles
(tags:conservatives royalty money corruption UK )
10 iconic logos. 156 Americans. 80 hours of drawing from memory.
(tags:marketing design memory viaElfy )
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Interesting Links for 29-05-2021

May. 29th, 2021 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 17-03-2021

Mar. 17th, 2021 12:00 pm
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Boris Johnson violating international law with plan to build more nuclear weapons
(tags:nuclearweapons UK OhForFucksSake )
England will still unlock slowly despite vaccinating faster than government assumed
(tags:UK pandemic vaccination )
First Scottish wildcat arrives at 'breed and release' centre in the Highlands
(tags:scotland cats nature )
What's next for Scotland's lockdown? (Looks like we're starting to open up from the start of April)
(tags:scotland pandemic )
New protest laws go too far and are not needed, police commissioners say
(tags:police protests law uk )
New French coronavirus variant isn't detected by standard tests
(tags:pandemic virus testing Doom )
Evangelical Christians are, unsurprisingly, in favour of LGBT "conversation therapy"
(tags:LGBT religion OhForFucksSake )
Foreign secretary says UK will trade with countries which fail to meet human rights standards
(tags:UK rights trade OhForFucksSake )
Youths attack eight buses with rocks in Edinburgh
(tags:Edinburgh violence buses )
The Ideas That Are Reshaping The Democratic Party And America
(tags:USA society democrats )
Government plans to change London mayor elections to First Past the Post
(tags:voting democracy London OhForFucksSake )
Blue Monday - but Star Wars
(tags:StarWars music video )
French MPs back law to introduce age of sexual consent
(tags:consent age sex France )
Breaking the code of silence over sexual violence at elite French universities
(tags:France rape university )
Thieves, robbers and burglars to be fitted with GPS tags on release from prison
(tags:crime uk GPS )
Uber to pay drivers a minimum wage, holiday pay and pensions
(tags:driving business taxi uk rights )
This is why you keep forgetting what you were doing when you enter a new room
(tags:memory psychology )
One year with Long Covid
(tags:disease pandemic )
18 people charged after spate of attacks on Lothian buses in Edinburgh
(tags:edinburgh buses violence OhForFucksSake )
Lothian Buses not running after 19:30 tonight
(tags:buses edinburgh violence )
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Interesting Links for 18-11-2020

Nov. 18th, 2020 12:00 pm
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Glasgow among areas placed into Scotland's toughest Level 4 coronavirus restrictions
(tags:Glasgow pandemic Scotland )
By the way, Donald Trump could still launch nuclear weapons at any time
(tags:USA nuclearweapons )
What is devolution and how does it work across the UK?
(tags:UK devolution Scotland Wales NorthernIreland )
Trans Educational Resources
(tags:LGBT transgender )
It's Been Exactly One Year Since the First Case of COVID Was Found in China
(tags:China pandemic time )
Shazam reveals most searched-for songs of all time
(tags:music )
David Cameron's austerity policies to blame for recession in UK, says Barack Obama
(tags:UK austerity recession davidcameron barackobama )
A fascinating discussion about how LGBT history, culture, and language has changed, and how it continues to do so
(tags:LGBT language transgender history )
Comparing the polls and predictive markets for the US election
(tags:polls predictions USA elections )
WAP/Devil Went Down To Georgia is a work of genius
(tags:music remix funny )
"Our plan for a moderate Labour party"
(tags:labour politics UK )
Dog! Plays! With! Balloon!
(tags:dogs video balloon )
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Interesting Links for 11-08-2020

Aug. 11th, 2020 12:00 pm
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Every British swear word has been officially ranked in order of offensiveness
(tags:swearing language offensive )
'Godzilla' was a metaphor for Hiroshima, and Hollywood whitewashed it (by cutting twenty minutes from the original film)
(tags:Godzilla movies nuclearweapons history censorship )
Why Wikipedia Decided to Stop Calling Fox a 'Reliable' Source
Spoilers: because they aren't
(tags:Wikipedia FoxNews )
Scientists discover the perfect way to make tea! It is, of course, in the microwave
(tags:tea microwave china )
Are *you* the unnecessary pedant?
(tags:language comic funny )
If you could see your brain's world-modelling system it would be incredibly embarrassing
I have to fight mine all the time
(tags:thinking conspiracy models funny comic )
Doctor Who fans "healed something" in me, says Christopher Eccleston
(tags:christophereccleston drwho fandom )
Imperial! Marching! Ducks!
(tags:ducks StarWars video )
Which glowing legendary cat are you? (A personality quiz generated by an AI. Made me giggle a lot)
(tags:quiz cats ai ViaDrCross )
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Interesting Links for 25-04-2020

Apr. 25th, 2020 12:00 pm
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