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Interesting Links for 04-11-2024

1. Starmer's Brexit reset is stalling - and insiders in Brussels are worried: (tags:UK Europe doom Labour OhForFucksSake )
2. 70% of the land in Britain is still owned by 1% of the population, largely descended from William the Conqueror's army: (tags:uk inequality land )
3. The Mystery of How Agatha Christie Could Afford a Maid and a Nanny but Not a Car: (tags:history economics )
4. PETA's Animal "Shelter" Continues as a Leader in Animal Death: (tags:PETA pets death )
5. AI overwhelmingly prefers white and male job candidates in new test of resume-screening bias: (tags:ai racism sexism names jobs )
6. 60% of Britain's Brexit pain is still to come, admits Treasury minister: (tags:uk europe trade doom )
7. The 'light sabre' wielding photographer creating colourful light paintings: (tags:light art photography )
8. When you visualise spacetime curving you're probably doing it wrong.: (tags:physics visualisation )

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Interesting Links for 11-03-2024

1. Children with lazy eyes at higher risk of developing diabetes, heart disease and other serious health conditions later in life: (tags:disease eyes heart )
2. Plastic Found Inside More Than 50% of Plaques From Clogged Arteries (increases risk of strokes and heart attacks more than 4x): (tags:plastic heart stroke disease doom )
3. Really in-depth look at the past, present and future of Moore's Law: (tags:technology history thefuture cpu processor )
4. Princess of Wales: Kate image withdrawn by four news agencies amid manipulation concerns: (tags:monarchy UK fraud photo )
5. "This is just weird": BuzzFeed News' former royals reporter on Kate Middleton, Palace PR, and distrust in the media: (tags:journalism monarchy conspiracy UK )
6. "AI gives the news you need" (a short story): (tags:ai short_story scifi )
7. CaltonHillitus - this chronic condition affects hundreds of photographers.: (tags:photography photos edinburgh )
8. Lead in gasoline blunted IQ of half the U.S. population, study says: (tags:lead Intelligence usa )
9. LocaLSend - Share files to nearby devices. Free, open-source, cross-platform. (Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android): (tags:sharing Technology )
10. One quarter of adult children estranged from a parent: (tags:children parents )
11. Single dose of LSD provides immediate, lasting anxiety relief: (tags:anxiety lsd )

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Interesting Links for 02-12-2023

1. Russian court bans 'LGBT movement': (tags:LGBT Russia OhForFucksSake )
2. For Hamas, the destruction of Gaza may be a price worth paying: (tags:Palestine Israel war )
3. iPhone photos with mirrors in them may result in very weird results: (tags:iPhone photography weird mirrors )

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Interesting Links for 18-04-2023

1. Crossness Pumping Station: London's Beautiful Sewage Station: (tags:waste beauty london )
2. The Horrific Stages of a Tyranid Invasion - narrated by David Attenborough: (tags:warhammer WH40K DavidAttenborough funny video )
3. An interesting question about vampires: (tags:vampires questions )
4. Labour will use any excuse to shift to the right: (tags:labour politics UK doom )
5. Sony World Photography Award 2023: Winner refuses award after revealing AI creation: (tags:photography competition ai viaSwampers )
6. Is beauty skin deep?: (tags:beauty mathematics topology funny comic )
7. The Fediverse crosses one billion posts per month: (tags:mastodon socialnetworking )
8. I see that transphobes are now unsuccessfully trying to co-opt Judy Blume: (tags:LGBT bigotry transgender )
9. Now, you can embed Mastodon posts in Medium stories: (tags:socialnetworking )
10. DOOM maps to SVG to laser cutter: (tags:doom games 3dprinting )
11. Why don't you see more fat people in sport?: (tags:weight sports )

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Interesting Links for 23-09-2022

1. Amazon will no longer let people instantly return ebooks they've read: (tags:ebooks Amazon publishing )
2. More Democrats Than Ever Support The Palestinian Cause, And That's Dividing The Party: (tags:Israel Palestine USA democrats )
3. Scotland's no-fracking policy to continue: (tags:Scotland fracking GoodNews )
4. Far too much advice about photography: (tags:photography advice )
5. 32 examples of Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie being the peak of comedy: (tags:comedy UK TV history )
6. What does Covid prevention look like for an industry where people care about it?: (tags:business Pandemic testing )
7. Using AI to upgrade the graphics quality of old games: (tags:games graphics ai video amazing viaSwampers )
8. Rape posts every half-hour found on online incel forum: (tags:rape communication internet OhForFucksSake men )
9. The UK now charges more tax to a graduate than a high earner: (tags:tax UK university OhForFucksSake )

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Interesting Links for 11-09-2022

1. It is staggering how well Ukraine has done: (tags:Ukraine Russia war GoodNews viaPatrickHadfield )
2. Queen Elizabeth II: Edinburgh drivers urged to only travel if 'absolutely necessary' ahead of procession: (tags:Edinburgh Queen death travel )
3. Times the crown of England's was transferred through violence in the last 1,000 years: (tags:violence monarchy UK history )
4. The USA wants to know what its citizens think about trans rights: (tags:USA rights school transgender LGBT )
5. This is what I think of whenever I hear anyone say "Good Grief!": (tags:Muppets video funny joke )
6. US live expectancy drop puts it below China: (tags:USA China LifeExpectancy )
7. What scientists have learnt from COVID lockdowns: (tags:Pandemic research society viaPatrickHadfield Epidemiology )
8. Who the hell updated Queen Elizabeth II's Wikipedia page so quickly?: (tags:Wikipedia Queen death )
9. Breakthrough in understanding how air pollution leads to cancer: (tags:Cancer pollution )
10. 5 Unintended Consequences of Photography: (tags:photography history )

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Interesting Links for 12-02-2022

In A Sports World Segregated By Gender, Figure Skating Has Often Blurred Those Lines: (tags:sports gender history )
One in three Americans have high levels of toxic weed-killing chemical in their bodies: (tags:usa hormones toxic pesticide )
COVID-19 takes serious toll on heart health—a full year after recovery: (tags:pandemic heart )
Underwater Photographer of the Year winner revealed: (tags:photography water viacmcmck )
How hard it is to get to Mars—and then to live there (very): (tags:mars spacex space )
Chalk drum from 5,000 years ago is the most important UK art find in a century: (tags:uk prehistory archaeology art )
A villain of Twitter: Redeemed!: (tags:Twitter reading pubs alcohol books )
Researchers confirm newly developed inhaled vaccine delivers broad protection against SARS-CoV-2, variants of concern: (tags:Pandemic vaccine GoodNews )
UK exports to EU plunge £20bn in first full year after Brexit: (tags:UK Europe trade Doom )
Two former legal directors of the EHRC point out that it's draft guidance is unlawful: (tags:law LGBT transgender UK rights )
YouTube's Olympics Highlights Are Riddled With Propaganda: (tags:China Olympics propaganda YouTube )

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Interesting Links for 29-01-2022

(3) Nobody has ever had as much fun at a party as these two are having at this party: (tags:funny video dogs children )
Bigoted BBC journalists are making malicious complaints: (tags:BBC LGBT transgender bigotry OhForFucksSake )
Second ground-breaking antiviral to be deployed to UK's most vulnerable people: (tags:virus medicine Pandemic GoodNews )
"There is something wrong with my arse and I'm tired of having to take photos of it": (tags:healthcare UK funny photography )
Why on earth would the Metropolitan Police ask Sue Gray to redact key parts of her independent report?: (tags:police party BorisJohnson )
A Fractal of Lies (a tale of sex, lies, and academia): (tags:research lies sociology sex work power psychology )
Crypto Co-Founder Revealed to Be Infamous Fraudster: (tags:blockchain fraud )
UK government finds a way to make unemployment even worse: (tags:unemployment UK OhForFucksSake work viaPatrickHadfield )
Joni Mitchell joins Neil Young in boycotting Spotify over their spreading of harmful lies: (tags:Pandemic music lies )
How the Nazis burned the first library that did research into LGBT lives: (tags:LGBT history transgender research Nazis censorship )
How much work do people really get done?: (tags:work working_hours )
The Arecibo Signal in Townscaper is the geekiest thing I've seen in some time. I love it: (tags:space games )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4120865.html

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Interesting Links for 05-12-2021

Reported plan for 2p pre-election cut in income tax 'indefensible', says expert: (tags:UK tax OhForFucksSake )
The economy has done better under Labour than the Conservatives: (tags:economy labour conservatives UK )
UK Government to overhaul drug policy to focus on getting users healthcare: (tags:UK drugs GoodNews )
If you have a cat that intermittently pees in unlikely places then I recommend this UV torch which makes it glow in the dark.: (tags:cats light urine )
Moose are wild animals. Do not get close to them. Really really don't let your kids pet them: (tags:animals Canada OhForFucksSake video )
People matching artworks: (tags:art photography colour )
Watch the progress made on Edinburgh's Tram Network as two year anniversary arrives: (tags:trams Edinburgh transport video )
Tories break ranks on immigration to demand safe routes to UK for asylum seekers: (tags:asylum politics UK )
The age profile for Omicron is pretty scary: (tags:Pandemic Doom age )
Did you know that starfish walk with hundreds of tiny feet?: (tags:fish feet video viaDanielDWilliam )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4093647.html

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Interesting Links for 14-03-2021

How the 'WandaVision' Creator Brought Her Vision (and Wanda's) to Life: (tags:marvel tv )
Federal safety investigators blast Tesla, call for stricter safety standards: (tags:safety Tesla driving automation USA regulation )
We're getting bored of all the corruption: (tags:corruption UK )
How has Edinburgh's landscape changed in a year? (tons of construction): (tags:construction Edinburgh Scotland )
Here's the Met Police violently attacking women holding a vigil for a woman one of their officers murdered: I mean, yes, there's a pandemic on. But find a better way to deal with this. Maybe engage with it? Get women officers on the front line of it?
(tags:police murder video London UK OhForFucksSake )
"Adobe Photoshop's 'Super Resolution' Made My Jaw Hit the Floor": (tags:Adobe Photoshop impressive photography )
Vaccines should end the pandemic, despite the variants: (tags:vaccine pandemic GoodNews virus )
Tesla cars with automated driving features turned on are far safer than manually driven cars: (tags:driving cars automation Tesla safety )
Biden's COVID-Relief Bill Is a Big Fucking Deal: (tags:USA politics GoodNews democrats )
This Word Does Not Exist: (tags:language ai )
By accident, lockdown has shown English schools the secret of closing the achievement gap: (tags:UK education internet )
The UK justice system is a huge failure: (tags:UK law OhForFucksSake )
Who actually has the power to get rid of the Metropolitan Police Chief, and how do they do it?: (tags:police London UK politics law )
The General Secretary of the Scottish Police Federation is supporting far right transphobes: (tags:police Scotland bigotry OhForFucksSake transgender LGBT )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4001841.html

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Interesting Links for 17-02-2021

Renewables are not causing blackouts in Texas: (tags:Texas coal winter electricity fail windpower viaDanielDWilliam )
Tesco loses 'fire and rehire' court battle: (tags:Jobs wages business tesco )
An illustrated version of one of Tolkien's unpublished epilogues of The Lord Of The Rings: (tags:lotr comic )
Photographer Sues Tattoo Artist over Miles Davis Tattoo: (tags:copyright photography tattoos )
Trump declares war on McConnell — vows to back MAGA challengers against GOP: (tags:republicans USA politics )
Covid in Scotland: Watchdog's report on the government released: (tags:Scotland pandemic )
Humans were drinking milk before they developed the genes for digesting it: (tags:genes milk prehistory Africa )
Please don't assume all age-gap relationships are the same: (tags:age relationships )
Sacked UK LGBT veterans can reclaim removed medals: (tags:UK military LGBT GoodNews )
Database management is key to good government policy making: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1361673425140543490.html
(tags:database government pandemic )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3969916.html

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Interesting Links for 13-12-2020

2021 Will Launch the Platinum Age of Piracy: (tags:piracy Disney streaming TV )
When you suddenly remember it's a video meeting: (tags:funny video )
A magical story of bringing a little light and happiness during the pandemic: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1337598289080770561.html
(tags:happiness fairytale children pandemic )
Republicans are trying to restart the civil war.: (tags:USA civilwar republicans OhForFucksSake )
Zodiac Killer: Code-breakers solve San Francisco killer's cipher: (tags:cryptography murder history USA )
Longest known exposure photograph ever captured using a beer can: (tags:art photography timelapse )
I rather liked this fan edit of The Hobbit movies.: (tags:TheHobbit remix )
Highlights from life as a flight attendant: (tags:flying jobs )
Autism spectrum — Large study supports discarding the term 'high-functioning autism': (tags:autism )
New UK police speed gun can read license plates from half a mile away at night: (tags:speed safety driving cameras )
Any port in a perfect storm: UK container trade is grinding to a halt: (tags:trade UK Doom )