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2025-03-03 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 03-03-2025

1. You need governmental approval to run psychological tests on job applicants in Canada
(tags:Canada psychology jobs viaDewline )
2. Edinburgh are having a consultation on dogs on beaches and in green spaces, as well as buskers and green-space management.
(tags:Edinburgh consultation dogs )
3. New study says TikToks are bad for you! Thankfully it's complete nonsense!
(tags:science brain videos )
4. The Cuddled Little Vice - a fascinating, in-depth, dissection of Neil Gaiman's career.
(tags:neilgaiman rape history writing sandman comics )
5. German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigrant detention facility
(tags:USA tourism prison OhForFucksSake )
6. The US Defense Department removes thousands of serving transgender people
(tags:LGBT transgender bigotry USA republicans )
7. Church of England: just 25% now have a favourable view - 49% unfavourable.
(tags:religion uk polls )
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2024-11-03 01:22 pm
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2024-10-29 12:00 pm
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2024-08-09 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 09-08-2024

1. The recent UK fuss about the soup/shake diet reversing diabetes? Only 10% of them made it through and had it work for them.
(tags:diabetes diet uk nhs )
2. Two astronauts stranded in space by Boeing Starliner may return on SpaceX in 2025 (8 day trip turns into 6 months!)
(tags:space fail )
3. A Japanese Coast Guard ship rides over the tsunami waves (2011)
(tags:Japan tsunami video )
4. The Scottish horror film finally released 17 years after filming
(tags:scotland horror movies )
5. How would you react to prison museum's 'dark tourism'?
(tags:psychology prison tourism )
6. "How I lured my teenagers out of their bedrooms"
(tags:parenting bed teenagers )
7. Humza Yousaf admits ending Greens deal was his mistake
(tags:Scotland SNP GreenParty )
8. Hilary Cass accused of being explicitly transphobic before the review began (see note 28 specifically)
(tags:lgbt bigotry transgender uk )
9. The Government's Impartial Trans Healthcare Reviewer Isn't so Impartial, Colleagues Claim
(tags:lgbt bigotry transgender research nhs )
10. Two Years of Elden Ring (a 2 minute video compilation)
(tags:video games )
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2024-07-23 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 23-07-2024

1. Unions are spreading through the games industry (Bethesda this time)
(tags:unions games )
2. How to stop released prisoners reoffending: what the evidence says
(tags:crime prison society psychology )
3. The Sun and the Sunday Times backed Labour at this month's general election after News UK received private assurances that a Starmer-led government would not pursue Leveson 2, or introduce restrictions on press freedom
(tags:regulation journalism UK Labour OhForFucksSake )
4. One in six Conservative voters likely to die before next election
(tags:Conservatives age politics uk )
5. Are these photos Real or AI? (I got 10/10)
(tags:photos ai quiz )
6. Dark oxygen made by deep sea 'batteries'
(tags:ocean oxygen electricity )
7. News Happening Faster Than Man Can Generate Uninformed Opinions
(tags:news opinion funny satire )
8. No Man's Sky had a terrible launch, and I really get the feeling they've spent the 8 years since then going "No, really, we can make the game we imagined if we just keep going a little longer." (and now it looks amazing)
(tags:games video impressive )
9. In Australia, the war on smoking has turned violent
(tags:crime smoking australia )
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2024-07-06 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 06-07-2024

1. What a Labour government means for taxes (mostly good things, although obviously doesn't go far enough)
(tags:tax labour )
2. Nobody has ever won a British election on a smaller vote share than Labour just did. This will cause them big problems in the future.
(tags:labour politics voting uk )
3. Royal College of Psychiatry International Congress: Questions about trans health suppressed
(tags:LGBT psychiatry bigotry transgender OhForFucksSake )
4. Vending machines that are powered by artificial intelligence are selling ammunition for guns in grocery stores in Alabama and Oklahoma
(tags:ai guns shopping USA )
5. Gaza, housing, and trans issues: The reasons young Labour voters turned Green
(tags:Labour GreenParty Gaza transgender housing politics UK )
6. James Timpson has been appointed Minister for Prisons, Parole and Probation. Which is frankly amazing
(tags:prison Labour GoodNews epicwin )
7. Vatican excommunicates Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano for schism
(tags:catholicism conspiracy )
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2024-06-11 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 11-06-2024

1. 4,000 years ago a mutation in horses made them easier to ride. Within 300 years we had spread them everywhere.
(tags:horses europe prehistory genetics )
2. No physics? No problem. AI weather forecasting is already making huge strides.
(tags:weather ai )
3. China Miéville Writes a Secret Novel With the Internet's Boyfriend (It's Keanu Reeves)
(tags:KeanuReeves ChinaMieville writing )
4. How Norway's calm, cushy prisons put Britain's model to shame
(tags:prison norway )
5. The Conservatives have overseen a 400% increase in sexual orientation hate crimes and a 1,400% increase in transphobic ones
(tags:bigotry UK crime LGBT )
6. Here's a frankly great political manifesto
(tags:politics UK libdem )
7. A possible direct exposure of the Earth to the cold dense interstellar medium 2-3 Myr ago
(tags:sun solarsystem space )
8. I am currently earwormed by the song my children brushed their teeth to this morning. I would like to not be.
(tags:music teeth video )
9. UN Security Council votes in favour of Gaza ceasefire resolution
(tags:UnitedNations gaza palestine israel )
10. What's happened the previous times the Conservative Party have imploded?
(tags:Conservatives history politics uk )
11. Ed Davey says Lib Dems would fight for UK to rejoin EU single market and eventually overturn Brexit
(tags:libdem uk europe politics )
12. Before 'Fans,' There Were 'Kranks,' 'Longhairs,' and 'Lions'
(tags:fandom history )
13. Inside the Lib Dem election stunt factory: 'We had to make Ed look very silly'
(tags:libdem politics )
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2024-03-20 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 20-03-2024

1. 10% of people think they're allergic to penicillin. Testing found that 97% of them were wrong.
(tags:antibiotics allergies )
2. The degree to which the Acropolis Museum is designed to shame the British Museum is spectacular
(tags:museums history Greece UK theft )
3. Can you stab things with an arrow? And should you?
(tags:weapons video )
4. The first 'cyberflasher' is convicted under England's new law and gets more than 5 years in prison
(tags:sex abuse UK law prison )
5. Long-term leisure computer use linked to increased erectile dysfunction risk
(tags:penis sex computers genetics )
6. Is this the worst economic inheritance since WW2?
(tags:politics labour economics history )
7. Root cause of Alzheimer's may be fat buildup in brain cells
(tags:alzheimers fat brain )
8. Cars are secretly spying on drivers and upping their insurance rates
(tags:surveillance cars insurance )
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2023-10-14 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 14-10-2023

1. This is an amazing bionic hand
(tags:cybernetics amazing )
2. Terrorists want to provoke an over-reaction. It's what gets them their next round of recruits.
(tags:terrorism psychology viaDanielDWilliam )
3. Hamas have successfully destroyed America's Saudi-Israel normalization plans
(tags:middle_east terrorism USA saudiarabia Palestine Israel OhForFucksSake )
4. Government warned by own watchdog three year ago that prisons would run out of space in 2023
(tags:UK prison epicfail )
5. Edinburgh's Princes Street: Shops gone, hotels coming - the changing face of city's most famous street
(tags:Edinburgh cities shops hotel )
6. UK's nuclear fusion site ends experiments after 40 years
(tags:UK research fusion nuclearpower history )
7. Missy Cummings, a Top Robotics Expert, Is Elon Musk's Worst Nightmare
(tags:technology automation driving death statistics viaPatrickHadfield )
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2023-08-21 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 21-08-2023

1. West Virginia can't require incarcerated atheist to participate in religious programming
(tags:atheism religion USA law prison viaSwampers )
2. English Chess Federation will not exclude trans women
(tags:LGBT chess UK viaPatrickHadfield )
3. The ecological impact of wolf reintroduction to Britain.
(tags:wolves ecology viaDanielDWilliam )
4. Why does global warming lead to both droughts and flooding?
(tags:globalwarming disaster flooding drought )
5. Artists have forgotten how to draw
(tags:art education drawing )
6. Saying Hello To Your Neighbors Linked to Higher Wellbeing, but With Limits
(tags:happiness health community psychology )
7. Two Drums and a Cymbal Fall off a Cliff
(tags:funny video jokes )
8. I am really delighted by how well Rick Astley has done recently. (Here pulled into an impromptu collaboration with the Foo Fighters)
(tags:music rickroll video viaDanielDWilliam )
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2023-07-30 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 14-07-2023

1. I missed that Biden terminated federal private prison contracts 2 years ago
(tags:prison business politics usa )
2. How crab sticks are made. (Sophia loves those things)
(tags:factory food video )
3. Phones with replaceable batteries to be required by 2027 thanks to the EU
(tags:Europe phones batteries )
4. ChatGPT owner in probe over risks around false answers
(tags:ai fraud regulation usa )
5. Magnetic drive has the potential to silence submarines
(tags:magnets submarine usa )
6. Nearly every home in the UK will need a heat pump by 2050 as plan for hydrogen to replace gas is ditched
(tags:hydrogen uk GoodNews heating )
7. Studios demanded the ability to scan actors once, owning their image forever
(tags:actors faces scanning )
8. FDA approves the first over-the-counter birth control pill
(tags:usa contraception )
9. Participating in genetic studies is in your genes
(tags:research genes )
10. London faces a measles outbreak of tens of thousands of cases unless vaccination rates improve
(tags:vaccination london OhForFucksSake )
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2023-01-28 12:00 pm
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2023-01-25 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 25-01-2023

1. CNET's AI journalist is an error-prone plagiarist
(tags:journalism ai plagiarism )
2. LA's Grand Experiment in UBI (turns out giving money to people in poverty is really helpful)
(tags:GuaranteedIncome poverty USA )
3. The Netflix co-CEO says Netflix has "never canceled a successful show"
(tags:netflix business tv viaSwampers )
4. Why South Africa is siding with Russia
(tags:Russia southafrica )
5. Wagner loses up to 80% of prison recruits amid reports of Putin rift
(tags:Russia Ukraine war prison )
6. Ukraine announces purge of top officials over corruption and bribery allegations
(tags:corruption Ukraine )
7. NVidia will make it look like you're staring directly at the camera. That won't feel creepy at all!
(tags:nvidia eyes )
8. "Macroeconomic Changes Have Made It Impossible for Me to Want to Pay You"
(tags:satire business employment unemployment redundancy )
9. The UK is awful for investing in itself. And it's even worse in the North
(tags:uk investment OhForFucksSake )
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2023-01-05 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 05-01-2023

1. How calculus was invented
(tags:mathematics history video infinity )
2. Scientists discover first known organism thriving exclusively on diet of viruses
(tags:virus food )
3. Surgical smart knife detects womb cancer in seconds
(tags:cancer )
4. Me, when my code doesn't work
(tags:funny babies anger video )
5. Scientists Revived 32,000-Year-Old Plant DNA From Siberian Permafrost
(tags:plants prehistory Russia )
6. Over the last 40 years US food purchasing power has dropped by 85%
(tags:USA food money Doom )
7. Facial Recognition Tech Used To Jail Black Man For Louisiana Theft - He's Never Been To Louisiana (and doesn't look like the criminal)
(tags:racism faces technology OhForFucksSake )
8. The "People Of Color In Tech" website provides an interesting perspective if you're not one.
(tags:race technology )
9. Londoner solves 20,000-year Ice Age drawings mystery
Paper here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-archaeological-journal/article/an-upper-palaeolithic-protowriting-system-and-phenological-calendar/6F2AD8A705888F2226FE857840B4FE19
(tags:prehistory calendars art )
10. Arizona inducing labor of pregnant prisoners against their will
(tags:usa prison labour childbirth OhForFucksSake )
11. Using AI to make all of your arrays infinite
(tags:ai coding funny )
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2022-12-31 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 07-11-2022

1. Keir Starmer is against using foreign people in the NHS
(tags:UK immigration labour NHS OhForFucksSake )
2. UK homes use 456 GB of data per month (we used 463, so only slightly above average!)
(tags:internet )
3. Edinburgh strip club ban: Sex workers union accuses council of 'empty promise' on strip club ban review
(tags:Edinburgh sexwork OhForFucksSake )
4. How Is Slavery Still Legal om America?
(tags:usa slavery prison viaBenWerdmuller )
5. Edinburgh Christmas Market named best festive market in Europe by National Geographic
(tags:edinburgh christmas markets )
6. Israel's new racist totalitarianism will have implications beyond the Middle East
(tags:israel )
7. British cucumbers, tomatoes and carrots will soon be harder to buy. Here's why
(tags:uk vegetables farming doom )
8. Some common geographic mental misplacements (best viewed on desktop)
(tags:geography maps misconceptions )
9. Map norths converge on Dorset village in historic first - will travel through the UK until July 2026
(tags:maps magnets navigation compass )
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2022-09-15 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 15-09-2022

1. The Queue is the greatest piece of British performance art of all time
(tags:UK funny Queen death London )
2. Ah, that classic comedy sketch, "getting balloons into the back of your car on a windy day"
(tags:funny video balloon wind viaPatrickHadfield )
3. Ethereum has moved to Proof of Stake, reducing the world's electricity bill by 0.5%
(tags:electricty blockchain )
4. Here's Russia recruiting soldiers from prison with a promise of amnesty from all crimes
(tags:russia prison war military )
5. Five years of data show that SSDs are more reliable than HDDs over the long haul
(tags:ssd harddrive storage )
6. The Queue will clearly be the smash romantic comedy of 2024
(tags:movies UK Queen death funny )
7. Quality Is Systemic
(tags:software systems organisation quality )
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Interesting Links for 05-08-2022

1. The many levels of racism
(tags:racism ontology )
2. Behind a nice conceit and good packaging, the Mr Men and Little Miss books are very, very bad
(tags:books children )
3. Turning off the UK's analogue phone system is proving harder than they thought
(tags:uk phones )
4. Putin is recruiting prisoners from Russian jails to fight on frontline in Ukraine
(tags:russia ukraine war prison )
5. Edinburgh North Bridge to remain closed until 2025 after discovery of 'previously concealed' issues
(tags:Edinburgh bridge )
6. How to really change someone's mind
(tags:belief communication viaDanielDWilliam )
7. The monkeypox situation keeps getting worse - here's why
(tags:monkey pandemic vaccination doom viaDanielDWilliam )
8. Playing action video games boosts brain activity and decision-making skills
(tags:videogames games psychology )
9. Apple retaliated against women who complained about rape, assault, and harrassment
(tags:apple rape harrassment assault OhForFucksSake )
10. Who knew that watching fences being knitted would be so soothing
(tags:video )
11. Summers are getting so hot in Florida that turtles there are mostly born female
(tags:florida usa globalwarming turtle gender )
12. Scottish prosecutors angered by US criticism of record on child slavery
(tags:scotland children slavery )
13. It's lovely to see sheer joy in playing with technology
(tags:Technology weather viaSwampers touchscreen happiness )
14. What happens to Russian soldiers who refuse to continue fighting in Ukraine?
(tags:ukraine russia military war viaDanielDWilliam )
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